Too late for Holiday Cards

I missed the boat for Christmas card this year. I wish I had ordered those beautiful letterpress holiday cards or had a family portrait taken. In France everything seems to take longer or just be a bit more complicated. And I would have had to send them out by December 1st. For Holiday mail you must count a minimum 3 weeks from Paris to the West Coast. Under those circumstances my daughter would have appeared about 2 months younger than she is now, which is a lot for an under 2 year-old. This year, I'll be sending out Paperless Post. At least a little imagination is going into the e-mail holiday greeting. You choose the fonts and graphics, even a picture if you like. Whenever something comes up last minute I always choose this option. I love that there is still an envelope to open and a card to take out. Very cool.

We will also be making a little video to send family. Of course, it couldn't possibly be as cool as this one from the Fosters that I saw over at DesignMom.

Christmas Cards

My son and I got to work making our Christmas cards last night. After lots of coloring, cutting, pasting and lacing. this was the result. My son was very proud to give them to his teachers this morning. The card in the middle is a present that opens to show a portrait of him and his teachers. It was very cute. He also signed his name on the inside of each card - each one spelled differently although with the correct letters, which was actually very funny. (We are still working on that.) Each card also included a little sachet of chocolate covered orange sticks tied with a bow. Some of the other children brought bottles of wine as gifts. I wonder if they picked out the bottles themselves. When in France...