I used the random number generator here to pick the winner and it chose Number 14.
My current job is an executive director of a provincial charitable organization. My dream job is to be a stay at home crafter and be able to make great meals from scratch every day for my dh.
Lucky Tamara, please email me at [email protected] with your address and I'll send you some holiday crafting goodies! Congratulations!
I am still trying madly to get Xmas things done. We leave for Nashville on Christmas Eve, but we are having our own little family Christmas Sunday morning since we won't be in our house for Christmas. Though I love being with family, I really am starting to want to celebrate in my own way, at my own home. Of course Alekha was told that Mommy had to make a special request to Santa to come early and that he very graciously accommodated.
Thank you to those of you who have mentioned linking to my blog, I really appreciate it and am happy to share these images with you! These next two images are for Charlene - I am trying to come up with more boy images that aren't so pastel - but that seemed to be the predominant color theme for these era postcards! But hopefully these two here are ones you can use and that will make you smile!
Okay - one final thing I have to say, and I am saying it because I know you all will get me on this, being paper artists. I am probably in the minority - I am probably one of the last few people in my social circle to send actual greeting cards. I mean, real, honest to goodness greeting cards, either handmade or manufactured (and even if they are manufactured greetings that's okay - there are SO many beautiful ones.) And somehow I feel horribly ungrateful saying this -- and I don't mean to sound ungrateful, but I see that photocards (the kind that you can buy in a batch at Walmart or from any photo studio) are overwhelmingly taking place of the charming greetings that people used to send. Not that I don't want the photos, don't get me wrong here. I just want them tucked into an actual greeting card, with lovely graphics. I remember the days as a child when I would just pore over the stack of Christmas greetings that arrived at our home. I would love reading the annual Christmas newsletters or the handwritten sentiments that accompanied it. Mom would even allow us to use some for cut and paste projects. I thought they were just so magical, embossed, foiled, glittered or the really special ones that were handmade. I think too many children nowadays will grow up thinking a Christmas card is a photo with a preprinted greeting on it. And somehow I think that just takes away some of the magic of Christmas, not to mention what it does to the greeting card industry and all the designers whose bread and butter depends largely on Christmas card sales. Okay, off my soapbox. And if you are one who just sends a photo greeting - please know no harm is intended, it's just a personal wish of mine. I felt a little guilty saying that, hopefully it didn't come across sounding ungrateful! Happy weekend - hope you are ahead of where I am -- and able to sit and enjoy the weekend before Christmas and not be running around harried and tired!