Mailart 365 has moved

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.

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.

84/365, collaged St. George with newspaper ad and gift tag. Sent to Rosalie in Seattle.




85/365, collaged envelope with illustration, graph paper, maps, books, and washi tape. The "lab" address label is scrap left over from trimming down my reclaimed cardstock for my shop's stationery. They're old medical chart dividers. Sent to Su in Derby.




86/365, collaged envelope with maps, a Washington state ferry schedule, A Theo's chocolate bar wrapper, books, cardstock, museum brochure ephemera, and washi tape. Sent to Sabrina in Surrey.




87/365, handmade postcard (featuring another St. George) made with an art school brochure as the base, Japanese flyer from my Seattle honeymoon, map, paper napkin, washi tape, postage selvedge, book page, and newspaper ads.




88/365, handmade postcard made with the same base and the other half of the Japanese flyer from #87, washi tape, and more honeymoon ephemera (from the Vancouver transit authority this time -- very sexy!).

First had fun reading Maters Collage (Lark Books) to inspire me.  I always need lots of inspiration before I go to a school and work with a new group of young people. The brief for my day with year 9 (13 -14 yrs) is to respond to War Horse (film) - I've read the book but not seen the film, In Flander's Fields and Dulce et Decorum Est. I always have to spend a long time playing before I know what the heck I'm going to do. I had the idea of using some photos they take as a starting point so I've collected some WW1 objects from a kind neighbour. We'll do some word gathering and then we are going to use old frames (because I got a box at a carboot sale for next to nothing) to make some collages. I decided not to do my trial about Warhorse and the texts they will use as I think I can explain my process through a related text and that may avoid having lots of copies of what they think I want - we can think together if I haven't done the thinking ahead.  So I decided to respond to Birdsong. First I made the mailart  because mailart is perfect for testing ideas. Then I came took apart a frame and replaced the glass with mount board and collaged with old maps and pva as a starting point...

Here are some of the March birthday cards I've put together (I've explained my process for timely birthday card sending here). A lot of the cards I chose for March recipients came with already-decorated envelopes, and being lazy, I didn't bother to do much else, so this is only about a third of my March birthday card pile.

73/365, mass produced decorated envelope with owl card inside. I added the huge owl on the back (another stock photo book find) and vintage owl postage. Sent to Mr. P. M. in Baltimore.




74/365, collaged and decorated envelope with maps, pages from a Chick tract, a receipt, stickers, security envelope bits, and a silver foil cut in a stamp shape (the scanner makes it look gray like that). Sent to Ben in DC.




75/365, collaged and decorated envelope with a map, pages from a Canadian music show schedule, ledger paper, label margins, a library sticker, and Bart from the Simpsons postage. Sent to Alex in Georgia.

40/365, handmade envelope made from a children's book page. I embellished it with coordinating deco tape and added the little flowers to the field and to the recipient's name and address. Sent to Isaiah, who's six.




41/365, collaged envelope with maps, stickers, pink highlighter, and book pages. Sent to Maria in reply to her card via SendSomething.

The tiny caption under this map inset says "The government of the United States has not recognized the incorporation of Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania into the Soviet Union, nor does it recognize as final the de facto western limit of Polish administration in Germany ( the Oder-Neisse line).

#282

#282a

#281 Maps reconfigured

#281a Maps reconfigured

#280 "Save This! It could be worth something someday"

#280a "Save this! It  could be worth something someday"

Travel on my mind

Travel on my mind

Thinking of you

Thinking of you, too.

El Barril

El Borracho

El Bandolon

"A tiny circled A"

"A tiny A in the landscape"

Find the circled A

"There's an A circled"