Thursday, December 17, 2009
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Personalised Christmas Greetings
Our 2009 Christmas Cards are available now. We offer an innovative range of personalised Christmas cards equally suited for personal or business use. Our collection features contemporary and traditional images and is reproduced to the highest standard on 300gsm Metallic Ice Gold Paper and comes with matching envelopes.
Our Corporate Christmas Cards can be personalised with company logos in one or more colours, your choice of type style and greetings.
Christmas is a time to demonstrate your appreciation for your family, friends, and business associates and there is no better way to show your gratitude than by sending a beautiful card supporting charity.
10% of your total order goes to World Vision NZ.
Your support will make a huge difference in a child’s life.
We are happy to send a high resolution image of our Christmas cards by email for closer viewing.
All Personalised Christmas Greeting cards are printed on 300gsm Metallic Ice Gold stock and comes with matching envelopes.
Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays - Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas
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Christmas Songs - We Wish You a Merry Christmas Lyrics
Christmascards for you
Here at Christmascards.co.uk we bring you the latest designs from the top Christmas card designers at great prices. Below you can see a small selection of the cards we have available to but online. Please call us or email for more details on how to buy.
This stunning card is of a grey bear holding a heart and costs £2.99. The christmas card is available to buy, please email us for details of how to purchase.
This is a great card of a cute dog in a red Christmas jumper. It is available to buy from our amazing shop priced at £2.99.
Who doesnt like Pooh bear at Christmas time? This card is only £2.50 from our shop, please give us a call or email for details of how to purchase.
More of those lovely grey bears this time - holding a Merry Christmas sign. This card is available to buy from our shop priced at £2.99 - please call us or email us for more details.
Produced in 1843 the card, and designed by English painter JC Horsley the card was commissioned by businessman Sir Henry Cole. Sir Henry Cole was a prominent businessman of the time and is famous for having modernized the British postal system with the controversial penny post in 1840.
Only 12 cards of an original batch of 1000 remain in existence and in September 2001 an anonymous seller offered one of the cards, which was actually signed by Sir Henry Cole himself for auction with Devizes auctioneers Henry Aldridge.
Auctioneer Alan Aldridge said: “We had received six sealed bids for the Christmas card before the auction started and when the bidding did get under way there were seven people in the room bidding and another four bidding by telephone.”
Originally it was believed that the card would sell for a figure between £4,000 and £6,000 however the price rose steadily as two bidders battled to win the lot and the final selling price was a record breaking £22,250 making it the most expensive Christmas card ever sold.
The buyer was a telephone bidder and remains anonymous however it is believed that the current owner is from London.
More information on the worlds most expensive Christmas card can be found in the Swindon Advertiser archives.
This year even Santa had problems with Christmas - it looks like he got so drunk he didn’t even send his Christmas Cards in time! So here it is, the first credit crunch Christmas card of 2009 - and its only January - Ho Ho Ho!
Christmas Cards Online
Christmas cards are a great way of wishing someone a Merry Christmas and letting you know that you are thinking of them at Chritmas time. Sometimes it is impossible to send a Christmas present because cost or distance makes it impracticle - however you can normally send a card in time for Christmas Day. How often have you recieved a card from a loved one that has really bought a smile to your face? Well that is what Christmascards.co.uk is all about - we bring you a huige selection of quality Christmas Cards with a card suitable for everyone that you know. Our massive range includes Funny Christmas Cards and Humorous Christmas Cards to cater for the joking prankster that always comes out in you at this time of year.. Traditional Christmas cards because some people deserve a special card and cards with more verse because you want to say something you might otherwise find difficult. We have a huge range of Chartity Christmas cards because at this time of year its good to consider others. Lets not forget what Christmas is all about - we stock a large range of religious Christmas cards because sometimes it’s good to remember why we celebrate at this time of year. Finally - where would we be if we didnt stock Company Christmas Cards and Christmas cards for the office? Thats right - we have a wide range of cards perfect for companies to send to their staff, these range from the funny Christmas card to the more traditional type - all of our greeting cards are high quality and are the perfect way to say thank you for 12 months hard work.
Click here to see the full range of cards.
All that remains is for the christmascards.co.uk staff to wish you a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year - we hope you all enjoy yourselves.
gift for you
We have many styles and colors of unique Christmas Cards to dazzle anyone! If we don’t have what you’re looking for, please order a custom design. Our customized Christmas Cards can be created in any style you would like! Since all our Christmas Cards are custom created, feel free to ask for a special verse or poem! We’ll be happy to make your photo Christmas Cards as personal as you want.
Here’s a fun personalized Christmas card; Chestnuts Deep chocolate brown with a crimson red color really creates a very rich and deep Christmas photo card. You can include 3 of your favorite photos in this very unique Christmas card.
Another favorite that we just have to keep bringing back year after year is the Holiday Blocks. Everyone who orders this Christmas card just raves about it! Our design shows you can use 3 of your photos. However, you can swap out the Santa and other 2 photos and actually use 6 photos in this fun personalized photo Christmas card!
Browse our fun collection of photo Christmas Cards today and let’s get started!
Incredible Roy Doty Christmas card
I must have been six or seven years old when I first came across Roy Doty's illustrations in a pile of old Popular Science magazines from the 1960s. Doty's "Wordless Workshop" comics featured a pipe-smoking dad who solved common household problems with ingenious but easy-to-make devices.
A couple of years ago, I learned that Roy was still actively drawing, for magazines and books. I immediately emailed him and asked him to become the illustrator for MAKE magazine's puzzle page, called Aha! (in homage to another hero of mine, Martin Gardner, who wrote two books I treasure: Aha! Insight and Aha! Gotcha, now available in one volume). Roy was happy to oblige, and has illustrated the column ever since. I can't tell you how exciting it is to get the faxes with his rough sketches for the column. Of course, he needs no art direction; he knows exactly how to illustrate the puzzles.
Antique Christmas Cards
Other poets have contributed to the rich collection of popular Christmas poems. Poets like Thomas hardy, Henry, Vaughan, Richard Wilber and Henry Wordsworth Longfellow have penned Christmas poems in their times.
Some Christmas poems are dedicated to the special occasion of Christmas, while others are religious and dedicated to the Jesus Christ and His teachings. Still others are children poems meant for kids to playfully sing with friends during the Christmas season. All these poems have a common thread – they are all in the spirit of the Christmas season and touch a cord in the heart of anyone who sings it or listens to it. These also form the emotional connections to fond memories of childhood, when children of today become adults of tomorrow.
Poems have a life of their own. Admittedly, seasoned poets know how to rhyme and make it flow and thus make it an easy read. However, poems can be and have been written by many ordinary people. Whether written by famous poets and read by millions or written by a Mom for her loving children or even penned by a lonely soul talking to God out there, poems sizzle with the raw emotions contained in their words.
Christmas poems are no different. Hidden in the lines that are all too familiar to those who read it every year are emotions, stories of bygone eras and teaching from ancient times. These provide us with a unique vision of the life at the time the poem was written. Christmas poems have been written over many years, each presenting a unique view of the same occasion, filtered by the norms of those times.
Christmas poems have been written in many forms and for many kinds of people who have played a significant role in our society and in our lives. Poems for teachers, for fathers, for mothers, funny poems, melancholy ones and many others have been written by professional and amateur writers alike.
Write a poem this season, for someone you love or care for. Or just write one to celebrate the Christmas season. Draw inspiration by reading other poems let your creativity flow. Let your words remain a fond memory for others, for years after you have passed.
A Letter to Rudolph
Christmas
I've been getting ready for Christmas
I'm revving up for the great day
my credit card's cracked and my freezer is packed
'cause I started my shopping in May
The mistletoe's hanging in bunches
'cause the odd Christmas kiss isn't wrong
and the Vicar I've found - quite likes calling round
and exploring my crowns with his tongue
The bin men have gotten quite friendly
they're after a present I fear
they won't feel so chuffed when I tell them - get stuffed
'cause they don't speak the rest of the year
The family is coming for dinner
last year it was quite a good laugh
we ate fairly late - dished the veg on the plate
found the turkey was still in the bath
the Kids are all pink with excitement
'cause Santa will come so they say
their lists are extensive - extremely expensive
and they'll break it all by Boxing day
But it's worth all that fuss Christmas morning
when their little eyes are all aglow
when we're all feeling merry full of goodwill and sherry
and suffering from wind Ho Ho Ho
But please don't forget why we do it
why each year we must go to this fuss
for that guy up above who brought peace and brought love
and who probably owns Toys R Us..........
Liz Garrad
NOT YOUR FATHER CHRISTMAS POEMS (#2)
At Christmas Time
At Xmas time when we were kids,
we were bloody poor,
and Santa weren't too generous
when he knocked upon our door
But we made do by saving up,
yes every little bit
"We may be poor" said dear old Dad,
"but I dont give a shit!"
Our Xmas tree stood tall & proud
and rigid as a totem,
With Xmas baubles hangin' there.....
like testies in ya scrotum!
Everyone loved Xmas dinner,
no if's, and's or but's,
and all us kids would piss ourselves
when Grandpa dropped his guts.
We'd leave a six pack for Santa
and he always drank it quick,
then I found out it was just me Dad,
the alcoholic prick!
But all in all we had fun,
and lot & lots of cheer,
Now I can't wait till I've got kids....
cause I'll get a carton of beer!
Bruce Thompson
NOT YOUR FATHER CHRISTMAS POEMS (#3)
A Letter to Rudolph
Dear Husband, It is time that I must have my say,
I've taken your shit day after day.
I've kept the home peaceful year after year
Now there is going to be changes, so listen my dear.
So you're famous, everyone knows your name,
And you're a specialist by gum, in the transport game,
You think you're so grand with your important job.
But I'm telling you my dear you're a worn out old yob
363 days a year,
You sit on your arse drinking scotch, rum and beer,
You claim it is to keep up the shine on your nose
So Santa can see where he bloodywell goes.
One night a year is all that you work,
You and your eight reisty mates - they're all jerks.
Dasher and Dancer - Speed freaks I say,
The sleigh wouldn't go that quick any other way.
Prancer and Vixen - Just cheap little tarts,
But they look like angels once Comet starts.
Cupids on some freaked out damned power trip,
And Donner...well, she should just get a damned grip
And Blitzen, I almost don't need to say,
Is here getting blitzed with you every day.
All of these years at the front of the sled,
Has gone, I'm afraid, to your crusty old head.
You're a layabout and a drunkard, with a big shiny nose,
And a weakness for elves in black pantyhose.
I'm telling you husband that one Christmas song,
Has made you think that you can do no wrong.
So this year while your out with old Santa's sled,
I am eloping, my dear, with your friend - Mr. Ed
Denise Hobbs
8 MOUNTAIN TOP VIEWS
The best view in the world is a view from the top. For some reason, having a wide and open view relaxes the mind and feeds your soul. These 8 stunning photos were taken from mountain tops from all over the world.
Photo credits: Luis-Carlos, Simon, Chrispz, djwerdna, Brian, Der Ohlsen and Kristijan
AN IMPRESSION OF THE FIAC 2007 IN 8 SHOTS
The FIAC 2007 took place from the 18th until the 22nd of October in Grand Palais de Louvre, Paris. This is an impression of this exposition in 8 shots, check out SHIFT for more info about the 2007 edition of this art expo.
COOL FM
Companies can settle at a-locations or at A-locations. The home of the Polish radio station RFM-FM is definitely an A-location. See for yourself, have you ever seen a company in a building that looks like it used to be a shooting location of Star Wars?