This just in... Holiday card update.

have just come across Pinhole Press and Minted...the far superior alternatives to Tiny Prints. Pinhole Press is a new web stationery boutique featuring clean, contemporary design templates for custom photo greeting cards. They also specialize in environmentally responsible design. Their paper, envelopes, & printing use 100% post-consumer recycled, certified by Smartwood for FSC standards, and is made using Green-E certified wind-generated electricity. The finished product arrives at your door, in a matter of days, wrapped in recycled tissue, inside of a 100% recycled kraft box filled with Geami, an eco alternative to bubble wrap.

So, if you ran out of time and didn't get a holiday card out this year, there is still time to send a new years card!! But if you have already sent one, bookmark them for next year. Your friends will thank you.

Letterpress Holiday Cards

Images {Elum, Page Stationary; Elum; Page; Mr. Boddington; Elum; Page}

There is nothing better than sending and receiving letterpress cards. Our favorite for baby announcements... they also make the BEST holiday cards. The weight of the paper and the tactile indentations make them such a beautiful way to commemorate the year, and wish everyone a happy holiday! Le Cirque offers Elum Designs, Page Stationery, Oblation Papers, Prentiss Douthit & Mr. Boddington (in the new year).

And...Paperless Post is our favorite in-a-pinch online stationer.

Easy to Make Christmas Decorations

Cotton ball tree decorations

Felt animal decorations

Popcorn wreath

Cookie cutter ornaments

Candy ornaments

Homemade wrapping paper

No Bake Gingerbread Houses...

Yogurt covered pretzel fencing, Frosted mini-wheat roof, coconut snow, marshmallow snowmen.

Necco wafer roof, lollipop trees, gum drop shrubs, & lifesaver wreath.

Gum drop figurines in a glass cylinder with sugar snow

Images {Martha Stewart}