Thursday, January 6
Submitted holiday cards…creative , clever and fun
by Karen RobertI have been a bit remiss in showing all of the cards that have been submtted recently. What can I say? The holidays really get in the way, as does the flu, family reunions and buying and returning gifts.
So, finally, here are a few fun, creative and clever cards from this season, all submitted by readers like you.
Submitted by Theresa Thompson
who said about it “We’re a family of “closet carnies.” My husband and I met at a Jugglers Anonymous meeting so I thought it only fitting to do a “freakish” Holiday card.”
Submitted by Kirk Small.
Here is what he has to say about it:
“MY GRANDFATHER WAS AN AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHER AND IN THE 20′S AND 30′S SENT OUT A STRING OF XMAS CARDS THAT ARE FAMILY TREASURES. ABOUT EIGHT YEARS AGO, WE COPIED THE CONCEPT OF ONE OF HIS MOST MEMORABLE CARDS. OUR XMAS CARDS FROM THAT YEAR AND SINCE HAVE BEEN IN HONOR OF HIS TALENT AND SENSE OF FUN; EACH HAS BECOME A SNAPSHOT OF OUR FAMILY’S JOURNEY TOGETHER.”
Submitted by Connie Logsdon who said she made this in layers and put them together in Photoshop
Submitted by PHK
who says”the littlest boy in the blue shirt is not a septuplet, we had everybody pose with him separately then photoshopped them all together”
Made by Chris EwartMy 10 year old daughter and I draw together and decided it would be fun to draw photos of ourselves and add all of our family travels and accomplishments over the past year.
The card was created for a very close family member, we recreated the famous scene from the beginning of the television series, “Fantasy Island.” Their oldest son being the “Mr. Roarke” character and their adoped son playing the character of “Tattoo.”
Card done by Jennifer Albert
Submitted by David MarshallWho said “It started in 2003 in which we decided the regular family portrait was just dull. our family and friends now REQUIRE we do something creative each year. This photo is last years.”
Submitted by Connie Logsdonwho said “My youngest was born December 17th, so we made this a birth announcement, “Unto us a child is born…” on the inside with his statistics.”
Submitted by David Bennett
Submitted by Connie Logsdonwho said “I took pictures separately, then put them all together. The ears are made of bandaids.”
Submitted by the Fowler Family
Our pictures are usually representative of whatever fictional events that we’ve written about in our Christmas letter.
This year, the story was that my wife started a “hip-hop/rap” career. We have an accompanying recording of her first rap available here:
Here’s the letter.——-
December 2010
Ho Ho Ho and a Yo Yo Yo Everybody,
As most of you know (those that actually read our letters), last year we started a family biker gang. But about 20 minutes into Bike Week down in Daytona Beach, we realized that we probably aren’t the biker gang type. Maybe it was our accents, maybe our clothes, or maybe it was because we were the only bikers driving a car. Either way, we didn’t belong. It was like when you go to the store, try on a hat, and look at yourself in the mirror and you realize “I’m just not a hat person.” Only in our case, the “hat” wasn’t a hat at all, but a helmet.
Deep down, we know that we’re still a type of gang. But, if we’re not a biker gang, what type of gang are we? Well, in order to answer this question we each took a quiz on Facebook that answered the question “Which famous ‘Happy Days’ character are you?” and we think that gave us a start. Lonnie got “Potsie” and Sara got, as you probably guessed, “Arthur Cunningham”. With both of these characters being pivotal figures in the founding of Rap music and the Hip-Hop lifestyle (at least according to Wikipedia), we realized “we’re not the biker gang type, we’re the Hip-Hop type”.
Being in Nashville, we have access to all kinds of Rap resources, especially with the internet. Sara quickly became a student of Rap, if you will, buying and listening to all the songs she could so that she could start writing her own songs. But because Lonnie insisted that she only buy the “edited” versions of these songs rather than the “explicit” versions, Sara didn’t realize that certain words had been omitted due to content. She thought they were only blank spaces. For a few weeks, she thought that Rap music was just a series of sentence fragments and unfinished thoughts. Then she was horrified. Now she writes Rap songs under the moniker Que-SaRa about the hardships of motherhood and has the FCC (Fowler Censorship Committee – also known as Lonnie) bleep out words so she sounds legit.
But “what about our darling children?” you might ask. C-Note (Coyle’s new nickname) is excited about his new turntable and his low-rider big wheel and has been turning heads everywhere we go with his new “grill” of gold teeth. He’s more than happy to tell everyone that his little brother Shorty (Miles) just got his first two gold teeth. They grow up so fast, don’t they?
Many of you might be worried about us spending so much money on our children’s toothy bling. What about their college fund or more importantly, the hot tub Sara wants to put in? You can all rest easy because it didn’t cost us a cent. We just melted down our wedding rings. We’re not as stupid as some of you give us credit for.
Be on the lookout for Sara’s latest single “Bleep on My Hands”, the only Rap written about a diaper change. For realz.
May all your Christmaseses be white,
Ho Ho Ho and a Yo Yo Yo Everybody,
As most of you know (those that actually read our letters), last year we started a family biker gang. But about 20 minutes into Bike Week down in Daytona Beach, we realized that we probably aren’t the biker gang type. Maybe it was our accents, maybe our clothes, or maybe it was because we were the only bikers driving a car. Either way, we didn’t belong. It was like when you go to the store, try on a hat, and look at yourself in the mirror and you realize “I’m just not a hat person.” Only in our case, the “hat” wasn’t a hat at all, but a helmet.
Deep down, we know that we’re still a type of gang. But, if we’re not a biker gang, what type of gang are we? Well, in order to answer this question we each took a quiz on Facebook that answered the question “Which famous ‘Happy Days’ character are you?” and we think that gave us a start. Lonnie got “Potsie” and Sara got, as you probably guessed, “Arthur Cunningham”. With both of these characters being pivotal figures in the founding of Rap music and the Hip-Hop lifestyle (at least according to Wikipedia), we realized “we’re not the biker gang type, we’re the Hip-Hop type”.
Being in Nashville, we have access to all kinds of Rap resources, especially with the internet. Sara quickly became a student of Rap, if you will, buying and listening to all the songs she could so that she could start writing her own songs. But because Lonnie insisted that she only buy the “edited” versions of these songs rather than the “explicit” versions, Sara didn’t realize that certain words had been omitted due to content. She thought they were only blank spaces. For a few weeks, she thought that Rap music was just a series of sentence fragments and unfinished thoughts. Then she was horrified. Now she writes Rap songs under the moniker Que-SaRa about the hardships of motherhood and has the FCC (Fowler Censorship Committee – also known as Lonnie) bleep out words so she sounds legit.
But “what about our darling children?” you might ask. C-Note (Coyle’s new nickname) is excited about his new turntable and his low-rider big wheel and has been turning heads everywhere we go with his new “grill” of gold teeth. He’s more than happy to tell everyone that his little brother Shorty (Miles) just got his first two gold teeth. They grow up so fast, don’t they?
Many of you might be worried about us spending so much money on our children’s toothy bling. What about their college fund or more importantly, the hot tub Sara wants to put in? You can all rest easy because it didn’t cost us a cent. We just melted down our wedding rings. We’re not as stupid as some of you give us credit for.
Be on the lookout for Sara’s latest single “Bleep on My Hands”, the only Rap written about a diaper change. For realz.
May all your Christmaseses be white,
FCC, Que-SaRa, C-Note, Shorty, and K-Dawg
you can listen to Que SaRa’s rap here. . .http://soundcloud.com/lonnieleefowler/bleep-on-my-hands-by-que-sara
Here are previous years’ (sorry for the bad web design, some years are in need of updating).http://heyfowlers.com/Christmas.htm
Here are previous years’ (sorry for the bad web design, some years are in need of updating).http://heyfowlers.com/Christmas.htm
The snuggies…haha I hope the family is in on the joke!
Comment by LiveLikeYou — January 7, 2011 @ 7:13 pm