Yuletide that Holly Jolly

Do you ever have one of those moments where you get an idea in your head, and it just won’t go away? You think about it and plan it, but ultimately, you fully expect it — whether by means of procrastination or laziness — to be shoved into the closet of no shows of great ideas past. I thought that was the case with this idea. I really did. But, the more I accidentally thought about it, the more I accidentally planned it, and the next thing I knew, I was at Target with things like fishing wire, cotton balls, and bright red tights on my shopping list, plotting how to get Jonathan involved without him knowing it. This, dear friends, was the making of our Christmas card.

We’ve never made a Christmas card before, but once I had the idea of floating scarves and a Tandem bike, it had to happen. And once we found a vintage red Tandem bike with whitewall tires on Craigslist, we were in the car that night driving to a sketchy neighborhood in Hendersonville, hoping we were returning with a bike and some guy wasn’t returning with a 2006 galactic gray mica 4Runner and two naïve, unsuspecting 20-somethings.

With video lights set up in our front yard and scarves hanging from our trees, we got a few photos and lots of strange looks from neighbors we don’t know. One neighbor actually parked, PARKED!, in the middle of the street and rolled her window down to watch. We spent the weekend picking paper and writing copy, and this is what we came up with. While it’s a month late coming to you, it was actually mailed to our friends and family on time! I’m never on time. Wins all around. We printed it on a 7×5 semi-gloss stock.

Here’s the front:

The inside:

And the back:

I hope you all had a retroactively-tastic Christmas.
Glitter and Kittens,
the Newberries