Perhaps it is because I have spent the day working on the Big Top’s annual Christmas card that I found this from Mary Tsao to be pretty fun. I save the previous year’s cards too. Don’t laugh but it usually helps me to keep my Christmas card list updated. Usually. More on that in a minute.
But first, just in case you were wondering, and even if you weren’t here is the Big Top holiday card roundup for 2006:
- Number of cards mailed: 90
- Number of cards received: 55
- Number of cards containing or featuring a holiday photo: 15
- Number of cards not containing a holiday photo: 40
- Number of cards featuring newly married people: 1
- Number of cards announcing a new baby: 2
- Number of cards announcing a new home: 3
- Number of cards featuring children in matching outfits: 4
- Number of photos featuring entire families with matching outfits: 1
- Number of cards featuring little girls with hair bows: 0
- Number of cards featuring a child wearing a Santa hat: 0
- Number of cards featuring a child wearing a holiday bandanna: 0
- Number of cards featuring a child sucking his thumb: 0
- Number of cards featuring a child with his tongue stuck out: 0
- Number of cards featuring a child who looked like he was Photoshopped in: 0
- Number of cards featuring dogs: 2
- Number of cards featuring cats: 1
- Number of cards listing the dog as one of the family members: 2
- Number of cards featuring a dog wearing a holiday bandanna: 0
- Number of cards featuring a dog wearing reindeer antlers: 0
- Number of cards from colleges looking for alumni donations: 0
- Number of cards thanking us for supporting a neighbor boy’s school fundraising efforts: 0
- Number of cards taken in front of the Pacific Ocean: 1
- Number of cards taken in front of some other body of water: 0
- Number of cards featuring a family that looked cold: 2
- Number of cards from people I’ve never met: 1
- Number of cards from people I met on the Internet: 4
- Number of cards that were hand delivered: 0
- Number of cards that came with a check: 1 (thanks Dad)
- Number of cards that came with a homemade holiday CD: 0
- Number of cards that came with a holiday newsletter: 10
- Number of Happy New Year cards: 1
- Number of Happy New Year cards that were the exact same design: 1
- Number of cards designed by people who clearly hold degrees in graphic design: 1
- Number of photos featuring kids cuter than my own: 0
Say what you will about holiday cards but I LOVE them. I love the pictures that document our children growing up and us all getting a little older. I read every holiday newsletter that I receive. It’s all part of the Christmas holiday package for me. I know for some folks it just isn’t their thing. That’s okay for you. Really. But I still love my Christmas cards and all the other warm fuzzies of the season.
So I spent this chilly, rainy day working on the Big Top Christmas cards. I must say they look great which is often no easy feat when more than one person is in the picture, or if it involves children or (even worse) teenage girls. The only glitch is I lost my Christmas card list. So I have all these wonderful cards from the Big Top ready to send out and only 55 addresses. So how would you like to have a Big Top original Christmas card for your very own?
Leave me a comment and you could be that lucky.
