Postcards and scrapbooks, scrapjournals and greeting cards… i dig these papery things. However, sometimes received postcards end up in a shoebox which seems sorta sad. So, Ryoko and i built a scrapbook to hold postcards and cards. 

The scrapbook is my usual style – side bound Japanese binding, sewn up with sturdy twine through 3 holes. The covers and binding are Sri Lankan paper made from elephant dung (yup!).

Inside the pages are a bit of variety but all feature some sorta envelope comfortably hold the postcard or greeting card – meta in a way. Then decorated with a variety of postal stamps, inky stamps, luggage tags, stickers, oddities, ephemera, bits of paper (mostly admittedly from the “b-pile” and other oddities from the scrapbook bin. 

There are a still a few empty pages / slots to fill with postal dispatches to come in the future. 

This features treats from Bermuda, Seattle, Vancouver, France,  and many other places… Thanks to all who send the treats. Want to mail me items? Get the coordinates. 

Oh this album was built on Nusa Ceningan, Indonesia where it lives in a teak cabinet.

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