After 2 weeks of waiting for REAL post to come in, I took out an ad on an online classified ads site that's really popular here in London called Gumtree.
I decided that if I couldn't get the friends I know to send me post, then I just needed to make new friends.
At that time, Facebook had just set itself so that all profiles were publicly viewable for the first time (my idea actually preceded theirs but I'm not going to pull Zuck up about it) so the timing was just perfect for an ad like this.
I saved the original wording in an email and the wording you are reading are as close to the words as I could make them so that they still made sense today and didn't embarrass me too much (another early version of the ad can be seen on my blog.
This is being sent in to plot 45 today.
And in other plot 45 related news, thanks to you lot, my wonderful penpals and reader, plot 45 has outgrown the miniscule foot square cage they've given me, not once but TWICE! Where before the plot was housed in the main gallery with the other 100 plot, we now reside upstairs in a gallery on our own!
Keep em coming and I'll keep the my REAL wall retrospective coming from here!
July 12, 2012 at 12:28 PM
This works really well as a postcard - love the layers. And it answers the question I was about to ask - how is plot 45? Definitely a book in this too - let me know if you need an editor!!!!! And you're 150 away from the 365 celebration target :>)
July 12, 2012 at 9:35 PM
Thanks Stripygoose. I was really pleased with this piece. I wanted the essence of a classified ads piece to come through, but without being too overwhelming, so I used tracing paper salvaged from a copy of the Telegraph to cover a collage of classifieds. The tracing paper was an ad for Citibank, and when I'd cut it out, it turned out that the blue lines fit the piece perfectly. One of those lovely collage coincidences I really love
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