I'm a correspondence junkie, though I'm not very consistent with it. I love sending lots of emails all at once, and then waiting half a year to respond to the answers. I used to do the same with letters (you know, those things you write by hand and then put in that little box outside your house with the tiny red flag?). Half the fun was the correspondence and connection, which I know get through email. But half the fun was the tools: fancy papers, confetti in envelopes, felt pens in pastel colors (it was the 80s, after all).
Which is why I decided to send Thank You notes after Christmas this year, for the first time in a long long time. For starters, I really felt like it was time to express my gratitude to the people who give me such wonderful gifts (and rarely receive equally good ones from me). And secondly, I found a book of old upholstery samples at Art from Scrap here in Santa Barbara, and they were just begging to become homemade greeting cards. Once I got started putting them together, I found old greeting cards that needed some reconstructing, and some bits of paper and pieces of magazines that I've been saving for just such a project.
So I went to town sewing, gluing and cutting all these materials -- and then pulling them apart and starting all over, until I came up with what you see in the photos throughout this post.
Nothing groundbreaking. Not even particularly nice, I admit. But I figure I get some points for vision and elbow grease, no?
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