Speaking of Christmas
Posted: March 7, 2010 Filed under: All's Well That Ends Well 3 CommentsDid you get our Christmas card? Some of them were mailed out later than I planned, but I almost definitely sent you one. Blame the postal system if it didn’t arrive…
I thought they were amazingly cool cards. I don’t know how I’ll top them this year. My inspiration was this save-the-date postcard idea from Martha Stewart:
I wanted to include a wallet-sized family photo, so I had to change a few things. I got a larger (though still quite small) envelope, which had to be turned vertically to fit on my postcard. And I stamped our return address on the top flap of the envelope so we could see whose card was undeliverable and so friends could mail us cards, too. Want to see what I came up with?
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Originally I wanted to get a lot of vintage postcards from ebay, but that turned out to be way too expensive and complicated. I was able to find a book of old-fashioned Christmas postcards on Amazon. The envelopes were #17 Mini Envelopes bought through ActionEnvelope; they were the perfect size for the photos, which I had printed at the BYU Bookstore (I alternated between 3 of my favorite pictures from our portraits in September). I ordered a set of 100 postcard stamps online to save myself the trouble of going to the post office during December.
Total cost? About $0.85 per card. Not bad, considering the other cards I like were over $1 apiece, over $2 apiece, over $3 apiece, and over $4 apiece (do I have expensive taste?).
Admittedly, it would have been cheaper to buy a box of 12 cards from the dollar store (with change in postage, about $0.67 per card), but…definitely less cool, although I think I will go a somewhat cheaper route this year. We had almost 100 cards to mail out!
Happy Christmas again!
(Our family photos were taken by the amazing Angela of angie milne photography.)
Happy Friday
Posted: March 5, 2010 Filed under: Howl's Moving Castle 2 CommentsNew blogs I found and followed this week:
Plus a really fun spoon, available for $9.95 from Hog Wild:
Christmas, several months later
Posted: March 4, 2010 Filed under: Dangerous Book for Boys 5 CommentsRemember Christmas last year? Me too, and since I finally got the pictures off our camera I thought I’d share. Because it’s my blog and you should care about whatever I say.
We took the train out to my parents’ house in California. It was nice – we’d gone together once before, before the Bwun’s time. He absolutely loved the train. It left Utah around his bedtime on a Friday night and he had a lot of daylight hours on Saturday to walk me up and down the aisles. He also learned how to wave. The Bwun was a big hit with the other passengers.
The three of us had a lot of fun adventures in California visiting friends and family, but I didn’t bring the camera with me most of those times. Sorry.
Here are the pictures I do have.
Instead of a pine tree (real or fake), my mom does this fun minimalist bubble tree.
The Bwun's stocking: Ikea stuffed animals and a bouncy ball with a light inside. The Romgi and I kind of stole the ball from the Bwun. It's a pretty cool ball.
The Bwun's stocking: a dinosaur. It is a great dinosaur.
The rest of us opened presents while the Bwun was asleep, and once he got up it was tricky to convince him to open his presents. Too young, I guess.
This was before the Bwun got a haircut. He really needed one.
A piggy bank from Aunt Kendy! (Duckie bank?)
A wooden train from Ma & Pa!
A baby iPod from Grandma & Grandpa!
A dinosaur from Aunt Kendy (lower right), and a set of 3 Little Pigs houses and pigs - plus wolf - from Grandma & Grandpa!
The 3 pigs, plus a Bwun who finally woke up enough to enjoy life.
Train ride home. The Bwun had been wolfing down Wheat Thins.
Weather changes: Just outside Davis, CA...
Past Sacramento...
In the Sierras.
The Romgi and I took shifts with the Bwun. Mine usually included being the Bwun's pillow.
Donner Lake. Brr!
I have no idea.
My boy on the train. I'm glad he had fun.
What did you do for Christmas?
And now, I have to go change a diaper. Lately the Bwun is trying to reduce the Romgi’s stress level by only pooping when the Romgi is gone and can’t change diapers. Unfair. Thoughtful, though, I suppose.
Stink!
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