My writing
muse seems to have taken a vacation so I have been looking at other creative
avenues and find myself suddenly addicting to card making. Who knew there were so many new inventions in
paper art? I have been seriously out of
the loop. There are affordable machines
that can emboss, cut and imprint. While
I was aware of punches and stamps I had no idea of the range of themes
available. Look out Papyrus, you may
have lost a valued customer!
Naturally I have looked further along in
the card making process because what is the point of creating a bunch of cards
if one is not going to take up letter writing again. Fortunately for me I have a number of friends
who are not fluent in email so that will pose no problem. But I wonder about other people who may not
have the knack of writing, or indeed, keeping in touch with friends. Letter writing is a true art form and in some
ways I believe that it was part of my writing apprenticeship.
I began writing letters to my grandmother
overseas when I was 8 years old. Those
early letters entailed drawing a picture and then writing a story describing
what the picture meant. By the time I
was 10 I was writing detailed letters without any picture prompting me
along. By 14 I was writing to one of my
aunts and 2 cousins as well as my grandmother and shortly thereafter took up
writing to 3 friends as we moved away from our childhood home.
Nowadays I don’t believe young people
even know what a letter is; it’s rather like the days after the invention of
the telephone when people suddenly stopped making afternoon “calls” as in
visits. We simply have to move along to
the new ways, darling. From morning retro.calls
to telephone chat to card sending to emails and then on to texting. Whatever will they think of next? Ah, a cuttlebug and back to cards. Truly
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