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Holy crow! Thank you all so much for supporting me in this little venture! I confess, when I came up with this idea I wasn’t sure if anyone would want a set of cards featuring my images…to say the least, you blew my socks off yesterday!
If you claimed a set of postcards, or two, or four, thank you so much! We have them all packaged up and as soon as RW comes home from hunting this afternoon, we’re going to start printing shipping for them all. We’ll be sending them out with extra sparkles and zing, so be prepared.
Also, I meant to tell you before but it slipped my mind, each pack includes a bonus card of my choosing! YAY! That’s just a little treat for my little birds.
Thank you, so much, for making all my dreams come true. And thank you all for the sweet messages you attached to your orders and for the notes you emailed me — I take those things to heart and currently, my heart is very full.
Sending you love, blue grouse feathers and Idaho sunbeams,
Jillian
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It’s finally happened! I’ve gone postal!
Holy crow! Thank you all so much for supporting me in this little venture! I confess, when I came up with this idea I wasn’t sure if anyone would want a set of cards featuring my images…to say the least, you blew my socks off yesterday!
If you claimed a set of postcards, or two, or four, thank you so much! We have them all packaged up and as soon as RW comes home from hunting this afternoon, we’re going to start printing shipping for them all. We’ll be sending them out with extra sparkles and zing, so be prepared.
Also, I meant to tell you before but it slipped my mind, each pack includes a bonus card of my choosing! YAY! That’s just a little treat for my little birds.
Thank you, so much, for making all my dreams come true. And thank you all for the sweet messages you attached to your orders and for the notes you emailed me — I take those things to heart and currently, my heart is very full.
Sending you love, blue grouse feathers and Idaho sunbeams,
Jillian
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It’s finally happened! I’ve gone postal!
I’ve had many of you request, over the past year, that I make prints of my images. Recently, I sat down, carefully selected a batch of photos I’ve taken over the past year and I had those shots made into postcards.
This is an effort to:
1. Offer you extremely affordable pieces of my work.
2. Encourage you to support the world wide postal system! Here in the USA, the postal service seems to be especially floundering and every $0.44 stamp you purchase helps to support an incredible system. Don’t let snail mail die! Help your local mail carrier keep his or her job!
3. Help keep the art of letter writing alive! Writing letters and sending mail is one of my love languages. I’ve always ALWAYS loved the post. Nothing puts a smile on my face like a received snippet of love from another part of the world. Constructing a hand written, cleanly composed letter is a work of art. Hone your skills with these posties.
4. Help me help myself! I’m becoming more and more serious about photography. I carry my camera with me nearly everywhere I go. It’s always whirring and clicking. I buy pieces of clothing that I think will look nice when photographed against fall colors. I wake up early to catch the morning light with my camera. I wait, on the edge of my seat, for the golden hour in the evening. I drive long distances to capture the sunlight on the mountain peaks. I carry my camera on long backcountry hikes just to record the perfect light in the perfect places. I’m a woman obsessed. And I want to share the best of that obsession with you. Do you mind?
Of course, you don’t actually have to put these post cards through the mail system. You may also pin them to your inspiration board above your office nook at home (if you find them inspiring), take them to work and use them to brighten up your cubicle, or give them as gifts to a friend who needs a little pick-me-up. Do what you like with them, and know that you have my blessing whether you put them in the post or not!
The postcard pack I am putting in the Etsy shop today contains these four images:
[I am Willa Cather]
[Putting the Spring in Spring]
[Blue]
[From the Ground Up]
All images that depict a piece of me or all of me are self portraits captured without the help of a remote or tripod (I actually don’t own either of these tools).
They are professionally printed, feature a smooth matte finish on the front and back and measure the standard postcard size of 4×6 inches.
They are professionally printed, feature a smooth matte finish on the front and back and measure the standard postcard size of 4×6 inches.
I hope you love them!
And I hope they carry your messages well.
xx
Plume
Congrats plume on this new direction!
Your photos are lovely, snail mail is lovely, and its wonderful that we can now use them happily together.
i am as pleased as a peach, plume. snail mail is the bestest!
When I first started reading this post, I thought you meant photos of your jewellery. What post cards they would make! Of course the photos you showed us are very lovely too, they have an atmosphere all of their own.
Its about dang time!!!!
Indubitably!!!!
I've snatched some! My first Plume purchase in over two years! This poor student thanks you from the bottom of her frequently empty wallet.
Also, I wholeheartedly agree with you on the importance of letter-writing.
Totally inspiring photos! I have done this with my own photos,My friends and family think I am crazy spending money on the postage oh well! Crazy I will be
We do not remember days; we remember moments. ~Cesare Pavese,
What a great way to remember them!
~Sharon
You do have great ideas… : )
This is fantastic 🙂
Hoo-hoo-hoo-RAY!
So glad you chose "Blue." Such a striking shot; bowled me over when I first saw it.
🙂
OH MY GOODNESS GRACIOUS YOU GAGGLE OF GEESIES!!!!!
Gosh. I left the house to run errands for most of the afternoon and RW kept calling me from home to say:
"Jillian, they're all gone again….do you want me to put another batch up?"
EEK!
Your support astounds. Truly. Thank you for wanting these postcards.
The Smokejumper will be packing and shipping all postie orders out tomorrow! Again, we both thank you, so very much.
xx
Dear Jillian,
Ive been an quite but adament reader of your blog so quite some time now, and want you to know that I love to gain inspiration from your lovely words and delicate photos. I know this might be a shot in the dark but I was wondering if you would like to have another penpal? I have a huge heart for the art of snail mail, and mail out at least one letter a week to friends abroad or in my own city. I would love to give and recieve magical pieces of mail with you, if you would have me 🙂
My email is britt.macduff@gmail.com, if you would like to send me your address, and until then, keep on being your wonderful self,
Love Britt
goodness gracious.
no remote?
no tripod?
secret fairies a-taking your photo?
thank you, mister smokejumper postman.
Lovely!! (And my gosh, this post makes me miss my 30D like whoa…)
Glad I was able to order some, you are so gifted in so many ways. Do you realize that?(of course you do!) Letter writing was the only way to keep in touch with old friends when I was a girl (military upbringing) I agree; it's become a lost art. I plan to hang these in a prominent spot in my studio, esp. the one of you jumping…