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Roman Mars get this idea out of your head.

A stamp is not a tiny painting.

Somebody might be able to do a great painting 20 by 30 inches,

but you take that down to one inch by one and 1.5 inches and it's a challenge to make it work.

And Ethel Kesseller is just one of a handful of people who take on that challenge.

I'm Ethel Kesseler.

Ethel'sesseler.

Ethel's one of just five art directors responsible

for turning out every single stamp issued

by the United States Postal Service each year.

And I've been doing that for 15 years.

Those bonsai stamps that just came out with the tiny little beautiful meticulous

detailed drawings of trees those are hers.

And our reporter there is postal service in stamp enthusiast Julie Shapiro.

Most people think of stamps and then picture flags or the Liberty Bell

or the word love spelled in a cutsy font.

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