Colleen Meade   -   Christmas Cards and Letters
Christmas '97, Front Photo  
Each year, I send out a Christmas card that I make myself. These days, it usually contains two photographs - one on the front of something 'Christmas-y' and one on the inside of Kathleen. Years ago, the front was occasionally something different - a lino print, a cedar branch, a watercolor, etc. - but I doubt that I'll ever scan in the cards from that far back.
 
Usually the card also includes a letter - one of those cheery, 'chirpy' little (or, in my case, not so little) things that people love to hate - except for the cards sent to people whom we saw really frequently or those whom we didn't know well enough to think that they'd care for the details of what we'd been up to during the year.
 
The table below goes backwards in time from this year (2001), showing the photograph from the front of the card, the photo from the inside of the card and an icon to represent the letter that may have been enclosed (plus another link to a more 'printer-friendly' version of the letter). The last few year's cards have a couple of 'extra' photos - 'alternate' pictures for those people who don't really know Kathleen. The first one is for the people I still stay in touch with from my photography workshop a few years ago and the second is for those who only know us through our cats (the SPCA, the vets, the pet store, etc.)

Click on any of the thumbnail pictures for a webpage showing an enlargement of that photograph; click on the icon to read the letter for that year:
 
2001 Christmas 2001, Inside Photo
 
(Alternates)
 
 
Christmas 2001, Alternate Inside Photo(s) - LOTR Costumes
 
2000 Christmas 2000, Front Photo Christmas 2000, Inside Photo
 
(Alternates)
 
Christmas 2000, Alternate Inside Photo - Freeman's Workshop Participants
 
Christmas 2000, Alternate Inside Photo - SPCA, Vet, Pet Store
Go To a
Printable Version
of the
Letter
 
1999 Christmas '99, Inside Photo (Version 2)
 
(Alternates)
 
 
Printable First
Page
of the
Letter
 
(Originals)
 
 
Printable Second
Page
of the
Letter
 
1998
 
1997 Christmas '97, Front Photo
 
1996 Christmas '96, Front Photo Christmas '96, Inside Photo
 
1995 (This was the year that my computer was broken, so I don't have an online record of my Christmas letter - it was hand-written. If/when I find a copy of it, I'll type it in, but for now, this year will be missing from the record - sorry 'bout that!)
 
1994 (I don't have a copy of my '94 card to scan in, so for now, I'm just going to put up the letter, which was already online. Hopefully I'll be able to locate the photos later and make the record complete!)
 
1993 (As was the case in '94, I don't have a copy of my '93 card to scan in, so for now, I'm just going to put up the letter, which was already online. I hope to also locate these photos later and make the record complete!)
 
1992 (As was the case in '93, I don't have a copy of my '92 card to scan in, so for now, I'm just going to put up the letter, which was already online. I hope to also locate these photos later and make the record complete!)
 
1991 (As was the case in '92, I don't have a copy of my '91 card to scan in, so for now, I'm just going to put up the letter, which was already online. I hope to also locate these photos later and make the record complete!)
 
1990 Christmas '90, Front Photo Christmas '90, Inside Photo
 
1989 Christmas '89, Inside Photo
 
NOTE:  1989 was the first year that I did a standard Christmas letter
         (in previous years I just wrote individual notes in the cards)
 
1988 Christmas '88, Inside Photo  
 
1987 Christmas '87, Inside Photo Christmas '87, Front Photo (red version)
 
1986 Christmas '86, Front Photo  
 
1985  
 
1984  

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