Christmas Cards

Fiorella has finished off her Christmas cards and is sending them on their way, fully realizing she is in a minority population--the cards she proudly displays on her dining room doors get fewer and fewer each year. If people want to communicate holiday greetings, they can text each other, or send emails, or sign up with Jacquie Lawson.

Fio remembers when Mother would spend days not only signing Christmas cards, but adding a little note inside each one.  It was called communication, and was particularly important before the invention of computers that engendered instant contact to anywhere in the world.  In fact, when Fio's family moved to far-away Texas, the voluminous letters written by her three sisters-in-law, Aunt Miriam, Aunt Hattie, and Aunt Julie, were what kept Fio's parents in touch with life and family at "home."

But Fio likes Christmas cards for more than communication.  She likes to design them.  She likes to create something interesting and pleasing to the eye.  She likes to add something new to the world, something that is uniquely Fiorella.

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Fio Has a New Toy

Fiorella has discovered Jacquie Lawson cards, those charming e-cards that change into something even more charming.  Well, actually she's known about them for some time because people have sent a couple to her, but now she's decided to subscribe to the service herself.  You can't beat an unlimited number of cards for just twelve bucks a year, and there are lots and lots of designs to choose from.  It's easy to send the cards too.  So today, three days before Thanksgiving,  she'll start barraging people with cards.

Duck and cover!