For as long as I can remember I have loved stamps. Suddenly I feel like I am Andy Rooney. I love stamps from every country! I used to trade stamps with the neighbors when I was a child. My English Aunt sent me some fresh, uncancelled stamps every time one came out that was pretty or meaningful. She even sent me some first day of issue stamps commemorating a royal wedding (Charles and Di). I LOVE STAMPS! Now, in my Andy Rooney tone, I shall complain.
First of all, postage stamps are not terribly collectible anymore. The ones with the self-adhesive are difficult to remove from an envelope and feel like plastic! yech. They don't even bother to put a denomination on them...just "forever." Might as well say "Whatever," as far as I am concerned. Are the "whatever" stamps really good forever?? What if Canada invades the United States and converts to their stamps...will the "whatever" stamp be useless? Isn't it sort of egotistical of us Americans (no not us ;-) to think that we will be around forever? WHATEVER. anyway, back to more complaints...
Kids do not collect stamps anymore! My 5 year old does...but then again he collects everything including dryer lint, so he doesn't count! Kids in today's hi-tech world are too busy collecting electronic devices and cyber pals to consider something as "geeky" as stamp collecting. SO, I must do the collecting and displaying for everyone. =)
I do not collect expensive stamps and try to increase their value...blah blah all that. I may have some in my collection that are worth a little, very little. But that is not why I collect them. I just simply love the little stamps for their artwork. Cute little renderings of birds, butterflies, buiildings, ugly world leaders! I love to put them together into collages (mostly digital, but some traditional) to include in my artwork offerings...
First of all, postage stamps are not terribly collectible anymore. The ones with the self-adhesive are difficult to remove from an envelope and feel like plastic! yech. They don't even bother to put a denomination on them...just "forever." Might as well say "Whatever," as far as I am concerned. Are the "whatever" stamps really good forever?? What if Canada invades the United States and converts to their stamps...will the "whatever" stamp be useless? Isn't it sort of egotistical of us Americans (no not us ;-) to think that we will be around forever? WHATEVER. anyway, back to more complaints...
Kids do not collect stamps anymore! My 5 year old does...but then again he collects everything including dryer lint, so he doesn't count! Kids in today's hi-tech world are too busy collecting electronic devices and cyber pals to consider something as "geeky" as stamp collecting. SO, I must do the collecting and displaying for everyone. =)
I do not collect expensive stamps and try to increase their value...blah blah all that. I may have some in my collection that are worth a little, very little. But that is not why I collect them. I just simply love the little stamps for their artwork. Cute little renderings of birds, butterflies, buiildings, ugly world leaders! I love to put them together into collages (mostly digital, but some traditional) to include in my artwork offerings...
This piece, for example is a digital collage of a moth. The butterfly stamps represent a very serious mistake I made on ebay as a result of bidding on too many stamps at once. I had no idea that absolutely nobody would bid against me! That day I won every auction I entered (like 20 of them) The stamps were a terrific deal, hardly cost me a dime...but the postage nearly killed me!
To all of that ebay nonsense and to peel and stick stamps; I say "Whatever!"
Thanks for reading, my friends.
Cathy
To all of that ebay nonsense and to peel and stick stamps; I say "Whatever!"
Thanks for reading, my friends.
Cathy
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