Holiday Cards

I took pictures of the kitties to use in our cards this Sunday. I uploaded the photos, and created and ordered the cards that same day and amazingly got them back on Tuesday! I was so excited! The rapid card turn-around put me into high gear and I hurried to finish my Christmas letter. I had most of the cards addressed, stamped, and sealed with letter safely inside when I decided to re-read my letter on the way to work. Unfortunately, Ms perfectionist found 3 errors! I figured my options at this point were:

1. Print out 60 more letters (front and back) and open up all of the cards to re-stuff them. (using another cartridge of colored ink to do so)
2. Send the cards as is, and hope no one will notice.
3. Figure out how to correct the errors (and match the burgundy ink I used) while still having the letter look halfway decent.

In the end I did a bit of each. Tim's cards weren't sealed yet, so I created a new template with just the words that needed editing in it. I whited out what was wrong in the letters, and printed the new words onto the letter. This worked pretty well all things considered, however printers don't always feed exactly right, so there were some that just didn't make the cut.

I printed out new letters for those that didn't do well, and put them into cards of people I thought would notice the errors and care.

The sealed envelopes were harder, most were to my very close friends and family. I tried opening a couple, but the envelopes didn't fare well. I couldn't really steam the letters since they were photo cards. I started to work myself into a tizzy, until I realized most, if not all, of these friends knew how crazy my life has been lately, and wouldn't judge me for the three silly mistakes in my two page letter.

So I now have a stack of letters in various states that will go out in the mail tomorrow. Hopefully my friends will understand if theirs has a misspelling or two. Or maybe they're busy like me and will skim over the few faux pas and focus on the content instead.