Every year growing up, on the 22nd day of December we would listen to The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens on our car ride to school. Once I moved off to college, this tradition died out for me, but my mom still follows it religiously. So, today, you get a picture of her Christmas card to me. It's one that she made herself (if you didn't know, she's an amazing mixed-media artist). She took Christmas cards dating from 1906-1912 that were sent to her grandparents when they were homesteading in Texas and created a wonderful collage called A Jolly Old Elf. This was then turned into her Christmas card. If you want to see more of her awesome art, check out her blog here: Altered by the Sea.
Here's a technology time line - "Pickwick's Christmas" started out as a 33rpm album that I copied onto a cassette tape (which is the one we listened to all those years in the car) and just this year I used a tape coverter to make an mp3 file out of it on my computer - I wonder what Dickens would think?
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