Snail Mail

I love Christmas Cards. One of my favorite holiday memory is my mother paying me to address our christmas cards. I have always loved handwriting, but it seemed like there were over a hundred cards to send out!

Everyday, as my father returned from work, he brought the mail in from the mailbox at the end of the driveway. My sister and I took turns opening the influx of holiday cards and announcing the sender at dinner.

My mother had handmade a felt card holder with pockets for all the cards.

In 2010, I may have recieved 5? Christmas cards, but I refuse to give up. This year, I'm broke, and have been telling myself all Thanksgiving weekend: No! No! No! Don't even go to tinyprints.com Well, Ho! Ho! Ho! I went, I loved, and I ordered. What's really cool, is that tinyprints assigns a url to the card, and recipients can go to see a slide show and your yearly letter:

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Check out our collection of Christmas cards and holiday cards.

Happy Holidays! Please send a card this year.

My Perfect Winter Party

My Perfect Winter Party has been on my mind for mmmmm about 3 years. I live in Aspen, Colorado: 6 short blocks to the Gondola (and Starbucks), and I need to take this location up on its offer of spectacular snowboarding. My plan to develop the kind of friendships to keep me on the mountain and out of my craft room is to throw the Perfect Winter Party to get us excited for the upcoming season. All potential posse members will be invited. Who's in?

The vintage photo of the accordian player and plaid guests on my inspiration board says it all. I hope to knit up some cable invites and throw pillows to set the cozy mood in my apartment. I'll steal one of those scenic Aspen posters from work for the 'photo booth' background (as if we need a background), and I'm fanasizing about a 'bling out your goggles' activity. Fondue (both cheese and chocolate) and hot drinks are on the menu.

This blog is part of the Win Your Perfect Party contest sponsored by GigMasters. To find out how to enter visit Life of the Party. If I win, its an accordian player and fondue fountain for us!

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Location:Aspen

Breaking Dawn B-Budget

November is normally my boo budget month, primarily caused by October's Halloween Bash. This November is the Breaking Dawn I premier and I must host a girls night in it's honor. I'm creating everything with supplies I already own: scrapbook paper, a computer, flour, and sugar.



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Location:Aspen

Breaking Dawn Breaking Budget

I have to have a breaking dawn party to celebrate Bella & Edward's upcoming wedding. If I had it my way, it would break my own wedding budget! I want crystal, imported moss and ferns, a white silk dress and invites in a box.
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Location:Aspen

I also handed out in person these little cutie pie invites.....just a simple forest creature cutout!

Invitations for pink's enchanted forest party. Even though I mulled over the wording forever, it sounded like a funeral invitation! I just wanted to have a fun-filled celebration of all the joy she brings.

These are dwell studio from Wedding Paper Divas. I just fell in love with the deer....so sophisticated, like pink. Yet, I felt like they needed something extra, so I added a ecru satin ribbon and a feather.