Gee was I disappointed when I placed the book I was making in the beet juice.  Later I decided to photocopy the offensive stain and work back into it considering the very astute comment Helen made about not sure I would like working (in the new studio) away from the food etc... and my husband's comment, (despairing tone) that he didn't know where the art ended and the food began, referring  my habit of working on top of everything else.

More trash cards to doggie friends (Snooky on the card, Daisy on the envelope, more Snooky above in the stamps)

One piece of colour match shower curtain packaging and some Saturday magazine cuttings make a nearly "perfect" Colour Match!

For some reason she reminds me of Scarlet O'Hara. I like the way her nose came together to make it seem like one piece rather than collaged together.

front

back

Sent to Rin Dawson in Australia.

cinnamon horse

Sent to April in Illinois

fit to scale

Sent to Mad Madge

somewhere over there

Sent to Brittany Ukulele in Indiana

Hello, I'm Melissa, and I'm excited to be joining MailArt365 for the new year! I started scanning my outgoing mail on the first day of January, and am hoping to be able to keep up an average of one new piece of mail art per day. My plan is to post once per week, to keep it manageable for myself and your overworked blog feeds.

Here is part one of my first week's worth of mail art bits.

1/365: Sent to my husband; this is it after it came through the postal system.


2/365: A drink coaster from the restaurant we ate at for New Year's Day, colored in and mailed naked. Though the coaster advertises they have pomegranate, lime, and mango flavored margaritas, they only depicted two of the three fruits on the coaster, so I made one lime into a lemon instead. Sent to my sister-in-law's family.


3/365: A collaged postcard with bits bound for the recycling bin. Sent to Bethany in South Carolina.


4/365: An attempt to spice up a Netflix's envelope with marker. Turns out the paper doesn't take regular washable marker very well, leaving lots of smudges on the envelope and my hands. Lesson learned! (There's a whole amazing tumblr with Netflix mail art, by the way.)


The next four are being sent through military mail, so I didn't want to make it too hard for the workers there to find the address. Some simple handmade envelopes would have to do.

5/365:

6/365:
7/365:

8/365:

recycling postcard to Elke Grundmann

More trash cards to doggie friends (Snooky on the card, Daisy on the envelope, more Snooky above in the stamps)

Taking stock at #100! One of the things that Mailart 365 is doing for me is showing me my motifs, my subjects, my obsessions.  It is clear what interests me more.  What a great project in so many ways! And won't I miss my daughter when she moves onto the University phase...

It may well be Monday but The Time is Now!