Christy sent a rainbow themed envelope from Ohio and Liz - from Oxford MS - was inspired by the petals on the flower. At some point, I need to ponder the different ways to integrate the stamp and the design. These two - on non-white envelopes - illustrate how significant the color of the envelope is.
I've been putting the world's shortest address (for me) on the lists when I send out the lists to the exchangers. Not everyone follows what I sent - which surprised me. I would be all about using a short address. Liz did. It could even be shorter - the ST is not essential. Way, way, way back - there is an envelope to me that has
420 - 44
50312
and nothing else - no name - no city state - and it arrived. If the address is a known address at the ZIP code - then that's all they need.
When I re-read what I wrote about mixing up Liz in Oxford and Cindy in Four Oaks - I thought is sounded looney. It's hard to describe memory quirks. I think it is because my memory relies on putting things into a visual memory storage unit. I *picture* things in my head. I can't think of one now, but I know I mix things up in strange ways.
I don't think it is all that unusual to mix things up based on the letters in the word or name. Anyone who lives in Iowa, Ohio or Idaho is aware that people from other parts of the country will confuse those three states. I think it has something to do with the letters, not to mention that there are a multitude of squarish states filling up the middle of the country - and we have very little history attached to us - other than that we grow stuff.
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