Dec to Valerie - Dec from MrW

 

This is the envelope I sent to Valerie whose mail to me was posted yesterday. I was doing marker testing to clear out the dried up ones.

I'm writing this on Dec 26th. This was my Christmas present from MrW. It's 9x12. Maybe I should have taken a photo to show the scale. It's big. On the inside was a card - 8.5x11 - folded in half. There's a part of me that wants to ask questions about how he makes design decisions. But, questioning non-artists always comes across as an interrogation and that might take him back to the years that he participated in depositions and that's a very adversarial world. 

I've never gotten the impression that he reads the blog, but, it feels weird to talk about his design choices. My first impression of the lettering was that he was inspired by my unfortunate gold envelopes that ran on Dec 25th. But, he made the envelope on the 24th - so I don't think he would have seen those envelopes back in Nov and then remembered them.

I noticed that he put it on display along with the other mail that I had on display - so I'm going to leave it up indefinitely and see what happens.

Here's the card. I guess he found the image online. Once again, I'm so curious. The inside referenced purchases that are unwrappable.

Christmas Eve dinner was just the three of us. I made a card for our little postal worker using  one of his childhood drawings on the front. I have a stack of the kids' artwork that I saved and have been taking photos of it and tossing it. I'm putting the images on a the blogs I have for each of them which I am making instead of scrapbooks. This was something that Hunter drew when he clearly thought that being a third kid was not fair.

This is the wording with his spelling: I think unfar is when my brother and sister get evreything they want. And I get nothing. no no no!!!

This was probably the year that he was 6 or 7 and he made sure that we knew that all he wanted was a dog. When he didn't - he cried his little eyes out. It was so sad. It still pains me to remember it.