Mailart 365 has moved

Back and front of another letter of support.

I used the border trim from one of those Doctors Without Borders maps.
The back of the envelope.

Another message for the More Love Letters bundle. The pictures are from an article about the Indian celebration of Holi.

The children remind me of the children at Jhamtse Gatsal Children's Center, in India, where my daughter teaches English.

220/365, remade security envelope with reclaimed notebook paper, stickers, washi tape, packaging, other paper scraps, and strategically positioned window/stationery combination.  Sent to Liz in The Other Washington.



221/365, handmade envelope collaged with newspaper ephemera, faux Mexican money, stickers, and a Chinese fortune. Sent to Laura in Palo Alto, CA.



222/365, handmade postcard, with washi tape, reclaimed notebook paper, a receipt, ephemera, sticker selvage, and foreign language cautions from some Ikea product.  Sent to Jennie in San Francisco.



223/365, handmade postcard made from a postcard book cover, with reclaimed notebook paper, washi tape, catalog cut-outs, an old letter (one I typed for someone else with a typo in it), and some eastern European ephemera from a swap (of the man in the rocker).  Sent to Kerri in Arizona.



224/365, a handmade envelope heading into the military mail system, and thus kept simple.  Addresses are on filing labels from Martha.

203/365, as promised yesterday.  Handmade envelope from an old ledger book, collaged map bits, Martha Stewart label, dot and foil star stickers, and vintage postage.  Sent to PostMuse in Pittsburgh.


205/365, a handmade envelope from someone's old college notebook, museum handout, vintage label, receipt, vellum flyer, filing labels, stickers, vintage postage.  Sent to Donovan in Chicago.


206/365, handmade envelope from a foreign language booklet (I believe Chinese; picked it up in Vancouver's Chinatown, anyway).  Sent to Bethany in South Carolina with carefully placed postage.



207/365, a postcard made from the best kind of Pop-Tarts ever, which are reserved for special occasions.  Sent to Danamarie in Baltimore, because she appreciates them as much as I do.

195/365, one of my Gocco-ed envelopes with a bit of extra embellishment on the front around my favorite stamp. A returned postcard enclosed with another note (once I got from her the new address) sent to Cindy in The Other Washington.


196/365, a reused envelope (originally from Bethany, with her border design) with a clear invoice sleeve added to the front to add in the new address.  Ikea directions, simple cryptograph of her name that embodies everyone's feelings on Ikea directions.  Sent (back) to Bethany in South Carolina.


197/365, another Gocco-ed envelope with a collage on the front.  Newspaper graphics, washi tape, dry cleaning stub, tea bag, catalog page, stamp and sticker selvages.  Sent to Annie in San Francisco.


198/365, faux-calligraphed address with my crappy interpretation of a much-loved flowchart on the reverse (inspired by the existence of the "oh snap!" plate on my new rotating stamp).  Sent to Meigh and Christina in Maryland.
Not pictured: 199/365, another Gocco-ed envelope (same as the two above) with nothing of note on the front that I forgot to get a picture of.  Sent to Kim in DC.

192/36, a handmade collaged postcard made of packaging, maps, graph paper, book pages, and stickers.  Sent to Rebecca in Suffolk, UK.


193/365, a yellow and green collaged envelope made mostly with stickers, book pages, and vintage postage.  Sent to Ben and Martha in DC.


194/36, more green and yellow on a pre-decorated envelope that went with MaryHasSound's graduation card.  Stickers and vintage postage.

188/365, handmade security envelope collaged with all sorts of stickers: stamp and label selvedge, dots, foil stars, vintage "Special Delivery," wrap around numbers, Japanese file labels, library spine labels, map stickers, and vintage postage. Positioned the hamster on the stationery to peek out the window. Sent to Bonnie Jeanne in Pittsburgh.




189/365, handmade security envelope with most of the above, plus a freebie bumper sticker and measuring tape deco tape. Sent to Donovan in Chicago.



190/365, handmade security envelope with some of the above, plus glitter letter stickers, leftover bits of map from making my map stickers, and stickers cut from discarded bumper stickers..



191/365, handmade security envelope with some of the above, plus a bookplate address label. Worth noting that the "hope for the crippled" postage is headed to a strongly-worded letter to a friend's knee that has been a bitch to her for the past several months.



191/365, handmade postcard made with some packaging, label selvedge, map stickers, office dots, foil stars, Japanese labels, and maps and books. Sent to Rebecca in the UK.

I love decorating eggs for Easter, but actually don't like hard-boiled eggs, so I didn't make real ones this year because I don't know what I'd do with that many eggs that I didn't want to eat. But when I spotted some patterns in a junk mail catalog I received this weekend, I thought they'd make very pretty Easter eggs, so some mail art was born.

97-99, decorated envelopes (fronts only) with eggs cut from junk mail and deco tape.

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100/365, handmade postcard with an Easter-themed sales flyer and bunny image, plus washi tape.




101-110, jumbo eggs full of treats, wrapped in striped packaging tape and sent out naked. The first pic is of them on their way to the post office; the second is of them after adding postage and dropping them in the box for packages.






111-114, 117-120, postcards handmade with various ephemera.

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121-124, decorated envelopes with Easter eggs, deco tape, bunny pictures, and junk mail cut-outs.

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125-130, postcards handmade with various ephemera.

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