Category Archives: Post’d (cards + letters)

postcards, letters, aerogrammes… making, writing, assembling, stamping, mailing and everything related

Post'd (cards + letters)

Post’d: Festive Cards and Greetings, batches away!

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Batch 2 of festive greetz away from the main downtown Okayama postoffice!

And technically, this post box is just for mailing New Year’s cards within Japan, so the pedantic ones amongst you need not point this out… Festive display made for a pleasant photo.

The overall count was smaller than batch one however several bonus super-deluxe envelopes of treats in the mix.

Destinations include: Germany, UAE, Scotland, Sri Lanka, … and the usual USA / Canada locations.

Such fun applying the stamps and interacting with the post office staff as so many folks are in preparing and mailing New Year’s cards.

This lil elf dropped off 80-ish new year cards into the hopper.

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Post’d: cards/letters received (Nov – Dec 2019) from Scotland, Vancouver, Japan…

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Cards and Letters are rolling on in to the Tsuchida Cottage postbox. Each a treasure and documented for posterity as well as enjoyed for the present.

Here are a few recent arrivals with brief annotations: 

This “Thank You” card is from Naomi Maeda who made our groovy new toques documented in Misc Autumn Diary. 

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“Posted: Letters from Elsewhere” – book now available

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“Posted: Letters To Elsewhere “
by Dave Olson
Available for Purchase

I made a fun book of postboxes, letter slots, post offices, and letter writing “still-lifes” resplendent with stationery, inky stamps and whatnot.

Order it up for amusement and edification. https://www.blurb.com/b/9807308-posted-letters-to-elsewhere

“Ideal for armchair-travelling kids and adults alike, this portable geography primer includes 42 pages of delightful, lovingly curated and collected letter boxes, stationery, post offices, plus other postal artifacts gathered from: Thailand, Japan, Malaysia, The Vatican, Nepal, Greece, Canada, United States, Oman, Australia, Italy, Sri Lanka, Indonesia, a few other locales and the high seas.”

Fits handily in a rucksack and doesn’t use too much space on a shelf. It’s pretty! Order several. 

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Post’d: New Year’s cards 2020, wave 1

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Batch one of New Year’s postcards sent to seven countries. 95 items in this wave, many more to come…

I will admit, the printer messed up on some of them and the paper choice wasn’t quite as expected, so please grade me on a curve.

Say a prayer to the postal kami that my hand-writing of addresses passes readability standards, and the inky and postal stamps meets approval for both aesthetic and practical purposes.

Noting, if not already, this dispatch definitely put me over 1000 items mailed in 2019. I received almost 50 items in return – each a treasure. #wink

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Elsewhere Scenes, Post'd (cards + letters)

Post office with cat (Muscat, Oman) / acrylic etc.

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Post office with cat (Muscat, Oman) / acrylic etc.
Post office with cat (Muscat, Oman) / acrylic etc.

Post office with cat (Muscat, Oman)
acrylic etc on stretched canvas
Summer 2019

daveo + ryoko

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Post’d: cards/letters received to Okayama (generally, Autumn 2019)

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Form and Function in action! Such nuanced design and kindness.

Recent(ish) incoming correspondence round-up.

Thanks Kira L. x2, Mike Mc., Kat C, Vanessa T, Jeremiah J… for making my heart and my postbox so full of joy etc.

Note: my postal address displayed for handiness.

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Elsewhere Scenes, Post'd (cards + letters)

2 Postboxes with cat (The Vatican) / acrylic etc.

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2 Postboxes with cat (Vatican) / acrylic etc.
2 Postboxes with cat (Vatican) / acrylic etc.

2 Postboxes with cat (The Vatican)
acrylic etc on stretched canvas
Summer 2019

daveo + ryoko

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Café and Postbox with cat (Olympia, Greece) / acrylic etc.

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Café and Postbox with cat (Olympia, Greece) / acrylic etc.
Café and Postbox with cat (Olympia, Greece) / acrylic etc.

Café and Postbox with cat (Olympia, Greece)
acrylic etc on stretched canvas
Summer 2019

daveo + ryoko

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3 Postboxes with cat (Kathmandu) / acrylic etc.

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Postboxes (Kathmandu) / acrylic etc – Painting
Postboxes (Kathmandu) / acrylic etc

3 Postboxes with cat (Kathmandu, Nepal)
acrylic etc on stretched canvas
Summer 2019

daveo + ryoko

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Parties + Events + Invites, Post'd (cards + letters)

Thank-you Cards (“making of” and delivery evidence) / Kekkon-shiki

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settling in for a session of addressing, signing, inking, glueing, stamping and stickering these cards to prepare for a journey

Following our wedding festivities, we dutifully and cheerfully made up several batches of thank you cards to sent to folks who made the trip or sent gifts or letters/cards. 

Thank you card source materials, ready for scissor, glue, ink and substrate
a stack all ready to go, with special stamps and stickers and sparkly envelopes

While each batch of cards was different – and some cards required boxes and packets – the general design aesthetic captured in exquisite little photo essay created by nature photographer Cheryl A. (you should check out her cards for sale) which captures the details of the envelope treatment:

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