velmalikevelvet

Bibliophile. Beer-aficionado. Bad-ass crafter. Bigmouth.

After many years as an OFFICE SUPPORT drone, I am now an ARTIST working with FIBER. I LIVE between the SEA and the TREES at the edge of the Pacific Ocean. I studied GEOGRAPHY as an undergrad and PSYCHOLOGY as a graduate student. That was at LEAST 3 Velmas ago. Now I am a DELTIOLOGIST (collector & sender of postcards).

➼ Why, yes! That IS me with my head inside my postal box!

➼ My absolute FAVORITE POSTCARDS are the ones other people hate - THINK: kitsch! tacky! weird! inexplicable! in poor taste! risque! handmade! art! fugly!

➼ Postcards that are VINTAGE/ANTIQUE score DOUBLE points!

➼ The BEST of the BEST make it to my WALL OF SHAME, the favorites gallery proudly gracing one wall in my wee house

➼ I also appreciate these THEMES:
-Postal (Post Office, mailboxes, letter carriers, etc.)
-Knitting, spinning, & weaving
-Doctor Who
-Books, reading, library interiors, old bookshops
-Bicycles, cycling
-Outsider art
-Old movie posters, especially foreign (non-American)
-Pinups (especially Gil Elvgren)
-Space/Astronauts/Cosmonauts (NASA, Soviet program, the universe)
-Political ideas
-Tarot, fortune telling
-Hiking/backpacking
-Old maps & globes
-Vintage images (especially 50s era) of most any kind on a modern postcard

➼ Unusual POSTAGE stamps will put a smile on my face, & hand-cancelled mail is the best of all

➼ PLEASE: a NOTE + a DATE = HAPPY card karma

➼ ONLY cards from the country of ORIGIN, please, and NO ENVELOPES

➼ If you include your RETURN ADDRESS, you'll probably get a REPLY!

➼ Want a DIRECT SWAP?
velma / velmalikevelvet
P.O. Box 213
Arcata, CA 95518
United States of America

➼ MORE postcard love:

My Flickr postcard sets:
Postcard Pimpin' (all sent/received, not just postcrossing):
http://www.flickr.com/photos/velmasworld/sets/72157629032138095/
Wall o' Shame (fave postcards I've received):
http://www.flickr.com/photos/velmasworld/sets/72157594486964100/with/392373782/

➼ THANK YOU FOR READING MY PROFILE - HAPPY POSTCROSSING!!!