Spike ,'The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco'
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Teppy, I'm a notecard junkie, and I don't snail-mail at a tenth of the volume I used to do. I have this terrible horrible habit of not being able to use the last example of a notecard design. I have this bulging file of single notecards from nearly every box I've ever had. I know, I'm nuts. But whatever it was attracted me to them in the first place prevents me from actually parting with the last of them.
Doesn't stop me buying new ones, though. Bas Bleu does have some lovely ones.
I have this terrible horrible habit of not being able to use the last example of a notecard design
Oh yes. And Christmas cards. This is part of the reason I can't see the floor in my project room.
Has anyone read Trading Up by Candace Bushnell?
I have gotten wiser, though. I love the Marchant designs, but rather than her collections, 2 each of four designs, which meant that I sent four and kept four out of each collection, I now buy all the same design, so I can send seven, or nine, or eleven, and keep one.
No, Aimee. I keep thinking I will then I pick something else.
I have this terrible horrible habit of not being able to use the last example of a notecard design. I have this bulging file of single notecards from nearly every box I've ever had.
You could frame them. I bought some postcards from Stella Marrs, with the sole plan of framing them.
These postcards, if anyone is interested: Chubbette; Too fond of books; and Miss Lang, Secretary (that's my last name, and I simply had to have the postcard, because I've never seen my name anywhere else). I framed them together in a black frame with 3 openings.
Stop me if I've told this story. I used to handle memorial donations for a nonprofit. Often a check would be tucked into a gorgeous notecard. I can't tell you how many times I lopped off the front of the card (making sure all relevant information was recorded before I performed this theft) and had it matted and framed. I've given so many of these tiny framed jewels away over the years. And like Steph, I've bought notecards specifically for framing.
It's a sickness.
So far, the only notecards I specifically bought for framing are a set of three from Where The Wild Things Are. B&N had one new one each month for three months in a row a few years back. I love that book. I was unhappy there were only three.
I've got some antique map notecard framed, and used to have some of Da Vinci's sketches...huh, wonder where those went? Oh! and a couple Winnie-the-Pooh sketches for the book illustrations. The Where the Wild Things Are sound adorable...the closest I can come is a 5" Max in his wolf suit that guards my computer.