Dear Everyone ~
Will has now delivered five days worth of freshly made postcards for our first-ever totally random drawing. We have received almost a binder’s dozen-and-a-half entries already, and they have exceeded our great expectations. What the dickens were they thinkin’, these clever correspondents! For now, we are keeping what people have written under our hat (a different hat than the one in which we will hold the drawing), but we cannot wait to show Everyone a few cards—to admire, and perhaps to inspire.
Here is a map-happy card from Siri B. in Chicago. She drew a map illustrating where her mailbox is in proximity to her home, and where some of her beloved natural wildlife hang out. She shares in her PS that she has sent a piece of mail to a dear friend every week for 25 years! (Do that math!)
Stacey P. in Florida has submitted two (2) postcards, because she “got so excited about the drawing for The Thing.” She asked on one of the cards if it’s OK to submit two, and we hasten to reply that it is AOK. Both will go into the hat. We say, the more the verrier!
Mary McM. of Maryland pressed into service part of a Serizawa calendar page from 1964, plus a few Katazome botanical embellishments adhered to the back of the postcard. She first encountered Serizawa-covered journals at BZS, by way of her daughter who lives in the neighbourhood. She has now imported an incredible number of Serizawa calendars for her personal creative endeavours.
Carla J. in Virginia has recycled a very thick piece of corrugated (nearly ½"
thick!) and used mixed-media & collage for the front of her postcard. She reminisces in her message about how learning to bind books during the pandemic opened her world to a deep love of paper, accoutrements for snail mail, and best of all—a new circle of friends.
The thoughtful expressions, luxuriousness of mediums, and tactile nature of postcards I’ve received to date are beyond heartfelt. Reading Everyone’s connection to paper, bookbinding, and sending mail, brings a smile to my paper-loving heart from ear to ear!
More as it’s mailing, Bari