Cards & Cake
It continues to be mighty chilly here in northwestern Montana. Perfect weather for writing out holiday cards and letters while drinking some hot tea and maybe eating a bit or two of homemade sour cream coffee cake.
It’s also good weather for studying up on my new camera, not so much for the actual taking of photos. The light or lack thereof these days makes it hard for me. I’ve never learned how to properly use a flash. I don’t know about the rest of you, but I’m looking forward to the return of the sun in a few weeks.
How about these cards? I bought several stacks of Christmas cards back in February at the thrift store. The cards come bagged and I didn’t really look through them, just picked them figuring the price was right (12 cards with envelopes for $1.25) and surely I’d be able to use them. Well, I hit the jackpot. Many of the cards are vintage in design and just wonderful. I often do my card shopping at the thrift store and generally find wonderful and often vintage blank and birthday cards for about 10 cents a piece. I’m getting low on my selection and need to pick up more soon.
I’ve started receiving holiday cards as well and its such a joy to me. I love getting these little notes of joy and love, even if it is just once a year. How about you, do you enjoy writing out and receiving holiday cards?
Yes, Kathie, thoroughly do. I’m going to start checking the thrift stores for cards, too! I just hope I’ve allowed myself enough time to get them written!
Camerawise – never use a flash for food! The best thing I did was find a piece of white foam board (leftover from the move) to use as a reflector. For smaller stuff, I’ve used white cardstock, or even an envelope. And make sure you know hwo to adjust your white balance. I highly recommend digitalphotographyschool.com, too.
Stationery is a huge guilty pleasure for me, especially beautiful letterpress cards. I tend to collect them, and while I love sending cards, I sometimes hate parting with my pretty papers. Sending them away helps me share them, but I’m afraid they’ll just go in the trash.
I saw your comment, and had to reply. As a fellow lover of pretty papers, whenever someone sends me a letter on lovely stationery, I tend to keep it. Not the best for keeping down the clutter, but I so enjoy them. So take heart–recipients of your lovely letters may do the same!
What an awesome idea about the thrift store cards! I love sending cards but have gotten bad about sending them out in the last several years–however I was pretty excited this last weekend sitting down with a cup of tea and addressing & writing holiday cards to send to our contacts.
Hope you’ve been surviving the wintery weather your way! Definitely hit that western side!
And I’ve decided to come back to blogging…hopefully I can make it back into something more real and enjoyable than it was for a while….hug to you and yours!
Tasty looking cake! I love shopping at thrift stores, never know what you’l find!
That coffee cake looks delicious Kathie. I wish I had the ability to plan ahead like that. I always wait until the last moment to stock up on such things like Christmas Cards.
Yummy looking! I have a boy who can’t eat nuts, so I haven’t had them in the house forever, but I eat them when I’m out! I have also sent photo christmas cards since this child was born in 1989. It’s fun to look at them and see how they’ve changed.
One of my favorite Christmas traditions is sending cards. I usualy purchase mine for the next year right after Christmas and so get really great discounts.
That cake looks so good ! I too bought xmas cards on sale , I got home checked them out and they were all french , I called my son , who lives next door , to see if he had any , he said yes 2 boxes , all french . Moral of this story is a bargain is only a bargain if you can use them . My son took all the cards to his workplace and gave them to his french speaking co workers .
The cake looks very yummy! Would you share the recipe?
Faith, I can’t share this recipe just yet, but I’ll let you know when its available.