re: A Very Rainbow Christmas

Merry Christmas, everyone!

These are the Christmas cards we sent out this year:

(cover)

(interior)

The good news is that now that we've had this photoshoot, we may never have to take another picture again, since we can achieve an endless supply of cards with a few simple color combinations:





See?

The other good news is that our photo backdrops lived on this Christmas morning as the rainbow wrapping paper for all our gifts.


Merry Christmas, everyone. Hope your Christmas was just as colorful.

(and a huge thanks to Karen for the awesome photoshoot)

re: Christmas Cards

I know it may seem premature to jump straight from Halloween to Christmas discussion here, but Derek and I took some photos for our Christmas cards this week, and I made such a mess of gold glitter all over our living room that it seemed to deserve a mention.

I always loved the tradition of Christmas cards - collecting a mantle full of smiling friends and a yearly update to keep you abreast of what everyone is up to. I always imagined myself to be the kind of person with a meticulously kept mailing list and cards out on December 1st (though I realize that with my track record, that is going to mean starting them in July if I really intend to send them as Christmas cards instead of President's Day cards).

But, with the advent of Facebook and blogging and all other digital means of staying in touch these days, actually mailing a paper card seems a little more based in tradition than necessity. I live in fear that more people are going to start skipping the headache of printing and addressing and mailing and accomplish the same task with the click of an email. Don't do this to me, technology! I've just barely made it to the stage of life where I'm ready to commit to a yearly Christmas card! Can't this be the last thing that stays out of the hands of those digital robots?

What are your thoughts? Yay or nay for good ol' fashioned snail mail Christmas cards?

re: Holiday One-Upped

I can't believe we are only a few days from Christmas already. Derek and I have been so busy trying to make our little apartment more like home and finish other projects over the past few months that we haven't even had time to send out Christmas cards or get a tree or any of the other things that make it feel like the holidays. Our one attempt at festive decor was this lovely paper wreath that we didn't even make ourselves - we had to win it during a homemade white elephant gift exchange.

Still, we came home and dutifully placed it on our door. Festive!


The next day, we opened up our front door to find this staring at us from across the hall on our neighbor's door:


Another paper wreath! But one that is much larger, and appears a little more complicated to create than ours, and with fancy writing and intricate ruffled trim in the middle. What are our neighbors trying to do? One-up our only attempt at holiday decor?

Well. If they are into showing me up, I hope they try to beat us in the "bring some homemade holiday treats to your neighbor" game (because some chocolate chip cookies sound really good to me right now).

For those of you that want to try your hand at one-upping us some more, you can find tutorials for making your own paper wreaths from old books here.


Happy holidays!