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OT: Merry Christmas to Everybody!

Over the past two weeks I've received a number of gorgeous and sweet and touching Christmas cards from RCTQ friends. I love every card and re-read them every day. I don't want anyone to think I'm ignoring your card or leaving you off my "list." The fact is, I no longer do a "list." We stopped sending Christmas cards several years ago. Every year I forgot someone, failed to mail them all off in time, mixed up addresses, you name it. Even using a computer program, there was always something that went wrong. So we just stopped. And now I feel guilty watching the pretty cards fluttering into my life like so many lovely butterflies of winter, brightening my days.

I want you all to know that every one of you is special to me and that you all deserve to be on my Christmas card list. If I were a more stolid person with greater resolve and better short term memory skills I would be sending you all cards, neatly addressed, stamped, and mailed in time. Oh yeah, and signed inside. Instead, just know that I'm saving trees and shrinking my carbon footprint. And thinking of you all every day.

Merry Christmas to all, Happy Holidays, and may each of you, no matter which holiday you observe, find joy in the return of Light into our dark winter world.

Love, hugs and happy stitching, Sunny

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Sunny
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G'day Sunny Can I piggy back on your message please? I also have a bad history of not getting cards away. I do wish everyone of you and all your families, a wonderful Christmas and Holiday Season. And best wishes for a happy, safe, quilty 2010. Thank you for the pleasure of all your company over the last year.

Hugs Bronnie in warm, humid Queensland

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Roberta

We truly enjoy Christmas cards; even the one from the phone company. We admire every bit of art, every message, the special stamps ... all of this beautiful tradition. Our family and friends are spread out mighty far out now and it is grand to at least have a few words from them as we celebrate this holy day. Some traditions we have bypassed. We don't have to gnaw on carrots with genuine fake reindeer toothmarks and leave them outside as evidence of Santa's visit. No little girls to take to the ballet and I haven't been invited to solo in a presentation of The Messiah in decades- but please, we have to have the Christmas cards. Polly

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Polly Esther

Yeah, me too. I like getting them way too much to stop sending them. Plus I love picking out my own every year. I don't particularly like sitting down and addressing them, but I do it.

Cindy

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teleflora

Good thoughts and best wishes don't always need a card to let those we are fond of know. Thank you for sending your holiday feelings, and right back to you!

G> Over the past two weeks I've received a number of gorgeous and sweet

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Ginger in CA

Himself prints the addresses for me. It's as much as my hand will take writing the cards! And no good him doing it, as no-one but him can read his writing!

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Kate XXXXXX

I use Christmas cards to keep in touch with friends and family that I don't often see -- always with one of those "what we've been doing" letters that some folks love and some hate. I do keep it to one page :) I tend not to send cards to people I don't know well. I do enjoy getting the cards, especially the ones with a note enclosed, whether handwritten or "mass-produced". I even enjoy getting them long after Christmas. In some ways those are the best because I really take time to read them. None of you will be receiving cards from me, but that doesn't mean that I don't wish you a Merry Christmas, Joyful Hanukkah, Happy Winter Solstice, Cool Yule, or whatever you celebrate (or don't celebrate) -- and most of all a happy, healthy, peaceful new year.

Julia in MN

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Julia in MN

Merry Christmas right back at you Sunny!

Michelle in Nevada

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Michelle C.

I can see it both ways. We too send Christmas cards to family and some friends, but I can understand why some people don't--kids, demanding jobs, illnesses to contend with, money issues, and even environmental concerns. I figure I send cards to please myself and others can do whatever they like. :-) The people that I do send cards to that don't reciprocate have never failed to let me know that I'm appreciated in some other way.

Best regards, Michelle in Nevada

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Michelle C.

I do send out cards. I try to include everyone I won't see during the holidays. Some years I get really expensive ones. Others I go to the $1 store. My children, now grown, get Hallmark cards. It doesn't matter to me if everyone reciprocates, I send them because I like to, not just to get one in return. On that note...Happy Holidays, Merry Christmas, Happy New Year, Happy Hannukah, and Kuwanzaa to everyone!

amy in CNY

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amy in CNY

Best wishes to you and everybody else on this forum. Have a joyous and meaningful holiday season.

John

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John

I've done dollar store ones, and I have gone to a shop and picked out a dozen individual cards for the dozen people who get them. My preference is to go to

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select a page to shop at, and get a box of Father Nature cards by Pumpernickle Press. It costs a bit more, but for about $15 I get awesome cards that are very green friendly, Pumpernickle Press makes a donation to charity for every box sold, and my purchase donates something via the site (this year a book to a needy child).

It costs a bit more than an average box of cards, but it sure makes $15 dollars do a lot. Besides, doing so much in one fell swoop makes me feel holy.

Saint NightMist

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NightMist

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