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Happy Holidays to all our wonderful customers! Every year we go to the Cheesecake Factory for our holiday luncheon. As we ate and ate, we expressed our gratitude for each and everyone one of you – our wonderful customers. We appreciate all your support and emails.

We had a great time making the Christmas ecards this year. We are very happy to see they are filling the inboxes of your family and friends. My favorite holiday ecard is the Gingerbread Chorus ecard. My three year old loves it. We have lots of new cards to make in 2010 and we look forward to the opportunity to make your friends and family smile.

P.S. I strongly recommend Adam’s Peanut Butter Cup Fudge Ripple Cheesecake!

We wish all of you a joy and peace filled holiday and if that is not possible, at least some really good chocolate!

Love,

The Doozy Staff

picture one:
Top Row: Bennett and Mukti
Bottom Row: Chris and Chandler

picture two:
Mukti and Bob

Send our adorable new Hanukkah Ecard.  

It’s called Hanukkah Munchies Ecard and it’s about a cute mouse munching his way through Hanukkah!  It really makes me hungry to see all the mouth-watering pictures of delicious Hanukkah food.  We have another Hanukkah ecard currently in production to help you support and show friends how much you appreciate them during this time.  Check back in the next day to send our Hanukkah Friendship Appreciation Ecard.

Celebrate Hanukkah today with Hanukkah ecards!

Once you’ve signed-in from the DoozyCards home page, click on “Address Book” in orange on the top of the page.  Click on “Addressbook Import” on the top right of the next page.   To import your address book from Yahoo!, Gmail, MSN, Hotmail or AOL, enter your account name and password in the form, and we will import the information into your addressbook.

You may not have known about, you can make custom cards on our site! From the home page, click on “Talking E-Cards” in the left pane.  You can type-in the personalization box what you want the talking e-card character to say and choose default or alternate voice. This is great for including inside jokes and personalized memories in your cards to your loved ones.

Raj’s Hanukah song and Raj’s Family Hanukah e-cards are examples of the beauty of different religions and cultures in the same card. Raj, an elephant from India, plays his sitar but not the song you’d normally think. He’s serenading everyone who loves Hanukah and is celebrating it this year!

It’s so easy to get caught up in the frenzy of Christmas and forget that being grateful for the friends and family  in our lives is the heart of the Christmas spirit.  Take some time to let friends know how much you appreciate them.  We have lots of Christmas email cards in production.

Our new Christmas email card is up-and-running for you to send to your loved ones.  The fairy and the Gingerbread Man tells the adorable story of two miniature-sized creatures finding love with one another.  For anyone who likes The Nutcracker, you’ll love the music in this Christmas email card.

our classic Christmas email card, Tap Dancing Reindeer is once again very popular.  We’re not sure if it’s magic or simply their fancy footwork, but these reindeer are making miracles happen all the way from your chimney to your stockings!

We’ve got many other Christmas email cards in production, so stay tuned! The famous cartoonist, Leigh Rubin has quite a few Rubes up his sleeve that we can’t wait for you to see!

Customers are gobbling-up the new “Eat me for Thanksgiving” ecard. Feast your eyes on our latest Thanksgiving ecard:

Peter, Bennett’s friend from college, took a break from his job at Sesame Street to compose and sing this song.  Watch-out, it’s catchy because his Bing Crosby-style voice and funny melodious lyrics will stick in your head. We’ve been singing it for weeks.

Caroline, one of our animators, designed the heart-tugging “Hungry Puppy” Thanksgiving ecard. It’s part Doozy, part Norman Rockwell.

We also made the new Thanksgiving ecards, “Thanksgiving Smiles” ecard and “Thinking of You” ecard. These beautiful photo cards are made by our French Canadian office-mate, Mukti. These are the perfect sentimental Thanksgiving ecards to send to dear family and friends close by and across the miles.

We also made two gassy Thanksgiving ecards. Our Thanksgiving ecard “Farting Turkey” was extremely popular, so we had to give you more. Not to mention my three boys go bananas for them. We’re semi-proud to introduce “Pilgrim Fart” and “Acorn Fall.”

Here’s a question for all of our loyal Doozy blog readers. What is a traditional Thanksgiving dinner plate across the miles? No matter if you live in L.A., Tennessee, Maine, or Chicago, what dish is served uniformly? We here at the Doozy office decided creamed onions was something served in all of our various homes. Please post your votes! Or send a Thanksgiving ecard telling someone your favorite dish.

Something funny about living in L.A., even though we’re originally from the South, is how our traditional dishes come here and get turned upside-down. Take red velvet cake, for example; started in the South when it arrived here, they made all kinds of variations like red velvet carrot cake. Be on the look-out for other mutant variations. We foresee coconut pumpkin pie, creamed onions and kale, and cranberry agave sauce on the rise!

No matter what dish your family enjoys, we have a wide selection of Thanksgiving ecards for premier and free trial members.

Check-out our Talking Turkey Thanksgiving ecard. Type what you want Mr. Turkey to say, and he’ll verbalize it to your ecard recipient from his Thanksgiving table stage!

This Fall, the three kids and I are focusing on the little things: raking the leaves, staring at the autumn stars in the sky, and taking brisk walks in the neighborhood. Filled with such holiday spirit, we like to reach-out to grandma and grandpa with a Doozy Thanksgiving ecard. Our favorite right now is our new heartfelt Thinking of You Thanksgiving ecard.

The kids love the sillier Thanksgiving ecards.  My three year-old, Cooper loves Pilgrim Pups:
Our kids love the dogs, so we wanted to make a Thanksgivng ecard with dogs teaching about Plymouth Rock.  Bennett used SFX inspired by the old Hanna-Barbera cartoons.  We have lots of Thanksgiving ecards currently in production.  We can’t wait for you to see our new Thanksgiving ecard  production.  In the meantime,  happy shopping and Thanksgiving preparations!

I made a pumpkin pie with my 12-year old son and his two little girl friends last week. The experience was less about the baking and more about the joys of pre-adolescent hormones. There was nonstop giggling the whole time.  It is the first sign that my little boy is growing-up - that he now enjoys the presence of girls!

During breaks within the flirtations, we made Paula Deen’s pumpkin pie recipe.   This turned out really well. The secret weapon here is ginger.

I am so grateful for family and friends during this time of year, and it makes me want to loved ones from miles away.  I send Thanksgiving emails to grandparents, cousins, college friends, etc.  Doozycards’s  free thanksgiving ecards are great for  those taking advantage of our special free ecard trial offer.  This year we have lots of new Thanksgiving ecards in production.  My favorite Thanksgiving ecard is Thanksgiving Golden Retrievers.

Aren’t they so cute!! This has been a popular Thanksgivng ecard on our site.  Bennett and I love golden retrievers.  We hope your pets will be invited to your Thanksgiving dinner table!  In the meantime, have fun baking your pumpkin pies and sending Thanksgiving ecards.

This year, the new summer vacation happens at home. Here are some ideas how to make your money saving stay-cation as fun as a trip to Aruba. Tap into your inner vacationer and enjoy the trip.

1. Put a lei on yourself and the dog.

2. Set up a Buffet table in the living room: use a white table cloth and then set out pastries, fresh fruit served in half a carved out watermelon. Have coffee, mimosas and a newspaper (subscribe for the “Aruba Today” newspaper to be delivered to your home).

3. Play Calypso steel drum music and open the doors for a breeze (or just blast the air conditioner).

4. Put colorful drink umbrellas in blended drinks, your hair, the kids’ sandwiches. Also an excellent choice for poking anyone who isn’t taking the stay-cation seriously.

5. Create an outdoor bar with a bowl of nuts and iced drinks in a blender. Remember to set out a tip jar (more savings for you!)

6. Visit your newly created in-home spa: put Eucalyptus oil on a warm, wet hand towel, recline in a dark room and put place the towel on your face for deep breathing.

7. Grab a blended drink (you see the emphasis on tropical blended drinks here; it helps the illusion) and recline on a chaise lounge with a good, non-serious book. If you’re looking for an easy read with a witty female narrator I suggest Any Place I Hang My Hat by Susan Isaacs.

8. Take a yoga class in your living room. Order yoga videos from Netflix or video store.

9. Place gourmet chocolates and fresh cut flowers on your pillows (then put the box under the pillow so you can eat them all)

10. Send summer e-cards to local friends and family letting them know how much you are enjoying your stay-cation. “Wish you were here!”

Bon Voyage!