Maybe I've caught up!

2015-#156

2015 - #157

2016-#1

2015 - un-numbered sent as secret santa card

Zinn's sticker collage Mail Art 2015

It appears that I've made 157 numbered pieces of Mail Art in 2015. There were a few not numbered like the one at the left, and several "holiday" Peace cards - maybe 6 or 8 of those. A good year of Mail Art.
And I started the new year by making a card on day 3!

The last image was an altered piece of Mail Art that I'd received from Ti Ar Raden in France. My grand girl covered it with stickers! I sent it back to Ti Ar with a note of explanation. It was an Add and return, I'd say.


Happy 2016! Here we go again!

More catching-up on Mail Art

2015-#153

2015-#154

2015-#148

 Now these are out of sequence but I'm not going to bother to put them in order, too late at night, too much eye strain, oh yes, my excuses.

And, I'm missing images for numbers
151 and 152. This is so weird! I made the cards, I know I did.
Yet, I seem not to have scanned or photographed them, how not like me,
but then how not like me to not post
to this blog for 6 weeks, right?

Do you love my bird series? I do.

One of the things I did during my hiatus from blogging was to clean out my music cabinet. I had lots of sheet music and books that I'd inherited from a friend's deceased mother. Much of it duplicates of what I owned already and others not anything I'd play.
So, collage material! Plus I sent a lot of it off to other collage artists.
Whew, what a relief to do that clean out.

The other thing I did, was clean out my yarn stash. All the little bits of wool yarn I sent to my friend Guido, who makes cool hats with them. Yay, for another end of year clear out.

2015-#149

2015-#150

2015-#155

Number 149, I made one day while the grand-girl was hanging out with me. I used her left overs from sticker.

She made some fun cards with the sticky circles that had birds on them.

Now she's in a new phase. No overlapping.

What was I doing for the last month and a half?!

Here it is, 2016 already and I'm just realizing that I haven't posted any new Mail Art in a long time. So here goes, I'm playing catch-up!

2015 - #137

2015 - #138

 I have no idea what happened to 139 through 144! I made them, I sent them, but what do they look like?  Oh well.

2015 - #145

2015-#146

2015 - #147

Unstuck - now out in Korea!

 My son, Noah Scalin, has had his book UNSTUCK published in Korea. They sent him several copies and we had a good time comparing the two (which are exactly alike except for language, to state the obvious.) What fun!

My 365 Mail Art project was used as a visual on the page talking about 365 projects and Mail Art. The mail art was from 2011, which feels like ancient history now. The website for the project is clearly shown and I'm hoping that some folks in Korea will get interesting in Mail Art and in doing it as a 365 project. We shall see!

Don't forget that you, too, can participate. You can make Mail Art on a regular basis or irregular basis, and even take it on as a daily practice.
It fun.
It's non-judgemental.
It costs only the price of a stamp, if you're like me and use recycled materials.  (and the cost of glue added in)

And more Mail Art

#132 address side

 I had received some old books, in quite bad condition, so I decided the make the covers into Mail Art. The postage is incomplete in this view, FYI.

#132

#133

#134

This minimal piece worked for me. Just a floating scarf and a circle. I love it when just two pieces work.





OR, as in this altered card, just one thing added. Don't those lips look menacing?




Or this person, counting one sheep, perhaps. Just one added bit and the story changes, right?

#135

This black band piece was made specifically for a Mail Art call about justice. You can learn more HERE and perhaps enter a piece.

Mail Art Mail Art Mail Art

#127

#128

#129

#130

#131

Small prints of Tiny Town scene/ATCs? Maybe.

Mail Art and my Creative Sprint!

#122

#123 And Day 18

#124

#125

Day 6

Day 9 & Day 21

 All this month of October, I've been participating in the Creative Sprint, which is a project of Another Limited Rebellion (which happens to be the business of our son and daughter.)

It's been a wonderful challenge. I did it last April. I didn't plan to do it this time around but then I just jumped in.

Day 17

Above, Day 18, we were to make something to trade for something we wanted. Well, I always want MAIL!! So I traded for some Mail Art from another Sprinter!

Day 6, we were to make something with our eyes closed. I chose the pencils with eyes, closed and made a portrait. I even put the brush of water on with out seeing where I was doing it. I really like the results!







Day 9, we were to take something apart and make something new from it. I opened up a cracker box, made a weaving through it and then put it together inside out.

On Day 21, we were to make something and send it through the mail. Easy Peasy as kids used to say a long time ago, easy peasy for me. I made a water color landscape, put it in the Day 9 box, added a bunched up plastic bag for padding, and sealed it up all over with packing tape. It made it through the mail, arriving at it's destination today!
Yay, USPS. Three day journey only.



On Day 17, we were to teach someone how to do something. I taught people who had basic knitting skills how to make a pair of simple fingerless gloves.

I think a couple people might try it. I hope they do and show me the results.

You can see all of my Creative Sprint things in my Instagram Gallery.