Letters!!

 One of my new hobbies has been sending letters to my darling dearest friends. I used to do this in middle school and ever since I stopped i wanted to get back on it. Now that I have isolated myself in a random conrer fo the country, I yearn to get any piece of my friends and so i guilt them with my own gifts and bobbles for them to send me their own.

A good letter is any letter but if you really want to make people rush to their desks, quill in hand, to reply asap, here are my suggetsions:

Trash

Literally the random scraps of things, especially regional specific, make such good trinkets. Think of yourself as a crow and this letter as ur hoard. And then you get to free yourself from some of your collection without having to throw it out! I am at the point that I want to send a cleaned Blake's ketchup packet and musuem tickets.

Rambling

The best and easiest letter content is straight up what's on your mind. I sent three letters last month with teh same rant about how much i hate the sun and how we should all move to boston and then how sorry i am that every letter is the same. The people eat it up every time. My next set of letters will probably be like "Happy Valentines day! i am so excited for the new tomodachi
life."

Gifts

How are gifts different than trash? Trash is random, impersonal, but still fun. Gifts are what will keep you busy until you get a response to reply to. Things you make or collect that remind you of the specific person. Sometimes i laminate doodles on post-its so that you get a photo card type thing for a wallet or the like. Crafts that you like to make rather than keep are perfect for this kind of thing. Not my business on what they do with that.

Envelope

The envelope is very importnat. The envolope is how the USPS people know that you are cooler and better than all other mail. It sets expectations to your recipiant. Its a great chance to call your friend "the creature"

One of my fav parts about sending letters is thinking about items and the paths they have traveled. Now everything I send to Daniel in Seattle has traveled over sreas I have never seen. If he takes them to Boston, they have now traveled from coast to coast. A found object has the potential for countless owners and could've traveled to lands unknown.

Writing letters reminds me of wild world. I used to really believe the villagers could read my letters back then. I used to flirt with Anchovy and gossiped with flo. I used to cram the letter with everything I could. I would use the signature line to finish thoughts. I figured the people would know it was me.

When I played new leaf, Marshal sent me some letter asking to be my valentine and i decided he was my boyfriend in the game. I eventually broke up with him and slowly stopped playng the game after a few years. When I returned a year or two ago, he got kinda pathetic to get my attention again even tho I had moved on and started dating The Boyfriend. It was a little sad so i let him move to The Roommate's town and he got stuck with the loser whos house was a mess of presents I had sent through the post. Whole stereos and lamps stuffed in an envelope. 

Anyways, these are my postal ramblings. I am off to bed. I have work tmr and I have to get ready! I think i can get away with not showering but dont tell any of my coworkers. 

My email is always open for any fan mail if anyone's interested!!

Bye!! 💋

My local art museum

 Happy New Year Krilltopia!

I've been working on exploring Santa Fe, especially the museums and stores. My two main destinations have been the New Mexico Museum of Art and the bead store by the library, Glorianna's Beads. I've also just been going into any store that slightly interest me so that I know more about downtown. 

The New Mexico Museum of Art is one of the most iconic buildings downtown. Its been around forever for an American building but its a toddler in the centuries of Santa Fe. I've been to their gift shop before and I like their jewelry a lot. The museum itself is currently 80% a retrospective for an artist I had never heard of before, Gustave Baumann.

Baumann is an incredible artist, his work with color in his woodblocks use color in ways I cannot understand. It's amazing. And then it just keeps going on and on. Once you get to the largest gallery of the retrospective, you see Baumann's work go from very similar woodblocks that flood the space to native inspired illustrations and commercial work. The work stops admiring the landscape and people, becoming consumable media for those who live outside the state.

Upstairs continues this retrospective somehow, the curators should consider editing down their choices. The last two rooms have their 20th centaury art collection, mainly just real and imagined portraits of native people to sell to art collectors and the people back east who romanticize something they specifically drove out and destroyed in their own states. There is one portrait of a white teen boy (one of the few portraits where the sitter is named...) who won a contest and the reward was a trip to NYC and the painting. Second place's prize was a new saddle, which the boy would've preferred. Its a very cute portrait that hints at life at the time. 

The best part of the museum is the architecture, you often go through huge wooden doors and the exterior is a lovely example of Santa Fe's unique style. Overall the museum is alright but I probably won't go back unless they have a retrospective on someone I care about. Someone I'd actually want to see four galleries of. 

On the other hand, the bead store was a dream. I bought a pre-Eisenhower dime charm and some weird stuff for super cheap.... this is dangerous for me.

I've also stopped in some gift stores that were pretty lame and the toy store that is even more dangerous than the bead store because they sell their Calico Critters at full price... but those little guys remind me so much of The Boyfriend. 

That's all for my downtown exploration so far, one weekends worth. 

Bye!!