Today is a big day. There is lots to do:
Email & Newsletter Gleanings:
Thought for the Day: "Psychotherapy is the only form of therapy there is. Since only the mind can be sick, only the mind can be healed. Only the mind is in need of healing. This does not appear to be the case, for the manifestations of this world seem real indeed." - A Course In Miracles
The birth of the Christmas card is generally attributed to Sir Henry Cole, and Englishman. In the early 1840s, this man of letters found himself in a difficult situation: he had fallen considerably behind on his seasonal correspondence. His solution turned out to be a stroke of genius: he commissioned John Calcott Horsely, an artist friend from the Royal Academy, to create a greeting card. Horsely's design portrayed a happy family feasting and toasting the holidays, alongside vignettes of people offering clothing to the poor and feeding the hungry.
Although others had created and sent hand-crafted Christmas cards, Horseley's were the first to be professionally printed: Cole had a thousand of these cards lithographed. They sold at an Old Bond Street gift book company for a shilling apiece. The decade of the 1840s saw the beginning of the penny post in Victorian England, as well as innovations in the steam press, which made mass prodution - and mass mailing - possible as never before.
Christmas cards in the United States did not take off until 1875, after the German-born lithographer, Louis Prang, designed a series of Christmas cards depicting reproductions of paintings with as many as twenty colors. Prang's cards had a huge following in England as well. To find the best Christmas art, Prang held numerous contests and offered cash prizes to contemporary painters. The art on his cards often featured nature scenes, family gatherings, singing children and cherubim. His innovations turned a Christmas tradition into a Christmas industry.
It is also noted that the Victorians were responsible for embellishing their cards with glitter. Some of the prettiest reproduction examples can be found with Old World Christmas Card company.
- Take Sean's cell phone in for repair - he damaged it when he had a bike accident.
- Grocery shopping - I think we are going to hit Krogers for some of their 10/$10 sales.
- Gasoline fill-up and,
- gettting stamps for the Christmas Cards which I normally would have mailed out the day after Thanksgiving. They are in the mail now. Yippee!!
Thought for the Day: "Psychotherapy is the only form of therapy there is. Since only the mind can be sick, only the mind can be healed. Only the mind is in need of healing. This does not appear to be the case, for the manifestations of this world seem real indeed." - A Course In Miracles
The History of the Christmas Card
The birth of the Christmas card is generally attributed to Sir Henry Cole, and Englishman. In the early 1840s, this man of letters found himself in a difficult situation: he had fallen considerably behind on his seasonal correspondence. His solution turned out to be a stroke of genius: he commissioned John Calcott Horsely, an artist friend from the Royal Academy, to create a greeting card. Horsely's design portrayed a happy family feasting and toasting the holidays, alongside vignettes of people offering clothing to the poor and feeding the hungry.
Although others had created and sent hand-crafted Christmas cards, Horseley's were the first to be professionally printed: Cole had a thousand of these cards lithographed. They sold at an Old Bond Street gift book company for a shilling apiece. The decade of the 1840s saw the beginning of the penny post in Victorian England, as well as innovations in the steam press, which made mass prodution - and mass mailing - possible as never before.
Christmas cards in the United States did not take off until 1875, after the German-born lithographer, Louis Prang, designed a series of Christmas cards depicting reproductions of paintings with as many as twenty colors. Prang's cards had a huge following in England as well. To find the best Christmas art, Prang held numerous contests and offered cash prizes to contemporary painters. The art on his cards often featured nature scenes, family gatherings, singing children and cherubim. His innovations turned a Christmas tradition into a Christmas industry.
It is also noted that the Victorians were responsible for embellishing their cards with glitter. Some of the prettiest reproduction examples can be found with Old World Christmas Card company.
1 comment:
The card is cute. How many shots did you have to do to get the pictures of them and did they object very much to the bows?????
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