Ok but it’s a reindeer!!

I know. It seems way early to start thinking about Christmas. And I really do know as I am a total belligerent hater on all stores and advertisers who break out the Christmas displays in October. Do not dilute my Halloween creepiness  with your premature Christmas cheer you bastards!!! Even now that we’re officially well into November I feel like it’s too early to discuss Christmas. Eggnog lattes (of heaven) should not appear on menus until the day after Thanksgiving. Thanks.

That said, if you do anything other than pick up a pack of holiday cards at Target, you do have to start developing your Christmas postal plan early. So I feel like I’m within a reasonable time frame to talk about these supercute letterpress cards. First let me say how much I heart letterpress. If could afford it and could talk Beth into it I’d have one living on the dining room table. Since I don’t and couldn’t though, I have to find good letterpress from other designers and there is no shortage. I particularly love these reindeer cards from Smock Paper though. As you can see they do that thing I love: old design / new life. The vintage reindeer artwork looks just like a little velveteen 1960s one that used to sit on our dining table when I was a kid.  Ah Christmas. The perfect time for retro nostalgia.