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I know I'm late in the game, but can anyone recommend a place in the city where I can get non-traditional holiday cards with a twist, preferably in the Union Square area?
... an artistic twist that is.
the MoMA store in SoHo has some good ones
That's what I was going to suggest ... I always look forward to the MoMA Christmas catalog for their great collection of funky Christmas cards.
Loving the ladder tree! My mom was a pretty creative lady and we often had "strange" Christmas trees when I was a kid. I remember one year she flocked an entire evergreen with that white stuff and did a candy cane theme, so all the ornaments were red, white, or red and white.
Another year she went out into the woods and cut down a little tree that had lost its leaves for the winter, so it was just sticks. She stuck it in a bucket of rocks to hold it up, and then decorated it with various hand made ornaments, including wrapping each little white light in white fiberfill of some sort.
Another year she made a conical tree out of chicken wire and stuffed each chicken wire square with small puffs of hot pink tissue paper, then she stuck some fake greenery here and there on the tree for a little color contrast. I always thought her tree ideas were nutty, but they all looked cool when she was done.
Wow .. sounds like one cool mom! ;-)
Ridge, my mom was indeed creative and cool. And I miss her every day. :(
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I know I'm late in the game, but can anyone recommend a place in the city where I can get non-traditional holiday cards with a twist, preferably in the Union Square area?
... an artistic twist that is.
the MoMA store in SoHo has some good ones
That's what I was going to suggest ... I always look forward to the MoMA Christmas catalog for their great collection of funky Christmas cards.
Loving the ladder tree! My mom was a pretty creative lady and we often had "strange" Christmas trees when I was a kid. I remember one year she flocked an entire evergreen with that white stuff and did a candy cane theme, so all the ornaments were red, white, or red and white.
Another year she went out into the woods and cut down a little tree that had lost its leaves for the winter, so it was just sticks. She stuck it in a bucket of rocks to hold it up, and then decorated it with various hand made ornaments, including wrapping each little white light in white fiberfill of some sort.
Another year she made a conical tree out of chicken wire and stuffed each chicken wire square with small puffs of hot pink tissue paper, then she stuck some fake greenery here and there on the tree for a little color contrast. I always thought her tree ideas were nutty, but they all looked cool when she was done.
Wow .. sounds like one cool mom! ;-)
Ridge, my mom was indeed creative and cool. And I miss her every day. :(