Hello Friends!
I am feeling the love at the moment, or more precisely my mailbox is feeling the love, and I just wanted to say thank-you to all the wonderful people who have sent me mail lately.
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| Postcard from Rohan, my semi-retired jungle-explorer friend (for real!) |
I love stamps, and I love post. Part of what makes stamps so special though, is that they adorn envelopes, which in turn promise to hold gems of correspondence. Hand-written personal notes. Ah, the warm and fuzzy feelings I get when I receive hand-written personal notes in my mailbox!
And I certainly felt very warm and fuzzy the other night, when I went to my special "I heart post" post box and found the following amazing card waiting for me, from Carla at 365 Letters; not least of all because this was my first piece of post directly from the blogosphere.
There are so many things that I love about the card, that I feel it warrants a list:
1) Check out the awesome vintage-ness of the colours, the rounded corners and the image. BRILLIANT.
2) This came from Carla's holiday in June 1980... and she labellled the back of the card with that information when she bought it. Swoon. I love a bit of historical record-keeping.
3) THE STAMPS ARE AMAZING (and worthy of an exclamation in capitals). Click on the image above to check them out properly. They are worth it.
4) Did I mention it was the first piece of mail from a random fellow blogger??
Yep, I am feeling all warm and fuzzy just looking over it again. Thank-you Carla, you made my day (slash week)!
My parents are travelling at the moment, and they sent me the above lovely postcard from Austria featuring a Gustav Klimt painting... and the Wiener Werkstätte logo on the reverse, with a very nice stamp indeed. And they also sent me a Swedish map postcard. Thank-you parents! Three of my favourite things!
The thing is, with this blog, I have been thinking alot about why I like post so much. The correspondence part is definitely an element. And with that in mind, I recently joined the Letter Writers Alliance, because, I feel like with all this banging on about post that I do, I really should be sending some!
And my membership card arrived in the mail last week... and the envelope was enough to make me happy (I am a girl of simple pleasures, it is true).
I can tell you that I do plan on using my "Letter Writers Alliance" membership/superpower for good and not evil. And they have a Latin motto: Plura Scriptum Epistola. I did a Latin major at university, and the only thing I really remember is "Draco dormiens nunquam titillandus". Yep. That is the Hogwarts motto. Never disturb a sleeping dragon. In muggle idiom that would be, "let sleeping dogs lie".
Anyhow, I am all for Latin mottos, and I am very happy to be part of an organisation that has one. So, Plura Scriptum Epistola. I am going to take this on as a personal motto forthwith; and I shall, I shall, write more letters. They probably won't be in Latin.
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| Thankyou Laura! |
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| Thankyou Sandra - a postcard AND stamps. Yippee! |
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| Thankyou Sandy |
Thankyou to all the lovely people that have sent me things in the post recently. I do so love post. xx
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| And last but not least, just in, vintage-post Post from Jaz! Yay! |
But no mail from Australia! We have some lovely stamps that have been issued recently....
ReplyDeleteLove that you love the card Helen. It's nice to see the post you are receiving. I hope you get a lot more.
ReplyDeleteI'm happy the postcard made it to you and that you enjoyed it. I understand what you mean about stamps and post going together. I blog about letter writing, but I often blog about stamps, too.
ReplyDeleteI love some of the stamps on Carlas postcard, especially the vase of flowers, the coffee pot and of course the elephants.
ReplyDeleteGlad you enjoyed the Klimpt postcard from Vienna. He too was a frenetic postcard writer, hence the opportunity was given to write postcards directly from the exhibition featuring his numerous postcards and landscape paintings at the Leopold Museum.