Tidying up new year cards as we switch & shift into February and fresh up projects (good things coming)…
So in case your (awsum handcrafted) festive card didn’t arrive, or if you have a notion to remix, i roll through the elements to have an Olson family theme analog project
either/or:
* download as a PDF with crop marks to print and resize as you choose;
* grab all the individual elements {including bi-lingual poem stanzas, signatures, funfaces, dtae stamp, place & photo credit, even substrate, ‘postcard’ bit, and 3 or 4 varaitions of photo from Munetade shrine}
then rearrange as you desire. i.e: turn it horizontal instead of vertical, make it upsidedown, change the katakana namespiece, add stamps – either inky or postal – bring your own paper or markers or forge our signatures
But Why?
The reason *all this Borderline obsessive * is important to me is: ’tis so easy to lose track of each other across social channels, amongst household moves and familial shifts, especially as more time elapses from meeting in real life ~ indeed decades slip by and continents shift literally and figuratively. Sometimes our bonds fade and I’m into friendship for the long haul if you are
Further, there is an understated beauty and brilliance of using the postal services for personal communication rather than parcel delivery and I hope these things stay with you for years {I have more to say about the sanctity and human right of postal delivery but I’ll share that for a future zine}
Oh right, plus scissors and glue, tactility of paper, rearranging with silly mustaches, devil horns or blotches of paint and paper just feels fun, let’s enjoy crafty times!
Friendship is Golden, let’s not lose each other xo
