Christmas Cards
Jabblog has featured her collection of Christmas Coffee Mugs recently and has mentioned that Christmas Cards and her mugs frequently feature idyllic images of snowscapes and pretty villages.
When I was a child, cards here in Australia also featured idyllic snow covered scenes at Christmas, with robins, holly and berries, or Glittering Christmas Trees with fake snow on them.
Some time ago, Australian themed Christmas Cards began to appear in our stores and I thought my overseas blog friends might like to see a few of them.
'Tis the Sea-Sun!
Let it Snow ELSEWHERE!
Christmas Wishes from Down Under
Merry Christmas Mate!
Have a Fair Dinkum Christmas
Merry Christmas
Christmas Wishes
I found a star to hang in my room
A Nordic Gnome to stand guard in the laundry
My 68 years old Elf still merrily plays his saxophone. Behind him to the right is a Tree ornament, a "snow" encrusted TARDIS with a holly wreath on the door.
and I even found my one-and-only Christmas mug. No snowy scenes on this one.
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That's a nice collection. I would rather like the snow covered Tardis.
ReplyDeleteAndrew; I've had that for years now but you could maybe find one at Amazondotcomdotau? It's meant to be a tree ornament and has a string to hang it, but I don't have a tree large enough, it's 4 inches tall and 2 inches square.
DeleteI threw a snowball at you. Did I get a hit?
ReplyDeleteMike; no, either it hasn't arrived yet or it melted as soon as it reached our shores.
DeleteGood selection R. I remember sending some Australian themed cards to the norther hemisphere but they were a little different to your collection, I do like yours.
ReplyDeleteMargaret D; they have a different selection every year so there is always something new. I like the glittery ones.
DeleteI like how your star fits the color scheme in your room.
ReplyDeleteVal; it does look good. I used to hang a metallic pink and gold star but it's packed away with all the tree ornaments down in the shed/garage.
DeleteA lovely collection. I am glad that we are (finally) starting to have more Australian cards.
ReplyDeleteElephant's Child; and the Aussie cards are much nicer than the first few that appeared years ago.
DeleteI love your Christmas cards, especially the first two. Santa needs some warmth and sunshine.
ReplyDeleteDo people really say, 'Fair dinkum?' It sounds such a friendly expression.
jabblog; Santa loves our sun and surf. "fair dinkum" used to be a lot more common back in the 40s 50s 60s, but it seems to be dying out, which I think is a shame.
DeleteSince it's not winter in your section of the globe it seems wrong to feature it on Christmas cards.
ReplyDeleteKathy G; that's why we have Santa surfing and barbecuing.
DeleteI like the snow-covered Tardis ;) and the last of the Austaralian CHristmas cards - the one with a car filled with animals - is a nice one too.
ReplyDeleteCharlotte; the snow covered tardis is a tree ornament, but I never hang it, just stand it on something. I like that last card too and I love the one with santa surfing.
DeleteI didn't send out Christmas card this year.
ReplyDeleteDora; I only gave cards to close family this year and sent to my sister and brother.
DeleteVery beautiful cards, River, this is Christmas.
ReplyDeleteI really like the one with Santa Claus together with the kangaroo. We here in the Northern Hemisphere have associated Christmas with snow. But there is another version of Christmas.
Take care, River, and have a good time!
Katerinas Blog; thank you, I'm glad you liked them.
DeleteI LOVE sitting in a t-shirt at Sami´s (who sent you the pirate bear) or on our porch in Madeley/Perth for Christmas, the huge Christmas Tree in CBD, and the red bow, the wonderful heat and at Meyers they have a Santa-poster where he´s at the beach.
ReplyDeleteWe once sung Christmas-songs at the Caravan park and there really were minced pies! And mossies, yes, thank you. I get homesick. 6C here, cloudy.
I had a customer from Emden, she said: "On Christmas Eve: Snow please. from 04p.m. to 9 p.m. only, though." Likely not to happen, yet I wish you a very Merry Christmas. Have an iced tea on me? Cheers.
Iris; lovely memories you have of those times which I hope you can have again. I would be more likely to sit inside with cool air coming from the air conditioner. Maybe. Sometimes I can sit in the heat and be comfortable. I used to make my own mince pies, dozens of them every year for friends and family, but now I have no space for rolling out pastry and for leaving the baked pies to cool down.
DeleteThanks for sharing these fun Xmas cards Elsie. Scenes of snowy villages, robins and suchlike are, in my humble opinion, very inappropriate in Australia and New Zealand. I am glad that some of your creative people have found better alternatives.
ReplyDeleteYorkshire Pudding; I am glad too, I like to see Santa relaxing in the surf and barbecuing on the beach like we Aussies sometimes do. Unless there is a total fire ban because of the heat, like today.
DeleteWell, it certainly makes sense that Christmas cards in Australia would feature palm trees and sunshine. How funny that they ever featured snow.
ReplyDeleteSyeve Reed; Australian origins are mostly British and snow is traditional there at Christmas, on cards and coffee mugs and other decorated dishes at least. So the theme carried on here for a couple of centuries and we can still buy cards like that, but more and more Australian themed ones are appearing and I really like them.
DeleteThese are wonderful! Yes, Santa is for everywhere, not just where it's cold.
ReplyDeletemessymimi; and here he gets to wear cooler summer clothes.
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