A Joke For the Valentine's Day

A guy walks into a post office one day to see a middle-aged, balding man standing at the counter methodically placing "Love" stamps on bright pink envelopes with hearts all over them.

He then takes out a perfume bottle and starts spraying scent all over them.

His curiosity getting the better of him, he goes up to the balding man and asks him what he is doing. The man says "I'm sending out 1,000 Valentine cards signed, 'Guess who?'"

"But why?" asks the man.

"I'm a divorce lawyer," the man replies.

Politically correct Valentine card

Created by Jon Gledstone, 26, of Hertford, Herts, here is a PC version of a Valentine card message that should not offend anyone, except those without a sense of humor:-)

"Please accept with no obligation my nonsexually harassing, potentially platonic Valentine’s regards as a token of my/our love, lust or friendship within a relationship that we may or may not choose to be monogamous, whilst understanding that the romantic sentiment that it signifies does in no way guarantee the success or progression of the said relationship over any length of time. The sender reserves the right to remain anonymous."

A Box To Hold Valentines

With the Valentine's Day coming up, Kathy Antoniotti from Beacon Journal wrote an article on how to create a container to hold valentines from your well-wishers in Sweetheart of a box for cards.

Creating a box to hold your valentines can be as easy or difficult as you choose. To make one like this, cover a cardboard box with scrapbook paper and decorate it with stickers. My decorations might not appeal to all children, but the instructions can be used with any design you prefer...

Texting or Cards for Valentine's Day?

Will you text your Valentine's well-wishing to your love ones or will you continue to use cards? The Salford University engineering Professor Nigel Linge is running a online Valentine’s card survey to find out just that. Click here to read the article.

Cast your vote at valentinesdaysurvey.co.uk.

Paper cards vs ecards

According to An e-card for Valentine's Day? Honestly, you shouldn't have, ecards and paper cards are not the same.

Cedric Chin-Yick won't soon forget the year he sent his wife an e-card for her
birthday. She made her disapproval quite clear.

“She prefers the hard copy. It's substantial. It's a material thing,” Mr. Chin-Yick, 44, said Tuesday as he fought the crowds shopping for Valentine's Day at a Carlton Cards store in downtown Toronto. But he noted that he'll back up the paper card with an electronic one.

Despite dire predictions a decade ago that e-cards would lead to the demise of the traditional card business, the two have found a happy co-existence. While Valentine's Day is the busiest day of the year for electronic cards, many shoppers wouldn't think of sending their sweetheart an online greeting.

“It certainly has not ended the card business,” said Sally Babcock, general manager of americangreetings.com, whose parent company also operates Carlton Cards stores. “What we see is that people send e-cards to different people than they're sending paper cards to. They also supplement their card-sending with an e-card.”

However, there are many reasons to use ecards.

Artistic, animated ecards can express your sentiments that may be difficult to do through words only. Sometimes a picture, a video or an animation is worth more than a thousand words.

"Of the many, many ways to express loving feelings, the Japanese red crowned cranes' dance and the graceful movements of trumpeter swans are among the most beautiful." - About.com"

Ecards are environment friendly.

For the friends, coworkers, and business contacts that you don't generally send paper cards, you can send ecards to keep in touch.

In the countries where the post mail is not reliable, the ecards get there on time.

You can save time and money on the paper cards and postage. No more trips to the store to pick out cards and waiting in line at the post office.

Are men afraid of greeting cards?

According to Lisa Earle McLeod of www.forgetperfect.com in her Greeting card paralysis reaches all time high, the answer is a definitely yes!

It's no coincidence that as the more verbose half of the species, women buy and send more cards than men do. According to Hallmark's research, 82 percent of all greeting cards are purchased by women.

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Women believe that if a guy really loves you, he'll choose a card that expresses the subtle nuances of his innermost thoughts and yearnings, creatively set to rhyme and emblazoned with meaningful graphics.

And woe unto the man who thinks that a simple "Happy Valentine's Day" is enough. Unless it's scribbled on the bottom of first-class plane tickets to Paris or etched on the key ring of a Lexus, most women think that it takes more than three words to express true love.

But there are hopes.

If you're a man, the card aisle often feels like a paper minefield of potentially hazardous female emotions. But don't let fear or insecurity stand in the way of slaying the Valentine dragon. All most women really want is for you to tell her that you love her with your heart and soul.

And if you're a woman and the words on his card aren't quite right, remember they were written by a hired hack in a cube at Hallmark. But the act of braving a store and buying it for you were courageously undertaken by the nervous man clutching the paper heart.

"Good Friends" ecard released

We have been hard at work and have just added one new card ‘Good Friends’ to our selection. In addition, ‘Trumpeter Swans’ and ‘Tulip’ were also released a few weeks ago. So if you are looking for the perfect Valentine’s Day card to send, you now have a selection of four cards on our site:

‘Good Friends’ is suitable for Valentine’s Day and other occasions for both good friends as well as the love of your life – who is probably also your best friend. Slightly comical, it still aims to be sincere and thoughtful.

Good Friends
http://www.ojolie.com/index.php?step=preview&ec_id=14

Trumpeter Swans
http://www.ojolie.com/index.php?step=preview&ec_id=12

Tulip
http://www.ojolie.com/index.php?step=preview&ec_id=13

Love Dance
http://www.ojolie.com/index.php?step=preview&ec_id=1

New ecards for Valentine's day

We have added two new cards in anticipation of spring, Valentines, Easter, Mother's Day and many of the other occasions that the new year will bring.

One card features the graceful moves of North America’s largest birds, Trumpeter Swans, to a very moving musical score that is one of my personal favorites.

The other card is an art nouveau inspired composition of tulips, perfect really for any of the above mentioned occasions. In fact either of these cards will suit a wide range of occasions. Enjoy!

Trumpeter Swans
http://www.ojolie.com/index.php?step=preview&ec_id=12

Tulips
http://www.ojolie.com/index.php?step=preview&ec_id=13

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