When I was younger, I can remember creating beautiful collages with words, pictures and quotes and sending them to friends. I remember hand painting every birthday card. I remember doing watercolor borders of flowers around my poetry.
These days, as I grow older, I find I don’t have the time to embellish as much as I’d like to, however, I still enjoy writing and receiving handwritten letters. In this age of email and texting, that’s somehow become more special to me.
I always try to add something to the letter, whether it be inside or on the envelope, to make it stand out. I have always loved stamps and embossing. I can remember strolling the aisles of Quincy Market in the Faneuil Hall marketplace in Boston and, along with all the delicious food carts, seeing rubber stamp carts where you could buy all sorts of interesting things.
I’ve found a place online that I enjoy, StampXPress. It’s fun to browse through the different stamps they have there. They have date stamps and business stamps as well as novelty stamps, i.e. LIKE/DISLIKE, FAIL! and LOL. What I really like is that you can custom-design your own, which is something I’m going to do to add my personal “stamp” to letters.
They also have embossers which I always thought made your letters or cards look like you took that extra touch of care with them. I plan to be moving in the Spring and will definitely be investing in a new address or embossing stamp. The prices are very reasonable and shipping is free over $10.00.
I also hope to find time in the New Year to go back to more personalized cards and letters.
Though email is fabulous for convenience and quickness, it really doesn’t have the same caring touch. Still, I think it would be kind of humorous to custom-make a stamp that says “Sent from my iPhone”.
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