In the 700s with Mail Art & a preview

 I'm having fun playing with the labels that my daughter gave me. A happy series for the new year.

 I'm using cut up cereal boxes for the substrate and allowing some of the color from the box show.

 I've added either my white chalk pencil marks or used the koh-i-noor pencils that are a sort of metallic blue and gold colors.

 These postcards put me into the 770's in numbering since I started counting 1 Dec. 2010. I'm going to keep track until 1000, or not.

This is a photo of me, taken in Paris in 2008. In 2 weeks, I'll be standing here again, on the Pont de la Tournelle, the only thing that will look different is my hat. I have a new one to wear this winter.

Playing with labels

 Oh, nothing like a surprise in the mail. I get them often, lucky me, and last night, a package arrived from my daughter with this cool present! A tin full of mailing labels to help me during the upcoming year, with lots more mail art. She always choses something exciting and new for me to play with.

 I got busy playing with the labels first thing this morning. Here's the first one. The gold foil circle is from chocolate candy "coins of the world", which our friend in Chicago sent us. We get to eat chocolate and have collage material. Cool! I found a new adhesive in the craft store. A glue stick that works with metal, fabric, wood, other non-porous material. A nice addition to my stock of adhesives.

 This is the 2nd card of the morning. By coincidence yesterday, while at the craft store, I bought some other labels and used one on this card, also.  I like the way a bit of solid color in the background gives a cohesive look to minimal pieces like this.

Here's the little packet of labels from the craft store. They'll be put to good use along with the other new labels. Both are reproductions for old labels. What's old is definitely what's new!