turn your children into stamps

i received an invitation to a baptism the other day from that chick i don't really know whose baby shower i ended up going to last february at the behest of my mother and golly jeepers, did i have a keen time that day!

anyway, it was a nice gesture for her (whose name i still don't know as the inkjet-printed return address label got fucked up in the rain) to send me an invitation, although i must say i found her choice of postage interesting:



i just don't know if i like the idea of my child's face getting postmarked. and i don't even have children.

stamps.com offers a service called photostamps where you can upload an image and then order postage by the sheet, 20 stamps per page. it's a great idea in theory, but the sample postage on their website doesn't show what any of these stamps would look like after they've been run though a postal meter and canceled with huge streaks of black ink that mar a substantial portion of the image.

i'd suggest this to dave to go with his custom checks, but i don't like how these stamps get totally ruined by going through the mail.

so i'm thinking, wouldn't you be better off taking that same image--or maybe one where the baby didn't look like she was scared half to death, but again, not my kid so whatever--and making return address labels instead? you can order some decent-quality address labels (that won't wash off in case your mail gets rained on) from iprint for a lot less and save from having mean people like me blog about your weird baby stamps.

i took the liberty of mocking up a sample label for our friend thor over at danes' dyke. women aren't welcome there, but maybe he'll find a nice lady penpal if this thing with raine doesn't work out. (he is inscrutable, after all.) and address labels always come in handy. they're cheap enough that he can even label his entire 8-track collection.



no, i really haven't thought it out much farther than that. shut up.