Christmas Cards

I love Christmas cards, and I wish that I could say that I send out beautifully hand-crafted ones every year, but you know how it is.  Now I know that many of you do make your own cards and boy have I seen some creative ones.  Some of my all-time favourites are by Linda at Restyled Home, which you can see here and here and the amazing Christmas card/tea towels from Adventures in Renovating a Brooklyn Limestone here.  I'd love to be on their Christmas lists! 

Now I have made cards myself, usually photo cards, so when I recently read about an offer from Shutterfly that bloggers could get 50 free Christmas cards if they do a post about them, I was all ears.  If you are interested in doing a post yourself you can find details here.  

I had a look around their website and realized that it will be quite a job to show you their Christmas cards as there are so many to choose from.  Since my kiddos are older, I would likely select a photograph of a nature scene, something like this one taken at our cottage:

My only requirement is that the card actually say "Merry Christmas" - what's up with "Happy Holidays" anyway?

Now if I were to select a photo of my family, it would look something like this (aren't we adorable - and much younger than last time I looked in the mirror - oh, and we seem to be missing a child):

There are 748 Christmas card styles to choose from on Shutterfly, which for me translated into 748 new families to choose from.  That's a lot of people to get to know.  Do you want to see some other members of my new family - isn't our baby adorable?

What about this sweet little girl - (those eyes - and those pudgy cheeks - I want her!)

You can see all the other members of my very, very, very extensive families here at Shutterfly.  In fact, I think we are so good looking we should all be models.

There are also Christmas invitations that you can see here on the Shutterfly website.  I"ll show you our party invitation, but with all 748 family members coming it is a sold-out affair.

While I was poking around the Shutterfly website I noticed they also had photo calendars (here), which is really a great idea since I now appear to have a very large family to keep track of.

I could go on and on about my new family, but that is probably enough.  I'm glad I could introduce them to you - and let me show you a bit about Shutterfly!