❥ Dear, Stranger.

✎ All Skully ever wanted was a full head of hair. // Back from the dead with just a couple photos of this years’ Reddit Trick or Treat gift exchange. I made an attempt to replicate my bearded series but I’m getting a bit rusty.

✂ Box is purchased from the local post office, the “hair” consists of thin, colored paper, glued to perfection. Various text, ribs, legs, arms and skull are drawn on thicker construction paper. Post photo op the box was wrapped in clear plastic packaging tape to ensure arrival.

❥ Sincerely, Rehana.

✎ An incredibly evolved letter sent by the inspirational, @rehanu. The 3D card, a pop-up replica of The Design Museum, absolutely floored me. Though it was purchased, I’ll have to give it a creative go myself, a considerable subject matter for my next project maybe?

✂ The purchased card is a 3D pop-up replica of the architectural marvel the Design Museum in London. Her letter is handwritten on decorated parchment and includes a mini letter for my dog Anny.

❥ Dear, Rehana.

✎ For the love of science fiction, ROBOTS ARE TAKING OVER THE WORLD — well, not yet at least. Though I was happy to contribute to the mayhem by including a few terrifying tales and a miniature robot of her own, happy thoughts.

Additional photos thanks to @rehanu herself, found here and here!

✂ Envie is a newspaper comic cutout of a train ticket inspector, though the postman resemblance was too uncanny to resist a funny caption. The rest is either hand-drawn/written or printed content on thick stationary paper, using TUL gel pens and simple pink highlighters. The mini magazines are from the Fallout franchise and are slightly burned for post apocalyptic effect.

❥ Dear, unnamed stranger.

✎ Went all out for redditgifts’ 2016 Trick or Treat Exchange this year, the giant online secret-santa-like gift exchange with over 5,000 participants in 69 countries. My match conveniently asked for local treats so I obliged, I splurged, and I wrapped up the best box of fantastic that I could find. Spot anything you like?

Edit: The package has arrived!

✂ Package is hand painted with acrylic paint. Contents include a variety of traditional Slovak candy, along with little stories of their origin, ingredients and other witty tidbits taped to each individual packaging. Orange and black straw was included to ensure things don’t move around during shipment.

❥ Wiske, dearest.

✎ Ahoj, there! Uh, not as the pirate slang, but as the Slovak version of both hello/goodbye — which doesn’t entirely make much sense since we’re rather land locked for there to be any real nautical connotation. Anywho, this rather pink masterpiece goes out as a response to my new Belgian pen pal Wiske, whose name I was kind enough to point out doesn’t exist in Slovakia… a real blunder since every day of the year we celebrate a different name. Think second birthday. I guess she’ll just have to settle for leap year.

✂ Oh boy, this string and button envie is decorated with a ripped out magazine page with cut and glued scraps to make the pink beard and address. I typically wrap the finished letter in clear plastic tape to ensure delivery. The letter itself is thin cardboard paper with elongated pieces of paper pasted. I went ahead and included a names day list found at the back of a calendar. Marilyn was purchased.