Shout out to Annette who left a comment yesterday. She's going to send a birthday greeting to Frank. I like the idea of posting random addresses to people who we don't know. And, I even have a name and address in my stack that I need to post. Stay tuned. It's a postal worker.
Irene enclosed a note telling us about this style. I do not have access to the note because I am writing this post while I am in Chicago providing assistance to the family that includes my daughter. Each year the grandkids get older, as do I. A couple years ago - they were little kids looking for ways to bamboozle Nanna. Those days are over. They are practically adults. No more tantrums. Maybe it's just a lull prior to the teen years. Blog posts written whilst on trips aren't very good. When I get home, I might revisit this envelope and see if it is a style that offers inspiration - assuming that I would not have the patience to be so precise. JSV (Jean's Sloppy Version)
Irene includes very pretty cards in her envelopes. This looks like walnut ink. I saw the envelopes she did for April on her IG - very pretty.
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One more brand-truck - Hello Kitty.
One of these is going to be in Des Moines and they have had several trucks out and about since 2014. My initial thought was this: is Hello Kitty too banal for my blog? Should I even spend time diving into the history? There wasn't much history on their website other than 2025 is Hello Kitty's 50th anniversary. So I surfed over to Wikipedia and discovered that Hello Kitty is right up there with Mickey Mouse.
Wikipedia did not make that observation. It just occurred to me that nobody can explain the longevity of certain images. A mouse and a cat. I've been trying to think of any dog character that has attained Mickey Mouse or Hello Kitty status - and so far, I have not come up with one. Any birds? I'd put Smokey the Bear up there - but nobody has monetized him. Please let me know who I am forgetting.
My final musing is this: What is behind the making of trinkets (as well as a whole industry) based on anthropomorphized animals? While they are just trinkets, I can imagine a cave family, hanging out after they were through with the hunting/gathering/eating/etc - and what exactly is the etc part? If there was any spare time, they must have started making trinkets out of sticks and rocks. Not everybody. Some people were drawn to singing/dancing/story telling - and a few of them were coming up with games and sports. That one kid was obsessed with climbing trees. And don't get me started on the one who insisted on. playing with fire and experimenting. A sub-set of the fire/science people were the the weapon makers. All of my musings end up in the same place - humans are makers - and creativity is baked into us.
not dogs. but 2 that come to mind are Peter Rabbit, 1902, who is the oldest licensed fictional character and Winnie the Pooh, 1925. Peter was and still is my favorite. I was a big fan of AA Milne as a child and still have his book When We Were Very Young my parents read to me more than 70 years ago. It's one of my most priceless possessions.
ReplyDeleteoops, my comment about Peter Rabbit and Winnie the Pooh was from Carol C.....I have never been able to comment in my Google account.
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