We don’t much send New Year greetings anymore. I suspect the proximity of Christmas to New Year’s dampens the desire to address cards and write letters. In our modern society, sending Christmas cards is almost a rarity anymore. Younger generations find them wasteful, Gen Xers want to send them but instead deal with the guilt …
It’s Christmas Day – what are you doing here? :-) My wish for you on Christmas is a happy, healthy, safe day with family in whatever way it can occur – IRL, over the phone or via zoom. Today’s pretty card features lovely poinsettia blooms and a red, spiral candle in a fancy candlestick. With …
A pretty card decorated with pine boughs, holly and pinecones frames a pastoral scene of a house with snow. The card announces Merry Christmas Mailed in 1912 by Charles Chodl, the card made its way from Milwaukee, WI to Miss Anna Chodl in Chicago, IL.
This sweet, embossed card features a young person sitting in the snow, holding out a gift. It reads My wish is told in just one line ‘Tis – Merry Christmas Friend o’ Mine The card was mailed in 1917 from Al S Jones in Philadelphia, PA to Mr Frank Barton of Yorktown, NJ and the …
That does not look like a safe place for a child to sit! Today’s lovely Christmas card features a child in blue sitting on a lighted chandelier with ribbons and balsam. Call me a helicopter parent, but that just seems like a very bad combination of things lol. The card was possibly mailed in 1914, …
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