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Recycle ideas…

December 30, 2011 By Carol

December 30, 2011 Here’s some recycling  ideas for your holiday cards and stamps- *  Cut up all those holiday cards to make gift tags for next year’s presents, or ship them off to St. Jude’s Ranch for their children’s card recycling program. Contact http://www.stjudesranch.org/shop/recycled-card-program/ *  In the UK there’s the Woodland Trust Christmas Card Recycling […]

Filed Under: Letters to Soldiers, Projects for Kids Tagged With: gift tags, go green, Lions' Club, postage stamps, recycled card program, recycling holiday cards, St. Jude's Ranch, stamp collecting veterans, Stamps for the Wounded, The Nature Detectives

…it’s all about kids

December 25, 2011 By Carol

December 25, 2011 “…We celebrated Hanukkah a few days ago, and now we’ll celebrate Christmas…because it’s all about kids!” -a friend told me yesterday. She’s right.  The season comes alive for and about children.  It brings out the kid in all of us.  There’s a festive playfulness permitted for all ages.  And there’s the sharing […]

Filed Under: Holiday Tagged With: all about kids, bringer of gifts, caring and sharing, Christmas, Demre Turkey, Europe, Father Christmas, Hanukkah, Merry Christmas, orphans, patron saint of children and sailors, Santa Claus, Sinterklaas, St. Nick, the kid in all of us, Ukrainian stamp, Wikipedia

Greetings from Christmas Island

December 20, 2011 By Carol

Filed Under: Holiday Tagged With: Australia, Christmas Island, holiday stamp, International Post, Santa

The gift of time

December 19, 2011 By Carol

December 19, 2011 In need of a last minute gift suggestion? __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Filed Under: Holiday Tagged With: clean out the gutters, elderly, frazzled new parents, gift list, gift of time, give your all, last minute gift, lavish dinner, make a date, muscle, organize a closet, pretty card, promise, talent, write a description

1843

December 17, 2011 By Carol

December 17, 2011 “The first Christmas card was privately printed in London in 1843. As the exchange of Christmas cards grew in popularity, commercial  production became widespread in Europe and America, providing customers with thousands of images from which to choose.” -The Metropolitan Museum of Art Also in 1843, Charles Dickens wrote A Christmas Carol which was first […]

Filed Under: Holiday Tagged With: 1843, A Christmas Carol, celebration, Charles Dickens, children, high point, holiday cards, London, making connections, NPR, playful, The Metropolitian Museum of Art, Tiny Tim, true spirit

Holiday Greetings: Your words are a gift!

December 12, 2011 By Carol

December 12, 2011 As we write our holiday cards, please take the time to personalize the card with at least 3 short sentences.  Picture the person you are addressing  and write a few lines directly to him or her.  Bring up a good memory about a visit or a shared experience.  Or say something encouraging, […]

Filed Under: Greeting Cards, Holiday Tagged With: compassion, gifts, global family, good memory, holiday greetings, humor, kids, personalize the card, prayers, special connection, wisdom

Gifts ideas

December 10, 2011 By Carol

December 8, 2011 My antennas are always alert to anything that supports the cause of letter writing.  I’ve come across some great finds. Let me share them with you.  Who knows, one of these items might answer the call for that “perfect gift!” This “Tortoise- Hare  T-shirt” says it all…support your “inner tortoise” (Carl Honore). […]

Filed Under: Accessories, Holiday Tagged With: 7 year pen, fountain pens, inner tortoise, Int'l Girl Aerogrammes, Kitty Burns Florey, Margaret Shepherd, Northern Sun Merchandising, pen friends, Pilot Precise V5, Ron Savage, Script & Scribbles, Shannon Wheeler, shopping, teo stationery, The Art of the Handwritten Note, The Art of the Personal Letter, The Letter Exchange, unique letter openers, Varsity pens

“Write For Rights”

December 1, 2011 By Carol

December 1, 2011 When I was young, my mother used to threaten me: “Your mouth will put you in jail someday!”  I thought she was joking. Many years later, I learned that people around the world are actually jailed for speaking out against injustices, against  human rights abuses, for their religious beliefs, and at the […]

Filed Under: Holiday Tagged With: Amnesty International, Freedom Writer, global writeathon, human rights abuses, prisoners of conscience

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