Mailart 365 has moved

Vacation is over but I am hungry for more!

Off to Chile!

With the weather being so hot here in the U.K. there's no need to go anywhere to be a red hot traveller, just dive in!

October 2, 2011. Bananas are back in the Greek markets. This is
basketball and bananas for the Banana Man in Germany.  I am eating
bananas today to get rid of this head cold I caught leaving the UK ;-(
And there is such beautiful sunshine, I should be out and not indoors!

October 1, 2011. KALO MINA! Another new month, and 60 more days to go
until #365! I have returned to Greece and splashed a bit of sandpo as
the weather in Greece, in most of Europe, is still SUMMER! London had
record-breaking temperature for Oct.1 as I got on the plane to fly
home.This card goes to Amo in China, as the people on the beach are
spelling out here name. "amo" or ammos" in Greek means "sand"! Summer
in October!

In the morning I poured straw from my shoes before beginning again to insert bales into the studio we're building.  I thought to photograph the straw detritus and knew that at the end of the day I'd be able to use it in some way in a mailart squeezed in around a chaotic day.

Some stamp samples from a 1976 catalogue and a nice old Australian stamp.

#306 "Nolde's woman appeared suddenly and confused the residents of Tiny Town."

#306a "Sometimes the sunsets in Tiny Town were like Kandinsky paintings"

Vacation art fun!

A fun vacation color blast!

superman in chains

Sent to Mad Madge in Washington.

miller heavy

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Sent to Crane & Co in New York who is looking for pen-pals!

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Sent to Linda in VA.

ladies & gentelman

Sent to Marcia in MD.

Made in a hurry from pizza leaflet and a couple of stickers, got to go as off out!

Still being surprised how different things can look once they're scanned. Now that I'm looking at it here, I wish I'd not added the red piece. Maybe I should start doing provisional gluing and come back and look at it later.

Animals fear the grid.

Afraid the old Carrickfergus Castle doesn't scan too clearly.

"Belle waited patiently. Tiny Town residents hoped she'd move along. They feared she'd drop the ball."

"Patricia was sure her friends would show up. The residents pretended not to see her."

"Helen began to think that she'd gotten the place and time of the game wrong! Tiny Town residents hoped she'd hold tight to her ball."

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Sent to Marian in Pennsylvania.

catch them stars

Sent to Laura.

p is for pizza party

chicken noodle poison

Sent to Sue

8 days a week

Sent to I'm A Superhero.

collage on printed postcard to Giulia Occorsio

Scrumping is not an American word.  I learned it in Suffolk, England when I was walking my dog in the nearby orchard a few years ago.  A fellow dog walker was embarrassed to be surprised by me as he crunched an apple he'd plucked from a nearby bough, apologising for his 'scrumping'. Today I had an awkward moment with the orchard owner when I was again walking my dog on the way to post my mailart.  He kept looking at my postcard and the suspect message!  I have posted the mailart to my neighbour.

I scanned the Queen's head and Penny Black from the front cover of a philatelic book, was adding the man posting two letters & Royal Mail Bristol London Mail Coach taken from remnants of stamp Prestige Book, when all of a sudden this bird from yesterday's piece (Birds of Britain I) flew in and dropped the old style QEII stamps while holding onto the one still in its beak, got in a bit of a flap!