Show Us Your Christmas Cards!

[Father Bill]

I've always loved this one:

[Deil the Yin]

Guid on ye, Chas! Could do with a bit more Anglicanism in the world, eh wot. Wifey wants to get a Christmas tree this weekend and it's making me cringe... Can't watch TV either cause of all the bloody commercials. Ach, weel. Good thread nonetheless. I'll have to see if I can dig up my first kilted Christmas card (our photos for this year with Santa aren't ready yet...).

Sorry, to be a killjoy. I resist this with a passion every year, as Christmas is being forced earlier and earlier.

As far as I am concerned Advent does not start till the 2nd of December this year and that is when I will start to celebrate.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advent_Sunday

Regards

Chas

[ctbuchanan]

Merry Christmas from Olde New England. This is our card this year with my wife, who is Polish, and puts up with my kiltedness. My two lovely daughters: the oldest is a manager at the Westin Snowmass Resort in Aspen/Snowmass Colorado and the little one who is at the University of Connecticut and a member of the dance team there.

[HuDonald]

Happy holiday season to all from Pittsburgh, PA, USA!
We do resist the overwhelming Christmas celebration that starts before Halloween.
It's sad.
But... not that it's a full week into December, I feel justified to have just designed the card last night.

[Woodsheal]

Should have posted this one when the thread began, but not too late I guess...!

[Domehead]

HuDonald,
Very nice looking couple. Wonderful photo. Very smart Highland Dress and what a great tartan. Excellent all around. Well Done.

[ShaunMaxwell]

Here's ours for the year:

[HuDonald]

Thanks, Domehead!
It's the Chinese-Scottish Tartan. Special ordered it from Rocky at USAK. The upper half is the Argyll jack + vest combo from USAK as well

[Deil the Yin]

Here's the e-Version of my first kilted Christmas card sent back in 2000 from the Highlands of Kentucke... The structure in the background is what's left of Fitchburg Furnace, an old iron smelting furnace in Estill Co. At the time of its construction in 1868 it was one of the most modern iron smelting furnaces in the world. My source says that to create the structure, "Italian (Scottish) stone masons were imported" (sic) cutting local stones to fit together perfectly, ie dry laid. Central Kentucke also has a plethora of dry laid "rock fences" (as their called locally) or "stane dykes" that date from the 1800's most of them...



Here's one of the piccies I didn't use for the card to give a better sense of the furnace, which I find fascinating (if you couldn't tell)... Here's a link also to more online photos of the furnace and its surrounding park: Fitchburg Furnace (Red River)

...I'll have to see if I can dig up my first kilted Christmas card (our photos for this year with Santa aren't ready yet...).

[Deil the Yin]

Really nice card layout and photo, too! Tartan is a great touch at the top... :-)

Here's ours for the year: