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Still thinking Hockney I found a few good shapes in a tourist map of Scotland.

We took the train down to London yesterday evening and saw both the Hockney and the Freud.  What a juxtaposition! I looked at my tree view differently today.  The background was a piece of pen scribbles made as I sorted dead and alive gel pens.

postcard to Ivana Rezek

art course - didn't work out - decided to draw the floor instead

The new peace corps????? One can only hope.

Still catching up a little bit, a few days behind! Most of this piece was made using an accounting and business magazine with a few other postal bits & pieces and stickers added for good measure, even the zebra looks intrigued! Who said accountancy and business could not be interesting!

Took the letters from a cereal box and arranged them until I made a few words that meant something, sort of.

I love this one. Part of a brochure then collaged.

Love the various postmarks

Sending these crazy faces with smiles for his smile project for children!

It's spring and I've sold another packet of Sharpies! Phew. Usually Elena stops me when I have a crazy idea like this...

Last year Sharpies were selling really cheaply at Rymans, so I decided to buy a few to sell online at a profit. It seemed like a good idea at the time.

I'm still selling them one at a time a year later, at a rate of about 3 a month.

I do still think that sending blank packages is really dull, so I've resolved to decorate all my outgoing eBay packages

Some bits and pieces from old Royal Mail stamp Prestige book, four Lords-and-Ladies(great name for a plant!) plants as featured on four used stamps from Ireland, tomatoes from a well known brand of tomato sauce (Dolmio)advert and the alphabet stamps to spell out "GROW", all rather appropriately!

This is a great example of somebody putting their foot right in it! Taken from the back of a Royal Mail stamp Prestige the words read as follows:
"At an auction in 1904, the future King of England paid a world-record price for a single stamp when he acquired a Mauritius 2d blue for £1,450. Reportedly, one of George's secretaries had read about the record-breaking purchase in the newspaper, and remarked to the Prince that "some damned fool" had parted with an exceptional amount of money for just one stamp. His Royal Highness is said to have replied, "I am that damned fool." Oops!

Getting some cards out (hopefully!) in time for Easter

89/365, handmade postcard with ad from a Chinese dance troupe (the same one the leaping lady came from), newspaper ad from honeymoon ephemera, security envelope, cancelled postage, washi tape, and St. George. Sent to Abs via SendSomething.




90/365, decorated envelope with birthday card inside. Vancouver transit flyer image (same as from here), washi tape, and map. Ready for sending to Cyrus in Maryland.




91/365, decorated envelope with birthday card inside. Museum brochure, washi tape, security envelope, and map. Ready for sending to Lauren in Baltimore.




92/365, decorated envelope with birthday card inside. insert from magazine, washi tape, and map. Ready for sending to Kelly in Arlington.

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Tomorrow I'm beginning a project at a new school.  The Headteacher visualised the product way before I had any ideas.  This is me trying to interpret what I think she wants me to do with the kids.  Tough to get into someone else's head but I sspect that's what some teachers expect the kids they teach to do. The goal is to get them looking for monsters or creatures on this beautiful walk we will take to Holbrook Creek.  Then they will draw the creatures they imagine, inspired by some of the natural forms - catkins in this case.  what would you call this guy?

An origami fish hiding my 'secret confession' for Emily Whistlecroft's art project