On the tenth day of Christmas, my true love gave to me: Ten ornaments, nine blinking lights, eight nuns a-running, seven ladybugs, six nesting envelopes, FIVE RAUCOUS MUSICIANS … four flopping fish, three stacked sheep, two Tarzans, and a peacock in a pine tree.

Jill Sheedy Christmas card to James Mullen, 2000. James Mullen Christmas card collection, Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution.