Holiday Greetings

HAPPY HOLIDAYS TO ALL OUR FRIENDS - 

 

Thankful Thursday

 We are late to posting the wunnerful holiday cards, but TBT says "better late than never"...

We loved them all so much!  We are thankful for each and every one.  

Holiday Cards

TBT AND THE MEWS:  I will speak for all of us here (as it is about The Holiday Card from to our friends) but the fault is all mine.  We usually snail-mail cards.  I think it is nice to have something to hold in your hands and stack on a table or stick to a door with magnets (our front door is metal).

I wasn't feeling very card-creative this year, so I skipped the card exchange sign-up.  Nevertheless, we started receiving snail-mail cards anyway.  Naturally, by the time we received some, it was getting late to mail (especially overseas).  So I thought I would make a card and send one to all who sent us one (and some other long-time commenters).  

It took longer than usual to create a card.  My graphics apps are old and so am I, so it didn't go smoothly.  Three days, in fact.  I'm working on updating the graphics apps (can't do much about my age, LOL).  By the time I get around to that, I'm have to make New Year's Cards.  

But I did manage to beat Adobe Elements into submission and adapt an old blog header (from 2014, no less) into a Holiday Card.  And as odd as it may seem, I can make a card in Excel rather easily, once I have a couple of graphics to insert as pictures.  The card looks "OK".  

But then came addressing the envelopes.  My block print has gotten so bad that every letter on the envelope is nearly a careful work of art.  That didn't seem like a great ideas given I had 30 cards to send.  And hand-cramps have become an issue these days.

Normally, I have used Avery stick-on labels for the envelopes in the past.  This year, I just couldn't make it work!  I had last year's list in Excel and copied it to Word.  The formatting was impossible (for me).  No matter what I did, adjusting one address messed up another.  I could not get addresses into the label format properly.  Some parts of the addresses kept staying out of the boxes.

It was an educational but unproductive few hours. 😖.  I surrender to the computer-demons this year!  Next year, I will get the more-usable list of card-exchange for more time solving my ignorance.

So I decided that I would use the front of the card to share with all (for easy viewing) and post the entire card for anyone who wanted to print and fold it this year.

Dang, that whole card image just didn't want to show itself.  Well, it had to go from Ecxel, to Word, to Adobe, and into Photo!  Sometimes, you just keep trying things, and eventually, you get lucky...

Just print and fold it. LOL!

The point is that we love you all, Happy Holidays, and thanks for the cards (snail-mail or email).

Flashback Friday

We noticed that Christmas falls on Flashback Friday, so we are going with that of several differnt years:

In 2009, we had AWESOME icicles!

In 2012, we were all enjoying the cat trees with a festive Chrissymouse mat among us.

In 2014, we had a decorated tree.

In 2015, we showed off lots of cards we received.  Loved all of them!

In 2016, we hung a wreath on the door.

And we hung lights in the windows.

The inside view isnt all that much.

But the outside looked like this:

That was pretty cool.

And we will finish with a graphic we got sent years ago.

Happy Holiday of yer choice.  May all you (our great friends) have a special day, a happy day, and a peaceful day.  Full of love and treats and Nip and attention.

The Mews