Winter has come with a cold front blasting through from Canada. Santa is on the way. Hope he is bringing a new iMac, although our old one is holding up well.

Mary Claire is sitting on the couch putting labels on our Christmas cards while I print out the remaining cards. A Charlie Brown Christmas is queued up in iTunes, playing through the iMac’s speaker sticks and iSub.

Kelly and I bought the Office Depot address labels #612-221 1″ x 2-5/8″ because they were better priced than Avery. Since Office Depot is one of our biggest clients, I know these labels were most likely made by Avery. The card stock came from Sam’s (although I would prefer to say our new client, Costco): Avery Greeting Cards Half Fold 8375.

We used an AppleWorks database to print off the labels. The photos in the Christmas card came from iPhoto. The card was composed in AppleWorks. The font for the card is Mac OS X’s Papyrus. The graphics were enhanced with Graphic Converter. The elves were drawn using PaintShop Pro 8 (… on my Dell.)

Nicole helped proof the card on her FlowerPower iMac sent via AppleMail to Athens. The inspiration for the back of the card came from the movie Elf. Danny is wearing the same outfit as Will Farrell.

I’m typing this in Kung-Log to post to the MovableType system which publishes to the Apache Web server on the iMac.

iMerry iChristmas. Only if Ted and his iPod were here…