My get pushed partner @lanikyea gave me this challenge: make a photo of our stars and stripes flag in some arty but respectful way. This is one of two responses I'm posting.
These envelopes with .32 stamps are a few of a stack I saved from being discarded a long time ago. They are not blank. What you don't see is that they are self-addressed envelopes that were enclosed with the applications of candidates for a faculty position in the English Department. That was at least four to five years before I started working there in 2001. When that department was getting ready to move out of Denison Hall, which was being torn down, I was given the task of clearing out a storage closet that was full to the gills with stuff of all types, including documents such as those applications that had reached the requisite number of years they had to be retained and could then be shredded.
It appeared that the candidates had been asked to include a SASE, but none of them had been used, in the end. I just couldn't stand the thought of all that perfectly good never used postage going to waste. So I brought them home and for a while was putting the make up postage on them and labeling over the addresses on the envelopes. I did that for the ones most easily labeled over -- the ones with typed addresses. These have hand written addresses and not as easy to cleanly cover over.
I worked for the English Department for 10 plus years. I've now subsequently worked for the Modern Languages department for six years. It's probably time to chuck them, but every time I look at that unused postage I choke. I have some with 29 cent stamps that were from an earlier faculty search. Those just need 21 more cents... :-)
good for you and challenge well met. I usually cut the printed envelope stamps and glue them on another envelope if can't cover the addresses. I understand if they have not been canceled they can be used
Oh, I'm trying to come up with something different for you to do for Get Pushed. So, I read your profile and I'm familiar with both Manhattan, KS (my hubby has spent a lot of time at Ft. Riley and we lived there the summer of 2005 - Milford Lake area), and Minneapolis (my daughter goes to school there). Minneapolis is famous for purple things (the Vikings and Prince) and K-State (one of my son's friends just started as a freshman there) is purple, so how about doing a select color shot with purple being your highlighted color. LOL, sorry I took the long way around to give you your challenge for this week!
Terrific photo by the way A great response to the challenge