Mar 6th, 2008
I feel such a valued customer
Unless there is something I don’t know about, I am not called Mr Jones, and nor do I live in Anytown.
This was included in an envelope which also had my account statement in, so that showed the correct name and address through the envelope window.
Thanks for the reminder, Nationwide - I do mean to put my savings into an ISA this year, but it’ll be with the Co-op bank, as they are already in a Co-op account, and they sent me a similar reminder last month. And they didn’t call me Mr Jones.
Is it geeky/weird to say that tear on that letter looks a little too smooth to be real, and to ask how you did it?
Or are you just a very artistic tearer?
Okay, so maybe that is a little weird. Oh well.
Hi there,
I noticed this post about my book A PLACE IN MY COUNTRY on a blog that links to yours, and then had lots of fun exploring your blog, so thanks for that
Anyway, here’s the post from http://dreamingofthecountry.wordpress.com/2008/03/14/a-place-in-my-country/
You can find out more about my book at my website, but I thought you too might find it interesting.
With kind regards,
Ian
www.ianwalthew.com
A PLACE IN MY COUNTRY - RECENT REVIEWS
“When stressed out media exec Ian Walthew panic buys a Cotswold cottage as an escape route from the urban treadmill, he unwittingly acquires a window on a corner of rural Britain at work and at play, and his writer’s eye sees just what’s going on. Walthew has a genuine gift for bringing both people and places to life and marshals his runaway real life narratives with a novelist’s skill. The story of his surprising friendship with his neighbour Norman - who is trying to keep his ramshackle farm and his dignity together with a few strands of baler twine, while his millionaire neighbours embrace the prairie concept of modern industrial farming - is compelling and often deeply moving. And Walthew’s own struggle with age-old issues of identity, friendship, community and a place to call home are fresh, sympathetic and never trying. It’s not the sort of book you’d pick up expecting a page-turner, but that’s exactly what it turn’s out to be.”
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Hi Sam
Yes, it’s geeky and weird, but I am too. You got me - it is a fake Photoshop tear. The drop shadow is way too perfect.
I took a photo of the letter (don’t have a scanner), added some extra white space on the background (increase canvas size) and on mask layer transparency I painted a rough-edged brush around the bottom and right edges. Give the photo layer a drop shadow filter and voilá.
Aha, thanks!