Mailart 365 has moved

Three birds appeared in this piece of FloodArt - it's on the back of a photo.

New Zealand -now enhanced with stitching

188/365, sent to PostMuse in Pittsburgh.


All of these are re-made security pattern envelopes embellished with various stickers that I had on hand.  This is semi-lazy mail art; the truth is that I didn't want to sift through my materials or bust out a glue stick right then, so I just pulled out my sticker drawer and worked only from that. It's mostly (pre-made) handmade stickers, sticker selvage, and commercial stickers. I think they came out pretty neat anyway, though.

189/365, sent to Donovan in Chicago.


190/365, sent to Bethany in South Carolina.


191/365, sent to Kim (more specifically, her body, asking it to be nice to her), in DC.

THE CHICKENS GET INTO YOUR GARDEN AND SCRUFF FOR INSECTS!

Printed twice onto sailcloth and then added to in various ways tomake it mailable. Have you done your island mailart yet? http://cranberryislandmailart.blogspot.co.uk/

Sorry haven't been posting, been extremely busy. Sent to sweden using mister huey mist and paint mists :)

4 Packs of Sharpies sold today. Awesome.

OK so this was meant to be a picture of Jet Li but I was so into lines that I didn't notice that the shape was all wrong.

So it didn't end up looking like Jet Li, but it did end up looking human and actually quite pleasing to the eye anyway

I felt a little left out when I realised that everyone was making chickens on mailart365, and there's only one thing to do when you feel left out - GET IN!

Here's my chicken on a Sharpie envelope Stripygoose and Rebecca!

Been getting a really high number of orders today for Sharpies for some reason. I've got a backlog of orders, which is a first. I had to dash a few quick sketches out, so this was a quick 10 minute job with fineliner

Included in my welcome pack are about 50 Freepost envelopes for sending in my stuff. I'm not 100% sure how Freepost envelopes work, but this one seems to have a code, and I figure that as Royal Mail are paying I should be allowed to send in anything I like.

Only problem is that even the largest envelope they've given me is only A4, but my latest piece, the Interactive Tablet edition, is bigger than A4. So I'm going to send it in this padded envelope, which is a little larger.

Ideally I don't want to have to pay any postage, but I may actually have to take this down to the Post Office because I doubt very much I'm going to find a postbox with a slot big enough to take a 40cm piece of wood somehow...

my REAL wall retrospective day 2.

The idea here was to create a piece that conveyed the potential that I felt that my REAL wall had in the early days. I knew that the idea of sticking posts on walls was a great idea (heck it worked for Facebook!), so even though the wall wasn't getting any post I still soldiered on.


To convey the feeling, I created a blank wall by using a glossy piece of laminated wood salvaged from my next door neighbour's garden. I sawed this so that it was a nice size to hold and cleaned it up a little, before taping the edges.

The blankness of the wall and the invitation to write on it, complete with pens is designed to simulate and stimulate that creative urge I felt and still feel to fill that blank canvas with stuff!



I do hope loads of people do send in their statuses, and I've created a page on my REAL wall to display them all when they come in.

A while ago, Rebecca Guyver asked me what we do in Welsh pubs. Here is my reply.

My 'Island' for Rebecca's mailart call

Sorry the new Blogger interface is so, so slow, I am going to start publishing in blocks. Ugh, how could they call this an upgrade??

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sent to arkaya/ jess in uk
copy of coloring book page by tara mcpherson, colored in with letraset promarkers, addes the clouds and rainbow

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envelope sent to rachel and travis for the 'thank you swapbot' swap

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sent to jennifer in the uk
for the thank you swap bot swap

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sent to anita in new zealand
for the winter chill mail art swap

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sent to debbie in usa
for the green mail art swap

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sent to sherie in usa
envelope that contained the Tim Holtz style pocket ATC swap

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sent to joyce in usa
starry night' envelope that contained the beautiful napkins swap at swapbot

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sent to joyce in usa
starry night' envelope that contained the beautiful napkins swap at swapbot

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sent to florence in usa
envelope that contained the beautiful napkins swap at swapbot

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sent to florence in usa
envelope that contained the beautiful napkins swap at swapbot

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sent to amy in usa
for the doctor who themed postcard swap

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sent to donna in usa
for the doctorwho themed postcard swap

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sent to amy in australia
penpal letter

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sent to amy in australia
penpal letter

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sent to kerri in USA
made for the yellow themed mail art swap

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sent to kerri in USA
made for the yellow themed mail art swap

I've decided to use the Welcome to Real exhibition to run a month long retrospective of my REAL wall so far.

This first piece shows my decision to quit facebook and the small number of comments I received, which mainly suggested that living without facebook was not possible.

I went a year without it and in that time my life changed irreversibly for the better...

In my eBay ad for Sharpies, I specify that I will be illustrating the envelope and mention that if you want anything specific drawn I do actually take reasonable requests. So far, all my customers have declined to request anything specific, but for the first time today, I got a buyer who filled in the note, requesting a certain picture. Here's what the customer requested

hi there, any chance of a cyclist on the doodled envelope please? To maybe celebrate our greatest hopes at the tour de fance and olympics thanks Vicky

I really liked this challenge and I hope that Vicky likes what I've done.

It just so happens that much of the cycling will actually be happening in the park just behind my house as I live just behind Richmond Park. Lovely