{"id":22258,"date":"2025-12-18T12:44:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-18T17:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/?p=22258"},"modified":"2025-12-28T10:16:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T15:16:14","slug":"christmas-shopping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/2025\/12\/christmas-shopping\/","title":{"rendered":"Christmas “Shopping”"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Fourteen years ago I made a mix CD for my wife as a little stocking stuffer at Christmas time. Just a few of our favorite songs from that year to listen to while she’s in the car. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

I also know enough Photoshop to be dangerous, so I made a silly cover to go with it (she’s a big Beatles fan).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The following year, I kept it going, and what was initially just a gag gift became an annual tradition: Photoshopping her into a favorite album\u2019s artwork. I don\u2019t even make the mix CD anymore (we have no way to play it!), but every year she still gets a new cover.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These are a few of my favorites… I don’t aim for perfection, the quality varies a lot from year to year, but I will say that I am unreasonably<\/em> proud <\/em>of how the G N’ R Lies<\/a> cover turned out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Check back after Christmas for the 2025 edition!<\/s><\/p>\n\n\n\n

And here’s 2025!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Fourteen years ago I made a mix CD for my wife as a little stocking stuffer at Christmas time. Just a few of our favorite songs from that year to listen to while she’s in the car. I also know enough Photoshop to be dangerous, so I made a silly cover to go with it […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[25,268,174],"class_list":["post-22258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-christmas","tag-photoshop","tag-projects"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1G65p-5N0","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22258","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22258"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22258\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22336,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22258\/revisions\/22336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paulmaiorana.com\/notes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}