The Stories Behind Our Vintage Travel Postcards
Why?
The idea of our vintage postcards stemmed from our joy of travelling. Everyone loves to take and share their pictures when they're on holiday ticking off their bucket list. And we're guilty of it too! We love to capture the character and essence of a city or specific place in the form of pictures and videos to share on @ByCasaMira and on our own social media channels too. We enjoy bringing you all along to get a glimpse of the world from our lens.
Milan
May 2022
Our first holiday together we decided to traverse Italy, starting from Venice through to Lake Como, Milan, Florence, Pisa and Rome. One of our travel traditions that we, as a couple, have is to collect keyrings, fridge magnets, an item that can only be found in that place or country and POSTCARDS!
However, Milan proved to be difficult or maybe I was being a little too picky. I browsed the usual tourist stores and stalls but didn't find a keyring, fridge magnet or postcard that captured Milan in all it's glory nor anything that caught my eye to add to my exisiting collection.
After returning from our 10-day trip, I felt bad that I didn't get a souvenir from Milan and my collection felt incomplete (ever the completionist). That gave me an excuse to return to Milan at some point in the future... and to visit again of course ;D and hopefully there would be a souvenir I felt fitting enough to add.
The thought that followed was when I saw that I had over 10,000 and counting pictures and videos from the entire trip! Most those pictures may never be looked at until way way way further into the distant future. I decided to create my own postcards using pictures that we took either on our camera or phones but to add a vintage look and feel to them. Sifting through as countless hours passed by, I narrowed down by process of elimination and selected pictures that would capture and show-off the character of each city/place whilst being recognisable.
Spain / Barcelona
This new project only felt fitting if I went back and started with the country and city that was the catalyst for a lot of things for me personally. I started off with a modest number of 4 cities to begin with and first to test out my skills and techinques to see if I could bring my vision to reality and secondly did it show character. These cities were: Barcelona, Madrid, Valencia and Bilbao. Having travelled through many different parts of Spain, immersing myself in the nuances of Spanish culture and lifestyle (¡siestas siempre! ;D) I felt I could portray that. And for those cities that I missed out creating this time, I plan to create more vintage postcards very soon and for the other countries and cities we have visited (wish me luck!). The reasoning and decision behind this was to offer a variety of postcards between both Spain and Italy in case others may have felt, share the same collection ideas or simply if you thought that's a cool postcard to collect!
*Each postcard comes with our custom-designed and "revival" of airmail envelopes. That's a story for another day ;D. *
Below are some of the original pictures we captured that were used to create our Vintage Postcards:
You can shop our Vintage Postcards here.
TLDR; We created Vintage Postcards using the pictures we captured on our travels and also created custom airmail envelopes to pair them with.