26 Ways to Tell Your Story and Share It with the World
From getting creative at art camp to bottling your own Zinfandel, here's how to make your whole life as YOU as it can be.
Illustration: Rob Dunlavey
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Envelopes
A spritz of perfume may be the classic way to make a letter seem special, but why not imbue your notes with an even more personal touch? For illustrator Rob Dunlavey, that meant painting a watercolor sailboat on the inside of an envelope to send to his fiancée. ("We were sailing into a new stage of life together, and I wanted to capture that," he says.) Fueled by her delight at the unconventional love letter, he spent an hour most mornings over the next year working on a different envelope picture. (To let your own personalized note unfold, simply grab an envelope...and unfold.)
From the
February 2012 issue of
O, The Oprah Magazine
