I purchased some tiny wax envelopes for the seeds that I plan to incoporate in the Refilstigr shipment. Because it is impossible to print anything directly onto the wax, I was working on using some leftover blank sticker labels I had laying around, figuring out a design of the sticker and thinking about how they would attach to the wax envelopes. I worked on this for a long time, on and off, but struggled. Still, I was convinced that I only needed to figure out the right design, and then it would all fall into place.
But then I received some seeds I had ordered, and as soon as I had those seed packets in my hands, I was struck by how nice they felt to hold. So I realized 1. the material of the wax envelopes didn’t work, especially in combination with the sticker labels, and 2. the size was wrong, they were out of proportions with the other elements which will be part of the mail art shipment. Consequently, I ditched the wax envelopes, bought some new acid free paper of proper weight, and started creating and cutting a new template for the packets. I also scrapped the idea of adding a poem to the seed package (an element I had concieved as a homage to Richard Brautigan), because I needed to achieve a better balance of text versus imagery on the complete set of sheets for this issue.
