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oulfisI just did a tiny bit more work on a personal craft project involving postcards, which I began.. three years ago, now, maybe? two? four? LAST time I worked on it, it had been so long that my friend had moved, and I had to tape a piece of paper with a new mailing address onto the three postcards I'd originally written.
THIS time, it's been so long that the cost of postage has increased! I've squeezed in some of those five-cent "helper" stamps, fingers crossed that it doesn't go up again by more than 3 cents between now and when I send them or I'll have to go buy more custom postage.
BUT, it will ALL HAVE BEEN WORTH IT, when my friend receives a series of perfectly-timed postcards from "Switzerland" purporting to detail Mary Godwin's travels in August 1814!!!
yes obviously it makes no sense to begin with putting on the postage and the addresses instead of writing the messages, especially since the postage costs money and in the intervening years I've had to buy new stamps MANY times, each time thinking to myself 'but I don't want to pry them up from those postcards, some day I will really want to send those' -- but I'd hoped that doing the simpler parts first would jazz me up to do the rest. turns out it's just really hard to fit 18thC travel narratives onto modern postcards so I was always gonna struggle with that!
THIS time, it's been so long that the cost of postage has increased! I've squeezed in some of those five-cent "helper" stamps, fingers crossed that it doesn't go up again by more than 3 cents between now and when I send them or I'll have to go buy more custom postage.
BUT, it will ALL HAVE BEEN WORTH IT, when my friend receives a series of perfectly-timed postcards from "Switzerland" purporting to detail Mary Godwin's travels in August 1814!!!
yes obviously it makes no sense to begin with putting on the postage and the addresses instead of writing the messages, especially since the postage costs money and in the intervening years I've had to buy new stamps MANY times, each time thinking to myself 'but I don't want to pry them up from those postcards, some day I will really want to send those' -- but I'd hoped that doing the simpler parts first would jazz me up to do the rest. turns out it's just really hard to fit 18thC travel narratives onto modern postcards so I was always gonna struggle with that!
