Mail Art catch up +

 The Daleks attempt to annihilate a landscape, but it's Mail Art, which is immune to destruction, for the most part.

 Here are some more of my landscape pieces.

 I was really pleased to use the magazine images of textiles as landscape images.

 I think these worked out quite well.

 I accidentally punched out an orange circle and part of one on a fold over and got this crescent. How could I let a good crescent go to waste?

 I am so happy about this little mini-rose blossom. I purchased the plant at a grocery market for a small amount of money because it wasn't in very good shape. Probably someone forgot to water the plants!

I "nursed" it back to life - okay, I gave it water on a regular basis and put it in a spot with lots of light, and voila, it started to grow. And then a bud appeared on a long stem, and voila, a tiny rose blossomed a few days ago. Isn't this amazing?

Here it is in a temporary spot where it got a bit of filtered sunlight this morning. I brought it away from the window it was near as the temperature outside is quite cold, and the window area is chilly.

Maybe in the spring, I'll plant it outside. Or not. What do you think?

Mail Art catch up part 1 and some clouds

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 The week leading up to our U.S. thanksgiving day, I played with some postcards from the water set. I altered them and added random text.

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 This is the card that I made specifically for thanksgiving. When I posted it on Facebook, the quote was about being grateful that thorns have roses. I like the way this one turned out very much. The smiling woman is so gorgeous and the rose so lovely. The background is a print and if you look closely you can see some hands in it.

This is the sunset last Friday night at Kitty Hawk, North Carolina. On the Outer Banks aka OBX where we spent 3 very peaceful days.

Mail Art & a Little Free Library

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 My scanner is not showing colors well. The substrate for this is a nice recycled cardboard tan, not as yellow as in this image. Not that it makes much difference, since you won't see the original. I sent that off across the  ocean.  Paper collage & a Turkish stamp!

 I received Poulty Press. I don't know why, but I do. This hen and the compassionate mother statue are from the cover of the latest issue. The Chinese text is from a newspaper. As I mentioned in a Facebook post, I doubt that i has anything to do with compassion or chickens. I just like the way it looked.

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Here's another example of my color experiments. The colors are not what they are in the actual piece. How odd.

 The substrates are the same in this one and the one above. You can't tell that in these scans but no matter. I just love punching holes in colored paper. You know that by now, right?

 A few days ago, my honey was driving to the high way, through the Museum District and saw something interesting. He drove round the block so I could see what he spotted.

 A Little Free Library!! I'd heard about these but never thought there was one near me. It's on a quiet street so I don't image it gets much business. I've put the street sign here so that, if you are in Richmond, VA, you can check it out for yourself.

Look at the books in the library.
I have several hard back books that I was going to release through BookCrossing but now I'll bring them to the Little Library.  As you might remember, the paper back books get sent off to the troops. (Booksforsoldiers)


There are so many nice surprises in this world.