I finally got around to opening my mail of the past two months today, after spending several weeks in November and December away, and bringing home a nasty cold upon my return after the New Year. So lots of thank you's to be posted, not only for holiday mail, but that's what I will start with. Holiday includes some late Halloween thanks! :D

/u/birdiebennett - Thank you for the cute handmade Halloween card and the stickers! I feel you with the mandarin oranges. We don't have Halloween Trick & Treat here but a similar tradition where children go to people's houses in costumes and get treats for it, and I was always annoyed when it wasn't chocolate, too :)

/u/layleez - Thank you for the pumpkin Halloween card and the stickers! I love the sloths :D

/u/thecaledonianrose - Thank you for the Halloween postcard!

/u/bluedecemberart - Thank you for the Holiday card and the stickers! 2023 sounds like it will be exciting for you, I am crossing my fingers that everything will go smoothly with the website!

/u/monetmonkey - Thank you for the great peacock Holiday card, it's stunning!! It was indeed the perfect pick, I love everything about it! Peacocks are so beautiful, teal is always very appreciated :) :) and the washi tape being stickers is so cool, that's a first for me!

/u/dpclamavi - Thank you for the Christmas card! Your plans sound lovely, how was the day? My holidays were ok. We travelled to my husband's family again. I wish there had been snow, but no such luck...!

/u/residentcomposer1939 - Thank you for the Christmas card! Christmas sweets are one of the best parts about the holidays for me, too. :) How was the decorating meeting with your friend? My favourite Christmas sweet is probably speculoo with lots of butter and almonds, with the famous German Dominosteine following close up!

/u/libertyprogrammer - Thank you for the Christmas card and the stickers! My family always gets together on the 24th - that's the main holiday here in Germany - for dinner; my mum roasts a goose, my husband does the starters, I'm making handmade dumplings and the side dish, my sister brings dessert and my aunt the wine! This year though we had to travel to my husband's family so everything was different.

/u/samswizzle - Thank you for the cute kitten Christmas card and the stickers!

/u/56thorns - Thank you for the cute gnomtastic Christmas card and the extras! I truly enjoy our talks too, it helped me a lot to get through the time!

/u/ribeyecut - Thank you for the ballony Holiday card! :D My crafting room is still the same, lol. Just with even more stuff in it now! We have so many rooms that we want to redo, it's probably easier to list which one we are happy with. We're halfway through with our office, and instead of finishing it, we've now started turning one of the basement rooms into a bit of a home gym (for the New Year's resolution of getting fitter, haha). Backing up my files and digital life, yeah that's a topic here too. I've got a weekly backup from my whole computer that is supposed to upload to Google drive scheduled (because natural disasters are my biggest worry on that end, too!) but to be honest, I'm not entirely sure it works. It does sync my important files though (including my carding designs and all the assets, these definitely fall into the very important category! :) ) so at least there is that.

/u/tigerlady13 - Thank you for the Holiday card and all the extras! I love your Holiday tradition, it's something I have been wishing to do for years now, too, but parts of my family would not be happy to having "non family" around. The biological family is getting smaller and smaller though, so the year will come when I can finally introduce that! We traditionally get together at my husband's & my place on the 24th, the main holiday here in Germany, for dinner and then presents, but this year we travelled to see his family in his home country.

/u/nyancatnova - Thank you for the absolutely adorable Christmas card and the extras, I love it so much! Cute little critter - check, glitter and glimmer - check, that's the perfect card for me :) Ohhh, my garden... it's pure sadness, really. Still just bare earth (well and newly grown weeds because they don't care it is supposed to be winter here!). We don't even have the fence yet, and the landscapers haven't replied to my last email. I just hope they didn't decide to ditch us half way into the project and are ghosting us now, too...

/u/wabisabi_sf - Thank you for the Holiday card! I hope your 2023 is great, too :)

/u/lonelytwatwaffle - Thank you for the Christmas card and the extras, and the explanation of how Jackson Klein's name came to be :) Ohhh and congratulations!!! So many positive things happening, I am truly happy for you. 't was about time!!!

/u/tinawebmom - Thank you for the Christmas card! :)

/u/hexagonalrainbow x2 - Thank you for the Holiday cards, they are beautiful! Oh my, I didn't want to scare you with the cat, I didn't even know that there could be a medical reason. Have you already been to the vet? I hope it's nothing serious, but simply Puss-in-Boots syndrome :D I have more mail from you that I want to send return mail for and it also still needs its thank you here, but that is in the next card stack I'll tackle sooooon....ish!

/u/new_year_baby - Thank you for the cute Holiday card!

/u/cookalot - Thank you for the pretty Holiday card and the extras!

/u/nutriyum - Thank you for the woofly Christmas card and the stickers, how adorable is that! Your Christmas memory sounds wonderful, that is so cool that your parents organised that for you! I can totally see how that is your favourite Christmas memory :)