French stamps, another glorious notecard set and tackling unfinished business
I have finally fulfilled a philatelic fantasy. I created a new notecard series inspired by my favorite thing: French stamps.
Get ’em in my shop. Free shipping forevah.
As you likely know, each month I send out a new Paris Letter… an illustrated little ditty about life in Paris. For a handful of people, I add a special note. It’s nice to send a letter to your pals and include a little something extra. Each month I think, Gosh I wish I had a new fun notecard every month to write my little messages. Well here we are.
Also in the shop, for the sailors among us.
If cancer teaches you anything, it’s that you can’t wait for things to happen.
Also, you guessed it, in the shop.
Cancer has also taught me that many survivors proceed to live life as if they were in a video game. You feel like you’re being chased by wolves and you have to collect all the coins and tokens. One such token is tackling the list of unfinished business. No going back to get it later. No time! And for me, one token was to make a note card series inspired by French stamps. It’s a little thing but oh so satisfying.
Get them all together or separately, say if you’re more of a balloon person than a car person.
These, of course, are not the original stamps. I think technically you can actually make notecards from stamps of a certain age without getting into legal hot water, but my creations have a more modern twist. They are inspired by a series of stamps from the French postal service called Journée du Timbres. Basically, the story of stamps.
Gotta get those bills to the people, otherwise they’d never get their visa dossiers approved.
The visa office in France will not even look at you if you don’t have your name on an electric bill. This sweet bicyclist is smoking a pipe and delivering “les facteur” for the people. This stamp commemorates improved postal services for the rural communities of France. I love that they included the pipe. This was deliberate to “illustrate the original, human character of the rural mailman” and that he is “a man of the earth.”
This is another of the same series. Before our bicyclist was delivering mail, you could see this guy coming with his top hat and blue jacket. He was often the only link to the outside world and was therefore always welcome to rest and warm up along his route during bad weather.
The army delivering mail during World War I. No spy activity there. *smirk*
This stamp honors the Roman roads that advanced postal delivery. Side note: My street in Paris, rue Mouffetard, is part of the original Roman road into Paris. The road is still there underneath the current layer. You can see the actual Roman road through a glass wall in the Métro at Place d’Italie. A side note on the side note: Place d’Italie Métro is also close to the sewer system, so it can get stinky. Best to walk fast. A side note on the side note on the side note: You can take tours of the Paris sewer system, which was so highly advanced back in day that royalty from other countries came for tours and to implement similar strategies back home. These royals also adopted many aspects of the advanced French postal system.
Oh how I wish the Omni bus was still in action in Paris. The top would be filled with photo-taking bloggers, bien sur.
You can often find me here, sifting through dusty old papers and stamps. Bliss!
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