Whenever I think about or hear the word airmail I automatically visualize those bordered blue and red checked envelopes. I just mailed two packages that will travel by air. They got all decked out with those blue airmail stickers. Two weeks they tell me. And that was only to the USA. I have mailed packages before overseas hoping they would […]
Mad Men and their Mothers
I am loving this colour of green right now. In fact, as you may know, emerald has been denoted as the colour for 2013. And this car! It just would not be ignored. I can say with confidence — thanks to Jackie over at Gasoline Alley Museum at Heritage Park —that is is a 1937 Hudson […]
It’s a new week.
I love this image above. The vintage feel of it, the colours, the postmarks, the stamps and the postcards. I especially love postcards. Just a little bit at a time. Nothing too grandiose. Manageable. Doable. Some times on a Sunday evening I have this sense of exhaustion. Maybe we had a wild and crazy weekend. […]
Under Lock and Key. Part 2.
If you missed Under Lock and Key Part 1 the topic was one of journals and diaries. I am sure most of us are familiar with “The Diary of Anne Frank.” Powerful stuff for us the “onlookers” many years later. A documentation of history; snapshots of life of real people before it became history. If we […]