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The Perfect Christmas Cards
Thank you,Religion News Service, forappreciatingthe ho-ho-Holiday-humdrum-hole-filling.
And thank you, Dinah the Cat, for understanding the true meaning of Christmas.
And you’re right, you should be in the new Christmas card.
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Holiday Season Opener
Oh,No Coast Craft-o-Rama… You never let us down!
TheMidtown Market’s halls were decked and bedazzled with all things Holiday… And handmadegoodness was traded for cold-hard-cash.The Zeichen Press Empire is always draped in black fabric because black is slimming.
Here’s a new Christmas card/fantasy?:
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This Time of Year Fills Me With
TheNo Coast Craft-O-Ramais TODAYand tomorrow(December 4th and 5th) and Jen has been feverishly printing in preparation.She must have been too busy to notice my new woodpile!
Come see all of the Holiday Goodies at theMidtown Global Markettoday Jen will be giving out free hugs with every purchase! -
THANK YOU!
Once Upon A Time,my sister got the stomach flu so bad. Poor thing… up in the middle of the night… every bit of food evacuating her body post-haste. Who knew the colon could churn and transform loose stool into clearliquid? Well, my brother found out when he sleep-stumbled into the bathroom and slipped and skated on the translucent trots that never made it into the toilet-bowl.
See? Analogy. Our gratitude just pours out of us! It’s almost like a medical condition.
To “give back”, we are hosting Macy’s Thanksgiving Parade!
Tune in!
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FINE. We can be friends.
**An Open Letter to Alexis Stewart:
Dear Alexis Stewart,
If you want to be friends with me, just ask. You don’t need to buy all of your Christmas and birthday AND Mother’s Day cards from me.
Friends Forever,
Fran
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Whew! I’m glad I got that out of the way! Thanks toMail Chimp, our email-blast campaign was full of success.
Wanna know whatMother’s DaycardMartha Stewartis getting in 2016???
I’LL NEVER TELL!!!
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Wherein One Woman Does NOT Go Gentle Into That Good Night
Does my IQ have to be higher to understand Sci-Fi films??
As the credits rolled for Interstellar, I whispered, to myself,“whaaat???”Maybe I should have taken 100 classes to prep me? All of that technlogy and time-talk made me wish I was working on the new Zeichen Press catalog that Jen so agressively marked-up.
I’LL GET TO IT. As soon as I finish rewatching Mad Men.And while I’m (not) doing that,The Intern
isgallivanting about in Italy like some sort of hippie. Well, let’s just see if you have a studio to come home to. (OMG, I’M KIDDING. Please come home. And bring us souvenirs.) -
#empathycards
“WHY DIDN’T I THINK OF THAT??”
~Fran Shea
These cardsstopped me right in my (dog) poop-covered tracks:
Let’s be friends,Emily McDowell.Too needy?
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Non! Je Ne Regrette Rien!
Dinah always makessucha big deal about choosing paper and envelope color for a new release.
First, she has Jen print a card:
And then she does this:
She is such a taskmaster.
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NOT YOUR DOORMAT
Greeting cards would be better if they were huge. And I could wipe my feet on them.
And what better way to spread the Good Word of Zeichen Press than by emblazoning it upon the doormat ofevery doorstep for every home throughout the land?
High Cottonmakes lots of things, for lots of people. And now they will make doormats for us. I mean,for you.They’ll make doormats for you. Designed by us.
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Gracias…
…El Nio.I know I’m supposed to be cursing Climate Change… I KNOW.
But how can I curse when meteorologists are predicting awarmer-than-usualwinter??
I must embrace the phenomenon the way a mother embraces her wayward son.
IN OTHER NEWS, Jen and I chose 12 cards for the next release using darts, a cardboard cutout of Steve Buscemi, and our first-aid kit.
Here’s a teaser:
And because I always plan ahead, here’s a new Father’s Day card: