Christmas cards are a wonderful way to touch base with family and friends to let them know you are keeping them in your heart and mind this holiday season and all year long. SagArt offers you some of the most unique and beautiful Christmas Greeting Cards that will get your holiday message to everyone in grand style.

SagArt offers Premium Christmas Cards that make a lasting impression. Spread the merriment of the Christmas season with the best Christmas Greeting Cards from SagArt.

We have clothing sizes to fit adults to infants and a wide selection of color and styles for everyone.  Browse a wealth of gifts featuring tote bags, embroidered shirts, shoes, jackets, mugs and more! And if you don’t find what you’re looking for here, please visit SagArt Gifts Store featuring thousands of great Christmas gifts for your shopping pleasure.

I’m The Big Sister T-Shirt by CowPieCreek

All big sister’s love recognition and this adorable t-shirt will put a smile on any big sister’s face on Christmas morning. Big Sisters are special people and you can send that message with this Big Sister t-shirt this Christmas.

For the Love of Volleyball by stick_figures

Big boys, little boys, big girls, little girls will all flash a Christmas smile when they receive this For The Love Of Volleyball t-shirt. Grab it and stick it under the Christmas tree for all the Volleyball players and fans in your life.

Off Duty Beer Consumer by TeeShirtsTShirts

Off Duty Beer Consumer awesome design from TeeShirtsTShirts Collection tickle the funny bone of anyone who loves to get out there amongst them at that beer party with friends. Wrap it up and slide it under the Christmas tree as a wonderful gift for any man or woman.

Flute Player Music T-shirt by madconductor

If you play the flute and love chocolate, this is the gift you want under the Christmas tree for you on Christmas morning. It’s cute and it’s a one-of-a-kind design that will have all your friends in envy. Tell Santa to place this Flute Player Music t-shirt on his list for gifts you would love to get!

What Happens at Grandma’s STAYS at Grandma’s by MyGrandparentsRock

Alerting all Grandma’s! This is an adorable toddlers t-shirt that will garner much laughter from everyone. Let the world know that What Happens At Grandma’s Stays At Grandma’s by gifting your grandchild with this adorable and fun t-shirt.

The failing economy has drastically reduced the pool of buyers this season so large retailers are battling it out to grab the attention, and the few bucks that people are spending on holiday gifts this year. Email is flying all over the place warning people about purchasing gift certificates from retailers who may be closing their doors after the holidays. It’s a tragedy meets comedy scenario in full swing this season, from one end of the pendulum to the other.

Ole’ SagArt is going to get out there amongst em’ and witness the holiday buying frenzy up close and personal, real soon. You can bet I won’t be standing in those long checkout lines, or fighting folks for the latest blue-light special. Nope. I do most of my Christmas shopping online and am finding as many great values as those who are out there in the brick and mortar stores.

If you want to avoid the holiday madness, just check out our Union Eight shops as we carry great gifts for that special person on your shopping list. Y’all be good cause Santa is making his list!

Thar tain’t nuthin like a Redneck Christmas!

Christmas Graffiti T-shirt by christmas_tshirts

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Lowest Price of the Season Sales at Participating Union Eight Stores

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As the holiday gift-buying season revs up, SagArt has launched our 3-Day 2008 Holiday Sale, with discounts on all of our most popular in-stock t-shirts, jackets,shoes, tote bags, aprons, magnets, buttons, stickers and more.

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Whether you are looking for a gift for yourself or for a loved one, you will find it in our SagArt shops. Our sale is a way to show our appreciation for your support – Happy Holidays to our SagArt customers!

Grab some great holiday gifts at discounted prices for family and friends. Union Eight shopkeepers offer the finest quality gifts at reasonable prices, and many have lowered prices on their most popular apparel and gifts for your gift giving pleasure.

Union Eight shops also offer beautiful embroidered shirts, jackets, hoodies, tote bags and more for men and women. So grab your shopping list and find some of the greatest gifts that will be remembered at great discount prices.

If you are looking for high end, quality, one-of-a-kind designer gifts and apparel, visit one of our Union Eight Shops to find the perfect gift to place under that Christmas tree. Union Eight Shops are listed in the sidebar and below for your convenience and each offer unique gifts and apparel designed by some of the best artisans today! Happy holiday shopping and tell em’ SagArt sent ya’!

Lowest Price of the Season Sales at Participating Union Eight Stores

• 3-Day Sale At Small Potatoes Gallery – Nov. 17th – Nov. 19th
• 3-Day Sale At All SagArt Stores – Nov. 17th – Nov. 19th
• Sale At Stick Figures Gallery – Nov. 17th
• Sale At Toddlers Place – Nov. 18th
• Sale At Christmas Shop – Nov. 19th
• Sale At Cowpie Creek – Nov. 17th
• Sale At Stick People Store – Nov. 18th
• Sale At Veggie Shirts Store – Nov. 19th
• 3-Day Sale At TeeWit Baby Store – Nov. 17th – Nov. 19th
• 3-Day Sale At Tee Wit Maternity Store – Nov. 17th – Nov. 19th

Christmas Present

It was the day after Christmas at a church in San Francisco. The pastor of the church was looking over the cradle when he noticed that the baby Jesus was missing from among the figures. Immediately he turned and went outside and saw a little boy with a red wagon, and in the wagon was the figure of the little infant, Jesus.

So he walked up to the boy and said, “Well, where did you get Him, my fine friend?”

The little boy replied, “I got him from the church.”

“And why did you take him?”

The boy said, “Well, about a week before Christmas I prayed to the little Lord Jesus and I told him if he would bring me a red wagon for Christmas I would give him a ride around the block in it.”

The top 18 ways to confuse Santa Claus

1. Instead of milk and cookies, leave him a salad, and a note explaining that you think he could stand to lose a few pounds.

2. While he’s in the house, go find his sleigh and write him a speeding ticket.

3. Leave him a note, explaining that you’ve gone away for the holidays. Ask if he would mind watering your plants.

4. While he’s in the house, replace all his reindeer with exact replicas. Then wait and see what happens when he tries to get them to fly.

5. Keep an angry bull in your living room. If you think a bull goes crazy when he sees a little red cape, wait until he sees that big, red Santa suit!

6. Build an army of mean-looking snowmen on the roof, holding signs that say “We hate Christmas,” and “Go away Santa”

7. Leave a note by the telephone, telling Santa that Mrs. Claus called and wanted to remind him to pick up some milk and a loaf of bread on his way home.

8. Set a bear trap at the bottom of the chimney. Wait for Santa to get caught in it, and then explain that you’re sorry, but from a distance, he looked like a bear.

9. While he’s in the house, find the sleigh and sit in it. As soon as he comes back and sees you, tell him that he shouldn’t have missed that last payment, and take off.

10. Leave a plate filled with cookies and a glass of milk out, with a note that says, “For The Tooth Fairy.” Leave another plate out with half a stale cookie and a few drops of skim milk in a dirty glass with a note that says, “For Santa”

11. Take everything out of your house as if it’s just been robbed. When Santa arrives, show up dressed like a policeman and say, “Well, well. They always return to the scene of the crime.”

12. Leave out a copy of your Christmas list with last-minute changes and corrections.

13. While he’s in the house, cover the top of the chimney with barbed wire.

14. Leave lots of hunting trophies and guns out where Santa’s sure to see them. Go outside, yell, “Ooh! Look! A deer! And he’s got a red nose!” and fire a gun.

15. Leave Santa a note, explaining that you’ve moved. Include a map with unclear and hard-to-read directions to your new house.

16. Leave out a Santa suit, with a dry-cleaning bill.

17. Paint “hoof-prints” all over your face and clothes. While he’s in the house, go out on the roof. When he comes back up, act like you’ve been “trampled.” Threaten to sue.

18. Instead of ornaments, decorate your tree with Easter eggs. Dress up like the Easter Bunny. Wait for Santa to come and then say, “This neighborhood ain’t big enough for the both of us.”

• Tell your child about your pregnancy when you tell your friends. Your child needs to hear about it from you, not from someone else.
• If you plan to move your child to a new bed and/or bedroom, do so well before the baby arrives, so your older child doesn’t feel displaced by the baby. This also goes for any other major changes, like weaning, toilet training, and starting preschool or child care.
• Check with your hospital about sibling preparation classes and hospital tours.
• Bring your child to prenatal visits so they can meet your birth attendant.
• Give them a realistic idea of what to expect when the baby first arrives. You will be tired, and the baby will take lots of your time. The baby will not be able to do much at first, except eat, sleep, poop, pee and cry. The baby will not be a playmate.
• Visit friends with a new baby, if possible.
• Read books about pregnancy, birth, newborns, and baby siblings with your child (see below for some suggestions). Give them a chance to ask questions, voice concerns, and vent feelings inspired by the books.
• Look at pictures/video of your older child’s birth and babyhood. Tell them about their birth and what they were like as a baby. Tell them how excited you were when they were born, and how everyone wanted to see them and hold them.
• Have your child practice holding a doll and supporting the head. Teach them how to touch and hold a baby very gently.
• Let them participate in preparations in any way possible. Give them choices, such as choosing the baby’s coming home outfit from two acceptable options.
• Should your child be present for the baby’s birth? Many families have found this to be a very positive experience, but it is not necessarily right for every family. If you do decide to have your child at the birth, make sure you have an adult caregiver whose only job is to be there for the child. Prepare your child thoroughly, by watching videos of births with them, bringing them to midwife or OB appointments, and talking with them about what it may be like. It may be nice to give them a special, age-appropriate job, such as cutting the umbilical cord or putting on the hat.

World’s Most Adorable Baby
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Quotes About Baby

Making the decision to have a child is momentous. It is to decide forever to have your heart go walking around outside your body. ~Elizabeth Stone

Babies are such a nice way to start people. ~Don Herrold

A baby is an angel whose wings decrease as his legs increase. ~Author Unknown

It would seem that something which means poverty, disorder and violence every single day should be avoided entirely, but the desire to beget children is a natural urge. ~Phyllis Diller

Where did you come from, baby dear?
Out of the Everywhere and into here.
~George MacDonald, At the Back of the North Wind

Every child begins the world again…. ~Henry David Thoreau

Getting down on all fours and imitating a rhinoceros stops babies from crying. (Put an empty cigarette pack on your nose for a horn and make loud “snort” noises.) I don’t know why parents don’t do this more often. Usually it makes the kid laugh. Sometimes it sends him into shock. Either way it quiets him down. If you’re a parent, acting like a rhino has another advantage. Keep it up until the kid is a teenager and he definitely won’t have his friends hanging around your house all the time. ~P.J. O’Rourke

Always kiss your children goodnight – even if they’re already asleep. ~H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

It kills you to see them grow up. But I guess it would kill you quicker if they didn’t. ~Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams

It sometimes happens, even in the best of families, that a baby is born. This is not necessarily cause for alarm. The important thing is to keep your wits about you and borrow some money. ~Elinor Goulding Smith

Adam and Eve had many advantages, but the principal one was that they escaped teething. ~Mark Twain, Pudd’nhead Wilson, 1894

A soiled baby with a neglected nose cannot be conscientiously regarded as a thing of beauty. ~Mark Twain

The moment a child is born,
the mother is also born.
She never existed before.
The woman existed, but the mother, never.
A mother is something absolutely new.
~Rajneesh

There are three reasons for breast-feeding: the milk is always at the right temperature; it comes in attractive containers; and the cat can’t get it. ~Irena Chalmers

Families with babies and families without babies are sorry for each other. ~Ed Howe

…a little child, born yesterday,
A thing on mother’s milk and kisses fed…
~”Hymn to Mercury” (one of the Homeric Hymns), translated from Greek by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Children are one third of our population and all of our future. ~Select Panel for the Promotion of Child Health, 1981

Even when freshly washed and relieved of all obvious confections, children tend to be sticky. ~Fran Lebowitz

A crying baby is the best form of birth control. ~Carole Tabron

A baby is a blank cheque made payable to the human race. ~Barbara Christine Seifert

A baby is God’s opinion that the world should go on. ~Carl Sandburg

People who say they sleep like a baby usually don’t have one. ~Leo J. Burke

Before I got married I had six theories about bringing up children; now I have six children and no theories. ~John Wilmot

If nature had arranged that husbands and wives should have children alternatively, there would never be more than three in a family. ~Lawrence Housman

Babies are always more trouble than you thought – and more wonderful. ~Charles Osgood

Spread the diaper in the position of the diamond with you at bat. Then fold second base down to home and set the baby on the pitcher’s mound. Put first base and third together, bring up home plate and pin the three together. Of course, in case of rain, you gotta call the game and start all over again. ~Jimmy Piersal, on how to diaper a baby, 1968

If you were to open up a baby’s head – and I am not for a moment suggesting that you should – you would find nothing but an enormous drool gland. ~Dave Barry

Adoption is when a child grew in its mommy’s heart instead of her tummy. ~Author Unknown

I’m Cute, Mom’s Cute, and Dad’s Lucky!
by
teewitbaby

Why is it hard for an older child to adjust to a new baby?
There are many things that can contribute to a difficult adjustment:

• Research indicates that a child’s personality has the most effect on how they react to a new baby.
• Children with the closest relationships with their mothers show the most upset after the baby is born.
• Children with a close relationship with their father seem to adjust better.
• Your child’s developmental stage may affect how well they can share your attention. Often two-year-olds have lots of trouble getting used to a new baby, because their needs for time and closeness from their parents are still great.
• Stress on the family can make your older child’s adjustment harder.

To get a sense of how your older child might feel about the addition of the new baby, imagine this:
Imagine that your partner puts an arm around you and says, “Honey, I love you so much, and you’re so wonderful that I’ve decided to have another wife (or husband or partner) just like you.” When the new wife (or husband or partner) finally arrives, you see that (s)he’s very young and kind of cute. When the three of you are out together, people say hello to you politely, but exclaim ecstatically over the newcomer. “Isn’t (s)he adorable! Hello sweetheart… You are precious!” Then they turn to you and ask, “How do you like the new wife (or husband or partner)?”

How can I help my child adjust to the new baby once it’s here?

• Set aside special time for your older child. Each parent should spend some one-on-one with the older child every day. It’s amazing how much even just 10 minutes of uninterrupted one-on-one time can mean to your child (and help their behavior!). Let your child choose the activity, and you follow their lead.
• Listen—really listen—to how your child feels about the baby and the changes in your family. If they express negative feelings, acknowledge them. Help your child put their feelings into words. Never deny or discount your child’s feelings.
• Make sure it is very clear that absolutely no hurting is allowed. Give your child other ways to express bad or angry feelings they may have toward the baby. For example, they could draw an angry picture of the baby, or act out their wishes with dolls, or roar like a lion.
• “Baby” your child, if that’s what they seem to crave. This may help stave off regression in areas that are less acceptable to you. There is a tendency to suddenly expect your child to become more independent when you have a new baby. If you expect less independence, you are more likely to get more!
• Have the new baby and older child exchange gifts.
• Have some special “big brother” or “big sister” gifts to give your child as friends and relatives start showing up with baby gifts, so your older child won’t feel left out.
• Remind visitors to pay attention to your older child, and not just the baby.
• Make sure the older child has some special, private space, and things of their own that they don’t have to share with the baby.
• Give them special jobs that they can do to help the family and help with the baby’s care (but don’t overdo it—take your cue from your child on this).
• Let them participate in the baby’s care—baths, dressing, pushing the stroller, etc.
• Point out the benefits of being an older child, like choosing what to eat, being able to go the park and play, and having friends.

I Don’t Do Quiet
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teewitbaby

Information Provided By: University Of Michigan Health Systems

On one of my coffee queries, I found this site CoffeeReview that gives an overall rating of some of the best coffees in the world. I was in heaven, and soon discovered I have missed out on some of the best rated coffees. Tell me it ain’t so!

Some of the descriptions of the coffee rated there, will make your mouth water. Here’s some examples:

PT’s Coffee Roasting Co.
Sweet-toned, crisply balanced aroma: milk chocolate, cherryish fruit, a hint of freshly tanned leather. In the cup silky mouthfeel, bright acidity, distinct cocoa, orange and berry notes, dry yet lush. The flavor notes carry with depth, elegance and great persistence from short finish through long. Oh, I gotta get me some of that!

Property Of Senior
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Terrior Coffee
Richly and sweetly bright aroma with aromatic wood, peach-toned fruit and cocoa notes. In the cup quietly acidy, elegantly crisply sweet, deeply floral, with distinct peach-toned fruit and hints of cocoaish chocolate that carry into a long, flavor-glistening finish.

I don’t know who writes these coffee descriptions but … I think I’m in love!

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Coffee Klatch

Sweetly bright aroma, with tight-knit complexity: flowers, cocoa, honey, aromatic wood. In the cup lightly syrupy in mouthfeel, sweetly and lushly acidy but superbly balanced, with deep-toned night floral notes, orangy citrus and continued hints of cocoa and aromatic wood. Rich, flavor-saturated finish with a very slight astringency essentially lost in flowers.

Are we still talking about coffee? That description just transported me to a tropical isle filled with cocoa, honey, citrus and flowers. Nice trip. Think I’ll stay awhile.

Peace Love Poetry
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Johnson Brothers Coffee Roasters

Buttery aroma: nut, flowers, dry berry. Rich acidity, medium body. The elegantly pungent berry note cuppers call black currant dominates in the cup, but supported by a profound underlying sweetness that gives the berry a dark chocolate depth. Flowers revive in the fine, rich, flavor-saturated finish.

Don’t know about the rest of you, but I’ve just found what I want for Christmas. Great coffees and cool mugs to fight off the winter chill. Life just doesn’t get any better than that!