I like to make stuff. Especially stuff out of paper. And this week, I've been working on homemade valentines for all of my most favouritest people. In the midst of cutting and pasting, collaging and tea-dying, it occurred to me how charming it would be to afix type-written phrases to my petit works of art. Ever since, I 've been longing for a vintage type-writer, to tap out all of my most ardent thoughts (this one, at threepotatofour, particularly caught my eye).
What a sweet surprise tonight, then, to receive a Hermes 3000 typewriter, rummaged from the very back corner of my grandparents basement (in the ping-pong room, to boot!). Circa 1958, it is the very same machine on which my grandpa typed each and every university paper in the late 50s. I think it's marvellous!
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