Category: All (-ish)

Postcards from Montana and the Netherlands.

This is from my friend Susan, wishing me a happy birthday.
 
And this was a fabulous piece of mail from a fellow Postcrosser.
The envelope, which was handmade.
 
A letter, written on that awesome thin paper.  It contained a quote from Maria Montessori, “Help to do it myself.”
 
Then the actual postcard, which came from Ikea.  That heart with the map on it is a bookmark.
 
Look at the back!  So incredibly pretty!

Thanks so much Marja.  I love this.

Scenes from a day off.

I took the Monday after my birthday off to recover from the many celebrations.  This was wise.  It was a great day.  
On Sunday I drove to Ikea and bought two more packs of clippy things for the curtain wire.  Today I could take out the wibbily-wobbly and all the postcards are straight now.

I caught up my checking accounts, both the paper copies and the computer record.
 

I had a light treatment for the psoriasis and then it was such a nice day that I walked down to the Rose Quarter to catch the train into town so my friend could buy me a post-birthday drink.  I also wrote a letter while I was waiting for the various trains to take me places.
 
I laid out the shrug pattern on the shrug material.

It was a great day off.

Postcard from Varna


You are familiar with Varna, Bulgaria, no?  Me neither.  But this postcard leads me to believe it’s great!  Anastasiya is from Sevastopol, Ukraine, but now lives in Varna.  Her three facts:  She likes to travel with her family, she likes to joke and  “I dream to lose my weight.”

Me too, Anastasiya.  But not all of it.  I’d like to keep some.

This was a great postcard, front and back.

Shrug planning.

I have purchased a fleece blanket from Goodwill, which will be my “muslin.”  Take that, expensive muslin.  I spent $4.00, not $20.00.
 
I used this link (warning: shrug pictured is not the shrug in the pattern) and mapped out my pattern.
 
Cutting.
 
Hmm.  Needs to be longer in the arm and more material in the back.
 
I will add some inches.
 

Graffiti mocking TBA on a Sherlock Holmes/OMSI ad.

As a person with a minor in Art History, I should gleefully embrace the Time-Based Arts Festival.  But I don’t.  The whole thing makes me hold my breath in annoyance.  It seem so damn pretentious.  I am, however, a huge fan of witty/pointed graffiti, so I was happy to see the following addition to this billboard.

TBA: THE VICTORY OF THEORY OVER CRAFT.

You tell them, graffiti artist.

Postcards from the Netherlands and Virgina

Yvette sends me a card from Texel, which is an Island that is part of the Netherlands.  The church is from her village.  I love how upright the church is.  I also love that the lambs are nursing.  There is not a lot of nursing usually happening on the postcards.
 
Here’s another one from Kadir Nelson via Arlington, Virginia.  It’s labeled #1, so it is not surprising that it arrived with…
 
#2, another Kadir postcard.  You would think that someone just saw Kadir live and in person.