Archive for the 'Christmas cards' Category

After-Christmas Shopping

Saturday, December 29th, 2007

Many people also came out Wednesday to hit up the sales and take advantage of the gift cards they received as presents. Over the past two months $26 billion worth of gift cards have been sold across America. That is up 42% since 2005. CBS 21 News spoke with many shoppers using gift cards [...]

Mass Effect Christmas Card

Monday, December 24th, 2007

It s Christmas time and the game companies are sending out the Christmas cards. Every year, some really interesting cards are sent out. For 2007, I d have to say the best I have seen is the Mass Effect Christmas card from BioWare. Of course, I already have Mass Effect, so I probably would [...]

Cards are savored long after Christmas is over

Monday, December 24th, 2007

And what about all of the cards that friends and family took time to buy, address, stamp, and send, just as you did theirs? I hope you have them nicely displayed or in a neat stack to study and enjoy after Christmas. If you are like me you open and read them too quickly as [...]

Harris mails attack Christmas card

Saturday, December 22nd, 2007

SALISBURY — One of my colleagues in the newsroom handed me a Christmas card this week which made us a bit uncomfortable. Nothing obscene, but it was a Christmas card from Maryland Sen. Andy Harris, R-7-Baltimore County. The problem with the mailing is that it’s not really a Christmas card. Sure, it has the [...]

Burglar takes Christmas cards from home

Saturday, December 22nd, 2007

CENTERVILLE — State police are looking for the grinch who stole Christmas from a Centerville family Wednesday morning. State police at Corry said an unknown person forcibly entered through a rear door of a home on Recks Road in Rome Township, Crawford County, and stole Christmas cards, a man’s watch, a Microsoft Zune music-video [...]

1.5 million Christmas cards delivered

Saturday, December 22nd, 2007

“MaltaPost is entrusted with around 55 Million items annually, with the mail volumes more than three times the norm during the peak Christmas period. Considering that most of the processes are still manual, MaltaPost reaches and exceeds the set standards and receives only 1 complaint for every 11,500 items handled. This is only achieved by [...]

Why you can tell a lot about a public figure from their Christmas cards

Friday, December 21st, 2007

David Cameron The Conservative leader chose this drawing by 11-year-old Bethany Brown, which shows a giant Father Christmas booming out “Ho! Ho! Ho!”. He is pictured looking down at Bethany’s school, St John’s Church, and the town hall in her home town of Carterton, in Mr Cameron’s Witney constituency. It also shows a military [...]

The raw beauty of early Canadian Christmas cards Andrew Duffy,

Friday, December 21st, 2007

Email to a friend Printer friendly Font: * * * * “When you start looking at the cards, you think, ‘This is a really cute place, this Canada, with all that snow around. You can go skating, have a great time.’ ” Ms. Catchpole recently combed through a number of the archives’ special collections [...]

Artists help Sudbury Food Bank liven up Christmas cards

Friday, December 21st, 2007

BY BILL BRADLEY Christmas is coming early for the Sudbury Food Bank. The Sudbury Food Bank is going great guns this year in its Christmas card fundraising drive said administrator Dan Xilon and board chair Geoffey Lougheed. The cards, featuring art by local artists, sell for $5 at Lougheeds flower shops, Backyard Birder at [...]

Gift cards no longer impersonal, become popular Christmas gift

Thursday, December 20th, 2007

Gift card sales at Aubree’s Saloon and Cady’s Grill in Ypsilanti’s Depot Town are big sellers during the holidays, said owner Sandee French. “I keep a couple hundred around this time of year. We go through them relatively quickly.” She switched from paper gift certificates to plastic cards with a magnetic strip three years [...]