Today we're going to start looking at ways of using or incorporating your coat of arms onto or into things that are "just for fun"; that is, stuff that just doesn't fit easily into some of the other categories of usage that we've been looking at, but which can certainly be "fun" ways to use heraldry in your daily life.
For example, we are just a month past Christmas now. Have you considered using your coat of arms on the family Christmas card? Here are a couple of recent examples of this:
Additionally, for mailing these cards (or any others over the course of a year, for that matter), some postal services allow you to upload a picture of your own (and for our purposes here, that could very easily be an image of your coat of arms) and, for a small fee in addition to the cost of postage, they will print that picture onto a sheet of postage stamps.
Also -- although let me say right off the bat that I do not necessarily recommend this -- on the envelope itself, using only heraldry and the postal code for the addressee. The Royal Mail delivered it to the addressee (Robert Noel, then Lancaster Herald, now Clarenceux King of Arms, at the College of Arms, London, hence the badge of Lancaster Herald and three shields, left to right, of Robert Noel, the College of Arms, and the City of London), but other postal services may not do as well.
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Or you could just have some fun, as artist Lidia Kouznetsova did with her own coat of arms ...
... by creating some (non-Christmas) cards of natural creatures but colored with her heraldry, thusly:
Next time, we'll look at some other fun ways to use your heraldry.
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