Blastoff

This is one of my favorite envelopes I've made. Not sure why, I think I just love the old-school space-style illustration. Here we have two of the other recent Zazzle photo stamps I've ordered: Soda guarding a Curb your Dog postcard, and Magic yawning on a porch. Had to throw in a Skylab space stamp to complete the theme.



Mmm... starry.

Soda's thank-you postcard

Remember that wonderful catnip postcard for my cats from the gorgeously-named Fleabane and Danderfluff? Yeah, I thought so... it's pretty unforgettable.

I made my kitties write a thank-you note for such a gift, of course. I thought that this moo.com postcard of Soda playing in a catnip-filled box (in her younger years, I grant you) was a perfect vehicle for such a note. Soda has written notes before, she is the most literate of my three cats (perhaps owing to her habit of helping me with so many letters of my own).



Please ignore her backwards letters and spelling mistakes - she does her best, and all things considered (like the lack of opposable thumbs), I'm pretty darn proud of her. And in the Soda lexicon, "Horks 2 U" is high praise indeed.

And yes, that is indeed my tabby cat Magic on the stamp, staring up at an orange catnip carrot.

Halloweeny decorated letter

This one went to Bianca of Goodnight Little Spoon, who got extra Halloween decorations to help compensate for the fact that they don't get Halloween in Australia.

Of course she blogged about it already, and she scanned the back of the envelope, too, which I didn't think to photograph before sending.

Oh - and I'll mention this because she is my cat who appears on this blog least - the tabby cat on the far right postage stamp is my kitty Magic. She enjoys pumpkins and often manages to get herself photographed near them. I'll leave you with the original photo (taken in October 2007) from whence that photo stamp was made:



(Magic is so named partly because of the M on her forehead, which I gather is quite common for tabby cats, but she's super-special because she's Magic. But she's also very shy and doesn't hang out on top of my letters like Soda and Memo do, so that's why she doesn't pop up on this blog very often.)

Two letters on Dark Horse stationery

This week saw a lot of letter action on Dark Horse stationery. Shown here are Rachel Williams' Miss Anne Thrope (top) and Shag Cats (bottom). I love this fun stuff - very wild and colorful designs, on the envelopes as well as the inside paper.



And now for a totally random side note: this is my 100th post! Yippee!
(Anybody wanna follow my blog to help me celebrate?)
Tee hee.

Jezebel: Maxwell, Viola, and their coterie

I know I'm Jezebel-heavy these days, but her cards are just so damn gorgeous and wonderful. It's like a treat to myself to write a letter on one.

The stamp in the corner is a photo-stamp from Zazzle, featuring my sassy kitty Magic enjoying a sunny, lavender-laden windowsill.

Amanda Visell Don't Eat Paper stationery

This here's the alligator envelope, with some embellishments from Pilot Petit1 apricot orange ink.

Where I bought my Amanda Visell Don't Eat Paper stationery