{"id":15433,"date":"2011-10-27T06:23:00","date_gmt":"2011-10-27T10:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/hameblog\/2011\/10\/27\/morning-post\/"},"modified":"2025-09-12T07:50:15","modified_gmt":"2025-09-12T10:50:15","slug":"morning-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/2011\/10\/27\/morning-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Morning post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>While waiting for the shower this morning, I found myself (once again) looking at airmail stuff online. What is it about those little red and blue lines that&#8217;s so romantic? They just transform any piece of paper they&#8217;re on. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Searching around, it seems that no one sells a stamp to make those marks on paper, strangely enough. Good news for my wallet and my creativity: I decided to make my own. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>I had a Speedball rubber stamp carving block, so I just cut a length one centimetre deep off one side of that, then made marks every 5 millimetres on one side, then staggered the ruler for the other side and made 5 millimetre marks to fall in-between the other ones. Then I carved out the space between the marks. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The first thing I realised was that the resulting lines were too close together, so I removed every second one. I tested it out, and it made a decent-looking envelope, though a little shabby, because the freehand carving made the lines a bit wobbly. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>So I had a second go at it. This time I didn&#8217;t use the carving tool, but just shoved my X-Acto knife straight down into the pink rubber between the marks as if I were cutting a piece of cake. Then I used it to plane out the spaces in-between, and I got a much cleaner edge. <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-content\/uploads\/posts\/1266\/morning-post0.jpg.webp\"><\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Yay! Now I can make my own air mail paraphernalia.<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While waiting for the shower this morning, I found myself (once again) looking at airmail stuff online. What is it about those little red and blue lines that&#8217;s so romantic? They just transform any piece of paper they&#8217;re on. Searching around, it seems that no one sells a stamp to make those marks on paper, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15433","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15433","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15433"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15433\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15433"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15433"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hame.ink\/blether\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15433"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}