2016: day 296 Chicago

Spent some me time in the windy city with some beautiful weather and lots of walking.

2016: day 295 J

J is for Jane! (No I didn't send it to myself, but it was tempting.)

2016: day 294 green

2016: day 293 For the love of Madison

Last weekend I spent some time in Madison wondering around the Capitol with my dear sister. We went up to the observation deck to enjoy the view, and happily strolled the streets in the October sunshine. At the Capitol you can still get postcards for a a quarter, and that includes tax so I bought a few.

2016: day 292 i

2016: day 291 pink thoughts

2016: day 290 H

2016: day 289 Willow Bough

A little customized green Pantone-ness

2016: day 288 G wiz

2016: day 287 black is the new black

Arrrrg matte!

2016: day 286 F

If F's had been this pretty in school I might have aspired to get some of them.

2016: day 285 more teal with a side of robot

2016: day 284 E!

2016: day 283 morning mist

2016: day 282 D

2016: day 281 pink

Pink Pantone pleasure

incoming mail!

Ecuadorian stamps

2016: day 280 C

C is for cookie:

2016: day 279 yellow

2016: day 278 B is for

book, beast and blue to name a few.

2016: day 277 tigerlily

A little bit of color to brighten the world on this dreary, gray day.

2016: day 276 A is for...

Aardvark.

2016: day 275 color theory

Got this giant box (100 postcards) of Pantone color chip postcards and I'm sending the first one off into the world today. The past 5 years I have LOVED this color. It's the color on my dining room walls, (inspired by a trip to Nicaragua) it's currently the feature color of my personal branding, (Type of Jane) and it's worked it's way into my wardrobe in multiple ways.

2016: day 274 The Scarlet Letter

Bringing banned books week to a close with this Scarlet Letter note

2016: day 273 Ulysses

I have never read Ulysses, maybe it's time to add it to the list:

For added fun, I've been mailing out 'banned books week' mail using Harry Potter stamps:

incoming mail!

Had some awesome vintage postage deliver some mail today

2016: day 272 Their Eyes Were Watching God

2016: day 271 Lolita

Banned books week continues. This one I have never read:

2016: day 270 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland

That leads us to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (is there an 'adventure' theme to banned books?)

2016: day 269 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

Another banned book in honor of Banned Books Week:

incoming mail!

lovely Cuba postcard arrived

incoming mail!

2016: day 268 The Great Gatsby

Attempting daily posts this week in honor of banned books week: today's card catalog notecard features The Great Gatsby.

incoming mail!

This actually came while I was away, but I'm just catching up on mail so I'm a bit behind in posts and things

things I sent from NYC

I was recently in NYC for a visit and I sent a bunch of postcards while I was there

incoming mail!

Got this darling postcard in the mail today from a dear friend's visit to a Mo Williams exhibit.

incoming mail!

Yesterday was especially lucky:

incoming mail!

I've been remiss in getting stuff up when it arrives, but there have been delightful bits of mail showing up at my house for weeks, all summer long. Here's a sampling:

week 28: a little letterpress love

I'm starting to package and ship the reminder of my Kickstarter rewards, so I've started to grasp what is remainder so I sent off a few 'remainder' postcards with messages to friends.

week 28: 4th of July remembered

I was lucky enough to take an impromptu trip to NYC for fourth of July weekend because I have friends to crash with. Seems fitting to send this as their thank you.

In case you've noticed that the picture format/dimensions have changed, that's because my cell phone died last weekend and I was forced to unexpectedly pick out something new, as I was phoneless. New images are courtesy of the Nexus 5x; so far I like it, but I don't really care for the proportions of their images. I was a huge fan of the 'widescreen' feeling proportions of the images from the LG G3. (PS I don't like change.)

week 28: a little letterpress inspiration

incoming mail! Caterday surprise

This darling postcard arrived Saturday, perfectly timed to honor Caterday

incoming mail!

Got 2 more postcards today! My friend had quite the Cave of the Mounds adventure.

incoming mail!

I have been remiss as of late with the blog, focusing on my Letters from Cuba letterpress project, but today I received vintage Paris postcards found in Paris from one Megan ad a postcard from House on the Rock from the other Megan so I had to share!

incoming mail! lucky girl with multiples

incoming mail

week 18: Van Gogh's bedrooms, hand lettering

went to see the Van Gogh Bedrooms exhibit at the Art Institute in Chicago and it resulted in a lot of bedroom postcards; can you tell that these are all different?