Hi all!
After a near catastrophe with my last exchange photos (thanks again
@AnasaziWrites!), I thought I'd go ahead and post them here. I've not heard back from anyone on my list – so I'm keeping my fingers crossed that they made it to their destinations. (I tried using spoiler tags to hide the photos just in case, but I couldn't quite get it to work)
I sent what may be the ugliest USPS boxes ever to hold my exchanges. But the contents inside included a folded set of instructions and a folded map with a hand-cut paper wrap around it.
Here's the Kraken wrap:
This is the outside of the instructions (I had to make up for the lack of envelope):
Here's the outside of the map – with its riddle:
And here's the map:
The center rings of the map can be turned. When they arrived, they were purposely wrong, so that the recipients could try and solve the riddle. When aligned (as seen in the photo) you can read the answer to the riddle – if you look carefully.
If (and this was a huge if) everything lined up just right, and the recipient pressed down in just the right spots... and the calligraphy fairies were smiling at just the right angle – it was supposed to light up.
Proof that they worked before they left my house.:
Sorry for the barrage of images. After a losing my originals, and then getting new ones miraculously sent to me – I wanted to have these out there before something else happened.
Ummm...I love maps.
Gibby
