Mail Art & more

Stripes and Dots

 I didn't make my daily card early today, as I've been getting used to doing. I don't know what I got caught up in but I was happy that I could get into my studio while dinner is cookin'.

From Camelot to Chincoteague

I have lots of maps and quite a few classic American BIG cars, so I think I'll make a few more with this theme. I'm hoping that I'll use up all my scraps on this project.  Then I can get NEW scraps.
Notice the stamp in the right hand corner, it's Henry Ford!

moving Christmas lights

I took this photo of the houses with Christmas lights as the car was moving. I like the way this turned out. It looks like I used some camera effect, right?

Mail Art and Christmas lights

Grove Avenue houses

 These neighbors keeping adding more and more lights each year. I learned from a friend who lives across street from this display, that they now turn it off at a certain at night. They used to let it go all night, which was disturbing people's sleep! It's pretty impressive.

#21

This card is #21 but I thought it was #20 because I had a "20" in my little tin. I forgot to affix it to yesterday's card. Oh well. Anyway, today was a busy Mail Art day. I created two this morning. Then this afternoon, while hanging out with Noah as he was doing a book signing of his 365 book, I made 2 more.

I've been saving faces from paintings for awhile. I really like using them. This one, in 21A really draws me into it. Such a sweet look.

#21A

#21B

 I brought with my traveling Mail Art kit to Fountain Bookstore, and one of my tins of scraps. I was happy that I had a few butterflies in the tin so that the two cards looked like a series.

#21C

Mail Art and more

"orange"

 Well, I've been keeping up with my one-a-day Mail Art, though some days one is just not enough.

 I had this woman in my stash for a long time and wasn't sure what I'd do with her. She is so serene, but wait, maybe it's not a her, maybe it's the Buddha!? This is just such a peaceful image to me.

"Tri-color with yellow and green"

In #20, I used the packing tape "trick" to demonstrate how it looks. I had done a better image of some Confederate soldiers but somehow I lost it, in my own studio. I can't find it. I hope it turns up sometime so I can use it, as I liked the image a lot. Oh well.

Washington, D.C.

As our train was coming around the south side of the district, I grabbed this photo of the Washington Monument as it appeared over the buildings. I was so excited to see it but didn't have the chance to frame the shot as the train was actually moving along quickly.

Crossing the Potomac River

The train crossed the Potomac River parallel to the 14th St. bridge, which how we drive into the district. This was a nice view of the river and the clouds that day.

A merit badge~

Merit Badge

Wow, I got a merit badge from Lea Redmond. Read about her here.  I remember my girl scout days fondly and often wonder what happened to all the merit badges I earned. I loved earning them.  I wrote to Lea about this badge but never expected to earn one as I'm not a big collector of things. However, I do collect something and make things out of it. I collect the wire bindings from old calendars, paper sample books, etc. And I make what I call action figure sketches. For that, Lea awarded me this badge. I'm going to make mine into a pin so I can wear it on different hats, coats, or bags. How fun is this? Thanks Lea!

#15 of 365

color experiment with blue bird

Now I can show you card #15, since the recipient has e-mailed that it was received. I sent this to my artist amiga in Chicago. I've known her a loooong time and wanted her to be surprised, and since she reads my blog, I wanted to wait until this little bird had arrived.

I'm having fun trying out color experiments. They don't always work but I like them anyway. I like the way the bird appears to be looking at the green area.

Mail Art #17 and #18

"flora"

 I wasn't feeling very well on the 17th. I had a sinus problem and was head-achy all day.  BUT before we left for dinner at some friends' home, I went into my studio and made this card. When I returned home later, I looked at this card again and was really pleased with how it turned out. My feeling awful wasn't reflected in it at all. Cool!

"Health and Peace"

I awoke early on the 18th, happy to be head ache free. Yay. So I went into my studio and made card #18. I decided to make this a thank you for our friends, who had to see me at a time when I wasn't my usual bubbly self! (Also, I'd learned that my aunt, who lived in Arizona, had died, which made me very sad, of course.)

Mail Art #16 A & B

#16A

 Yesterday was a snow day. After my morning excursion, I stayed in the rest of the day and made a BIG pot of vegetable soup. I, also, made more Mail Art. I'm numbering them to correspond with my MailArt365 project. The A card is going to my friend in Canada, who knits, and who kindly sent my old mum yarn.

#16B

I had printed out the image of the moth last week after my son, the 365 meister suggested it.  I was pondering what kind of card to create for one of our 365 project members.  Yesterday, I started to play around with the image and made this card.  I like the way it turned out.

Lucky me, the mail carrier will pick these up at my door. I'm NOT going out until some of this snow goes away. The main streets are clear, so I've heard, but my barrio doesn't get plowed. That's okay, I can make more mail art and eat vegetable soup!