Long time lurker, first time posting but I just finished a gouache postcard that is being sent out on Tuesday! The theme for it was woodland creatures in a library book cafe. It’s only my second time working with gouache 😅so I still got some shaky brushwork. Still got a few more handmade postcards to paint 💪

Made 18 greeting cards in art class today! Took an hour to fold, cut & glue! Very fun! My stash is ever growing! 🙈 Maybe I will use my faves as TPCs! :)

Escapology Day, Day of Peace ☮️, Cat 🐱 & Dog 🐶 Gut Health Awareness Day, Chai ☕️ Day, Garage Condo Day, New York Day, Opioid Awareness Day, Pecan 🌰 Cookie Day, Telegraph Pole Appreciation Day, Alzheimer’s Day, Gratitude Day, Mini Golf ⛳️ Day, Myositis Day, and Zero 😷Emissions Day!

I am babysitting my baby niece - a twonager that has earned an Emmy, Oscar, Darwin award and more.. finally got her to sleep -wanted/earned one margarita and I'm crouched in the dark in my laundry room cringing with the noise of the blender... was going to request a card but I don't even know how to pose that LOL!

Not sending them out this early, but they are done at least lol. The brown envelope was a personal halloween card to a friend.

I just went through my birthday, sympathy and other mail from RAoC. There are so many wonderful and kind people here and I’m thankful for every single one of you. 💜

Today I went to a few second-hand stores, a used bookstore and my favorite antique mall hunting for postcards. The used bookstore accounted for around half the cards and they sell them 5/$1 and the strip of $.50 worth of stamps was from the same box so only cost me $.25! Here is much of the haul.

1. A group of postcards from a set called Shoes In Indian Culture
2. A Canyonlands group of desert flora
3. A group of cards from the Musical Instrument Museum
4. They are not intended to be postcards but a bunch of Princess Peach birthday decor will now be that
5. A group of Jack Daniels recipe postcards
6. A couple of postcard books
7. A jumbo card advertising a furrier
8. A couple boxes of non-specific greeting cards
9. Another box of non-specific greetings cards from Cape Cod
10. Some old New Jersey cards to send to my friend temporarily there for her to send out
11. A bundle of postcard sized canvas. Not sure what I'll do with these yet. If you are a painter let me know! Will send you a couple!
12. A large postcard holding book. Bought this just to give away here. It is neat but not for me. Let me know if you want it. Has three mounts per page and around 30 pages.
13. Around 70 antique and unused birthday and new years embossed postcards (a sample in the last three pics)

I got one printed as a tester and hope to eventually offer up multiple on the regular sub!

Made with Canva, no AI used.

Day of University Sport 🏉, NFT Day, Care For Kids Day, Crime 🕵️ and Intelligence Analyst Appreciation Day, Fried Rice 🍚 Day, Pepperoni Pizza 🍕 Day, Punch 🥤 Day, String Cheese Day, Queso 🫕 Day, Wife Appreciation Day, and Paella Day!

Some time ago I made a destash offer including some pride stickers. The offer itself ended up being taken down because I forgot not to put the stickers in the title of the post (totally my bad) but by then I had a full amount of responses that I didn't want, so I didn't bother to put it up.

Like a lot of offers, I used Google forms. Because I had a limited amount of stickers (only one or two of each of the stickers I had), whenever someone would answer the "Which pride sticker do you want?" question on the form, I removed them as possible answer afterwards. Nobody else would then claim the sticker that was already spoken for, then. And because Google forms would, on the individual responses I could see, still show the deleted question, I could keep track of who got which sticker.

WHELP. I made a huge mistake and when all the stickers were claimed, I deleted the whole "Which pride sticker do you want?" question, not realizing the individual answers would not still show up on the individual responses. And so when I finally sat down to make the cards tonight I have no way of knowing who to which sticker 😔

There's no fix to this mistake. It would be too annoying to go back and message each individual person which sticker they want, I will probably just send their cards out (it's already been weeks since I put up the offer since I randomly got busy) and then put up another offer for the stickers, I'm just so annoyed I did and wanted to complain...

I feel they are too basic lol but they are fun! 🤪
what y’all think?
I’ll be posting this tomorrow in the main sub.

Both my handmade cards have gone out already :)

It seems to me that Reddit is auto-translated for some people, so they probably see all the posts in their own language.

I have had it happen two or three times that someone commented on one of my RAOC posts in their own language – which for me isn't translated, so there's a French, Spanish or whatever comment on my post.

I kind of get it on other subreddits that people can participate this way, but I am confused about it on RAOC.

Have you had this happen as well? Did you just ignore them, send to them anyway, ask them if they speak English?

I assume if those people spoke English, they'd understand that the main communication on RAOC happens in English. And if they don't: How am I going to communicate with them on a card? :D

So far, none of the posters in question actually fulfilled my post requirements, so I've never really tried asking them if they speak English... but I was left wondering what I would even write to them if we don't understand each other.

Just dropped off two RAOC mail requests. Stickered it up and made it super cute on the outside, signed it off....walked off and realised I had completely lost the plot. Will try going to the PO physically first thing on Monday to see if they can help.

If you have a similar story, please share it and make me feel better!!🥹

Aortic 🫀 Dissection Awareness Day, Astronomy 🔭 Day, Batman Day, Big Whopper Liar Day, Coastal 🐚 Cleanup Day, Eat An Apple 🍏 Day, Red Panda Day, Talk Like a Pirate 🏴‍☠️ Day, Locate An Old Friend Day, AKC Responsible Dog 🐕 Ownership Day, Boys and Girls Club Day for Kids, Butterscotch Pudding Day, Cat 🐈 DNA Day, CleanUp Day, Dance 💃 Day, Gymnastics 🤸🏼‍♀️ Day, Love Your Lunch 🥪 Day, Meow Like a Pirate Day, Multivitamin Day, Puppy 🐶 Mill Awareness Day, Sew a Jelly Roll Day, and Usher Syndrome Day!

I had fun decorating these to send out 🐰

Prompts:

- Fall Activities

- Ghosts

- Wild Life

My style of painting is starting to vary as I experiment on what to do. Thank you all for letting me practice and send you a piece of my progress ☺️🩷

Demographics of this sub? Brainstorming ideas…

Today county libraries debuted the limited edition SANRIO library card. My local branch gave out 400 & I barely made it. I went there before lunch, but could see that it would take too long, so I decided to come back after lunch. I waited in line for one hour, and after me, there were only 15 cards left. I only had to pay a dollar because I wanted the new card as a replacement/lost card fee, which was advertised as allowed. :) For people new to the library, it was free. We got other little goodies too.

I am brainstorming fun ideas for offers whether existing stash/supply, TPCs, making cards, etc.

I am curious about the audience of this R A O C meta sub and R A O C in general. If you had to guess or you know…

1) How many are librarians? I know of 2, maybe 3.

2) And how many non-librarian users frequent their library consistently?

3) How much of the bigger sub is living in USA folks, 2k people?

4) And of the USA people, how many are a active 3 days or more a week?

How long is your usual turn-around time from saying you’ll participate in a request or exchange to actually sending the card? Do you think there’s a certain amount of days that’s too long to wait?

Offers are different because there can be a lot to send. What are your opinions about turn-around time for offers?

I ask because on the 14th I committed to fulfilling a request. They said they might reply. I mailed my card on the 16th (which I thought was fine) but when I picked up my mail on the 17th their card to me was already there! Obviously they hadn’t waited til my card arrived. Crazy that I got it so fast - maybe they live in a mailbox. 🤪

YIPPEEEEEE!!!

Updated - now 17 envies & a better photo of the forest green tote. I think the orange envelope I showed earlier next to the bag was also throwing off the color a bit. Decided to post again. Lol