“With over 400 cards now posted for this new year – in four different styles/variations/purposes – I flip through a special historical retrospective collection constructed for a friend who missed out… While drinking coffee on *coming of age* day.”
Note: Cards are accessorized by cancelled international postal stamps as well as a wide variety of custom and standard ink stamps.
Usual anecdotes, digressions and back stories included, as usual.
Includes:
* 2024 Ichiro airplane special edition “see you again” w/ JAL at Okayama Momotaro airport
* 2024 “Kinome 10th anniversary” 2 variations, both from Varley Trail, Lynn Canyon {to follow}
* 2023 “Baseball Halloween squad” with Japan, Mariners (both Ichiro) and Canada uniforms + persimmons and tiger and rabbit haiku on reverse plus Noto
* 2023 “BC invasion” coming soon! commemorative card on NHK Taro-man set (shared with friends met along the way)
* 2023 “Japan normal life” Tsuchida cartographic signpost / representative item (1/30 designs bundled into sets of 5/ea envelope)
* 2022 “Linda Lindas” shirts & swag at Tsuchida yard with insta-cam & dymo label
* 2021 “Steady on Time Travelers” featuring Fluevogs, vintage dress, typewriter, red horse and 101 day old Ichiro
* 2020 “pink collage” with typewriter messages, photos from Shinto shrine wedding ceremony, goat farm wedding party, Ceningan honeymoon etc.
Note: eventually reference copies of original art may appear here so you can “make your own” if you missed out on any of the series – because I know some of you must be really fretting about an incomplete collection :-)
