Written in response to Sadje’s Sunday poser, Link Here It begins simply enough. Your grandparents, or great-uncles or aunties passing you an album for your sixth or seventh birthday slowly filling the book as each item is picked up places you’ve never been to finding their way to their allotted spot the craft develops over …
Tag Archives: Stamps
Red Violet II
#CYW #Colours #RedViolet I A much redder colour than your much purpler cousin you parade yourself proudly in the flowers that carry you or the stamps that show you II Many mistake you for Magenta but you don’t mind for you have so many cousins at times its hard to tell you apart only when …
First day cover
#Octpowrimo #stamps #art Thursday 10th October 2019 Falling flat on the floor Five…No…Six….colourful creations on a theme Fixed to their very own envelope and Filled with a card For you to find out all about them
Getting crafty
Salford, Wednesday 8th August #crafts #stamps #art #ink Returning to a craft, I enjoyed doing. The medium…simple enough linoleum, like the stuff mum and dad used to tile the kitchen with, only a lot more plainer than the colourful patterns that contained My tools, an inked pad, like the ones they had at school, and …
Landmarks
Salford,30th June 2017 Hi folks. The prompt for today’s post comes from a strange source – in that its not technological at all – it’s the humble letterbox. Aside from my scribbles – and photography – I am a keen philatelist – or stamp collector. There’s a reason for this – the pictures give me …
On the Edge
Edge Its a dangerous thing being a postmark – pressed down on envelopes by the postmaster. Your message lost by the recipient … all they are interested in are the contents, and after they have them…you end up in recycling. but day after day you appear on the stamps, hanging by the address of your …
First Day Covers
I find it truly amazing fellow artists send magnificence delivered from hand to hand and cascade to the floor through my door the recipients ecstatic at the colourful print give out a hint – They want more And so, without fail they search out the sale the latest editions from Royal Mail
The Inkwell 