{"id":3841,"date":"2012-09-27T13:36:57","date_gmt":"2012-09-27T17:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gallerycollection.com\/blog\/?p=3841"},"modified":"2025-11-27T01:00:18","modified_gmt":"2025-11-27T06:00:18","slug":"christmas-cards-cousin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gallerycollection.com\/blog\/personalized-christmas-cards\/christmas-cards-cousin\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas Cards from my Cousin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Working for 25 years for a company that produces<strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gallerycollection.com\/christmas-cards.htm\">Christmas cards<\/a><\/strong> has made me very aware of the cards I receive during the holidays. I like to look at the quality of paper and the original designs.&nbsp; I have a cousin who is an exceptional artist and every year she designs her own cards. The cards she draws are beautiful, but they can only be appreciated by family members.<\/p>\n<p>Last year she painted a beautiful likeness of our grandparents, when they were first married. It was such an amazing creation that all the cousins had the painting framed and displayed in our homes. As we got closer to the holidays I couldn\u2019t help but wonder what the theme for her card would be this year.<\/p>\n<p>When the card arrived in the mail I could not wait to open it. My first impression was that it\u2019s just a painting of Santa. He is sitting on a recliner looking at what appears to be a list of good and bad children. As I looked further at the card I recognized my aunt\u2019s living room, and the gentlemen with the white hair and white beard was not Santa at all. The man in the recliner was my Uncle Jim. On the inside of the card, my cousin had written at the top \u201cMy Father Christmas.\u201d I can\u2019t wait to see next year\u2019s personalized Christmas cards.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Working for 25 years for a company that produces Christmas cards has made me very aware of the&hellip;","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_page_load_nextpost":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[50,910],"class_list":{"0":"post-3841","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-personalized-christmas-cards","7":"tag-christmas-cards","8":"tag-personalized-christmas-cards","9":"cs-entry"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Christmas Cards from my Cousin - 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