"Who's old stone face?" whispered Jed to Seth.

"Here, little pig, here's the trough," said Nancy.

"How cute," thought Sally, seeing the Tiny Town men & dogs playing.

Helga & Gerda thought the men looked so dashing on horseback.

It says, flocks at rest often make a pleasing pattern. You will find that birds usually have a favorite rest spots. This gentleman is hoping it is not on his head!

June 7, 2011. "Once I had a secret" No.1 is a collage with an "open
door"(or that lower left door "opens") and my secret love's no secret
anymore  ;-) Or is it? This collage, also with a collage on the A4
envelope, is sent to The Museum in Sydney, Australia for the Secret
Exchange.

 Sent to the Mail Art Call  titled " The European Year of Volunteering ",  the pieces will be displayed in Naples in CasArcobaleno in June 2011, and the exhibition will be made available to other environmental organizations who request it.

For a better view  of the piece, visit my mail art website :

http://artinthemail.blogspot.com/2011/06/48-3-levels.html

 
 Sent to the Mail Art Call  titled " A Journey to the East -  Peace to the world ",  the exhibition will be in 2011, SOS Sanggar Olah Seni, Indonesia.
http://www.journeytoeast.blogspot.com/

For a better view  of the piece, visit my mail art website :
http://artinthemail.blogspot.com/2011/06/47-green-paper.html

Sometimes they flow, sometimes they don't. This one took a little while.

I know I've been to China, Hong Kong and Korea since I last posted but I've still got Vietnam pieces floating around. Actually the Vietnamese ephemera I collected may last a long time.

I'm new and just joined. Here is my first mail art to share. I hope you all enjoy it.

This is what I sent to my friend Norma.


This is the front of my envelope.


The back of the envelope. I love decorating the entire envelope. :)

You can read more HERE

Much Aloha~

I've never seen a coffee plantation, or how coffee is harvested, but I think the plantations are quite large and the harvesting is tedious. I love that there is a "coffee belt," the only places coffee would grow. I would love to make a real belt out of coffee beans ... or maybe coffee beans and some hemp. I don't know if coffee beans go bad ... it wouldn't be good to have them rot on my hips.

Finally getting back to my mail art after a busy period. I went and bought used books at the local library and was lucky enough to get an art text book that was marked up and doodled in, so I don't feel bad about cutting it up! And a cookbook is from the 60's, boy were those recipes bad. Will be great for mail art.

Two photos combined and digitized into a painting.

June 6, 2011 a+b. Two miniature color copies of my "Trees" paintings
were sent in seperate return envelopes to Ahmet Demir in Turkey for
his PuzzlePost project.

"Polly, eyes straight ahead, rushed past Dobbin, who glanced at her apprehensively"

"As Dobbin was led to the barn, Blanca waited with flowers for him."

Tempus neminem manet 4

365/12 Post Card 14,5 cm x 20 cm

front

back

I try to buy local foods as much as possible, even wines. I live in southwestern Pennsylvania, which is not exactly a vineyard haven. There are vineyards around here, and more up north, on Lake Erie, but the grapes don't have that je ne sais quoi that makes for a good wine. I am not a wine connoisseur, so I can't put into words what makes the local wines taste odd. They just do. Plus, I always have heartburn afterwards.

A little entrepreneur! Two photos combined and digitally applied to a canvas texture.

A painting of a grape stomping celebration combined with a photograph of a cluster of grapes. Both digitized into a painting.

I'm actually really excited and in love with these pieces. They are on empty envelopes that I sealed shut. The addresses are written on the reverse, which is the side that seals, the opposite of the side that is usually addressed. I coated them with gesso, then applied dry pastel, watercolor pencil, watercolors, acrylic paint and colored pencil. I love, love how they came out.








And now, after this post, I am only one week behind in my mailart 365. I promise, I am not defeated yet. I hope to return in a couple days and post the pieces that should have been posted this last friday AND a load of the awesome mailart I've been receiving. I tell ya, I've had a PO box for a couple years now (I think) it's never been so active.

"And, in the end, the love mailart you take is equal to the love mailart you make"
-Robyn (robayre)