Now’s the time. To get your cards delivered, addressed and received by your loved ones before Dec. 25, this weekend is the latest you can order from Photo Card Cafe’ for us to assure that you will receive them. And believe me, we want you to receive your photo Christmas cards on time, or you won’t love us anymore. *sigh*

Tell me: What’s up with people who are already done with their Christmas shopping? Is there something wrong with them in the brain?

Happy Turkey Day to all!

If you haven’t ordered your holiday photo cards yet, Black Friday is the day to do it. Photo Card Cafe’ is offering FREE SHIPPING and 15% off this Friday only with discount code FRISALE28NOV.

So, say it in your head … Friday, Friday, Friday, Photo Card Cafe’, Friday, Christmas cards. Got it?

It’s the holidays. There, I said it. Of course, the only reason I know it’s the holidays is because of retail TV ads. They’re the ones who decide, right? And I can say that, because I’m one of those crazy retailers here at Photo Card Cafe’.

But seriously … I’ve learned to embrace the fact that the holiday season comes earlier and earlier every year. And, why not? Don’t the holidays add a little extra cheer to the everyday, mundane tasks we go through. I just totaled my car, our server is down, the dog threw up four times on the carpet, but who cares! It’s Christmas! I’m going to get through it with my hot cocoa and 200th time watching Christmas Vacation. Deck the halls!

And of course, as the VP of a card company, Christmas can’t come soon enough. Photo Card Cafe’ has some extraordinary new photo Christmas card designs for 2008. Our Hanukkah photo cards are brand new this year as well, and will certainly impress the pants off of your friends and relatives.

So go ahead. Indulge your self early this holiday season, and order soon from PhotoCardCafe.com. While you’re at it, save TEN PERCENT when you order on or before Thanksgiving day. Use this code at checkout: EARLYSANTAPCC11 and order your photo holiday cards today!

And when I say “we’re,” I mean Photo Card Café. And when I say “pretty,” I mean check out our new site design at www.PhotoCardCafe.com. After several renditions and decisions on how to best serve our customers, here’s what we’ve come up with. It’s bright, fun and easy to use. We’re still the same awesome PCC as before with new Halloween party invitations, holiday photo cards and wedding announcements … just with a facelift. A nice facelift. More like Botox.We’re pretty proud of it.

… when it’s still 100 degrees in Texas?

Isn’t that what we all do as parents, lovingly of course? My son is not a big complainer, nor does he sweat a lot, but when it comes to forcing a hot monkey costume on him to RUN AROUND IN OUTSIDE, he’s only raring to go for about 15 minutes. All you need is the picture, that one picture that will fool everyone as to how much fun he had FOREVER, and then the costume can come off. Whew.

With that one picture, you can create an array of super cute photo Halloween cards from Photo Card Café. Halloween greeting cards are a unique way to show off your costumes, your kids’ costumes or even your pets’ costumes in a more personal way. Sending pics over email is just not as fun as opening up a card from Photo Card Café!

So come on. Personalize and preview your photos on PhotoCardCafe.com, order our affordable photo cards and preserve the 15 minutes of cuteness forever. Happy Halloween!

Not that we like to brag … Who am I kidding? This whole blog is about us bragging on ourselves.

We’ve just completed a few new, fabulous photo birth announcements and wedding announcements/save the dates that I must say, are super elegant and modern. We try to keep everything up to date here at Photo Card Cafe’, so keep checking back.

Seriously, check back. People are already asking about photo Christmas cards (of which we have WAY more). You wouldn’t think we’d have to start preparing in July for Christmas. But oh yes, it’s true. We value our highly organized and motivated customers!

No, I’m not really “hot” like good looking. Whatever, conceded. I mean that I’M pretty hot down here in Texas. Especially Austin, Texas - where I live. Between the hours of 11:00 and 7:00 p.m., you cannot walk out your door without breaking into a full sweat. The only way to have fun outside in a Texas summer is in the water. Therefore, my son and I have spent about every other day in the sprinkler or the pool. Which is fine with me, so that I don’t have the “whiteness factor” like I had last summer. Now people don’t have to shield their eyes anymore.

Now with summertime and pools ALWAYS comes a party. Some of my fondest childhood memories come from July 4th parties. (Junior high pool parties bring the most vivid, often mortifying memories, but we won’t go there.) Check out some of Photo Card Cafe’s amazing Fourth of July party invitations for you or your child’s summer gathering. They’re affordable, unique, and pretty much the cutest invitations on the Web. I’m not biased.

PCC also has some swanky kids party invitations that would go well for any occasion. Keep checking back for more designs!

Okay, maybe not ON you, but at least to your refrigerator. Photo Card Cafe’ has turned our magnets back on for purchase. With a new and improved magnet material and color correction, our photo birth announcement magnets, save the date magnets and other photo magnets will stare your recipients right in the face every time they go to the freezer for some ice cream. They won’t forget your special day if it’s associated with eating, at least in my experience.

So, make your photo baby announcement “magnetized” today!

This might be random, but Photo Card Cafe’ is up on Dooce.com as a text ad for the next week. Check us out!

Also, the author of Dooce, Heather Armstrong, will be on The Today Show tomorrow morning. Be sure and watch around 9:30 a.m. CST to see one of my fave bloggers!

by Sara Hejl, CMO, Photo Card Cafe’

As I sit here eating my weight in pistachios (don’t ask me why, they are just tasty), I’m reading a lot online about birth announcement etiquette - how many you should send out, who you should send them out to, how long is too long to wait and send them out, etc. I really cannot come to any conclusions on this, except that if your son or daughter is over two, it’s probably too late.

So, does anyone out there who reads this have any opinions/beefs/suggestions on the topic? We’d love to hear it. Please comment. Anyone?

While you’re at it, take a look at our new photo baby announcements. Super cute.