VQR Postal Project Anniversary

Sent by Heleen (the Netherlands)

I started this postal project one year ago. So, if the projects have birthdays, today it is. I received this postcard for my own birthday. I can't think of a better birthday message!

By the way, it arrived with this cowstamp on the envelope:

Bonus

And the second time I have got this milkmaid. But if you happen to have it, you need to know that I don't mind to receive it again...

And inside...

More cards to play Vacha'lauréat, with some real and fake labels...

Three more from the Netherlands...!

Sent by Heleen

Sent by Heleen

Sent by Heleen

24 non-LVQR portions

Sent by Heleen (the Netherlands)

Folded box which arrived inside a nice envelope with cowstamps:

Mali

I received this stamp through snail mail, but not directly from Mali.

The only laughing red cow

Sent by Richard (France)

Just pretend

Wot? No cows?

Well, when I started this project I couldn't imagine that one day I would be publishing no-VQR mail (I have another blog for that). John (the UK) send me this cowless letter with a suggestion:

Just pretend they're cows!

Ok, but look at the left stamp... Riding cows?!?

New Dutch Cowstamps

Sent by Heleen (the Netherlands)

Mackó

Sent by Micu (Hungary)

Some facts about this handmade postcard make me love it:

• The addition of the little piece of fabric that makes it original and realistic.
• The portions are incredibly big: 33g!
• It is a new brand (for me, of course). I don't know how this word is pronounced in Hungarian, but in my language maco means 'beautiful'. And the bear looks very elegant, don't you agree?
• By the way... Why in Hungary they like so much bears appearing in cheese boxes?
• The illustration uses the recursion as well as the VQR illustrations do. Mise en abyme or recursion or Droste effect is an artistic technique in which a image contains a smaller copy of itself, in a sequence appearing to recur infinitely. In theory, of course. Practically it continues only as long as the resolution of the picture allows. But we can imagine bear-waiters forever...