The latest postcards and updates on the status of the project are below. Welcome and I hope you will participate in the project.
Postcard # 55
Title: Buffalo Sketch #2
Medium: watercolour
Destination: Alberta, Canada
Postcard # 54
Title: Glow
Medium: Watercolour and Ink
Destination: New Brunswick, Canada
Postcard # 53
Title: Elephant
Medium: Ink and Wash
Destination: Alberta, Canada
Postcard # 52
Title: Canada Goose
Medium: watercolour
Destination: Alberta, Canada
Postcard # 51
Title: Buffalo Sketch #1
Medium: watercolour
Destination: Germany
So here is a quick update of the numbers for the project.
So far I have sent out 50 post cards
There are 145 people on the waiting list so far
Grand total is 195 requests since I started.
Total postage spent on sending postcards... $62.62
As I said in my previous post I have 10 postcards ready to mail so watch for updates over the next few days.
I know I haven't updated the postcards in a very long time.
I was all ready to go when school let out, but after some unhappy comments about how long people had been waiting for postcards showed up on my Facebook Page I actually lost all my creative desire to make them.
I was so disheartened that something that I was doing from my heart, and paying for with my own money, as a gift for people I had never met, was being so misunderstood that I struggled to find a reason to keep going.
So I stepped back and re-evaluated why I was doing this. And my reasons remain the same, I want to give a gift to everyone on the planet. (and yes I know, it sounds crazy). I want to give anyone who lives anywhere a gift of something handmade from me. I hope that this will give people who live all over the world something in common. That someone who doesn't know them, someone who is a stranger, would make them a gift just because they are citizen of the planet Earth.
I also received a few emails from people wanting to participate encouraging me, and saying that they would wait for as long as it takes to get a card, which uplifted me in a way that is hard to describe. A wonderful connection to more strangers, giving encouragement to someone they don't know. It speaks directly to my heart and to the reasons I started this project in the first place.
Who knows, maybe having something in common will connect us further. Maybe having all these connections can help us heal the world. Who knows? But isn't it worth trying?
So I am pushing aside the comments and impatience of a few, and focusing on the wish to participate in the project that so many people have expressed. I made 10 postcards and I'm waiting for the varnish on them to dry. They will be in the mail tomorrow.
I would love to make something for you too, but please remember the rules. I can't promise when you will get it, I can't promise the subject matter, or the medium. But I will make it for you if you ask, and I will make a wish for you to happy, to live in peace and prosperity, and I will mail it off to you with my heartfelt gratitude for joining me in my crazy idea.
With Love
Kathleen
Postcard # 50
Title: Moon Flower 2
Medium: watercolor, ink
Destination: CA, USA
Postcard # 49
Title: Crow
Medium: pastel, ink, acrylic
Destination: Philipines
Postcard # 48
Title: Moon Flower 1
Medium: watercolor, ink
Destination: ON, Canada
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