Day 7
Sending off the last Christmas gifts and cards to friends and family today ♥
We’re so grateful for everyone working at the postal service and other delivery companies at this time of the year! It seems like the queues never end!
By the way guys, did you all receive your MLT Christmas cards this year yet? For all of you who have placed an order in the last couple of months we added them to the parcels. Those who didn’t, got a separate letter in the mail so look out for one! 🙂
Are you still sending Christmas cards or is it a dying tradition? In these times of email and text messages we think receiving something in the mail is more special than ever, and we love trips to the post office.
M&L xx
I received mine with an order earlier this month and I put it along with the others that I’m saving to one day put together and make one big collage and frame it. So please keep them coming ?
I agree… a card and a hand written note is such a nice personal gesture and may be a declining tradition, but one that I want to try to keep alive in my own life.
Sadly a lot of people don’t send cards any more. I just sent out 6. Now a days I send one to those who send me one. It seems like a dying tradition. It’s fun spotting Lampi Bampi in your photos by the way!
Still waiting here in Idaho, but anticipation makes the heart fonder! So, do you two really think you can hide LB in a photo?! I admit you almost did, but Game On! We have 18 more days for you to try.
Totally agree with you.
I haven’t received my card yet, but I recently ordered “Orange” on vinyl, so I’m hoping it will be inside. I’m dreaming of an orange Christmas!
I actually don’t send out Christmas cards, and haven’t in a long time. It’s not because of e-mail or anything, but basically because I don’t know anyone who falls into what I consider the Christmas card category: someone whom you don’t normally interact with in person, but also don’t want to think that you’ve completely forgotten about.
My parents have a tradition of taping all the Christmas cards they receive on a wall in the living room in the shape of a triangle, meant to suggest a Christmas tree. As a kid I thought of it as a seasonal ornament that grew a little bigger each day due to love and friendship. I’ve become such a Scrooge now…
Correction: I did get the card with the Christmas CD. For some reason I was thinking this wasn’t the card under discussion.
I received my MLT Christmas postal greeting last week and i was very excited. It makes me very happy to receive albums, cards, everything they sell in the MLT store…. (I would buy everything hahaha).
I keep mailing a postcard to friends and family… but here in my city, that tradition has almost been lost and it is very sad…. technology, mail, whatsapp… has ended this tradition. It’s nice that you girls keep doing it. Thank you 🙂
Cute! I see Lampi Bampi made the trip too!. I spy a certain hat that I am familiar with. ❤ perhaps Lisa picked up a certain Parcel while she was there as well.
Yes! I love my Christmas card. They are the only ones I receive each year.
I don’t send Christmas Cards out ( except to Team MLT). Unfortunately it’s a lost art in the States. It was so much fun looking at them during the holidays, and to see who sent them and where they came from.
Have a Great Day Ladies.
My sincere apologies to Miss Mona? I saw everything else but I failed badly on noticing it was Mona, and was not her Much older Twin?
Well despite spending more time than I should on the club site (in a good way), I did finally manage to finish writing all our cards yesterday and paid my (expensive) visit to the Post Office this morning, they are now winging their way home and abroad, I also say thanks to the Royal Mail. I have agreed with some people to send Christmas messages by email but it just doesn’t feel right so I still send them cards anyway. Well it is Christmas, and as you and other members have said, there’s nothing like getting a card in the post!
Your attachment to the postcard tradition is understandable perhaps in relation to your origins. Did you know that:
The postcard was born in Austria in 1869. On October 1, 1869, Austria-Hungary officially emitted, under the impulse of Professor Emmanuel Hermann, professor of political economy at the Military Academy of Vienna-Neustadt, the first postcard in the world.
To my delight it has arrived. Happy to say that the swedish postal service managed to deliver it. Here they are talking about mail delivery only 2 times a week. In the future I think you will pick up your mail at your local grocery store as you do parcels today.
The Christmas cards continue to be sent out in our family. That traditional will never end unless the post office goes out of business. Since I make my living selling vintage postage stamps to collectors and people who still love to use snail mail and have penpals all over the world, I won’t miss out on the chance to use my Christmas stamps going back to the early 1960s to mail out the Christmas cards.
It’s a perfect tradition for you! 🙂
A family friend of ours, when we were young kids, collected stamps and I still remember him showing us folders upon folders and picture frames filled with neatly categorised stamps from all over the world. He had a whole room dedicated to that hobby, and of course we were fascinated! Especially when we found the horse stamp collection, haha!
We used to cut out and soak off stamps from letters for him too. Those are the only memories I have of stamp collecting, we’ve never met anyone who does it since! It’s a quirky and cool hobby! 🙂
Haven’t received my Christmas card yet, but I am sure our Canadian Christmas goose has it in beak and it’s somewhere between Halifax and the Canadian Rockies (or visiting Jacki first in Ottawa). He likes to stop at many of the lakes along the way, so it gets delayed sometimes, but I know it will arrive. 🙂
Nothing beats a physical hand written card or letter, and at this time of year especially I really appreciate our mail carriers who deliver our precious mail. Despite the convenience of technology and email and electronic cards etc, I hope the good ole mail never goes away. I am still fortunate enough to live in the ever shrinking areas where we get door to door mail delivery as more of it is going the way of the communal post office/mail boxes where you have to go to pickup your mail.
Jung, yours should have come together with your CHRISTMAS album order a few weeks ago! 🙂
If you can’t find it anywhere (maybe we forgot to add one?) please let us know!
I love getting door-to-door deliveries. The excitement of getting a parcel by Mr. Postman and hoping it’s something you ordered and not some screws for dad’s DIY projects or Lisa’s almond flour restocks. 😛
Hi Mona. Ahh I found it. I had the card stuck in between the 2 post cards. Love it thanks! 🙂 Yes getting a parcel in the mail is the best, especially if it is something MLT!
Met up with a couple of best friends from high school last night and the Christmas albums with their names signed on it was a big hit! They were really happy to get it.
Lisa’s almond flour restocks and dad’s screws..LOL… 🙂
I recieved my card with the CDs I ordered I love the picture
I did receive mine with my last order of cds Thank You. Instead of cards I sent friends and co workers autographed MLT Christmas cds. one more to send out when the post office is less busy. Got a lot of good comments from them so far. looks like I did good this year,
Thanks for giving the gift of music to others, we love that! ♥ 🙂 ALSO THANK YOU for the lovely things you sent us. They arrived in the post the other day! We’ll send you an email in a little bit.
Wow Mona! The Post Office is a place I avoid these days after working for Australia Post’s State Administration way back in the eighties and nineties. Yes, before you were even born! I’m looking forward to my Christmas card in the mail. Way Downunder here, I received mine later than everyone else last year, so it will probably be the same this year. By the way, it’s my birthday tomorrow (hint, hint), but please don’t tell anyone!
Happy Birthday Howard. By the way you should receive a Birthday greeting tomorrow from the Dynamic MonaLisa Twins.
Yes, happy birthday, Howard! Hope I didn’t miss it, given how many time zones ahead of me you are.
Have a great day tomorrow Howard!
All the best on your birthday Howard.
Happy birthday Howard. Hope you have a great day!
Happy Birthday Howard… Have an MLTBuzzing Groovy Bday Kinda Day EH?!
Yours should have also come with your last parcel 🙂 We decided to add them to all orders this year so every member that made a pre-order for CHRISTMAS will have received their signed card along with the CD. Please let us know if you can’t find yours!
Also – Happy Birthday!! It’s already past midnight here in the UK, so even for us it’s now officially your birthday. Make sure you check your inbox 🙂
Now how could I forget that wonderful Christmas album order of mine. I did pick it up late from my neighbours as i had been away for a month house and pet sitting. I’ll be doing the same again for a month from this Tuesday, this time in Sydney. Thank you for the birthday wishes email too. No one sings birthday greetings like Mona and Lisa!
Happy Birthday Howard!
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Happy Birthday Howard!
The only time of year I still will mail out actual cards, well, actually mail stuff… Lol… Otherwise online greetings is my norm these days, recalling the bygone days when Mom had her Xmas Card Sending Out List of whom all she loyally sent out to at Xmas… I tried to keep it going after she took sick (stroke) but it got to point where it got to be much, so it diminished but I try to keep it going with my own list…. Yeppers… Something organic and refreshingly nostalgic to light up one’s heart/face with a Xmas card/parcel sent/received in the ol snailmail…. ??
I love getting mail from you. What a great way to brighten a day! I haven’t seen a Christmas card yet, though. I hope you got, or get the one I sent you!
Merry Groovy Christmas
and blessings for the new year! 🙂
My apologies. Yes, I did get a card.
THANK YOU!
For a moment there I thought Lampibampi had stayed at home ?
Had to look extra hard this time to catch Lampi! 🙂
I got My card, It was a delightful unexpected surprise.
Sure made my day! 🙂
Thanks!
Hugs!