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In every envelope

Eight pieces, posted each month

Six designed pieces, one small painting to collect, and one page from the shelves.

№ 01 · A letter

A letter from the bookshelves,
for anyone obsessed with flowers.

One page, folded into the envelope. Every month, one flower I have been quietly obsessed with — its folklore, its fairy tales, the small things gardeners noticed a century ago, an illustration that made me stop on the page. All of it pulled from the books on my shelves, the same books OBS Books was built around.

Signed and stamped in burgundy ink. Always a little different.

  • Length — One page
  • Paper — Cream, 90gsm
  • Set in — Georgia
The monthly letter from OBS Books — one folded page, signed and stamped in burgundy ink, tucked into the envelope.
A monthly mail club from OBS Books · Bangkok.

— the small useful things —

№ 02 · A postcard

A botanical postcard,
written to somewhere else.

A single card with a botanical illustration on the front. Meant for posting — to a friend, a grandmother, or a person you have been meaning to write to.

  • Size — A6 · 105 × 148mm
  • Paper — Cotton rag
  • For — Sending on
A botanical postcard with a wildflower bouquet — foxglove, poppy, gentian, primrose, pansies — on cotton rag paper resting on embroidered linen.
Yours to keep, or to post.

№ 03 · A bookmark

A bookmark in field-guide style,
a single flower with all its parts.

Each piece shows one flower — bloom, bud, seed pod, stem, stamens — with each part labelled the way the old field guides did it. The Latin name sits at the top.

Printed on cotton rag paper, the same stock as the postcard and the art insert. Soft, textured, the kind that holds watercolour well.

  • Size — 50 × 155mm
  • Paper — Cotton rag
  • Style — Field guide
A field-guide style bookmark of Wild Poppy — Papaver rhoeas — showing seed pods, flower, hairy stem, crinkled petal, and stamens, each labelled like an old botanical study.
A different flower every issue.

№ 04 · A sticker set

A small set of stickers,
for letters and journals.

Three or four individual die-cut stickers, drawn to match this month's flower — by the same artist as the art insert, so they all belong together. Three or four each issue.

For sealing envelopes, marking pages, or anywhere a small flower belongs.

  • Count — Three or four
  • Format — Individual die-cut
  • Design — Match the month
A small set of individual die-cut botanical stickers, drawn to match the month's flower, on a matte sheet.
Matte finish. Meant to be used, not saved.

— the keepsakes —

№ 05 · A print

An art insert,
the painting of the month.

A small square print — for your wall, your desk, or somewhere it will be held.

Printed in Bangkok on cotton rag paper, the weight of a page from a good old book.

  • Size — 100 × 100mm · square
  • Paper — Cotton rag
  • Edition — Monthly · one run
A square art print of a wildflower bouquet — poppy, pansy, primrose, forget-me-nots, foxglove, fallen petals — on cotton rag paper resting on embroidered linen.
Printed in editions. Never reprinted after the month is out.

№ 06 · A stamp

A collectible monthly stamp,
one of twelve this year.

A single gummed stamp, designed in-house and printed once — one for each month of the year, twelve in total, never reprinted.

Some readers frame them. Some use them. Both are right.

  • Size — 28 × 40mm
  • Edition — 1 of 12 per year
  • Perforated — Yes, 10 × 12
A collectible monthly gummed stamp, one of twelve in-house designs for the year, perforated 10 × 12.
First-issue readers receive five bonus stamps with Issue No. 01.

№ 07 · A Bloom Note

A Bloom Note,
a small omen drawn from the garden.

A single Bloom Note from The Garden of Good Omens — thirty-six cards, each carrying a small blessing in the language of old illustrations. A figure, a flower, a Roman numeral, a name to hold the day: Strength, The Star, Three of Cups, The Sun.

Every card carries a blessing — the harder cards have been left out. Each is sent at random, meant to be pressed into a book, framed above a desk, or kept on the bedside table. A year in, the set begins to gather.

  • Set — 1 of 36
  • Named — Like an old card
  • Sent — At random

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The Garden of Good Omens — thirty-six cards · 4 of 36, so far

Seven cards from The Garden of Good Omens spread on embroidered linen — Strength, The Sun, The Star, Six of Cups, Three of Cups, Nine of Cups, and a card back with botanical border.
Sent at random. No two envelopes the same.

— from the bookshelves —

№ 08 · A page from the shelves

A page from the shelves,
the book itself, in your envelope.

An original plate from a flower book on my shelves — or for the rarest, scanned and printed on archival paper. A small slip notes the book, illustrator, and year.

A different page every month. The kind of plate you would frame.

  • Size — Varies
  • Source — Original or scanned
  • With — A small slip
Four real pages from 1970s flower field guides — Poppies, Violets and Pansies, White and Mauve Crucifers, Willowherbs — pulled from books on the OBS Books shelves.
Sourced from the OBS Books archive.

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All eight, in one envelope, on the 2nd Monday of each month.

📮 The monthly stamp collection

Each issue includes one exclusive stamp. Twelve designs over the year, labelled 2026 · No. 01 · Bangkok. Stamps are never reprinted.

🌱 Subscribe before Issue No. 01 (June 2026) and receive 6 stamps (Jan–Jun) to start your collection.

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