‘Meow’ is how I say ‘I love you’

I have my doubts about stylized hearts and pink teddy bears and hate that there’s so much pressure associated with Valentine’s day, and yet… here I am with a stack of handmade Valentine’s day postcards (which will all arrive sometime next week, probably).   I’m not very good at saying ‘I love you,’ but if I’ve ever woken you up by pretending to be a cat outside your door, well, ‘meow’ is how I say ‘thank you for being in my life.’ Though there are also stylized hearts with postage stamps on the back, and chocolate too, sometimes.

 

 

Postcards

Every time I read Griffin & Sabine (and this happens a couple of times a year) I get this urge to make my own postcards. If you haven’t read it, Griffin & Sabine is an epistolary story, and a lot of the correspondence is written on beautifully illustrated postcards. The story itself is intriguing, and has some supernatural twists that I didn’t see coming.

I love receiving mail, and I’ve always secretly wanted a stranger from the other side of the world to send me a letter (though if it turned out to be something like Sabine’s first postcard to Griffin, I would completely freak out). That said, receiving mail from friends is fun too. And we all know that the best way to get mail is to send mail.

So I bought a sheet of posterboard, cut it up into 4 x 6 inch pieces, and started to draw.

I miss living close to my bestest friends, who are now all over a thousand miles away. Facebook is great for keeping in touch, but I crave to hold something that they held and scribbled on. Something tangible and not in Helvetica.

And hey, maybe I’ll find a handmade postcard in the mail one of these days.