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A very dear and generous friend sent us some wonderful treasures!! Thank you so much Auntie Barbara for showering my girls with love!! 😊
Beautifully knitted adorable Bunny, Elephant, socks and cardigan all by Barbara Gehring. Wow, she's so talented!! ❤️
The girls lights have arrived but they were so excited to get them they just crammed the box inside before opening :D
You can see I did have a couple lights from our trip last year and we got them out to see how this all works - the chandelier was a new purchase for the great room even though Penelope likes it in her room :D
Another one from the late 90's.
86208 is seen passing Wandel Mill , on the WCML north of Abington, with the southbound Mail at 1646. 12/8/98
One of my Flickr friends sent me a wonderful care package today! Expect some photos of excerpts of the thin book with the fancy brown cover. Published in 1863 in Leipzig, it has wonderful passages written in old German script, and wonderfully nonsensical passages of English. Here's an example:
Crabs live in the water. You will fall into the water. You must not go to the water; you might fall into it. The carp was drawn out of the water. The lark is flying over the field. The bushes are under the lark. The goldfinch is sitting upon the bush or on the grass.This is a book of my brother's. I am just coming from the market place.
And it goes on! Isn't is just a delightful treasure?
Thank you, dear shiraluna!
I have been receiving a large number of mails from my friends in flickr land just lately. I do like to hear from my friends. this is me reading a message from Emi a great girl with a good sense of humor something that is needed when writing to me for I am as daft as a box of frogs.
Look what came in the post! A new torso and head. My old one is completely knackered :-D
20 portraits to do in 23 days...can it be done? We shall see. This is really just typical of me...leave everything until the last minute and go mental.
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I used to make custom motorcycle speedometer faces, (Alien Faces) and this is one that I made for a customer. (These were high resolution printed inserts that was placed OVER your original speedometer face)
He had a WWII P-51 Mustang airplane theme and wanted something fit the theme.
We talked about it in e-mail and came up with this, he just had a vague idea as to what he wanted.
His motorcycle had a custom paint job on it that had bullet holes and some intentional paint wear, rust, damage, exhaust smudge etc. So, that is what he wanted to continue on this.
I know that those with a sharp eye will see that the two gauges have (digitally painted) glass over them. The inner face has broken (digitally painted) glass over it too, AND, not just that, but there was some REAL glass over these. :)
So, that part, while hokey, he loved it, and we both knew it was WAY over the top, but he wanted it that way, so...
Also, in real life if those bullet holes were from a German plane, the holes would be larger, so practically NONE of what you see is realistic. (These are .22 caliber size)
In my mind I designed this to be like an old plane that was in a plane boneyard and was rusting for years and he came along and saved it. That was how I looked at it, and realism is what I aimed for, although, nothing was realistic in 'real life'. :)
I learned how to do rust, and age things while making this.
This was all done in Photoshop after looking online at how planes (especially P-51's) gauges looked. Actually, I couldn't find one, so I looked at other plane gauges and just went with it.
He was ex-Air Force so he had to have the Air Force star, and he also wanted the small type in small print about, "War Bird", his bike. (See circular print in the inner ring)
He won some contests with his bike, I saw it in a magazine once.
I did several that were in magazines actually, I had a really good business while it lasted.
(Another guy saw this and wanted one for his bike and he had been a Tomcat pilot, so I made him one for that, I had several pilots actually)
Anyway, yeah, it's not realistic, but you just have to open your mind, or, have a shot of tequila, whichever. :)
Prêt à partir pour la Turquie où mon amie Ayshegül organise un appel à mail art qui seront exposés à Istanbul... Va t il arriver entier ? That is the question !
In an effort to secure service to Austria’s remote valleys and woodlands, postal service relied on steam-powered quad-copters.
During the Siege of Paris, (1870-1871), which lasted 4 months, 150,000 official and 1 million private communications were carried into the city by pigeons. The birds were taken out of the city by hot air balloon, then they flew back carrying letters, photographically reduced to save weight.
(Info from Wikipedia)
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Texture layer from les brumes
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Date brush by jonas 013
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With many thanks to the above.
I checked the mail for today and what a nice surprise to see this guys waiting for me, thank you to Christo for making this incredible minifigures. I'll post pics later of everyone of them.
Bloch Bros’ Mail Pouch Tobacco sign in Fort Edward, New York. The Bloch Brothers Tobacco Company of Wheeling, West Virginia was a tobacco company best known for their Mail Pouch chewing tobacco.
The Royal Mail can trace its history back to 1516, when Henry VIII established a "Master of the Posts" a position which existed until 1710, when it was renamed "Postmaster General"
By the late 1890s, there were between six and twelve mail deliveries per day in London, permitting correspondents to exchange multiple letters within a single day. The Morris Commercial J-type was a 10 cwt (0.5 ton) van launched by Morris Commercial in 1949 and produced until 1961.The J type was fitted with a 1476 cc four-cylinder side-valve engine, drive to the rear wheels via a three-speed gearbox
( thanks to Robert Marsh for photo of Mail Van, background street photo from timepix.uk is 52 Primrose Bank,Oldam, Manchester, England ( no. 126 / 261 ) looking towards Primrose mill, postman from Bing Images. not dated
16/02/2016 (Tue) 1856 Lichfield Trent valley 1A91 1700 Warrington RMT - Willesdon mail
(300mm f5.6 Mamiya 645 lens with Fotodiox lens adaptor)
If you like railway pictures that are a bit different to the norm, try the Phoenix RPC website;
Another shot I forgot to post from my Philadelphia trip in June. I find this understated but I really like it.(Not the photo, the spot) It almost feels too personal to look at.
Philadelphia, June 2011
Kodak Supra 400, Expired
Canon AE-1 50mm 1.8
V reg Dodge walkthru van cash van.Walkthru production stopped in 1979 but this one was not registered till July 1980 and only lasted till 1988