photo holiday cards

Family Photographs Past, Present and Future

January 25, 2011

What makes a Family Photograph Special? You might ask yourself that question, just the same way I did. You might think that it’s the outfits you wear, location, background or even the price you pay to get them. But if you really think about it, all you need is the ones you love to make [...]

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Tips for Storing Old Christmas Photo Cards

December 28, 2010

How do you organize the Christmas photo cards that you save? My sister, brother, our cousins and I love to send photo holiday cards. The problem is what to do with them. My OK-the-holidays-are-over solution is to put them in a box. Each year. Which means one box a year for…well, a lot of years. [...]

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Christmas Photo Cards that Celebrate the Joy of Living

August 17, 2010

I have been getting Christmas photo cards for years from friends and relatives with small children. Most of my friends have kids and it is lovely to have the holiday cards hanging every year. When you enter my house the first thing you see is the closet door straight ahead and this is where I [...]

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Christmas Photo Cards bring out the Little Green Eyed Monster

August 3, 2010

Is it wrong that I am jealous of my family and friends’ Christmas photo cards? Let me rephrase that, I am not actually jealous of the Christmas cards themselves but of the many happy images they represent. Maybe it isn’t necessarily wrong but it sure makes me sound bitter and that just isn’t the case. [...]

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Life’s a Beach with Photo Holiday Cards

July 20, 2010

Photos near the beach – any beach – make for great personalized photo holiday cards. If you live near or vacation near a coastline, you probably already know that looking at photos of your time by the beach can make you feel that all is right with the world. If you live in a warm [...]

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Warm and Sunny Photo Holiday Cards

June 30, 2009

I love getting Christmas Cards in the mail. The most welcome ones are the photo Holiday cards I receive from family and friends. My cousin lives near the beach and each year she searches for a holiday card that shows a beach scene. Most years she has no luck finding one. The traditional cards with [...]

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Wedding Photo Tips from my Sis

March 18, 2009

I recently attended a friend’s wedding in Ohio this past summer. Before leaving for the wedding, my little sister (who loves taking pictures) stopped by to lend me her digital camera. She told me to take lots of pictures because she wanted to see what all the girls’ dresses looked like. And since I am [...]

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Photographing People for Holiday Photo Cards is Easier than You Think

February 17, 2009

“Say CHEESE!” And with this one utterance, the frenzy to create holiday photo cards begins. Year after year, people will start the holiday card photo shoot earlier and earlier. “Kids! Get out of your bathing suits and put on these hot and sticky velvet outfits so we can take pictures in front of our artistically [...]

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Photo Holiday Cards – A Late Developer

January 27, 2009

I love taking photos for my photo holiday cards, but the problem is getting the photos developed! I’m not quite up to speed with digital cameras, so I haven’t yet taken advantage of the instant gratification that digital photos can give you. Recently I took four disposable cameras that had been sitting on my dresser [...]

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Photo Holiday Cards from my Vacation in Italy

January 20, 2009

Here’s a little story of how my photo holiday cards from last year came to be from a vacation I recently took in Italy… It seems like just yesterday that my family and I traveled to beautiful Italy to celebrate my parent’s 50th wedding anniversary. Up until that time I was not what anyone would [...]

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