This blog reader letter from Germany has to be one of the most creative and lovely ever. Of course it included bats so I'm sold, but it's also a fine letter. It is a self-fold, a really fine job that was secured with stamps and included the clear note of where to cut without marring the contents. I tried to blur out some of the text in a careful way so that you can see the fold lines in case you want to fold a letter like this.
Bats! An owl! A vampyre reference (love the Euro spelling)! I've left the first paragraph and postscript intact so you can read them: View large. Oh - and I've just gotta say how much I love that bat stamp.
And you gotta get a closer look at this fine artwork (View large, and here's the P.S. larger.
In case you can't read it, she wrote: "My little drawing here is not to say that letter-writing is dead, but on the contrary to show that it is going to outlive! And maybe even vampyres like to receive letters..."
Indeed! I am absolutely certain that they must. (Anyone read Elizabeth Kostova's "The Historian?" Yeah.)
Even the front was fun, with cool stamps and a Luftpost sticker. And what's the little sailboat saxophone dude? Love him!
