I love Christmas cards. I love sending them. I love receiving them. Love everything about them. If you've followed along for a while you'll remember my cards I drew for 2010, and my cards from 2009 and 2008.
Each year mid-summer I start to come up with ideas for our family's card. I come up with all these ideas and tell myself that I'm going to do them in October so they'll be ready to go come December 1st. And each year, I wait until the VERY LAST MINUTE. But, I get them out. In the end, that's all that matters, right? Right.
This year I had this idea to do silly photo booth type poses with props. I gathered a few silly props, bought a table cloth and a fleece blanket for back drops and recruited a friend, Tony, to take our photos. I had plans (again, I'm great at making them, not always at executing them) to come up with a cute layout and print them myself. But, I waited too long, was leaving town the next day for a month, and didn't have time to mess with them. So, I uploaded the pictures to Shutterfly and found a layout that worked. I love how it turned out.
Here they are all ready to send. I find myself thinking I'm going to cut back on my list each year but we seem to keep adding to it. We sent out 128 cards this year. I know, crazy. But, again, I love them and I love keeping in touch with friends and family. I also send out a monthly recap of our year with our cards each year. It gives people a glimpse of our year without being too wordy.
Do you send out cards? How many do you send? Do you love getting them as much as me?


