What Did You Do Philatelically: Today Or Recently?

The Vincent sheet looks lovely, Dianne, sadly I cannot read it.
Well done you.

One of the most beautiful songs ever written.....

Thanks rod I will email you the larger file if you wish. I had to shrink it to fit the parameters I am afraid. I agree that the song is wonderful. I only recently realized that the song was about Van Gogh and that is what inspired me to use it as a one page exhibit.

Dianne

Dianne,
If desired, you can email the images and I'll update your post with the higher resolution images. (I sent you my email address.)
Don

Higher resolution images now posted in Dianne's original postings.

Thanks a bunch Don

Dianne

Very nice work, Dianne!! Interesting themes

Dan

Nice work Don, thank you.

Mounted classic+ for South Africa, South West Africa, Sudan, Spain, Spanish Guinea, and Spanish Morocco. This was 931 stamps across 147 pages. Still have 50+ 34mm high stamps to mount (ran out the mounts). I think I underestimated how many pages I had in the two stacks! Sweden is next.

Update: Sweden is done. Switzerland up next.

Not much. I have been out of town for the last week on a road trip (total 24 hours there and back). I have so some purchases to mount that came in recently.

I made arrangements to sell my recently completed Russia 1918-1958 collection at auction and am prepping it for shipment. I am a bit sad and excited at the same time. It will be the end of one thing but the beginning of another. Now I need to pin down what that other thing will be.

Ever since my son moved out of my house several years ago to go to University then get married, I've been using the closet in his room to house the bulk of my stamp collection. My overflow clothing, things I don't wear very often occupies part of one side and on the other side, I started making a pile of "stuff": albums, stockbooks, envelopes full of mounts, boxes of covers, just a disorganized pile that kept growing higher, so the other day I decided to organize it. I went to IKEA, bought a couple of bookshelves, put them together, went through the pile of "stuff" throwing away things I didn't need and generally made some order of it. The shelves look really nice and finally I can go in that closet and find what I need. One of the things that I organized was a huge stack of covers consisting of mail that I receive from dealers. As is the general custom, the envelopes are franked with a nice assortment of commemoratives some of them going back decades, and I put them into clear sleeves and put them in loose leaf binders. They aren't worth much financially so I'm not too concerned about archival quality mounting media, but they're a fun thing to keep

I had a productive day, rummaging through the postcard boxes at the Vintage Paper Fair in San Francisco. I spent a total of $35 on 46 postcards, some used, most not. Most are for my collection, but the 25¢ postcard guy had lots of multiples of celebrity postcards from the 1980s, so I bought quite a few extras to use for correspondence.

Here's the oldest used card that I bought, a beauty from 1905. "If you're going to San Francisco, be sure to wear some flowers in your hair."

A good week.
Collected some Irish new issues this week. Oscar Winners (set of four) and the first eight stamps in the new definitive series (Stamps on a Roll).
But I am most pleased about being on the point of completing my collection of SOARS from all 933 current post offices in REpublic of Ireland.
A couple of months ago I was missing about 25 but thanx to exchange with a collector and the help of a non-philatelic friend, I can now say I am "complete"...anxious wait for the final two as I don't count them until in my album. My friend has back up.
Of course "completion" is a relatively term. I can only count 933 as "current". Not much I can do about post offices that closed before I started this three years ago.
My mission (Mission Impossible or Improbable) to photograph all 933 post offices continues. I have now reached 613.

Switzerland and Greece almost done. Waiting on 25mm and 34mm mounts. Should be here on Wednesday. Started Finland, but too tired to do more.

Dianne,
A version of "Starry, starry nights"
By K Pop Band "Gift"

This young fella has one of the most beautiful voices,
and writing talent, if you catch any of his youtubes.
Unbelievable!

As I said on 3rd April I was waiting on used versions of SOAR issues to be sent by a friend.
They have now been delivered so I have Stamps on A Roll from all 933 post offices that were open when I started this.
And the total of photographs I have is 619.

Am pleased about this as it was always a race against Time and ironically made easier by Covid lockdowns which are now over.
Recently got album pages and procrastinating about mounting 2021 and 2022 Irish issues.
Also reorganised my office/HQ/man cave .I was able to incinerate a lot of surplus kiloware.

Perhaps the best news is that after two years of inactivity, a major collectors fair takes place in two weeks time.
I feel its a new beginning after two years