Can you believe it’s now only 80 days until Christmas? As part of my commitment to the Countdown to Christmas Challenge, I’d like to speak about Christmas Stockings today. Stockings are an important part of many families’ Christmas traditions, and yet they are easy to forget about until the last minute. If you have children, [...]

It may still only be September, but it’s a good time to start thinking about your Christmas cards. Come November or December, you’ll be far too busy to think about Christmas cards.

Did you know that today is officially the first day of Autumn?  Those of you from Scotland might, like me, have believed that Autumn started a couple of weeks ago.  There’s been a chill in the air, the mornings and evenings have been darker and leaves have already started to go brown on the trees. [...]

 I received an email from Jennifer Tankersley of ListPlanIt, this morning, notifying me that it was only 100 days until Christmas.  Does this observation fill you with panic, as it did to me this morning?

In the current economic climate, I’m sure I’m not the only one who is apprehensive about the cost of Christmas this year.  Whilst still looking forward to Christmas with my family and friends, I’ll certainly be having a more frugal Christmas this year.  My husband works in construction and things are still pretty quiet in that industry.  He is actually having to work down in England for the next couple of months, while his company tries to secure more contracts in Scotland.  This is not ideal, but it is certainly preferable to him being made redundant, so we can’t really complain.

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Hi everyone! STEP 1: Make Sure Your Personalized Font and Signatures Are Ready! Visit my Send Out Cards site to see how easy it is to send a beautiful personlised card, straight from your PC to your recipient’s door. Holiday cards should be fun, heartwarming, and sending them out with your own handwriting and signature [...]

Hi everyone!   This month is an eventful one for me and my family!  We have a lot of events to go to and dates to remember – Weddings, Christenings, bridesmaid (and flower girl) dress shopping, Back-to-Nursery, Captain Tortue party, etc.   Yesterday, I colleague at my office was finishing up for her wedding.  Rosie [...]

Hello and welcome to my brand new Greeting Card Guru blog. My name is Annette Kerr and I work in direct sales for three very different companies.  One of these companies is Send Out Cards, which sells beautiful personlised greetings cards for personal or business use. I use these fantastic cards to keep in touch [...]