Every year, I offer to send Christmas cards to anyone who wants one. I’ve sent cards nearly all over the world (still need Africa and Antarctica), and it’s been great fun.
The last couple of years, we’ve had several card tiers to choose from, whether a totally free card or a handmade card with ornament, bookmark, or story to help defray the costs of cards. This year, due to some outside constraints, we’re going to have only the free cards.
Let’s go!
Holiday Cards 2025
Our new collection of gothic winter tales is out–and sleighing. (Yes, I did that.)
But seriously, it hit #1 on Amazon’s horror list at release.
Well, at least I made the error in the moral-high-ground direction.
Oops – Holiday Cards 2024Here in the US of A, we have a modern tradition of Black Friday sales and corresponding Black Friday alert emails to fill your inbox. Yeah, we’re doing that here, too.
20% off!
That’s right, 20% off nearly the entire web store! Ebooks, paperbacks, hardbacks, stickers, pins, nearly everything!
The Black Friday saleEvery year, I offer to send Christmas cards to anyone who wants one. It’s been so much fun to send cards all over the world!
After the card requests really took off, I started considering how I could manage costs while still making cards available to anyone who wanted one, free of charge. Last year’s experiment went very well, ending with a donation to a food bank, so we’re doing a simpler version this year.
Holiday Cards! 2024 Edition
Update: We did it! See note at bottom.
Once upon a time, there was a town.
It wasn’t a city, large and anonymous and impersonal. It wasn’t a tiny village, either, with only a few households of families local for generations. No, this was a town, of exactly the size you’d think of in a heart-warming holiday tale, and populated entirely by middle-class folk with harmless quirks and mildly interesting jobs.
Henry (he sponsored lighted wreaths for two lamp posts on the town square) noticed it first. He watched for a moment, and when it was time for his coffee break he went next door to the post office (garland on the counter, with some fairy lights twisted in) and pointed it out to Tanya. She was intrigued, and she thought to take a photo and text Miranda (who saw to the lighted and animated Grinch figure in front of the library). Miranda knew Todd (lighted candy canes for the courthouse lawn) would have a good view, so she asked him to walk by and report.
Giftmas 2023
I’m going to start this by telling you, my dear readers, what you did for me. And then I share what we did for others.
Holiday Card recap, an Advent-ure Story Calendar, and a big donation! You guys rock.
????It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas….????
Well, not really. We still have Halloween and American Thanksgiving to go. But in terms of planning ahead… It’s time again!
Every year, I offer to send Christmas cards to anyone who wants one. It’s been so much fun to send cards all over the world! But we’re doing the holiday cards a little differently this year, so please read about the new options.
Last year the number of people who requested a Christmas card quadrupled from the previous year. Quadrupled. I was honestly thrilled and delighted! But on the grinch-y pragmatic side, that was hundreds of dollars in postage, not to mention printing costs or the hours of signing cards. I regret nothing! but I should consider future costs.
That said, I don’t want to stop sending Christmas cards. I’ve heard from some of you how this might be one of only a few cards or even the only card to come in, making this one important, so we’re keeping the cards.
So how could I continue offering unlimited holiday cards, and maybe also offer something else special? After consideration, I came up with this idea, and I hope you like it. This year, you have three choices:
Holiday Cards! 2023 Edition
If you’ve been around with me before, you know Giftmas is an annual charity fundraiser, and if you’re in a big hurry today, no worries — here’s the link to do good. If you’ve got some time, you can read my musings on light in darkness, too. Thanks!
Solstice. Festivals of Lights. The Christ Mass. Holiday lights. Winterlights.
Even with so many traditions among our eight billion global citizens, light in the darkness is a universal thread in mid-winter observances. There’s a reason we drape LEDs over anything that holds still (and some things that don’t) and spread glitter and sequins to reflect every photon from every facet. In the dark of winter, we celebrate the light.
It’s Giftmas Time Again! 2022
You might know that every year I join Rhonda Parrish and a coterie of authors for Giftmas, a blog tour to raise funds for the Edmonton food bank. This year we have a goal of raising $1200 CAD, which will provide 3600 meals through the exponential leverage of… Giftmas 2021: The Thrilling Conclusion!
