Today is the last day of my Valentine Project 2016.
Today is the last workshop, and the last chance for you to order your Valentine online, to be sent to someone you love – through the post.
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Get In Here: A Valentine for the ones you Love.
I’ve been hard at work on this next Mail Art Project to present to you.
It’s for Valentine’s Day – a very special day to this artist.
I see valentine’s day as an opportunity to express Love – capital ‘L’! and I do my best to come up with a card that will allow all of us a chance to express it to someone we love. This year, I teamed up with Gozno, a pop and contemporary artist, to make a card that will do just that! I hope you will use this card to express Love to someone in your life.
Get in here!
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A Love Letter Workshop
Last week, on Tuesday to be exact, I went to Chatham to host a Love Letter-Writing Workshop.
Cut-out hearts were folded into envelopes. Hole punchers, glue sticks, craft paper, and card stock were there to play with and create. Sealing wax was provided to put the final touch on every letter made to be mailed away.
The participants came with hearts open wide, and words to match. The writers who came out to this event put their hearts on the page, and tested their courage when it came to expressing this thing called Love. There were mothers and friends…and a lone stranger who walked in from the cold – he had heard of the workshop only an hour before, and thinking ‘my girlfriend would love that!’ came to try his hand at writing her (his openness and simplicity added such a beauty to the night – I hope they both love what was created there).
The Love Letters were mailed the next day (after taking copious amounts of pictures), which means they should be arriving any day now…hearts will be sent a flutter, and romances made to blossom, I’m sure.
This thing called love, this avenue paved with letters that takes us to it, it is beautiful, and it is worth every word written on the page.
I hope to run many many more workshops like this one. Seeing people pick up a pen, seeing how they sit and ponder the words to write, being exposed to their creativity and heart, makes my heart beat faster, makes my mission clearer still, and supplies me with inspiration to last until the next time….
Allyson Proulx 