Showing posts with label christmas letter. Show all posts
Showing posts with label christmas letter. Show all posts

Thursday, December 4, 2014

2014 Christmas Letter

Hey y'all! Many Pinterest pinners and my readers have enjoyed the Christmas letter template I put out each year. I wanted to share this year's with y'all as well.

FYI - as a California To Carolina subscriber, I will work with you via email to publish your family's info on this template for a small design fee of $25 paid via PayPal. You will receive the PDF of your final letter to print as you desire. Contact me at morgan_smith483@yahoo.com for more information!

But without further adieu, here is my letter this year:


Happy Holidays, y'all!


Monday, November 11, 2013

Monday Musings

I had what felt like a long weekend...and not in a good way...but more of a tired way. The boys and I ventured out to Daniel Island Park Day on Saturday and we were there a good three hours. Luckily, we were able to meet up with my friend, Suz, and her kids who are the same age as mine. But man, it was just one of those days where we swore there must be a full moon because our older boys were just on and off bickering and we were constantly having to get in the middle of it. Overall though, we had a good time and we topped the evening off with dinner at a Mexican restaurant. We got home at about 6pm and I was quick to hand over the boys to Hubby, take a shower and then I hit the hay at 7pm. I. Was. Exhausted.

On Sunday, I spent some time getting my household chores done and I did finally get my boys' new shared room in shape enough to get some pictures, so you can expect a post on that tomorrow! I also was good and got a head start on my Christmas cards this year. I tried to do a version of this picture that I saw on Pinterest...

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...but they were oh-so-uncooperative. Womp womp. I ended up giving up and just using a really cute picture of them I had taken this year. I won't spoil it here before the cards get sent out though, so I will share the card with you soon.

I also got to work on our Christmas Letter. This was last year's Christmas letter and I was so proud of it. I'd really like to get around to making a template of it and selling it on Etsy {forgive my Etsy shop. it's a little under construction at the moment}...hopefully will do that soon.




This year, I basically just edited the same template and added a few things. Why fix what's not broken, right?

Anyway, that's my weekend in a nutshell! Be sure to stop in tomorrow to see the Shared Boy's Room Reveal!


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Friday, November 30, 2012

Family Christmas Letter

One of my favorite things to do at Christmastime is send Christmas cards to loved ones. As you saw from yesterday's post, I finally got our family photos taken so I could get cards made. Another thing I like to include with these cards is a Christmas letter that lets friends and family far away know what's been up with us the past year. {Call me a nerd, but I love it.} I remember my family getting these types of letters when I was a little kid and I really enjoyed reading them. I wanted to try something different than the usual letter format this year, so when I saw this card at Minted, I knew I wanted to create something like it, but larger {love when I get to put my graphic design degree to use...even if it's for no money, lol}:




So here's my version that I slaved over last night, I'm quite happy with it! {Sorry to those that will be receiving this, as now it's not a surprise, but I figure much of my long distance family are not avid readers of my blog, so I'm sure it's fine!}



Sadly, I felt like I was having to really reach to find interesting things to put on this letter...I guess this was just one of those years where not a lot of big things happened. I think we all have those years from time to time. The kids are at ages where they weren't hitting any crazy milestones. If it weren't for Breckin being so lazy about walking that he didn't really do it until January of this year when he was 16-17 months old {because that should have been a 2011 milestone, seriously!}, or for Tanner's loosening baby teeth, or Breckin nearly losing his finger in a door jamb at daycare leading to his first {and hopefully LAST} set of stitches, we wouldn't have had many milestones at all! I know we will have a much more interesting story in 2013. Jake and I are both hitting big birthday years, 35 and 30, respectively. I plan on FINALLY visiting my beloved California to see old friends {my 30th birthday prezzy to myself!}, we are taking the boys to Disney World and Legoland in June, I am running my first half marathon...gosh, I am much more excited for next year's Christmas letter! {At least now I have a good template, lol.}

Do you do Christmas letters?
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