Postcrossing and papercutting

This arrived via Postcrossing! Normally I just receive a postcard, but this was an envelope! It made me really curious! I can't read Russian, so I had no idea from who it was. Turns out it's from Julia from a city I can't read.

And this was inside! A really cute drawing, a papercut and a postcard. What a cute drawing! On the back of it a note about the smels, sounds, tastes and feel of autumn. Like! And then that papercut! Like Like triple like! She has read my blog and thought I might like her papercutting and drawing! Well I do! I do very much!

And then that postcard! A definite favourite! It's a collection, vintage, butterflies, flowers, ephemera. Well, it just sums up what I'm really into. Such a cool mail! I'm definitely going to send her something to say thanks!

Sent Snailmail collective september

I signed up for the snailmail collective september (check out http://thenectarcollective.com/the-snail-mail-collective/). A really great initiative to meet people from around the world. Last month i signed up for the first time and got introduced to Andi from http://andispeople.com/. So in september i decided to sign up again. I got paired with two great people. I only had to sent to one person a mail, but we decided to sent to both. And i am glad we did! I was signed up with Leia from the USA and Michelle from Australia. After a few weeks getting to know each other via email, facebook and blog it was time to send out mail! Theme of september was "back to school". I've found a tabletholder that reminded me of my first schoolbag, the front was exactly the same! Only mine was made of brown leather and was really big and full of books! Since both Michelle and Leia are adults, i thought it would be cool to sent them this tabletholder, also great for other stuff by the way! I've drawn the tabletholder on the envelope. I actually wanted to use grey ink, but i couldn't find it anymore! It was probably somewhere in a box in the attic since i am doing up my studio. I did find a grey marker though. The result was a a bit, well, nothing like it would be like with ink, but that was due to the marker. But since the same was inside the envelope i thought it would be okay.

This is what i have sent to Leia. I had cut out leia's name on a notebook, washi tape and stationary, my favourite ballpoint. And a letter with a good luck Miffy.

To Michelle i have sent almost the same, but with different colour stationary. I had tried to cut out Michelle's name, but it was way to much letters to fit in! I've used her initials instead.

The papercutting gave out beautiful shadows! Thought it was such a shame to glue some paper behind it that would get rid of the shadows, i just let it be.

Birthdayboy

It was my husbands birthday yesterday, and a few cards came his way. A real ugly one (drawn football shoes), a funny one (picture taken at a funny moment at work) and a real pretty one (from me and the kids). Birthday cards always tend to appear on our piano for some reason. Our piano who is very very out of tune, but we sort of got used to it just being there and never being used anymore. Well we use it to stack toys that are in the way and for birthdaycards. And for our vintage recordplayer which we still use when we are in a vintage mood! We still own lots of albums from our teens we never got rid off. Just because the feeling of vinyl is so much better than a glossy cd. And the feeling of putting a record on it, turn back the arm thing and the record starts spinning, and then at the right moment and the right place you have to put the needle on the spinning record, and then you sigh from relief when you managed it without a scratch on the record. Well, that feeling.

I really like this card, the intricate cutting of the paper, I would never manage that with a pen knife, I wish I could though. I would make such great and wonderful papercutting pictures, but I'm a bit to impatient for that though. My husband thought it was a cool card anyway. And that's why I love him, he appreciates I got it specifically for him and likes the picture.

Since my husband is not to keen on celebrating his birthday we went out to town! Since we live in a small village in the countryside we've been to shops we never seem to have in our neighbor towns. And I got some craft stuff for myself! Also a real cutting knife, still dreaming that one day I will make something like that card. Untill now I always used an old scalpel from my old job in the hospital, sharp as hell, but very wobbly. Time to use a "real" one. Hopefully it will work.