Friday, October 30, 2020

Small collages - MailArt & a mitt

Altered Picasso

A proposed poster

altered graffiti - photo by Brassai
I made a few altered postcards recently to send off to specific people and one was a result of a prompt during October http://creativesprint.co  I'm posting my Mitts because I just re-opened my Etsy shop http://FritziMim.etsy.com  Which came about because I can't sell my mitts in-person during the pandemic at the usual holiday "shops." My honey suggested I re-open and it's been quite fun to see that people are actually buying stuff from it. Yay commerce, yay my compulsion to knit.

wool mitts with pompoms



 

Thursday, October 01, 2020

Altered Cards

Our daughter gifted me with a set of postcards to old typewriters. Very exciting for me as I love typewriters and own two old ones. 

But what to do with them. I held on to these cards for a number of months then decided to created random word poems. 

Works for me. How about you?






 

How did I get into this?

I was asked when I started doing Mailart. Good question. Like many artists, I was making and mailing art without even knowing it had a name ...