Analog Craft Time: New Year Card remix *friendship is golden*
Tidying up new year cards as we switch & shift into February and fresh up projects (good things coming)… So […]
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New Year Card 2026 ~ storytime & DIY kit #video
this inadequate description simply says: I talk about new year cards – all the way from Japanese tradition and various
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Olson’s New Year Nengajyo 年賀状 – 2026 ~ Reiwa 8
2026 – Reiwa 8 Olson family New Year card dossier ~ complete with handy versions including printable PDF with crop marks, alternate photo options, complete design notes, backgrounder – about the mailing process this year, and even the individual elements to remix your own
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New Year Nengajyo 年賀状, 2025 – the Time Travelers return
Ahoy the year of the Snake! We send fond greetings and best wishes for a splendid year ahead from the
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New Year Cards – various incarnations and tranches
Dec. 26: Snuck into Gloss to do a bit more scribbling on some cards. 100s already sent but non-documented but
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New Year cards underway at Momotaro Onsen ♨️
Sitting at Momotaro hot spring ♨️ after lunch, before another soak: addressing, annotating & stamping a tranche of new year
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Post, received: Nengajyo lucky numbers + 3 cards
I took down Christmas and New York cards, for the most part, from the “string of honor” (which you know
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Post’d: Not *really* New Year cards, but kinda, just more silky lounging
Not exactly new year cards… we’ve moved on, right? Specifically: a couple for birthdays // yes, me lounging in a
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Craft Sessions
Making of New Year Card, 2024 + archival nengajyo treats
Overhead view of arts and crafts-ing New Year card “nengajyo” for 2024, or Reiwa 6 in Japan. Starting with a
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New Year “Nengajyo” 2024 / Reiwa 5 ~ for (calm) Dragons
Thar be Dragons Ahoy! Wishing you Calm in 2024, Reiwa 5 if you prefer. Fondly from the Olsons of Tsuchida
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Miscellany: did i forget to tell about hats, barbers, cards & winter clothes?
I’ve done it, left the house for something other than a medical appointment… Heading to get a haircut, bus lets
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Post'd (cards + letters)
Post’d: errant new year card from Tuvalu to Suez
An errant new year card was waiting for a typed letter and special packet (Suez transit, Kerala Lomo snaps and
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Festive Greetz Cards Scrapbook Time (backwards)
In front of a wood stove, Dave stashes cards from the “string of honour” into archival book while recounting tales
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Post’d: new year mail-outs / postal odds and ends (& what happens next)
“Good news” is over 300 pieces of postal mail dispatched the last 4-5 weeks. Mostly postcards but also bunch of
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Post'd (cards + letters)
New Year Cards – postal drop & related evidence
New Year day in Japan is better than Christmas for postal mail enthusiasts when a big stack of cards arrives
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Diary: specs, tea, cards & usual annotations from the fog
Everything old was new again / same as it ever was, same as it never was. Various annotations Nov. 25~27ish
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