Eric Mondays, part 10 - stars

I had considered making a multi-piece US flag piece of mail art to celebrate eric's fifty mail call with the 50 stars for the 50 states, but in the end I was a bit stumped about how to handle the stripes.

So I just sent him 50 stars instead (they are conveniently issued in sheets of 50), and had it hand-stamped to try and avoid the evil postal sharpie/biro.

The post office clerk obliged, and half-way through stamping had a smile on her face - awesome!

Here is the sent version from Eric's blog.

And Happy Birthday, America!

March exchange envelopes received

From Jean - love the vintage airmail stamps

From Florence - great idea to use the 3c star stamps with 20c stamps to get to 49.

From Marti - I like how she chose a couple of different things in the address to highlight with a thicker pen.

From Kathie, an envelope made from wrapping paper with lovely matching stamp.

And Nancy's envelope, where she used a fun ombré effect for my name, and extended the thistle the bird is perched on.