These are a selection of the designs of Christmas cards I made this year and mailed out! I wish I had another month to make even more designs and cards because I didn’t get to use everything I wanted to! So many ideas, so many stamps!
I sure used my Stamparatus a lot this Christmas, as I anticipated last year when it was on order! It is perfect for making multiples or just making sure you don’t mess up. The worst is when you have a card all made and then stamp the inside greeting and it doesn’t stamp properly or it’s crooked up upside down or something! With the Stamparatus, you get perfect placement (I usually stamp on a window sheet first for a greeting to make sure it is straight and placed where I want it) and if you didn’t get part of the stamp inked up properly, you can stamp it again right in the same spot. Just be careful with those magnets!! It’s hard to remember they are so strong and REALLY want to be together, no matter where you place them!
My children all arrived last night so all is well with the world! Today we are looking forward to a special lunch, my son’s gift of corned beef and pastrami from Katz’s Deli from New York City, where he just visited last weekend. Tonight after dinner I guess everyone will frantically finish wrapping presents after Amazon makes its last delivery!!! Life will be boring after this week with no packages arriving on the porch and in the mailbox every single day!
I hope you have a wonderful Christmas Eve! Growing up, Christmas Eve was my favorite because that’s when we opened presents at our house with our grandparents and maybe other out-of-town relatives visiting. Afterwards, we would eat chocolate chip cookies that my mother baked and any that my grandma brought over that she made. On Christmas Day Santa would have come and set out presents and filled our stockings. I remember getting a blackboard one year, one of my favorite things ever, and one year my brother and I each got Etch-A-Sketches that Santa even drew pictures on when he left them!! Then we would go to my grandma’s house for Christmas Day dinner and krullers that she made (a German deep-fried in a knot pastry-type dessert topped with powdered sugar) and open the presents from her so she wouldn’t have to bring them over to our house. Nothing compares to those Christmases when my brother and I were kids! Of course, once you have your own children, then it’s a different type of Christmas as parents!
And what to do when you are putting out Christmas decorations and find that the pumpkin from Halloween is still sitting on the fireplace?? Put a Santa hat on him, give him some eyes, and set him out as a Christmas decoration!
Merry Christmas Eve!
