Space-age hip Shag postcard

I mailed this fine Shag (aka Josh Agle) postcard today to a Postcrosser in the USA. I've kvelled about my love of Shag's artwork many times in this blog. This comes from the Shag Postcard book made by Chronicle Books. I love their happy hip dancing. They make it look like jamming out in spacesuits is a lot of fun.

Shag postcrossing jag

I'm on a Shag jag! Here's yet another Postcrossing offering, this one sent to Austria, with artwork by the ever-beloved Shag (aka Josh Agle), from the Shag Postcard book a la Chronicle Books.

I forgot the title of this one. Oops. I already sent it today.

Love the facial expression of the waiter - oh so surly!

Mournful Ukulele for Postcrossing

This lovely postcard, titled "Mournful Ukulele," is heading to a Postcrosser in Brazil, and features Shag (aka Josh Agle) artwork. This is from the Shag Postcard book made by Chronicle Books.

I'm not posting my mail stats right now, but I will mention that I'm a little proud of myself because this is my 50th sent postcard for the month of April.

More Shag for Postcrossing

I sent this Postcrossing postcard to Italy a while back... it took a really long time to arrive and get registered, and nearly expired. But it made it, so here's some more Shag (aka Josh Agle) artwork. This is from the Shag Postcard book made by Chronicle Books.

Love the retro Tiki look!

The Sociable Thief

I promised more Shag postcards, so here we go. This one's called "The Sociable Thief." Love the dog. I found the colors very autumnal.

The set is from Chronicle Books, of course.

Shag postcards

I've professed my love of the art of Shag (aka Josh Agle) many times in this blog. And Dark Horse comics makes some very cool stationery out of his artwork. I recently learned that Chronicle Books makes a Shag Postcard book, too!

Shown above is "Barracuda," which I sent to a Postcrosser with a username Saracuda. I thought that was a fun synchronicity.



The back is fun, too. It's a bit coated and isn't perfect for all fountain pen ink, alas, but the great design almost makes up for it. The spot for addressing has a kind of blaze shape (which I accented with Sharpie here) and there's a curtain-esque design hanging down from the top left corner.

I may have to post some more Shag postcard images in the future, his designs are so retro fabu.

Supersonic Shag

I have blogged about my love of Shag (that's the artist, Josh Agle) before, but not until I searched around on here did I realize how little I've talked about his fabulous stuff. I write letters on his offerings from Dark Horse comics quite a lot, but I guess I don't blog about them nearly enough. (So many letters, so little time...) This set is called Supersonic, and it's peppered with very slinky hipsters doing groovy things. There is kind of a travel theme, but also kind of not - some rocking out to record players and other such things show up in the set. I just adore Shag's artwork and style.

Anyhoo, I wrote the letter featured in this blog entry in response to fabu pink-enveloped letter from the gal behind Goodnight Little Spoon. Her letter to me was so beautiful that I had to liven up even this Shag envelope with a little glitter-glue bling.



As I noted on the back of the envelope, I chose the supersonic flight stamp to match the "supersonic" stationery theme, but it doesn't say supersonic on it anywhere, so that's kind of an inside thing.

From a sheet of vintage stamps, I snagged this "mail early in the day" advice, which is now completely moot with today's sorting methods (I think).

Shag Calypso + Parker 51

I was starting a letter one evening, and thought of what a lovely photo the page with the pen would make, before I added any words. (I did put the date at the top.) The pen is my beloved Parker 51.

This is the Shag Calypso stationery set from Dark Horse comics.



Here's the full page, complete with curly-tailed black cat.

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.

The day I wrote 9 letters

I do write a lot of letters, but 9 heading out on one day is prolific even for me. This is what I did with my spring break.



These babies all headed out on March 19, so yeah, I'm behind on this happy blog... but I think it's apropo of the timing of snail mail... you just gotta wait for it, and that's part of the joy. Plus, these letters have already arrived by now (I hope!); I hate to ruin the surprise of letting recipients know exactly what their letter is going to look like before it hits their hot little hands.

Pink Panther fold and mail

Behold, one of the designs from the lovely Pink Panther fold and mail set by Chronicle Books. It's been out of stock on their website for ages, and methinks it may be discontinued, but I've snatched up a wee stash from a variety of sundry sources.



That's my feisty kitty Magic on the little Moo sticker. I find that the glue on these puppies isn't the best, and reinforcing with a couple of stickers is a good idea, just to make sure it completes the postal journey intact.