You Are The BOMB DIGGITY (Thank You)

You Are The Bomb Diggity
So, even though this blog has been resembling the scene of a tumbleweed blowing through a ghost town, I have been plenty busy. This year has started out with a bang. First of all, I now have Fridays off again, WOOT! At the end of the year my schedule had changed so that I was working a half day on Friday, which was fine by me, but now I have the whole day off. If you’ve been following this blog for any time you might have heard me complain about having to work on Fridays oh, about a bobajillion of times. Vacation days? I essentially went from having 15 a year to having an additional 52 on top of that. High Five, everyone!

That being said, I have been uber productive and am so thrilled with a HUGE project that I kicked off right at the beginning of the year and have essentially completed already. Late last year when I was tweeking some of my product packaging, I wanted to revise my thank you notes that I put into every order. I came up with a little design to expedite outgoing orders. I designed a stamp I would put on paper and then add a simple handwritten “Thank you, Robyn” instead of the whole long handwritten thank you notes I have been doing. The personal touch is so important for my shop, but writing out whole notes has really become a time consuming hurdle for me. The revised design would still be very handmade and personal, but would speed up the process. I blogged about the process in this post from November, where I carved a stamp, and then took the stamp a step further by heat embossing the image.

Spent the day writing letters, stoking the fire in the fireplace, watching episodes of The Dome  and walking on the treadmill. We had the day off for the holiday but without any obligations and with the constant snowfall it felt like a snow day from schoo
I shared that top picture on instagram and Jessee from Art School Drop Out replied saying it would make an awesome framed print which made me want to send one to her, which then made me want to send one to all the awesome people that inspire me on instagram. My original goal was to make 20 or so, but then I kept thinking of more and more people. So far I’ve sent out 50 and and still keep thinking of more and more.

You Are The BOMB DIGGITY

1. I LOVE LOVE LOVE snail mail. I always think I need to send out more real mail and then I rarely do. I’m obsessed with all things mail (designing stationery, making mailart, having my own p.o. box, just to name a few) and yet I don’t actually send out as much as I daydream about. 2. Instagram is the bomb! Really.I have been on instagram since 2010, and have been posting pictures for two years strong. I love that I can share images of what I’m working on or what’s going on in my life and others do the same. There’s a very casual exchange and connection of people that I think even flickr didn’t get. (I had a few people toell me that they were very intimidated by flickr and that they could only post pictures that looked of a certain caliber.) I love the inspiration, the interactions and the support from the community. I wanted to send something out to everyone there that means something to me and let them know just how special they are. 3. It just kind of goes along with my love of random acts of kindness and putting positive things out there in the world. I know how much I love receiving real mail and so I like to imagine every single card I sent out and how it will brighten their day when it arrives. Even though I was the one who sent out the cards, not getting things in my own mailbox, I had an added benefit and that was seeing all the shared images of my card in my instagram feed! I made a mosaic of some of them above. How fun!

So, Thank You, Thank You, Thank You! To all the people that have been so supportive and provided me encouragement and inspiration. You Are The BOMB DIGGITY!

robayre

Hi, I'm Robyn and I was Hatched from a Kinder Surprise Egg. Graphic Designer by day, Maker of things by night. I have worked as a graphic artist professionally since I was 16 years old. Went on to get my Bachelors of Art from NIU. I like to share my Artwork online at flickr.com/photos/robayre and on my own personal website http://www.robayre.com. I also have an online shop http://www.robayre.etsy.com where you can find more of my "crafty" sorts of things, as well as a random piece of artwork here and there. Oh, and I'm also an occasional contributor to Artomat (artomat.org).

5 thoughts on “You Are The BOMB DIGGITY (Thank You)

  1. I loved this design when you first shared it here. To get one of these in the mail? Day. Made!

    Thank YOU for sharing your artistic talents and enthusiasm for all things – seriously inspiring. :)

  2. very much agreed with the other comments! while I think that Robyn is the ‘Bomb Diggity’, I know she can surely make a better, more shiny and glittery way of showing that to all of us:)

    In reality, I think that everyone that has every received anything from Robyn should send something to her…a simple card, a letter, something handmade. heck, they could steal their husbands favorite coffee cup and send it to her (that would make for a good story). That way, her love of mail will get that much better. even though I am 2 blocks away, I will do this (not the coffee cup though;)

    in short, robyn is awesome…err, ‘ROBYN IS THE BOMB DIGGITY’!!!!

  3. Robyn! I was so excited to receive this in the mail, and now knowing the thought process behind it, I’m loving my print even more! I felt bad for not posting the thank you photo until today, but then again, there’s kind of a synchronicity in the fact that you published this blog post today! I like stuff like that. I do plan to send you something via snail mail, but I’m a classic procrastinator, so it might take me a little while to get it together and out the door. Thank you again so much for thinking of me. I’m really glad to know you via instagram and your wonderful blog.

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