A recipe for fun

Ingredients:

2 business partners, slightly addled

1 great holiday card concept

1 bottle of wine (not cooking wine, s'il vous plait)

10 sheets of notebook paper, to be used for sketches by a decidedly untalented sketch artist (ie, yours truly)

4 sheets of drawing paper, to be used for sketches by an artist who can actually .... draw (that would be our talented illustrator Anthony)

2–5 hours in InDesign, depending on who's using the program (considerable time is saved if this is Erin and not me)

4 lines of whimsical, slightly irreverent copy

1 hour of focused proofreading (optional, but highly recommended)

Liberal use of the color pink, as garnish

Directions:

Combine business partners, holiday card concept, and bottle of wine; mix well. Add irreverent copy and sketching paper. Remove sketches by Jen; insert sketches by Anthony. Garnish with a healthy dose of the color pink and complete the process with a highly focused round of proofreading (Note: this step particularly useful if amount of wine added to the recipe is increased.) Send cards to printer; await delivery with bated breath.

Yield: 250 amazing holiday cards

And folks, they're in the mail now! Check your mailboxes this week for some holiday cheer, as only we can provide. (Yes, we will eventually post pictures of our cards, but not until they've been received and thoroughly drooled over by our fans. There's no way we're spoiling the fun here!)

And to compound the holiday cheer, this afternoon the principals of Crazy Savvy will find themselves in the kitchen, whipping up delicious confections for our most beloved clients and vendors. As anyone who knows me well can attest, this would have been a highly frightening proposition a year ago .... but my cooking skills have rather improved since then. My eating-cookie-dough skills, though, remain unparalleled. Mmmmmmmm .....

On an unrelated but equally tasty note, today's postcard comes to us all the way from the Czech Republic! Our literary postcard (thankfully featuring Kafka himself and not, say, a cockroach ... ) arrives from Prague, city of gorgeous buildings, music, and really good beer. Thanks, Jen & Scott!