You Decorate Our Life

(Text copied from my livejournal, and image cleaned-up by Naryu--thanks so much, sweety! )

Well, there it is...our Christmas (aka "God Jul" in Norsk) card to all of you...to everyone whom my hubby Sayh and I--he pictured in plushie form and me larger than life--love, need, cherish, admire, respect, appreciate, think about, pray for, venerate and even worship (note the eggs painted with icons of St. Nicholas, the Virgin Mary and the Christ Child). It's for all our family, kids, pets, parish, soulsiblings, friends, fans, idols and aquaintances. I added as many of our friends' names--mainly their furry nicks--as I could fit (gleaned from our LJ friends lists, my DA and Sheezy watchlists, and Sayh's watchfor list on FM), and abbreviated as many names as I could in order to fit even more, and it still wasn't even one forth of them. I deeply apologize that I couldn't add them all, but you are all in our hearts and thoughts regardless. And so as not to play favorites, I randomly scattered our closest friends and soulsibs among those I don't know as well (but wish I did) as well as those I idolize who may or may not really know me in return.

(I may color this eventually; I'm not sure yet.) If you can't find your name or initials, then try looking at the large version: http://swandogstudio.com/youdecorateourlife_lg.jpg, or just ask me and I'll tell you if it's on there or not, but I don't want to just post the full list of names because I don't want anyone to feel left out (it was heartwrenching for me to try to choose only a certain number of names from all the ones I had). Anyway, I hope you all like it and understand now just how much you truly mean to us, even if we don't often get the chance to say so, comment, chat or spend as much time with you all as we'd like (there's just not enough time in the day...not when you have kids, work and housechores too). Forgive us for that...and please know that, in spite of our differences of opinion, religion, politics and worldviews, you all decorate our life anyway just be being our friends. :)

*wingsnugs and loves all of you*
Swan & Sayh