What are you doing for holiday cards?
A photo card? A Christmas card with a photo inside? "Newsletter"? Etc?
How prepared are you, and what is your goal for sending them out timewise?
I like to do a holidaycard with a photo collage card inside. The photo card usually has 3 photos. In the past it was photos from a family vacation but with the 2 girls I'm not sure (family shot and then 1 each of the girls?).
I try to send them out the beginning of December, but we'll see - last year I had a newborn so I remember throwing together a collage photo at the last minute and then sobbing when Walgreens messed them up (yes, I was still a little hormonal... I didn't take well to the "Happy Holidays" lettering coming out almost too light to read!) :P
I did buy my stamps though
Re: Holiday cards.. a poll
I usually do a Christmas card with photos inside. Depending on the recipient, I'll include one or several pictures of DD. I write a personal note in each card.
We don't have many cards to mail out, so I don't really have much to do. I've yet to take a good holiday pic of DD, but I'm on the lookout for an opportunity.
My goal is to have them mailed out in mid-December.
We usually do a photo card with family photo but last year's photography session was a fail so we ended up doing a montage with all 5 of us in individual photos.
This year I'd planned to do a family photo but frankly I'm up to my eye balls with school and work and it's just not gonna happen and not worth the stress so I already printed off a 3 photo collage (all 3 boys) from Costco. Photo card with envelopes cost me $10 after using a coupon. They're the simplest and not the nicest I've ever done but the truth is that other people probably won't notice or care so I'm glad it's one less thing to stress over.
Still need to address and mail. That ain't gonna happen until school is done the first week in December.
We do photo montage calendars for the grandparents and one for us each year. I'm proud to say those got done last weekend because I'm cheep and couldn't miss the sale that ended Tuesday.
I'm busier than I've ever been for a holiday and I'm way ahead of schedule some how.
No clue how that happened. Guess for once I'm grateful that I got sucked in by some crazy toy sales over the summer!
Total score: 6 pregnancies, 5 losses, 2 amazing blessings that I'm thankful for every single day.
I think we're going to do a photo card with a little note announcing DD's birth too. However, we're completely unprepared. I haven't even gotten outfits yet, let alone taken pictures and ordered cards. Maybe they'll turn into New Years or Valentine's Day cards instead.
DD -- 5YO
DS -- 3YO
A photo card with multiple photos. I get them out the 2nd week in December.
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What are you doing for holiday cards? I think this year we will do the "santa bubble beards" in the bath picture.
A photo card? A Christmas card with a photo inside? "Newsletter"? Etc? We always do a photo card... honestly- i think it's kind of a waste to send a card without a photo these days... unless there is a personally written note- when i get a regular card with just names signed i think "why bother?"... yes, it's nice to be thought of- but with it being SO easy to stay in touch with people these days- i feel a note or a picture is required lol
I can't STAND the newsletters. Anything more than a paragraph or two = overkill. If I don't know all the things going on in your life that whole year already -then we're not THAT close and I don't need to know it all in a x-mas card.
How prepared are you, and what is your goal for sending them out timewise?
I like to create my own - i used to use scrapblog but i really am not a fan of that site anymore... i'm going to create my own with MS publisher and save as a JPG and print as a 5x7 to save $. I have the design done already- just need to take the pics.
I usually send out in early December... last year i think it was a little later b/c so busy with the twins... might happen again this year- life with 3 = nothing gets done in time anymore
I always get them from shutterfly and order photocards, and almost always at least 3 pictures. I ordered mine today and will have it out by the 1st or shortly thereafter.
I usually get right into the holiday pictures and take way too many and end up making a few different cards. Last year I had 3 different ones, plus professional pics to hand out. I usually just do a pic of DS and a cute saying. I have done the baby with lights, cookies for Santa, and a lollipop pic, so I am not sure what to do this year. Thinking about getting a Charlie Brown Tree and letting DS decorate it and take pics of the process. Or getting a big old picture frame, painting it silver and having DS hold it up to his face.
I try to get mine out at the beginning of Dec too.... which means I should get started!
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We do a photo card with one family photo. Usually I use a picture taken closer to Christmas -- the last two years were from Thanksgiving -- but this year, we got a great, almost professional-looking shot over Labor Day weekend, so I'll use that.
My mom asked me to order her photo cards yesterday, so I started putting together some samples for ours too. Since I already have the picture, I probably should just hunker down and get them done, but I'm such a procrastinator that it will probably end up being last minute as always. I usually aim to get them out by the second week in December.