Category: Christmas Cards

The Go-Go’s: Beauty and the Beat Towels and shaving cream made for an easier job for Jill in the costume department this year. (On the back: “Our gifts are sealed.”)  

Saturday Night Fever Soundtrack Apparently disco is back, but since it’s been about 45 years we added some album wear & tear to this year’s cover. The card’s reverse reads “Stayin’ alive this holiday season!”  

With Amelia at college this year it was a little trickier getting everyone together for a photo, so we split things up into twos to make it a little easier. (Or not, since really it was double the work…) The White Stripes: Elephant   Fleetwood Mac: Rumours

For this year we leaned into the social distancing theme and all went solo: MC Hammer: U Can’t Touch This   Britney Spears: …Baby One More Time   Taylor Swift: 1989   The Clash: London Calling   Beck: Odelay

Beastie Boys: Check Your Head Since there’s only 3 members we had to figure out a way to get a fourth person in the photo, and Jill as the guitar case ended up being my favorite part. Also, it should be noted that Jill is a wizard at low-fi costume design: she used masking tape …

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INXS: Kick For Kick we used the full fold-out album cover to get everybody (and the kids twice). Bad pun on the reverse side: “Need yule tonight.”      

Blondie: Parallel Lines “Enjoy your holidays, one way or another.”

The B-52s: Cosmic Thing “Make the whole shack shimmy this holiday season!” The reverse had photos from our trip to Italy captioned “Rome if you want to.”

Mötley Crüe: Shout at the Devil

The Mighty Mighty Bosstones: Don’t Know How to Party