This is top bantz.”Īnd you wore that jumper on Christmas Day – even if you hated it, because you were not a square, daddio – to show that you appreciated the gift, out of kindness, not because you wanted to tell everyone that your granny had no style and wouldn't have a clue in Hollister. They were not thinking, “Ha, this is going to make Terry look like an absolute spanner. He will appreciate that at this very cold time of year.” Yes, there has long been the practice of people receiving terrible jumpers at Christmas from grandmothers and aunts, but the thing to remember is that when your aged relatives used their meagre pensions to buy those presents for you they were thinking, “Ooh, that's a nice warm woolly jumper for Terry. īecause the worst of the recent “traditions” to attack the very idea of Christmas – and I am including viewing of the film Elf – is the forcing of people to wear Christmas jumpers in the name of “fun”. Yes, they can be silly, like the paper hats we are forced to wear during Christmas dinner, and which perch on my enormous head like a sort of blinged-up pimple, but they come from a place of affection and respect for Christmas.Īnd that is why I am coming to burn your Christmas jumper. Now, admittedly, all traditions have to start somewhere, and I cannot imagine the distress of the first Yuletide cook faced with an unplucked turkey, or the first hospitalised child faced with Noel Edmonds, but the best ones, the ones that stick, are the ones which take Christmas seriously. And it is a reminder that, as the poet Robbie Williams once said, “We're doin' it for the kids.” These traditions are there to reassure you that the Christmas you are giving your children is the same sort of Christmas your parents gave you. If this lot turned up at your door any other time you'd be less than impressed Try that in August and see how far you would get away with it. But at Christmas not only are you allowed to bring a tree indoors, you are encouraged to do so, and then to cover it in lights and colourful balls, just because your parents did it.Īnd you would be rightfully mortified if, at another time of the year, you were encouraged to wander around your neighbourhood, knocking on people's front doors, and singing lustily until you were paid to go away. Why else would you bring a tree into your house? If you tried that at any other time of the year you would be considered insane. If you do, then you are lucky, but that is not the reason why the traditions are there. You are not meant to like the things you have at Christmas. We're fed up with turkey,” are missing the point. “Can we please have something that tastes like a dry chicken and is also the size of a Rottweiler?”Īnd those people who say, “Oh, we're having goose/ostrich/a seven-bird roast this year for a change. “What are we having for dinner, mother?” we would ask, in a turkey-loving world. People say they do – you might even be one of them – but if we liked it we would eat it at other times of the year. It is good that we eat turkey, even though we do not really like it. If you want a little more detailed tutorial about working with layers in a photo editing program, this tutorial I wrote a while back is a great place to start! I hope this helps some of you simplify the holiday card process.Christmas traditions are great, and I approve of them wholeheartedly. Now you are ready to create and print your cards. Leave them wanting more, I always say! When you are finished, save it as a JPEG file. It’s not an in-depth review of our year, but it gives our friends and family a little taste of what we’ve done. I wrote ours to read like status updates on Facebook with ridiculous hashtags at the end of each paragraph to keep with the hastag theme. To add text to the back side of the card, open the 2014 status review image up in your photo editing program and use the text tool to add whatever message you like: Keep going until all the frames are filled, then save the image as a JPEG file.
Then simply drag and drop each photo into the desired frame: but that’s OK! Resize each photo to 400 pixels square, as shown below: The photos will be too big for the frames. Choose your photos and open them as new layers - each photo will be on its own layer as shown below: You will see the white background image with 12 empty frames for you to insert your photos. Once you have the template of your choice downloaded, open it up in your photo editing program. ĭownload the #merrychristmas version here
Dont get me wrong, this part of our marriage has been good, but I feel it could be raised to a higher level. Even though my parents AND grandparents are on social media now and see what we’re doing as we do it all year long, I’m a traditionalist. After being married for eleven years to my husband Alex, who is a scientist in a well-known pharmaceutical company, I decided we needed our sex life to be enhanced.
This is about the time of year that I start stressing about what to do for our annual Christmas card and newsletter.
Gimp outfit xmas free#
Hi everyone! It’s Amy from My 3 Monsters again and I am thrilled to be here sharing a fun free Christmas card template with y’all.
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