Jamie is one of my favorite blog girls. She cuts paper and thinks in maps and lives in a desert scape of branches and motorcycles and furry friends and nowls. Her designs are unique and her photos beautiful. And when she wrote last week during the swap, saying "You know flight path diagrams?!" and explained how she pictured "all those little packages like a flight diagram," and said that she would MAKE ONE for FIRST MILK, for the SWAP, I had to grab something heavy so as not to float away.
You can see the results of her lovely, detail-oriented designer's heart above. Valentine-carrying fowl, delivering love from one blogger to another to another to another all week. (Click to make it big and fabulous.)
Over and over again, I am amazed by the far reach of the Internet. I am amazed that something tiny like my wanting to live in a world where Valentine's Day doesn't suck results in so many pairs of hands packing up a bit of tangible love to send across the distance, nurturing community by post. In Jamie making a collective diagram of our tenuous, strong web. Thanks to each of you for helping me live in a world where Valentine's Day doesn't suck. And thanks to Jamie for having the sorts of eyes that see it so perfectly, render it in such clear terms.
Around the Internets, a few posts from swap participants, if you're interested in such things. I'll add to the list as time allows and as swap posts appear this week. For peeking, Peonies and Polaroids (sent, received); Life According to Celia (sent, received); A Desert Fete; Heart of Light; Privilege; The Avid Reader's Musings; kidchamp.net (sent, received); BigBANG Studio; Heart of Light; Dog-Eared; Bird for Bread (sent, received); A Girl's World; With Honey, Please; Hat and Feathers; Spirographs and Flying Fish; The Bee and the Bobbin; The Domestic Empress; Doux; That Cardboard Box (sent, received); Poppycock and Sunshine; bigger, better, best; first milk.
22 comments:
A WINGED MAP! how remarkable, how wonderful, how inventive, how jamie.
i wonder if she'd make them into prints and sell them...
milkmaid, YOU are a rock-star for making it all possible. swippity-swap post up on bigBANG just now, too.
thyme and wilde rabbitses,
xo.
Gosh. Wow. Gorgeous. And I hunted on that map for my packages, both incoming and outgoing, like a kid looking for the marshmallows in a bowl of cereal. Amanda, thank you so so so so so so much.
amazing. i'm so in next year. i wanted in so badly, but i knew i'd have made a sucky swapper. next year is when i'll start living. ♥
(ps. maybe next year i'll remember the hubs too!)
jamie is my hero. and you, miss amanda, are the cat's pajamas.
my eyes are teary and my stomach is filled to the rim with warm and fuzzies. ♥♥♥
It's gorgeous :) What a wonderful idea your Valentine's swap is!
ooh, i see ME. just opened mine the other night and have yet to post it but it was fabulous, of course!
What a lovely map!
Thanks again for organizing, Amanda, I really had fun both putting my package together and receiving lovely things in the mail. I look forward to next Valentine's Day!
Thanks for making valentines day cool Amanda!!!!!!!!!!!
Please, no one trace your package *too closely* there is ALOT of fudging going on there. :)
This map is lovely!
I think the swap might have to get a bit bigger next year?
This map is fantastic! Thank you for making it Jamie and thank you Amanda for being the sweetest queen of swaps.
gorgeous, jamie. i've loved everything about this swap.
Amanda - thanks so much for organizing this! That map is amazing!
I've posted about the beautiful, beautiful valentine I received here:
http://spirographs.blogspot.com/2010/02/hat-feathers.html
Yay, yay, yay! Swap photos up tomorrow!
as an oldster but newbie to blogworld, i marvel
at your generosity and jamie's inventiveness.
you are both such inspirations.
I had such fun with the swap. And that map is boootiful. xo
way to rub it in, you guys.
I just. I just couldn't get crafty this year. I'm still feeling guilty that I didn't even make a fucking card for my HUSBAND.
sigh. (just read wool and misc's comment. now I feel a little better.)
this is amazing!! i want to hang it on my wall!!!
next to a really awesome branch.. hehe
Love this! I'm kicking myself for not getting in on the swap on time -- if you'd like to host a swap in the near(er) future, I'd love to help out if that makes it a little easier to expand just a smidge :) But *yea you :)* and global awesomeness!
How utterly beautiful!
Here is my swap post (loveliness received): http://agirlsblogworld.blogspot.com/2010/02/love.html
And that of my swaplet: http://applesandblooms.blogspot.com/2010/02/swap-sent-swap-received.html
This is amazing. I'm in love with it!
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