Battle Toaster

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I blocked out the street address which was right above the city/state/zip.

I've always enjoyed designing and addressing holiday cards for my daughter. It was easy when the kids were little - I just did everything and she was grateful. Then the kids got older and there were no good photos of them for a card so we stopped doing them. Then the granddaughter turned 10 and wanted to know why their family did not send cards because they received so many. So, my daughter let her daughter design them and they ordered them online - shipped to me to do the addressing. That worked out fine.

This year the two of them made a huge blunder. Instead of the usual 5x7 cards, they ordered 6x8. On top of that they ordered double thick. They had no idea that the weight would be over an ounce....and I had already bought stamps - for normal 1-oz mail. 

I did not discover the blunder until their order arrived to be addressed - and I was hoping to do a one day turnaround to get them in the mail. I could have put a yellow school bus stamp on each one - but that would have looked goofy. So I did double stamps on 40 of them and then bought some 2-ounce stamps. They're OK - but I haven't told them what I did. I'm guessing they will be OK with it - I just couldn't make myself buy double stamps for all the cards. I suppose they can fire me. [Real time add-on: they were fvery happy with what I did.]

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My son and I saw this car in a parking lot while he was driving me around looking for more of the Holiday Cheer stamps - back when I thought I only needed 80. He said he had seen it around the neighborhood. I was wildly excited to see it for the first time because I love art cars. Note the sign below the license plate that says *Battle Toaster.*

There are a couple actual street signs on the driver's side of the car. The stop sign is no longer red

I like the fire extinguisher mounted by the windshield. And below is a close up of the dash board sculpture. 

My son knows that I'd love to get one of the retired LLV postal delivery trucks. He asked me if I could magically have either an LLV or the Battle Toaster - which would I choose. That's a really hard question. If we are talking magic - I guess I would go for the LLV but have it turned into a Battle Toaster.

The interior of the Battle Toaster was actually pretty nice. But, my son would not let me take any more photos. Personally, I think if you create a vehicle like this you are happy when people want to photograph it. 

Happy New Year - tomorrow we have the January exchange sign-up and then the next day we launch the new and improved style/tool/layout project that intersects with the hoard reduction project and legible addressing project. <Eye-rolling>