Month of Letters Redux: Day 28

Finally, the last day of the Month of Letters! To some people, it might seem trivial to write a postcard, but this actually takes some time, especially if you’re going to be writing different messages to everyone. Anyways, here we go: the first postcard of this last batch is a postcard from Nashville that’s going to someone in Finland. The purpose of this particular tag is to send older postcards and on top of that, the recipient had requested envelopes that were made from scrap paper. So I made an envelope using leftover Christmas card stock. The second postcard is going to someone within the US who wanted a snow postcard so I chose a photograph from Antarctica. And the final postcard is going to another person in the US–there is no decoration on this one because the point of this postcard tag is to cram in as much writing as you can into the postcard (which you cannot see here because the postcard police frown upon showing backsides of postcards in general). And why did I choose William Blake? Well, the recipient wanted postcards that no one else likes and while I don’t dislike this postcard, I know it would be very difficult to send to most other postcard enthusiasts who only like tourist cards or cat cards.

Month of Letters Redux: Day 23

Well, with the way things are going on in the world, I’m not sure if the first postcard will reach its recipient in the Ukraine, but here’s hoping. I chose a bookstore postcard since the recipient said they liked books. The second postcard is a meetup card going to someone in Finland who collects meetup cards. And the third is a Beauty and the Beast background going to a Disney fan in Belarus.

Month of Letters Redux: Day 22

The first postcard in this batch is going to someone in Taiwan who wanted scenery postcards. This one is a picture of one of Yellowstone’s iconic hot spring pools–it’s part of a set of postcards that are photographs from various iconic national parks. The second postcard is of the Great Sand Dunes National Park and it is going to someone in the Netherlands who mentioned they liked travel but they also wanted their postcard in an envelope. And the third postcard is going to a person in France who wanted humorous postcards. Hopefully they like peas.

Month of Letters Redux: Day 21

The recipient of the first postcard asked for boring postcards, so I chose something that I think most people would consider boring–a repeating pattern in one color. I did manage to color coordinate it, though. It’s going to Germany. The second postcard is part of the postcard collection “World’s Greatest Bookstores” and it’s going to someone in Russia who enjoys books. And the third postcard is a photograph of a mountain lion going to someone in Japan who likes cat postcards. I didn’t choose any of my other cute cat postcards because all of them were from Japan. It just seems weird to send Japanese postcards to Japan (just as I think it is weird when people from other countries send San Francisco postcards to me).

Month of Letters Redux: Day 20

I’ve been trying to get rid of all of my Harry Potter postcards and the first one on this post is the last one that I have in color–it’s going to a Harry Potter fan in Canada. It’s fine that other people are fans of it, but I’m not and I hope no one decides to send me anything related to it in the future because I’m not going to appreciate it the same way that someone who is a fan will. The second postcard is going to someone in Taiwan who is a fan of art nouveau. Yes, I know this isn’t exactly art nouveau. It’s actually in the Sachplakat art style which is actually a reaction against art nouveau. We’ll see if the recipient can spot the difference. And the third postcard is a historical black and white photograph going to someone in Ireland who wanted black and white photographs of buildings. I didn’t decorate this postcard because I got the sense that the recipient is probably someone who may be a bit old school when it comes to postcard aesthetics.

Month of Letters Redux: Day 19

Just briefly, the first postcard is going to someone in Germany who is a fan of Alice in Wonderland. And the next two mailing items are birthday cards, one going to Australia and the other to within the US.

Month of Letters Redux: Day 18

Well, after a long while of getting normal profiles, I finally pulled up someone who was pretending to be a cat. I like cats (and I even live with one), but I’m not sure what the point of this is. I mean, sure, they want to be cute and funny but I guess I’m not in the mood for it right now. So I chose a postcard with a cat on it and wrote it like I was writing to a person although it’s sort of vague so if you want to interpret it as if I wrote it to a cat, I suppose you could. It’s going to Singapore. The second postcard depicts a scene from the development of Big Hero 6 and it’s going to a Disney fan in Germany. And the third is a bit of a tourist card going to someone in India who’s trying to collect a postcard from every country in the world. I always get the sense that phrases like this are code for people who only want to collect rare countries. I’m sure they probably won’t care about this postcard because American postcards are actually quite common.

Month of Letters Redux: Day 12

The first item today is a folded birthday card instead of a postcard. It’s going to someone in Minnesota who likes animals, particularly sloths. Unfortunately I don’t have any sloth cards, so hopefully a couple of stickers will do. The second is a Monet postcard for a “boat tag” going to Germany. And the third is an old tourist postcard of Nashville going to someone in Connecticut–I think the point of the exchange was to send postcards that were still useable but not in brand spanking new condition.

Month of Letters Redux: Day 11

The first postcard is a painting by William Merritt Chase called “Morning at Breakwater, Shinnecock” and it’s going to someone in Portugal. It’s for a creative writing tag where you write something based on a prompt that the recipient gives you. For this one, it’s “clouds”, so I wrote about a fictional city in the clouds that’s facing a catastrophe–the magic that’s keeping it afloat is failing. The second postcard is going to a Disney fan in Germany. With all the reimagining of villains, I’m not sure Scar can be redeemed unless there’s a side to Mufasa that we don’t know about. And the third postcard is going to someone in Massachusetts who enjoys mountains and nature. So I figured Yosemite would be the archetype of that.

Month of Letters Redux: Day 8

The first card for today is a birthday going to an elderly person in the Czech Republic who apparently doesn’t have any family left so people are asking folks to send them postcards to cheer them up. Unfortunately, the people organizing this say nothing of this person’s interests so I ended up picking a famous still life painting by Paul Cézanne. Let’s hope they don’t hate Post-Impressionism. The second card is going to someone in Italy who only likes tourist cards in envelopes so–I’m sending a tourist card in an envelope. There’s very minimal decoration since in my experience, people who collect tourist cards are pretty old school. And the third postcard is going to someone in Colorado who likes history. What sort of history, they did not say. So let’s hope they don’t get mad at John Adams.