PROJECT PARADE DAY 4!!!
a.k.a.
LIZZIE B DAY!
So, let us introduce ourselves! If you don't know us already...
We started out in the biz 4 years ago, almost 5 now. We are Liz and Beth Hawkins, and what makes us REAL quirky (besides our incredibly quirky personalities!) is that we have the same name.
The EXACT same name. We're both Elizabeth Ann Hawkins. Now, we've been asked, are you sisters? Uh....yes, and our mother wanted to be like George Forman. No. We are sisters-in-law. But instantly KNEW that we were supposed to have been sisters! We think alike, talk alike, sign our names alike (seriously, not a joke), and sometimes even embarrassingly dress alike. And what we LOVE to do, is create FUN stuff!
We started out creating quilt patterns...
Then books, for Kansas City Star....
And now fabric for Henry Glass...
Whimsyland
and Tucsadelphia NOW SHIPPING to stores!
And a little sneak peek of our spring line....
HIP HAPPY! It is SO fun..we can't wait to show you ALL the pieces.
So that's a little about us.
However...we have a FABULOUS announcement to make!
This MONDAY, DECEMBER 6TH, 4PM EST, the LIZZIE B GIRLS will be HOSTING
And that's not all...oh no, that's not all! We get to do it AGAIN DECEMBER 13TH!
Can you BELIEVE she entrusted us with such a job?
We're a little nervous....Miz Pat is irreplaceable as we all know. We hope we do the show justice. We've got some GREAT guests lined up, so be SURE to tune in!
AND...you'll get chances to win prizes on OUR blog AND Pat's blog just for listening and leaving us a comment.
HO! HO! HO! The fun in December!
Speaking of which....
T'was two months before Christmas and all through our place,
was me with a manic look tacked to my face.
Halloween's over and Christmas abounds,
yet my yuletide spirit just cannot be found.
The stockings still sit with the other boxed cheer,
down in my basement still packed from last year.
It's time to buy presents, bake cookies, trim trees.
It's time to have parties, roast turkeys, eat See's.
It's time to hang lights up, send greetings, spread joy.
It's time to make candy, cut snowflakes, buy toys.
But when I examine my list of "to-do's,"
that grinchy old feeling climbs into my shoes.
My skin's turning green, my heart's shrinking down.
That jolly old feeling just will not come 'round.
So is it a sin to skip Christmas this year?
Would anyone notice? Cry great lakes of tears?
A brilliant idea comes, the "bulb" can be seen.
In place of our Christmas, we'll have Halloween.
It's still up. It's easy. Just ghouls and black cats.
I'll still be a witch; they're all used to that.
Trade spiders for reindeers, and pumpkins for sleighs.
Keep ghosts, ghouls, and goblins and let haunting stay.
Think of the candy that I'll get to eat,
'cuz no one will ding dong and yell, "trick or treat!"
It's such a good thought, so easy, so right.
We'll just keep it creepy; delicious with fright.
Though others may send you their good Christmas cheer,
for you, ours will come with a wish of "good fear!"
From our home to yours with the warmth that we send:
Merry Halloween to you all, from your dear, spooky friends.
There are MANY things I love about this time of year, but ONE of those things, at the top of my list, would have to be getting Christmas cards from friends and family! I love the pics, I love the stories, I love to hear about all the kids growing up.
But there is ONE card that I wait ALL year for...wondering what in the world my crazy friend will dream up next! She is amazing with words, so her letters always amuse. She tells funny stories, and paints you a picture with her words. I'll never forget one year when she shared an instance at the grocery store when her son looked at the cashier straight faced and while pointing at my friend exclaimed,
"Excuse me, that woman is NOT my mother."
LOL! My dear friend spent the next 20 minutes sweating buckets and trying to prove that she did, in fact, give birth to the child!
This year...the FIRST card in my mailbox, as always....was the very card I'd been waiting for. And inside, was the delightful little poem above, which she's so graciously allowed me to share. Oh how I laughed! Especially while looking at the accompanying picture of the family looking suspiciously like the Munsters! I especially loved her little girl, black lips, hollowed looking cheeks, not even cracking a smile while in her hand she holds a headless Barbie. Hysterical!
In fact, I love Christmas cards so much I can't bare to throw them away. So instead, I add them to my Holiday decor...
Year after year, I tie them to my garland. The more the better! Isn't it pretty? Are you a card person? Do you send cards? What do you do with the one's you receive?
We'd LOVE for you to share your Christmas card stories with us!
Hmmm...I feel a GIVEAWAY comin' on!
Tell ya what, you leave us a Christmas card story on THIS blog post and you'll be entered to win THIS:
A PACKET OF HALF YARD CUTS of our NEW LINE
TUCSADELPHIA!
Then again....it IS the giving season....
these fabrics are just BEGGING to go along with:
The very book the fabric line was inspired by!
And while we're in the mood to give FUN STUFF away...
What say you to another little contest?
On EACH post during the Project Parade, I've added a little Holiday icon. If you can find ALL the icons and post the list on the LAST DAY, you'll be entered to win....
This FABULOUS kit of fabrics for our PROJECT PARADE....uh...project!
What? What's that you say? Are you jumping for JOY yet?
No??? Oooohhhh! Maybe you're wondering what the HECK we have planned for you!
(click to download pdf)
Dream on one side, and...
Create on the other!
SOOOO quick and easy to whip up!
This cute raw-edged flower becomes the front pocket on one side...
Easy to stitch right in place leaving the top open!
Here's my cute daughter modeling...
And the Create side!
If you just can't WAIT to get your hands on that fabric...never fear...
Tucsadelphia fabric is near! In fact, you buy EXACTLY what you need from our online store at: shoplizzieb
Now don't forget to visit the other Parade bloggers today!
Laurie Bird of Rose Cottage Quilts
and
Barbara Jones of QuiltSoup
And don't forget...you should also be keeping tabs of ALL the SPECIAL WORDS we've been using. Can you guess what our special word is?
(actually, it's one word, repeated...)
(actually, it's one word, repeated...)
Because if there's ONE more thing that the Lizzie B girls LOVE to do besides
DREAM and CREATE, it would have to be LAUGH...
DREAM and CREATE, it would have to be LAUGH...
Like a big ol' Santa belly laugh!
HO! HO! HO!
Card Story, that's a great challenge. What comes to my mind is making crafts from cards of years past. Folded, they make great tiny boxes. Cut and hole punched, they were crocheted together to make baskets. Cut just right, they make great book marks. Oh, and my sister, recycled one on to me that tickled her fancy!
ReplyDeleteI love sending and receiving Christmas cards
ReplyDeleteThen after Christmas I use the fronts for gift tags and the backs for hexagon templates!
Gill
Cards received throughout the Christmas season have always had a special place in my heart. As each envelope is opened to reveal the card & message I feel the sender visits me in their own unique way. On a door I tape the cards in the shape of a Christmas tree, starting with one card @ the top, widening each layer as I go down. The card-tree is really beautiful, we find ourselves looking at & reading the cards throughout the holiday. When it's time for the cards to come down, I place the cards with the saved envelopes in a box to make sure I have everyone's name & currant address for the next time I mail my own cards out.
ReplyDeleteHappy holidays to you & yours :) Jackie in NC
The fabrics look fantastic! I like to make gift tags with my old Christmas cards. I sometimes make my own cards, I make wonky Christmas trees with scraps of fabric!
ReplyDeleteI had a fun time reading your post. Loved the stories and the apron project and the fabrics!!!
ReplyDeleteMy card story is about an older aunt who always displayed her christmas cards. As children we could never understand how she had so many. You guessed it - she kept all the ones from previous years and just added the new ones each time. She said she loved reading through them and enjoyed the memories they gave her, so why not display them every year!
My daughter has always been our holiday decorator, she is a holiday girl. Stephanie and I would take the holiday cards and make a big collage with them each year: cut out the bits we wanted or use the whole card, get some poster board, buttons, rick rack, you name it, and make a fabulous holiday collage to hang in the family room. We'd leave enough room on the poster board to add things if more cards arrived. And each year we waited for the card from my husband's elderly Lithuanian aunt. We'd never met the lady, she'd send a box of really mystifyingly odd things -- old socks, tatting, photos of people we didn't know -- and an antique card with a note in Lithuanian, that none of us can read. The aunt has gone to her reward new and gosh we miss her boxes and cards.
ReplyDeleteP.S. I am an apron freak, love them, love them. THanks for the pattern!
ReplyDeleteWe always hang our crds up and around our doorway frames...around windows. It is fun to hang them up!! Thank you for the cute patten too.
ReplyDeleteNot celebrating Christmas, I don't send or receive cards. But I am impressed by how your readers make use of them in holiday decorating!
ReplyDeleteI always keep my cards - even the office cards are packed away each year. Not sure why . . . might need them for something some year? Or just a tad sentimental? Oh, well they are stacking up quite nicely and make me cry when I go back through some of the old ones - cards from folks who are no longer with us . . . sentimental I think?!?!? - Marlene
ReplyDeleteI remember coming home from school and hanging the Christmas cards that were received around the door frame between the living room and dining room
ReplyDeleteWhat a cute apron, thank you! And thanks for a chance at winning. I, too, love displaying my Christmas cards. Every year when they start to come in, I hang mine around the house. One the walls, around the windows, wherever I can find a place to cheer up.
ReplyDeleteWhat a great idea for the Christmas cards, I too hate to throw some of them away. Love your friends poem. Thanks for the free apron pattern so cute.
ReplyDeleteWe hang Christmas cards we receive on a string with tiny clothespins above the arch between the living and dining rooms. The apron is adorable and the giveaway is awesome!
ReplyDeleteI love receiving holiday photo cards. I keep them and like to the compare the pics of the families and how they have changed over the years. Thanks for the giveaway.
ReplyDeleteThe best card came from my son when he was stationed in Afghanistan over Christmas one year. He enclosed a picture of the men in his platoon playing pick up basketball with the men in an American platoon. Both teams were were dressed as Chirstmas trees-his side was wearing green garbage bags and the American side were wearing white garbage bags...too funny! A picture I look back on every year at this time. What a great apron! Thanks for the patten. Claire
ReplyDeleteHi I actually hang my cards to make a tree shape, but since we have moved I do not have a solid door in the kitchen to hang these, so I have started to hang them off my garland as well. Next year I will use these cards as gift tags. There are so many uses for these cards, just think outside the box.
ReplyDeleteI love hanging the cards around the house. It's lovely to make that real Christmas atmosphere! Tree, lights, christmas candles. All part of it!
ReplyDeleteI think I'm going to love Hip Happy! Thanks for sharing the fabric and patterns:)
ReplyDeleteThe best Christmas letter we received was from my brother and was full of punctuation and grammatical errors. The hilarious part is that he's an English professor! That's one letter I'll always keep:)
The apron is cute and so is your daughter!! Thanks for being a part of this! L
ReplyDeleteLinda Lum DeBono
Hi I am also a follower.
ReplyDeleteI make the front of my cards into a collage for the next year. If I have a big group in, I have them sign the collage and keep it as a memory of that holiday. Also, have made them into gift tags and such. The pictures I keep in a special album of families through the years. It is so much fun after the holidays to put them in their album and see the changes. Joey
ReplyDeleteMy nieces just showed me the pleasure of making your own cards... so this year they are so much nicer and handmade. Thanks to them.. But then in return I taught them how to sew small items. You need to get them started sometime to get into quilt shops and buy buy fabric. We can never have enough. Thanks... Your fabric colors are the perfect shades. Karin E:)
ReplyDeleteOMG - the post above mine is actually from my sister-in-law who lives 180 miles from me. She's talking about my daughter and daughter-in-law who showed us how to do scrapbooking Christmas cards and gift tags. It was really fun. And my sister-in-law was the one who got my daughter started on sewing that day - she made 2 pillowcases. Thank you Karin.
ReplyDeleteI love to open a Christmas card with a letter. It is a way to reconnect with old friends and families, especially those from far away. The apron is great. I always make holiday aprons for friends and family. Thank you
ReplyDeleteLOL it took the second cup of coffee to find the special word. I've never been a big card sender, except....since highschool I have always made a point to send them to shut-ins, widows and elderly who lived alone. It started w/ the grandparents age group, then my parents, then my siblings. OMG what just happened! It my peers! Time sure does fly. Thank you for the pattern and sharing.
ReplyDeleteI haven't sent cards in a few years but this year I decided to get back into it! Love the Christmas poem - your friend must be a riot! Your fabric is so cheerful!
ReplyDeleteAudrey
audreybretz@gmail.com
Thank you for the awesome apron project.
ReplyDeleteI do send Christmas cards each year.....there are so many friends and relatives we really don't keep in touch with much, and I feel like just once a year, I can do this.
I do save parts and pieces of some of the prettier cards I receive and use them as gift tags for presents.
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ReplyDeleteOur household strives to get our cards in the mail by Christmas Eve, but as long as they are out by January 6th (the 12th day of Christmas), we feel victorious! (One year we sent out Valentines instead...) Thanks for the fun apron pattern!
ReplyDeleteA Christmas card story?
ReplyDeleteMy mother saved the tops of Christmas cards sent to us. And then one year, she took them all out for us 4 kids (I was the youngest), cut some poster board into a shape of a placemat. She had us arrange, cut, and glue the card tops to the poster boards. Then she put clear contact paper on top of them all. They were the cutest and most unique placemats for Christmas ever. I've been saving and making them periodically ever since. :-)
I like to make collages from the Christmas cards I receive. Lots of them have photos and it is fun to look at them. Thanks a lot.
ReplyDeleteMary
Hi There, Thanks so much for such a delightful post. I read the poem 3 times I loved it so much. You put a smile on my face so early this morning, in spite of having a nasty cold and cough. Thank you for that...no better way to start of the day than with a smile and even better a good laugh! I love your new fabric line and I am totally, utterly and completely, in love with the pattern on the front of the 'Tuscadelphia' book. With the car, highway and rolling hills... it stole my heart as soon as I saw it! So fun!!! As for a favorite Christmas card story, my sister was out of town for the holidays a few years ago and we don't exchange gifts but always send each other cards. Well, that year, we both received our cards the same day and found that we had sent each other the exact same card. There is 13 year age difference between us but our minds work exactly the same, LOL. Thank you for a truly delightful time reading your post. Thanks also for the terrific apron pattern and for chance to win some of your fabric and that wonderful Tucsadelphia book that I am now so enamored with. Good Luck to Everyone!!!
ReplyDeletePS...I had to delete my first comment because I forgot to add...you are going to be GREAT sitting in for Pat Sloan on her radio show. Have fun with it, I'll be listening!!!
I always was do cards. when we were very young and broke marrieds I make them, careful creating a linoleum block and printing them by hand....way before you could find matched cards and envelopes. Now I visit my favorite Gold Crown store and buy them but I hand write the notes and enjoy getting them as well from everyone. The aprons are adorable, another project for the list. Thank you
ReplyDeleteI love receiving Christmas cards with letters. i love to see how God has been working in people's lives through the year. Taking the holiday photo is not so much fun :(
ReplyDeleteFinally, someone else who recycles their cards. I even have a set with magnets on the back to put up in my cubical at work! They make such great decorations. Your fabric is gorgeous...I'd love to have you send me some! So pick me please. Thanks.
ReplyDeleteWhen my children were little, we used to save our old Christmas cards, cut out the fronts and paste them to construction paper. The children made "new" Christmas cards that we would take to the Nursing homes for the residents. It was a delight to see the faces of the residents as they received maybe the only Christmas card they got that year. Thanks for participating. I am not good at guessing, but is your special word Ho, Ho, Ho??? (your repeated a LOT of words :-)
ReplyDeleteI knew you ladies would pull out all the stops on your day, and you certainly didn't disappoint me! Love the apron pattern. Aprons are so hot right now. I quilt with 5 friends, and we are doing an apron exchange for Christmas. Can't wait to see what they create. I always try to get cards done at some point. With the rising cost of postage, I've had to trim the list, but I definitely try to send out cards to people who are far away, that I know I won't see for the holidays, and of course for my quilting friends. I always look for a sewing/quilt related card for them. This year I found a box of cards by Rebecca Barker (Quiltscapes). It is a beautiful stack of Christmas quilts on the front of the card, and it comes with green envelopes. Hey - there's an idea for you to work on. How about if you "create" some Christmas cards using your designs on the front. I'm sure all the Lizzie B girls would love it! Something to think about for Christmas 2011!! I always try to catch Pat Sloan's broadcasts on Monday afternoon, and I will be excited to see what happens when you ladies take over the mike in her place. Have fun! Thanks for all that you do all year long.
ReplyDeleteMerry Christmas.
At church, cards are sorted by family. Everybody gets a big stack the Sunday before Christmas. One year, Mom forgot to sign our name on one card, but the recipients recognized her writing. They sent it back with a note and they've been exchanging the same card for years. Love your fabrics!
ReplyDeleteHehe, you guys sound like fun:) I don't have any good card stories. We do like to hang them on the wall around our calendar each year.
ReplyDeleteI only send Christmas cards to family and friends that live in another state, so that is almost everyone. I love picking out new cards every year right after Christmas.
ReplyDeleteLol I've loved reading all about you two from Pat Sloan over the years, it's great to finally see what you're both like! And I feel like I have a little green of the grinch in me I need to stamp out, I'm always late getting my Christmas cards out, in fact I normally only manage a measly 3 - 5! Shocking, I still have my listst to make, along with gifts to make and buy, the decs and tree are still in the lofts .... Oh are you sure that poes wasn't about me! Wonderful giveaway!
ReplyDeleteMy friends all try be the first to get out Christmas cards. They are so excited if I tell them they were the first. I, on the other hand, have been so late they got sent out the next year. I just have to make sure no one moved or divorced or had more kids the previous year!
ReplyDeleteI too love getting Christmas cards and reading Christmas letters. I save the cards and make gift tags from them. I save the pictures and hang them where we can see them often.
ReplyDeleteThanks for a cute project idea and the fabric is wonderful!
I wish I had a Christmas card story, but I can't think of one at all. I CAN tell you that today I am going out to buy cards. We lived in England for several years, and the English people are serious Christmas card givers, so we will be buying special cards for our dear friends over there.
ReplyDeleteYour new line is lots of fun. I love Whimseyland, and bought it at The Quilt Basket In Tucson, when it first came out. I understand you are local girls?
I always sit down one day and write out ALL my cards at once! I always intend to just write "merry Christmas" on them, but end up writing a ton on each card! Takes ALL day! Thanks for the cute apron pattern! I will definitely be making that one!!
ReplyDeleteI don't have a card story to tell, just a comment...I can't stand the ones that are preprinted with a "signature"...it sort of negates the sentiment that a card is supposed to have. Your fabrics are gorgeous. Thanks for the apron pattern, and for the giveaway!
ReplyDeleteMy Christmas card story comes from when I was a child. Every year my mom would get a Christmas card from this lady who wrote a nice, long, newsy letter. Great, eh? Well, as a kid all I thought was that it bragged...and bragged...and bragged some more. I remember asking my mom how she could stand it? This lady would brag about everything from her kids to her dog. Well, I do love getting letters in Christmas cards but that memory always gives me a chuckle.
ReplyDeleteIt was so nice to "meet" you both today! What a silly post!! Thank you for the wonderful apron pattern. My niece was just telling me she'd like a cute apron- perfect!!!Merry christmas!
ReplyDeleteI love receiving Christmas cards,but have to admit (through all good intentions) I am very bad and getting mine sent on time. The one card I always look forward to is from my Mom because it is always one of her one of a kind hand made christmas cards.
ReplyDeleteI love the wonderful poem!! Very creative!! I too LOVE receiving Cards because I know how to turn them into gorgeous gift boxes! In less than a minute I can have a box to put jewelry in or soap or tea bags or key chains or a gift card or fudge...just nothing big! Thanks so much for the apron pattern- sew cute! AND thanks for the chance to win your give away!! Have a very Merry Christmas!
ReplyDeletePaulette
Thanks for sharing more great stories...I just love Christmas cards with pictures of all of our friends...I especially love when they are brave enough to send the funny pix that most would toss!! Ordered my big ol' mug and t-shirt today...WooHoo!!
ReplyDeleteWishing I had a great story to share with you. Every year it's 50/50 as to whether the addressed cards will get mailed. Why you ask? I love to pick them out, address them and then sometimes I blank out and forget to mail them. I have on occasion actually got them mailed out--are they always on time? No. This is my improvement area each year. Love the website and the project thanks.
ReplyDeleteMary
I hang my cards around the house each year and save them from year to year. I have a box full of cards, not sure what to do with them, but can't throw them out. Sometimes I do take a pile and make gift tags from the beautiful pictures on the front of the cards. Thanks for the great project and giveaway.
ReplyDeleteSending cards is a hit or miss thing for me. But, like you, I LOVE to receive them so really try to make more of an effort. Thanksfor the apron pattern! LOVE it! :o)
ReplyDeleteHappy Holidays and thanks for the great pattern!
ReplyDeleteEvery year my best friend sends a beautiful unique card at Christmas with a personal heartfelt message inside. I've saved everyone for about twenty five years and put all of them out every year because they are so lovely. Last year she noticed this and said, "Okay, that's just creepy!!!" LOL
What I've done with my Christmas cards in the past is clipped them to a clothesline like string draped over and over. But.. I kinda like your idea better! I just got garland to hang down my banister, and have been slowly adding ornaments to it each year. It still looks sparse, so since you can't see my house LOL.. I'm thinking I'm gonna borrow your idea :)
ReplyDeleteI too have had a few tough years sending Christmas cards. I lost my mom last year and dad the year before. I just couldn't get into sending cards. This year I've been planning on sewing up some thread painted Christmas trees on cards to make them a bit special.
ReplyDeleteLove the apron!! I'm an apron junkie :) thanks for the pattern...and the giveaway.
One of my friends came up with a wonderful card holder pattern this year and sent it to me for a dry run. I made it and will have a wonderful new way to display my cards this year. Thankyou for sharing the apron pattern with all of us. This looks like a lot of fun!
ReplyDeleteI love to receive cards, too, but each year I find we get less - the economy I suppose. Also, Many of those people are no longer here and those cards I really treasure. My Godmother was always the first to send cards and after she died, I missed that part of her - but I remember it every year. So, please know that card sending does create Christmas memories.
ReplyDeleteI love, love, love aprons. Thanks
ReplyDeleteMarcy
Great post, but I was disappointed that you didn't tell your secret word...all the other blogs have stated it. Maybe it is just me and it was obvious and I missed it.
ReplyDeleteI just got my first card yesterday! I try to get cards in the mail but I honestly don't do well with it. I pulled out this years cards to try a little harder this year!
ReplyDeleteI love the cards made by my nephews :) Thanks for the cute apron pattern.
ReplyDeleteI save cards from each year and use them for tags. I display current cards clipped with tiny clothespins on ribbons hung over my bannister. Apron has my friend's name all over it. Thanks
ReplyDeleteI have a friend I worked with 40 (can it be?) years ago. We communicate only once a year through a personal Christmas card and it's like we just saw each other a week ago. I know, we could email or telephone, but there's something about a handwritten letter that is so precious -- I look forward to it every year! Love your apron pattern and can't wait to make it!
ReplyDeleteI save my Christmas cards also...I found a white basket and made a big red paper ribbon to adorn it and each year I added the Christmas cards...I have so many (20 years worth???)....sometimes I like going back and reading them..such sweet memories..thank you for the pattern and a great giveaway...
ReplyDeleteThank you for the wonderful apron pattern. We don't really send many cards out anymore, just to close family members and a few friends but it is always fun to share what has been going on.
ReplyDeleteI'm sending fewer and fewer cards it seems, but I love receiving them. After the holidays, I cut out pictures and sentiments to use as gift tags the next year...tied with a ribbon on a gift, they are very pretty.
ReplyDeleteI was going to save all the snowmen ones for a collage someday, but never got around to that project.
I display the cards in an old fashioned card holder that hangs on a wall in my kitchen. I love seeing them every day. After Christmas I give the cards to a friend who makes gift tags out of them. Her service group sells them at a boutique to raise money for their foodbank. It's hard to let them go but it's such a good cause.
ReplyDeleteHi Lizzie Bs!!! You WERE meant to be sisters, obviously!! How awesome it that??
ReplyDeleteI love your whimsical style and vibrant hues. Those aprons are adorable, too! So nice to get to know you through this blog hop!!!
This the craziest post, so far, for the Design Festival. Crazy in a good way! For many years we sent Christmas cards based on my husbands watercolors. The past couple of years he's lost his mojo, due to pain, and friends and family really miss his cards.
ReplyDeleteI don't usually keep many cards, only a special few, however I always keep the photos that come with them. Love the apron!
ReplyDeleteI love the thot of that little girl all decked out as a ghoul holding the headless Barbie. *L*
ReplyDeleteOh, and thx for the nice project too.
I always love your blog and your holiday give-a-ways. Looking forward to hearing you on Pat Sloan. I'll be listening as I'm busy sewing. I'm awful when it comes to sending cards, but I love to get them.
ReplyDeleteI love your blog -- s great post today! I love Christmas cards too but certainly haven't come up the creative idea you have with the garland. I love it!
ReplyDeleteWe love to make crazy PhotoShop picture cards. One year our labrador retrievers were the reindeer pulling Santa cat's sleigh. All were dressed appropriately. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteOne year I relied on my hubby to deliver Christmas cards to his work friends. I handed him the stack just before he left for work. He stashed them on the windshield visor and away he went. We didn't give those cards another thought until several months later I lowered the visor and was showered with a stack of Christmas cards.
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My Christmas care story is the first card I received for this year. My Aunt and Uncle celebrated their 40th wedding anniversary this year and I was their flower girl. Tucked into the card was a picture of me at their wedding. What a precious memory for them to share. I love it. Thank you for sharing all that you do. I always get a laugh when I read your blog. Take care and God bless, Cory.
ReplyDeleteI love Christmas cards. I look forward to sending and receiving them. I also keep them and make the balls out of them. cut circles then fold into triangles and glue 8 or 12 together to form a ball. very pretty. I love your cre8tivity and humor. Thanks for great patterns and fabric designs. Happy Holidays!
ReplyDeleteFun post, beautiful fabrics. Yumm.
ReplyDeleteI love to design and make my own Christmas cards. Currently working on some fibre-arts cards, with a nautical theme for this years' card. Love to receive Christmas cards of all forms. It is one tradition that email just isn't the same.
Happy Holidays.
SewCalGal
www.sewcalgal.blogspot.com
There are a couple cards I always look forward to receiving...my cousin usually writes a poem every year which is always inspiring. Also, some friends of ours with four daughters always send a unique family photo that's just so creative! thanks for the giveaway!
ReplyDeleteI miss the good old days when everyone sent and received cards! Not many people do it anymore, plus it's expensive... It was fun to hear from people at Christmas. We would hang the cards up by the door...
ReplyDeleteEvery year we feature our Dalmatian(s) in some way on our Christmas cards. The dogs have even written our Christmas letter a few times -- using a bark translator, of course. The first few years our cards were all handmade, but, when the numbers started creeping up around 100 I switched to photos and now photoshop. It's always a challenge to outdo the previous year.....
ReplyDeleteCHRISTMAS CARDS! I LOVE THEM! ONE SPECIAL ONE WAS FROM A DEAR FRIEND, IT WAS ONLY 4X5, BUT SO SO BEAUTIFUL! I HAD TO FRAME IT AND ENJOY IT ALL YEAR LONG! THANKS FOR SHARING!
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The cards I enjoy the most are from the predictable family and friends who end up sending cards after the holiday rush. One of the families sent out Christmas cards wishing everyone a Happy Valentines Day as the cards were mailed in mid-February. But the letters are worth the wait.
ReplyDeleteYears ago I sewed ribbon together in the shape of a tree and the cards are hung on that, it looks nice when it's full. I loved the story about your friends cards, wish you could have shown us the picture, a headless Barbie is so perfect.
ReplyDeleteYour post was delightful. I do love giving and receiving Christmas cards. When my children were young, we made our own cards. Lots of cut out snowflakes and Christmas trees glued to construction paper. As they got older, they were able to make up the verse that went inside. I don't know if the recipients kept them or not, but we still have good memories.
ReplyDeleteThe apron pattern is great. Might even be able to get one (two) made before Christmas. I know my daughter-in-law would love one. Thanks for the chance to win your giveaways.
I just love your post...so much fun! You Lizzie girls are a hoot! :o) Thanks for the cute apron pattern and the awesome give away, too!
ReplyDeleteAs for my card story... well, I guess it would have to be that I just save all of my cards every year. As postage has gone up and due to so many people sending e-cards, I don't get quite as many Christmas cards as I used to. So every year I drag out all the cards I've received in the past and put them all out so it looks like I've received a lot! Plus, I have cards from my grandparents and special aunts that have since passed away and it makes me still feel connected to them by having their cards displayed with the others. Makes me smile every year!
Wishing a warm, wonderful and blessed Holiday Season to both of you and your families!
XOXO,
Cyndi
Forget those long 'guess what cool things I did this year' letters - I already know. I want a picture of the family in the Christmas cards I receive. That's what makes them special to me.
ReplyDeleteI love to make cards--any cards:fabric, paper, photo! I save the cards I get and scrapbook them to save for many years to come.
ReplyDeleteI like to use last year's Christmas cards to make tags for this year's gifts!
ReplyDeleteI always put the Christmas cards into a Christmas basket; it sits on the table where I can pull them out and re-read them while eating lunch or when I'm bored. The basket usually stays out until mid-February; by then I have read the cards so many times that I have them memorized! I especially like cards that carry family newsletters! In my cards, I keep it simple. I slip in a bullet list of the most important/interesting happenings in our lives over the last year. I don't ever want to bore people!
ReplyDeleteCard story...........except for having fun making them last year, I can't think of one. We do have fun reading all the letters different people send out. Always looking for one letter that expresses thoughts of love for the season and is not just a "an all about me letter." Those are few and far between.
ReplyDeleteFun giveaways and a cute apron pattern. My card story is simply that my favorite cards are those with family pictures on to stay connected to the people that mean so much to me.
ReplyDeleteWe display our cards in a basket, then save them to cut and use as gift tags the next year.
ReplyDeleteThanks for your fabulous giveaway !!
I love Christmas cards. My mother, a busy teacher struggling against breast cancer, used to send handwritten letters (some pages long) to the dozens and dozens of people on her Christmas card list. A labor of love!
ReplyDeleteI love sending and receiving xmas card.I put all the card I receive in my xnas tree.
ReplyDeleteWishing a warm and fun holiday season!
Wow, I can feel your energy!! Thank you for that little boost. Over the years I have come to learn less and less people send out Christmas cards. Just 10 yeras ago I would send out 40 to 50 cards. Now I only send cards to those that send me cards from the year before. So this year I might only send out 10 cards. It is sad because I love cards also. Thank you for the give away.
ReplyDeleteLove your upbeat blog and especially your great fabrics. Thanks so much>
ReplyDeleteYou can never have enough fabric and patterns. Love you blog.
ReplyDeleteMy mom always gets so many cards and on Christmas Eve when all the eating and unwrapping of gifts is done I love to sit and go through all my cards. She always has to tell me little stories or memories that she has about the person who sent her the card. Christmas isn't Christmas until I go through her cards. Thanks for the giveaway.
ReplyDeleteI try to send an 'aussie' christmas card to my english relatives.. something without snow, usually something funny (cause I have a wicked sense of humour).. we have a VERY hot Christmas here and they are having a white one this year... so this years card is a snowman made out of mud and the title is 'another aussie disappointment at christmas - no snow'.. the upside is, well NO SNOW! :O) I have sent cards with Santa Surfing in boardshorts, Santa using Kangaroo's instead of reindeers, Santa Sunbaking.. the list is endless.. I try to buy each year cards without snow/snowman themes, as it is the middle of summer for Christmas in Australia..
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Australia
I save every card... but I'm lousy at sending them. It's probably been 12 years. I'm thinking of doing a "Decade of Christmas" in one card — but I'm still on Halloween!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the cute apron pattern.I love your new Hip Happy line. I enjoy seeing the different Christmas cards that arrive, I have a cousin who paints and she paints a Christmas scene and then has her cards made from that. I have a few friends that do scrapbooking and they always make a card that can double as an ornament. ANd I love to see the pictures of the families and especially the kids.
ReplyDeleteI almost always pick out special cards for my daughters from Hallmark (not in a box), well my eldest daughter told me last year "Mom you know this is the same card again...". I had gotten her the same card two years in a row. Hallmark needs to change their cards so people like me are not buying the same card every year!!!
ReplyDeleteMerry Christmas!
Connie F
I love getting cards too. I even love the hoakey letters that come with them. Sometimes that's all the news I get from some people for the year. My dad made this wooden rudolph with big horns with slanted slots to put the cards on. Hard to describe well, but super cute -trust me.
ReplyDeleteAnyway thanks for participating in the blog hop.
One year I received the most beautiful card, a friend had saved all of her old cards and cut them into tiny strips and clued the strips together to make a star shape then glued those onto card stock (my description really doesn't do it justice).
ReplyDeleteMy favorite card we sent out was a picture of my husband and I tangled up in lit Christmas lights!
I love receiving Christmas cards specially if there is a picture of the people who sent it. I also love making cards and gift tags. I remember 1 Christmas I cross stitched all the gift tags, about 20 with mini stitch a little Christmas picture, I was crazy I don´t know what I was thinking. Love your fabrics and thank you for the great give away.
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I make my own cards every year. But, when I think of Christmas cards, I think of being a small child and my mother having something that looked like bakers twine, and she would string it across the wall and attach it to the wall at both ends. It came with little tiny, plastic, colored clothes pins, and she would hang every Christmas card on there. I loved looking at the beautiful display of Christmas cards from dear friends and family.
ReplyDeleteI love when the cards start arriving each year and reading about what everyone has been up to. We keep the cards and envelopes so that we don't miss anyone when we send ours out the next year. I love looking back and thinking about everyone and looking at the beautiful cards and letters.
ReplyDeleteLove your fabrics and thank you for the project - looks like fun to make.
I have a "whale of a tale" about my Christmas cards. I have saved almost every one of them from the 42 years we have been married. One of these days I'm going to decoupage them to a trunk or a wooden screen. One of these days.........LOL! Seriously, I love sending and receiving Christmas cards. I even have some vintage cards (never sent, bought in their original boxes at a garage sale) from the 30's, 40's and 50's that I've hung on garland. The scenes they depict are so lovely and just by looking at some of them, I can revisit the scenes from my childhood in the 50's when Christmas held a special magic that I tap into every Christmas. :-)
ReplyDeleteI love your blog and your fabric is just gorgeous -- so happy! I love sending and receiving Christmas cards each year because it provides such a sense of continuity. Receiving cards from people I've known for years brings such a sense of tradition.
ReplyDeleteMy story involves my two grown children. We all live in suburbs of the Twin Cities. We get together for Christmas and share cards with each other. Last year, they both gave the identical card to my mother-in-law! And then this year, they each bought the same card for our anniversary! I guess they are more alike than I thought (and they're not twins!)
ReplyDeleteLeslie S. in MN
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My friends quit sending cards years ago. Now we only get cards from family and they are the best. Thanks for the pattern. Happy Holidays!
ReplyDeleteThank you for your apron pattern! It's lovely. I'm new on your blog, but I'll be your official follower from now! Györgyi
ReplyDeleteI don't have a card story but how about an ornament one? My brother and sister-in-law made xmas ornaments each year for about 15 years. I had every one of them until I lost most of them in when I moved out of state. It still makes me sad but I'm going to start a new tradition (maybe cards!) this year. I can't wait to see what I collect!
ReplyDeleteI love getting cards with pictures of family and friends. I keep them up for months. Thanks for the adorable apron pattern and the giveaways.
ReplyDeleteI love to receive cards with pictures of friends and family. The non-photo cards are saved and sent to the nursing home my grandma is in and they are reused in craft projects by the residents. Thanks for sharing your stories and showing us your new fabric line - it is adorable (Hip Happy). Thanks also for the chance to enter your drawing:)
ReplyDeleteI must admit I'm really not a Christmas card person. I send just a few usually with the packages I send. I put the cards I get on the fridge. Thanks for the great project and the chance on your great giveaway!
ReplyDeleteI keep all of my cards and hang them on my cupboard doors which are wrapped liked packages with bows.
ReplyDeleteLove the apron.
I always look forward to getting the card from my brother Dave. He and his wife love cats, so they always find fun cat-themed Christmas cards. I just got this year's; it's a Leanin' Tree (they make great cards) and oh so funny! Picture a cat with panicked look on face, claws desperately trying to hang onto a ball ornament, sliding off upside down :0)
ReplyDeletegreat fabric line you have created.
ReplyDeleteI send out cards still and I keep them until the next Christmas and use them to make embellished cards out of them.
Merry Christmas!
I love snowmen! When I get a Christmas card with a snowman I save it. Some I frame in small novelty frames and bring out year after year. Some of them can be left out all winter here in NY. Others I use for gift tags. Still others I keep in with my Christmas decorations and enjoy looking at all the different little guys and girls every year.
ReplyDeleteI don't have many to send cards to but when my family is all over I call my sister on the other side of the country when her family is all there and we have one long conversation where we pass the phone around on both ends! Thanks for the chance to win!
ReplyDeleteHave you ever made little boxes of Christmas cards!??? they are so fun, addicting and turn out awesome. Come to my house, I'll show you how! Thanks for the chance to win some fabric.
ReplyDeleteMy card story is that I always either have too many or too few. Some years I think I've bought them, and then find I haven't. Other years I'm sure I have none, and keep buying them until I have enough for several years. Kathie L in Allentown
ReplyDeleteI love Christmas cards also. I just received two today with beautiful pictures of children. I love to save all these Christmas pictures of the kids through the years and return them when they have kids of their own.
ReplyDeleteI decorate my laundry room double doors with Christmas cards every year.
TUCSADELPHIA! is beautiful! Thanks for being a part of the blog hop. My card story would be the year I got out the Christmas decorations to find the cards from the prior year - the ones I "sent" - neatly addressed and stamped in a box. Oops!
ReplyDeleteMy husband and I send out a card and letter each year. Each year he INSISTS that I include the following update from him: "Scott wants all of you to know that he is indeed a handsome man!"
ReplyDeleteP.S. I LOVE the name Elizabeth Ann -- I am one, too!
I'm a sucker for aprons so I was thrilled to see this one. :) Thanks so much! blessings, marlene
ReplyDeleteOops! I forgot to tell you my Christmas card story. Senior moment. :) My grandmother used to save every card she got - Christmas, birthday, Mother's Day, etc. She loved the colors and the pictures and everything about them. When she got a big stack of them she would tear the fronts off, put a handful in a big brown envelope and mail them to her grandchildren. She said every child loves mail and every child loves bright colors and pictures. My kids loved getting Grandma's envelopes...they looked at every card and then they drew pictures on the back of them and taped them to the walls of their rooms. I miss her still. blessings, marlene
ReplyDeleteThe apron pattern is wonderful. I wish I had time to make aprons for my granddaughters -- they would love them. Oh well, there's always next Christmas! Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the apron pattern - love it!
ReplyDeleteCard story - I love sending and getting hoiday cards. I have crafted out of them, used them for tags the next year. Donated them to St. Judes hospital - they remake them and sell with profits for th hospital. I Always keep our favorites in my yearly holiday scrapbook along with the pictures that get sent with them for that year. Its great to look back on! Thanks for the lovely giveaway!
Each year we keep all our cards in a big basket and look at them often.
ReplyDeleteI'd love to win your giveaway.
My card story is from about 12 years ago - before digital cameras. I took a roll of film, got it developed and then took the negative back to the store to get the cards made up with the picture of the 2 kids. I ordered 50 of them.... of the wrong photo. So instead of a wonderful photo of my 3 yr old and his new baby sister looking happy, I had 50 copies of the one with her screaming and him looking like he would rather be somewhere else!
ReplyDeleteHappy holidays
I love sending and Receiving Christmas Cards! We all seem to keep so busy and it's one moment we seem to make time to do a little catching up on each other's lives. About 12 years ago I started sending hand made cards. Some years are a little more creative than others depending on how much procrastinating I've done that year but I always enjoy putting something together. Thanks for the chance to win some fabric. Melissa
ReplyDeleteOnce the season has passed, I give my cards to my friend Marg who, in turn, passes them on to a friend from church who make that most marvellous boxes and containers with lids. Simply gorgeous. I actually received one from Marg one year.
ReplyDeleteOur Family Christmas story started my husband and my very 1st Christmas. After hours at the hospital, of mostly just being bored and cracking jokes, our daughter was born on Christmas Eve. (We had been trying for the day before which was my husband's birthday). I still blame the nurse that she wasn't born on the day we planned, but 15 minutes after midnight into the next day. As a special gift we got to take our daughter home on Christmas morning (which was very early for hospital policies). She has been a gift and a treasure to us ever since. Our own little Christmas joy.
ReplyDeleteThis year, it's possible that our new baby can be born around Christmas too, but we're shooting for New Years Eve, so it'll be a different holiday as our daughter and so he still count on our taxes (hehe).
So that's our story, not very exciting, I've never been a good story teller. Hopefully someday we'll learn to stop having kids during the holidays. (probably not, though)
I adore Christmas cards. As a kid, we would plaster the wall with them - old and new - every year. Now, I put them on my banisters and then in a box after the first of the year. In July - YES July - I sit down in my "office" and with a cup of hot cocoa and the AC flowin, I read through them all over again. It used to only take a few minutes, now it is getting close to an hour. I have them bundled by sender. It is nice to see how everyone's families evolve through the years. Thank you for the giveaway!! xoxo
ReplyDeleteLove cards... receiving... just time to send is getting harder and harder...
ReplyDeletewe usually do the fun newsletter.... with pics.. but so many are on FB now..
and I have to fess up last year.. fist year ever, I missed...
I did buy stamps this year... so... we'll see!!
Hugs to you guys.
I belong to an online community of folks who have bunnies. We do a card exchange and it's wonderful to check the mail every afternoon and see envelopes from all over the world. The cards are very creative, usually featuring photos of their bunnies. They're such treasures and small tokens of the friendships we've formed with people we'll probably never meet in person.
ReplyDeleteWe dont' really send cards anymore...sad isn't it? I have no idea what happened to that in our household.
ReplyDeleteI could never top your Halloween/Christmas card! I did want to see the Munster family photo though!
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing!
I do love getting Christmas cards in the mail. I sometimes make gift tags from them for the next Christmas. Thanks for the chance to win your beautiful fabric.
ReplyDeleteThat poem was so funny! I only do a few cards now, close sewing friends, family... I do save many of the cards I get - I love Christmas cards. I'm a huge fan of your patterns, and this apron is adorable!
ReplyDeleteWell, it depends - if it's a photo of a friend, or their child or pet, any photo goes into a photo album that is only for Christmas. Some cards, I put in a special keepsake box, and some are made into tags for the following year. Then, yes, some are made into templates...... we don't send as many as we once did, but I still enjoy sending and recieving them!!
ReplyDeleteI love photo Christmas cards of family and friends. We can see the changes from year to year. I keep all the photos in albums.
ReplyDeleteMy favorite Christmas cards are the ones that my grandchildren make - they are so unique. Other cards are saved and given to the care home where the residents enjoy making them into placemats. Love the apron. Thanks!
ReplyDeleteI save all of my cards too (at least all of the sparkly/pretty/special ones)!!! I have them going back over 15 years now, and every Christmas I make them part of the decorations by grouping all of the previous years cards I've kept on top of the pie safe and china cabinet in the dining room. All of the current years (new) cards are displayed in the living room and kitchen to keep them seperate.
ReplyDeleteMy most cherished cards are those from my Grandma who moved to Heaven almost 9 years ago... those cards all have a special display area all to themselves on my dresser. :)
That was the most entertaining post I've read so far, great fun. I have all the cards my son made from kindergarten up (he's 18) so my very favorite thing to do is hang all his up on the tree along with all the glitter ornaments from elementary school.
ReplyDeleteI love your idea of using Christmas carts with garland and decorating with them. I'm stealing that idea. Each year I hate to get rid of the cards we received. Sometimes I've sent them to St. Jude's Research Hospital for the kids to use for artwork. Other years I've given them to our art teacher to use for design ideas with her students.
ReplyDeleteLoving this blog hop!
ReplyDeleteI always save homemade cards or cards that have letters written in them so I can re-read them later
SheilaC
Thanks for the pattern sheets for the aprong. I will be fun to make. I save Christmas cards and have quite a stash. Today we had a family brunch, my sisters and their families, over 40 people. After eating and an ornament exchange we make ornaments. Old Christmas cards are often part of the projects I plan. Today I searched throught a huge stack of cards looking for a picture of jingle bells for litte Jael's ornement. She smiled so big when we found them.
ReplyDeleteThanks for taking part of this hop. I really like receiving Christmas cards, the more the better.
ReplyDeleteLove the apron pattern! great giveaway...... My husband and his sister have sent the exact same Birthday card back and forth to each other for 27 years!!!! LOL My daughter sends me the most amazing Christmas cards ever. I have a good cry and a big smile everytime I get one, each Christmas.
ReplyDeleteOne of my favorite parts of Christmas as a child was to open all of the cards that came to the family. Thanks for the chance to win all those great prizes!
ReplyDeleteWe save Christmas cards and place in a sweet heart Christmas basket. Family visitors always like to go through the basket and read, and even the children who cannot read like to ooh and aahh. One year we made some into a pretty garland for the front window, and consensus was to return to the basket. I've used old ones as gift tags too. Now, vendor printed cards later become hexagon templates and my grandniece has fun with the holepunch. After Christmas we may recycle more cards than in prior years. Thanks for the laughs about times past. alternate email mlwright29 (at) hotmail (dot) com
ReplyDeleteChristmas fun is the cookies. Lots of family time and laughs!!
ReplyDeleteYes, I still send Christmas cards and LOVE hearing from folks I only hear from once a year. We attach our cards to garland that's placed around our foyer entryway. I would love to win your giveaway. This is my first time at your blog, and it's been fun!
ReplyDeleteI like to decorate with the Christmas cards that we receive. Its fun to hang them around the doorway with some garland. Thanks for the cute apron pattern, I hope I can find time to get one made before Christmas.
ReplyDeleteLove the project and the fabrics for Tuscadelphia!
ReplyDeleteNot many card stories here. One year we did have a special card we sent out, but not many people knew the story about it. It was a card with a Scottish Terrier eating Santa's cookies off the plate by the tree. See, one day hubby was home with our Scottie Mitzi and he made himself a ham sandwich for lunch. The phone rang, so he set it on the end table and went to answer the phone. When he came back, the sandwich was there...minus the ham! Mitzi was sitting on the couch like nothing had happened, not even looking guilty! So when hubby saw those cards, we had to send them out! Mitzi has been gone for 4 years now but we still laugh about that!
Thanks for letting me share!
Sandy A
scotty4me39 @ yahoo. com
I hang my Christmas cards along the staircase. Afterwards I save them and make little gift tags and little gift boxes for chocolates. Thank you for the apron pattern and the generous giveaway.
ReplyDeleteI love giving and receiving cards with family pictures. It's so fun to look back and see how families (including mine) have grown. Merry Christmas!
ReplyDeleteI've saved Christmas cards for years, but have not put them to any particularly crea8tive use --- reading all these comments have given me some good ideas. Now...to find the time to do them! I, too, like the family pictures --- we all seem to change fast.
ReplyDeleteHi! Thanks for the cute apron pattern and a chance at your fab give-away.
ReplyDeleteWhat a fun Christmas greeting and poem from your friend! I, too, find it difficult to throw them away and usually recycle them into gifts tags or something. I especially loved making cards with my kids when they were little for them to send out. Lots of glue and glitter and cotton balls and construction paper... Karen
What a great set of fabric lines you have created - I think they are so fun and funky.
ReplyDeleteChristmas cards are one of my favorite things- I have a number of handmade ones that my mother stamped over the years. She makes beautiful cards. I used to send lots of cards but do not send many these days- email and technology seems to have taken over that aspect of my life. I still love getting them in the mail and enjoy hearing from friends and loved ones from different parts of the world.
Thanks for sharing your very fun apron. It is a wonderful giveaway.
Warmest regards,
Anna
How fun! Your friend's little poem was a hoot. But I truly agree with the eating of See's candy. Yum -- don't see it much on the east coast. I'm sure I could give your giveaways a good home, just sayin! Thanks for sharing Bonnie in Va.
ReplyDeleteI absolutely love getting Christmas cards as well, but sometimes I just can't get mine out in time. That's when I send New Year's cards instead. That way I have a little more time to get it done and everyone on my list still gets my cards. A good compromise.
ReplyDeleteWhat a great little post. I just LOVE your friend's poem. Too funny. Gosh, Christmas cards and what do I do with them ~ I have always saved the cards because they are so pretty and I just can't bare to toss them out. I've always planned to do something with them but I just haven't figured out exactly what yet. I have the past four years now in a storage container here in my sewing room. Each year as I get them they are hung up on our doorway which leads from our kitchen into our living room. They are hung there within my lighted garland I frame that doorway with each year. I just hate taking those beautifully colored cards and garland down each year. It just seems so blah after the holidays are over.
ReplyDeleteI just LOVE the sneak peek of your Spring fabric line. Beautiful. I will be keeping an eye out for that.
What a great giveaway you have planned too. Thank you for the chance to win.
Merry Christmas to you and your family.
vburr at charter dot net
I love cards, giving and getting. They are so nice to hang around the house and be reminded of friends and family.
ReplyDeleteDebbie
Love your tradition of saving cards and recycling - maybe I'll become more creative and do something with mine. Your patterns and fabrics are very whimsical and happy; thanks for sharing your very creative apron pattern (I can hardly wait to make one as I especially like the color palette with buttons); and also thanks for the chance to win some of your yummy fabric and book. Happy Holidays!
ReplyDeleteI love receiving cards too. Nearly 30 years ago a friend and I made card holders to match. We both moved many times, but each Christmas we get out our card holders and remember the fun we had! We talk on the phone often too. Thanks for the fun!
ReplyDeleteDefinitely a card girl here! One year I set aside some of our photo cards to write a special note to accompany it, for my Grandma and other important family members. My Grandma complained in the late spring that she never got one. I felt sure I had addressed an envelope to her and told her so. In May I found the envelope and photo cards in a "safe place". I crossed out Merry Christmas and wrote "Happy Flag Day", cuz I was early for that, and sent them off. They were a hit and my conscience was cleared!
ReplyDeleteWho doesn't love getting a card from family and friends and even the insurance guy? LOL
ReplyDeleteMy favorite cards are the ones with the year in review letters and pictures of the family who sent the card and letter. People make fun of those yearly tomes but I love that my family and friends who live far away, and who I very rarely if at all see, keep me up to date on their life!
I always save cards. I love getting cards. I Christmas tradition we have is getting an ornament or Christams decoration every year. We also do a night of making sugar cookies and decorating them. Thanks for the apron pattern.
ReplyDeleteWe like to make little boxes from the cards we receive. I have a little Christmas tree made with yo-yo's that they go underneath.
ReplyDeleteVery cute apron! I'll be sure to listen to the radio show. You gals will do great!
I like making crafts with last years cards....though, I haven't since my kiddo's married and moved away...waiting for the grand kids to get old enough! :)
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in the past, i have used past Christmas cards to make placemats, and gift boxes. this last year though, my girlfriend collected cards to give to a charity that then reused the pictures to make new cards to sell. St. Jude's is one organization that collects cards.
ReplyDeleteThank you for sharing your holiday memories! This holiday project parade is such a blast! thank you!
The apron is wonderful. Love your fabrics especially the spring line. I've always kept my cards & used them to decorate doorways.
ReplyDeleteChristmas cards...hmmmm...writing letters in the cards and addressing the cards was a chore I dreaded for years. Then a few years ago, I decided to jump off the sending cards train. I was finally free and you know what happened? Nothing! It didn't matter!
ReplyDeleteI keep my Christmas cards and recycle them. I cut out gift tags and use them on my Christmas gifts.
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Five years ago, we received a photo Christmas card in the mail shortly after we moving into our new house. It was from the Murray family in Arizona. We don't know the Murrays. So we immediately realized that this card had slipped through the former house owner's forwarding information/process. Knowing how expensive they can get, I placed the photo in a new envelope and sent it back to Arizona. The next Christmas we got another card from them and then another...soon I gave up sending them back. Now, I've added them to our Christmas Card List. Every year, we get our holiday greetings from the Murray family and we send our Christmas greetings to them....
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I was pretty good about writing a letter with the Christmas cards, but now I am doing well to get the cards made and in the mail! Fun fabric line!
ReplyDeleteI display my cards during the season and save them to make gift tags. [To make the tags I cut out the design I want to use and a matching plain piece from the back of the card to write the recipient's name, punch tiny holes all around the edge of the two pieces with my mini-hole puncher. Then using the holes I crochet a lace edge all around and attach a ribbon to tie the card to the gift and it can be used later as an ornament or book marker.] Enjoyed visiting your blog!
ReplyDeleteWoo-Hoo! Big giveaway! I loved reading your post, and have become a new follower! I'm not really a Christmas Card person, but I love the idea of hanging them from the bannister, it looks gorgeous! I still have the last Christmas card my grandfather gave me before he passed. Every year I try to pick out a beautiful winter/snow scene for my Christmas card. That's all the Christmas Card story I have! THanks for the giveaway, I'm looking forward to stopping back in later!
ReplyDeleteWow!! Awesome fabrics! I love every Christmas card/letter I receive. I typically string them together and hang them above fireplace. They usually stay there till Valentines day!! (oh my!)
ReplyDeleteI display the cards during Dec., then a service club I belong to takes the front of cards and we cut a bone shape out to be used as eye screeners by elem. students having their eyes checked.
ReplyDeleteI used to make all of my Christmas cards! Rubber stamps, embossing powder and of course a picture of my lovely girls! Great memories...maybe I'll make some cards once again!
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing the project!
We were just saying how so many folks don't send them out any more. I save the fronts for my second grade class to make cards with.
ReplyDeleteLove the new line of fabrics! I was thrilled to win your last line in a fat quarter selection of MY CHOICE from The Jolly Jabber last year. Ya'll's work is always one to bring a smile!
I keep those most important to me in a box of cards. Every few years I will go back through them. I did that recently to find out that my husband gave me the same Christmas card not one, not twice, not even three times, but 4 different times!
ReplyDeletethanks for sharing all of your cre8ivity with us.
I receive two handmade cards every year at during the Christmas season. They're always magnificent and are the ones that I look foward to the most. I really wish I had the time to make cards, too!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the apron pattern, and for the chance to win your giveaway, too! Happy holidays!!!
I love Christmas cards, especially the ones with photos! I love seeing how everyone changes over the years, especially the kids. :)
ReplyDeleteCan't wait to hear you on Pat's radio show. Thanks for the apron pattern and the gorgeous fabric giveaway.
ReplyDeleteChristmas card stories. I can tell you that just last week my Mother sent me a Christmas card that my grandmother received from her teacher, it's 90 some years old.
Christmas Cards are the only time of year I really get to tell ol' friends hello. I am a stinker when it comes to wrting a special message in each card. I make sure I always include a photograph of the family too. Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteI always take a picture of my kids in front of the Christmas tree and include it in my card. Lots of my friends tell me they look forward to it each year. This year will be extra special as it will be including our first grandchild in the picture!
ReplyDeleteMy husband and I are in full-time ministry, so we receive tons of cards every year. I like to use them to make gift tags and new cards the next year!
ReplyDeleteMy story is not funny...but here goes. when my grandmother passed away, we were sorting things out in her many rooms. she had 2 large bureaus full of cards!!
ReplyDeleteI love to save all of the christmas card we receive. They are tucked into corners of the christmas ornament boxes. The fact that people take time and thought to send them makes me not want to get rid of them. Happy Holidays!!
ReplyDeleteThanks for the apron pattern!
ReplyDeleteAbout seven years ago I started making my Christmas cards every year. I made my prototype at least by October and then purchased all the necessary ingredients. Well, then I became completely addicted to fabric and quilting and haven't made a Christmas card since!!