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Letter blog

Dearest readers…

Forget about snailmail.

There’s a new concept in town.

 

The Letter blog!

 

Italian rooted Dutch creative centipede Chiara van den Berg spent wintertime at her family’s old casa in Palermo.

There she came across beautiful old craftpapers and envelopes.
At a garage sale she found inspiring antique and devotional pictures.

She cut, glued and wrote, and there it was. One letter blog. Everyday.

When her stay had ended she had made twentynine letters.

 

I decided to order one of them. That Churchill picture alone would’ve been worth the money.

Chiara van den Berg Letter blog

Chiara van den Berg Letter blog

 

Would you also like to receive a letterblog? Chiara is still sending them all over the world!
You just need to transfer €3,50 to her account, so she won’t starve on all those orders and can still have nice vegan dinners every night.

Check out all twentynine Palermo letters right here.

Also check out JaniceMacLeod, who writes letters from Paris!

 

Road Trip Part I

This summer Mr Rockstar and I took a four week break (hallelujah!) to cruise South West America. I was never really attracted to the idea of an American Road Trip. New York has been my only beau, for I was one of those ignorant European people that thought the US would be nothing more than a bunch of skyscrapers, malls and people playing it cool in their New Balance sneakers.

 

Was I wrong!

 

I have been completely blown away by the vastity of American nature. So many nature reserves, the one even more beautiful than the other. So much open space!

 

In my following posts I will show you some of the pics I took of our travels.

(Unfortunately my pictures have turned out a bit dissapointing to me. I haven’t been able to capture the magic of it all. Will have to practice my photography skills again, this apparatus has been laying around doing nothing for too long. Also bummed I didn’t get shots of all the amazing people I met. Probably because I was too caught up in the moment, not such a bad thing, right? I will try to work out some sketches for you to enjoy my cultural observations too ;).)

 

First up in this photo series: San Francisco, Napa/ Sonoma Valley, Yosemite/ Sequoia, Death Valley, Las Vegas and Zion.

(Part II: https://www.ellenvesters.com/road-trip-part-ii/

Part III: https://www.ellenvesters.com/road-trip-part-iii/)

 

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