Julie R. Neidlinger: Lone Prairie Art and Writing

Linkage: Reviving the old.

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I've often bemoaned the death of the old forms of communications brought about by email and technology. Hand-written letters, postcards, telegrams -- pretty much gone the way of the Dodo. Back before unique paper cards, tags and whatever else is out there was considered ephemera and the media of scrapbookers and collage artists, it was actually used.

As you can tell by my website's look, I love paper scraps and cards and stuff from yester-year. And, as I've said in previous posts, I miss the feel and aura of handwriting on paper. Regular readers know I like real letters, commonplace books, bookplates, dip-pens and anything else that has passed from regular use.

The following links are an effort to provide a marriage of the old and new, a kind of compromise. If you have a site or link to add, drop it in the comments.

Send an old-style telegram via email. It's free, fun, and better than nothing: Retro-gram.
Download free "prop" documents with a 1920's and 30's feel to them at the H.P. Lovecraft Historical Society. Lots of great stuff.
The HPLHS also offers vintage postage stamps. (The HPLHS has done a great service with all of the stuff the offer you online. Check out their site beyond the links I've provided.)
Christian Matzke's site is about making props for the H.P. Lovecraft mythos, but even if you aren't into Lovecraft, you'll still find some cool ideas of stuff you can make and adapt for whatever purposes you might have. Very cool site; Matzke has put a lot of work into it.