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15/12/2008 8:30 am  

Okay, kiddies, it's that time of year again. Betting that more than a couple of you have designed (and made) your own greetings this year -- either for snail mail or electronic transmission -- I'm proposing a gallery of them, here.

As I just made mine today, here goes. (It will surely represent the lower end of the range of technical and artistic accomplishment. . .!)


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16/12/2008 3:17 am  

Shoes
added in honor of our President. Merry Christmas, Sir !
[Oh great, now he's politicized Christmas.]


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Gustavo
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16/12/2008 2:16 pm  

Thanks for the greetings.
I love that table!, and those shoes add a special touch, you changed them for the traditional vase!
What does those shoes mean?
Here in Argentina as in Spain and don't where else, following the tradition, kids must leave their shoes for the three kings in Christmas, (january 5), They leave at night water and grass (as food for the three king's camels) and in the morning they find the toys that the kings leave them as gifts.
How sweet you are! I don't know if you leave them there, hoping that the three kings leaves your gift! 🙂
But wait, I searched and searched and the only connxetion I could find in american sites is the "shoe-throwing incident in Iraq" :O
Subliminal!
Hua Hua Hua
" F L Y I N G . S H O E S "
Don't tell me that's becaming a tradition to say good bye presindents with fying shoes events!


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16/12/2008 2:45 pm  

That's it
Gustavo, two days ago an Iraqi reporter at a news conference in Iraq winged his shoes at our President's head as a sign of contempt. Stephen is being funny in a very cynical kind of way.
Enjoy your holidays and may your shoes be filled with candy and not brain matter!


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Olive
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16/12/2008 6:28 pm  

Not a Grinch, but...
we don't really 'do' Christmas in my family. We're all pretty much agnostic... just plain not at all religious. So we get together as a family give each other gifts and eat lots of fattening yummy things, but that's as far as it goes. And sending printed cards is such a bad thing enviromentally. All that paper, all that fuel used to deliver them, I'm glad I never picked that habit up. E-cards are a much nicer idea, though.
And if I might get up on my green soapbox for a few moments, here are some ideas to reduce/reuse/recycle at this time of year...
1. Use the Sunday comics from your local newspaper as wrapping paper (if you get the paper that is) Or use hand-decorated grocery bags. I have several predecorated boxes that I've collected and I reuse them year to year. In the US,we create about 5 million tons of additional trash during December. 4 million tons of that is wrapping paper and shopping bags.
2. If you like to bring homemade goodies as gifts, wrap them in reusable plastiware or just use a real dish. Disposable anything is bad!
3. Give virtual gifts. Make a donation to a charity in that person's name or give them an online magazine subscription. Give them an experience such as a massage or or movie tickets, or restaurant gift cards. Anything to avoid creating more landfill!
Güd Yule!


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azurechicken (USA)
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16/12/2008 6:42 pm  

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*H A P P I H*LIDAYS to all*


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Gustaf
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17/12/2008 12:09 am  

OK, here is one I just made....
OK, here is one I just made. I would have liked to develop the idea further, but I can only stand working with my image editor (Gimp) for about five minutes at a time.


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17/12/2008 12:10 am  

That's the spirit !
Thanks all.
I agree of course with the need to curb waste. But I hope art-on-paper will be granted an exemption ? (My mother routinely saved greeting cards, cutting them into gift tags for subsequent Xmasses. Scottish to the core !)
I suppose my days of laborious spray-printed stencil art are over -- though I'll never master computer graphics, I fear. Here's an image I made eleven years ago -- same year as the folding table photographed above. Happy holidays again !
I hope DAers will share whatever holiday art or design they may have made. . .


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joelpirela
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17/12/2008 9:54 pm  

what we did....
Happy holidays!


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SDR
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17/12/2008 10:38 pm  

Love it !
That's beautiful. . .


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Olive
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18/12/2008 6:10 pm  

SDR,
I like how the light is coming from underneath the shed in your second image post. It's a little quirk that takes a momentto absorb! Very cool...


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RetroSixty
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18/12/2008 9:11 pm  

Not too clever when it comes...
Not too clever when it comes to computers but...


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18/12/2008 10:21 pm  

Nice one,
Nick ! Modern in both form and content. Keep it up. . .
I hope there'll always be a contingent of good ol' cut-and-paste -- I mean with real paste !
Thanks for getting that, Olive. I liked the idea of floating that old barn or shed over its stone foundation. . .
The original pencil sketch, almost unadorned, appeared as the second of three images on the (light gray) page. This was the most elaborate of the "prints" I did, in terms of number of stencils.
Here's the top of that page:


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brnki (SVK)
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20/12/2008 2:05 pm  

🙂 I'm sorry I can't share the real cookie with all of you..
but this year I tried to add some playfulness to christmas of my friends.. and I baked cookies in shape of Tangram
:)and packed it as a christmas card..
*nice and playful christmas time to all of you
PS: there's just a link to my picassa gallery, because I didn't manage to add here a picture
http://picasaweb.google.sk/lh/photo/Px8l-cBwGjwr3wWHVIc8Nw?feat=directlink


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LuciferSum
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20/12/2008 7:25 pm  

I find
I find some of the best things in life are stumbled upon rather than created.
Merry Christmas to those that celebrate it!


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