The last alphabet month card, #90

 I totally cracked myself up with this series. Seriously, I've been laughing (silently, in my head) as I chose the images, as I glued them down, as I scanned them, as I posted one to the Mail Art 365 blog, seriously laughing about this. Why they're cracking me up so, I don't know other than that I'm giddy! Giddily happy!

 Why? (You might ask) Because I managed to book our hotel in London! It's real, we're really going. I have the flights booked, and now the hotel. So excited about this. Now it feels real. We have an apartment to stay in, and friends to stay with, at our other destinations.

 Now to find out weather in those places and get a wardrobe figured out, a minimal wardrobe, because I like to travel light, and besides I need room for my mail art kit and kaboodle.

This one, #90, itself, really makes me smile. What the heck is the story here? I think each of these is a strange story, except for the gal with the camera. Obvious, right?  

This is the last day of the alphabet month, which was proposed by a member of our group. He suggested a "," for the final day, but it pretty much looked the same in every typeface so I went for the much more versatile "ampersand." Sorry, Dewi.

#89, a series + a surprise from my honey.

"Z is for Zodiaque"

 Today is the last letter day of alphabet month. The person who proposed this, Dewi Johan, suggested a comma for the last day of the month, but I'm not going for that. The comma is so necessary, I use it so often, but it's so tiny. I want something to make more of a statement, something that has more variety and comes in different fonts. I'm thinking The Ampersand! I am very fond of ampersands. I think I have, at least, two of them ready to use.

"Z is for zorille"

I decided that this last letter day would be straight forward - Z is for____ .
 I used my old Petit Larousse for the images with the big dots for action. They actually line up in a nice rhythm, these three cards, but they'll be separated. Not sure who'll receive them.

"Z is for zinnia"

I'm sad that alphabet month is over. It made it easier for me to have something to springboard off of each day. I do have something planned for 1 March, having made plans to exchange like images with another member of IUOMA.
From there onward, we'll see what happens.




I got a nice surprise from my honey the other day.

A big box arrived at our door. What is this? It contained 4 mugs, designed by iittalla of Finland, oh my, I was delighted. I've loved their designs for years. Normally, my honey would choose very geometry designs, so I knew that these were chosen for me. The stylized birds and plants are sooo cute. I really like these. Aren't they so Finish? I've been drinking tea from this mug all day.

#88 series, the letter Y

"Why"

#87, 87a & 87b

 Thanks for this idea goes to my hair cutter exemplary, Meriel over at Spa310.
When I told her today was "X" day, she said something about "X" rated and I thought about those black strips put over eyes on photos. Fun!

I'd decided that today was going to be a walking day, preparing for my trip, which will include much walking.

 I walked to the Science Museum this morning, in the drizzle, for my Spanish Meet-Up. The walk home was in full sunshine and lots of wind.

After some lunch, I walked to Spa310, with really strong wind trying to hold me back.  I kept looking at the trees to make sure there wasn't a cracked one about to be blown down onto my head. Seriously, I thought about that! Silly moi.  The walk home was quick, as the wind was at my back.  But oh it was so sunny nice and are we fortunate. Our friends in southwestern Massachusetts reported lots of snow and my sisters in Los Angeles reported lots of rain.

#86 the letter "W" and a mail art call

 One lonely "W" sitting on my work table and a book of commerative U.S. states flower stamps. Hmmm, hope there's a lily in the bunch. Yes, there was and now it's on this postcard. It works for me.

Cynthia at Carytown Optical is sharing temporary space with Carytown Teas (the only Op-TEA-cal shop in the world she told me,) was intrigued by the mail art that Patricia and Mistie were receiving. She asked me to do a mail art call for her. So here it is. Please send her some Mail Art. She's very excited to receive some.

 

"Make a spectacle of yourself"

Do you wear eyeglasses, do you like eyeglass frames?

Some of us have a passion for eyeglass frames and

look for really interesting ones all the time.

Here's your opportunity to show your love for 

eyeglasses.

Theme: eyeglasses

size: standard postcard

medium: open

Deadline: 16 June 2011

No jury, no returns, all will be documented on-line

at http://carytownoptical.blogspot.com

as well as exhibited on site permanently.

Family friendly please.

Send to: Cynthia 

Carytown Optical

20 S. Nansemond

Richmond, VA 23221

USA

They will move back into their

renovated shops on 1 March 2011.

#85 the letter "V" & a new magazine.

 I didn't get to this until just a short while ago, as I had lots of errands to run after my morning clase de español. When I got home, I had many business phone calls to make, then I had to spend time getting our flights for our big trip, then I had to make dinner, as I'd invited my son, and our NDL over. They didn't linger after dinner as they were tired, and so were we, BUT, I had to get to V. How this came to me, I don't know. But I'm happy it did.

I was waiting for my honey to get finished at his somewhat emergency appointment at the dentist, when I spotted this magazine. What a title! What a concept! What a combination! I had to see what the contents were and to my surprise, I found a very engrossing article about an artist in New Orleans (now deceased) that hardly anyone has heard of but did really nice work. His name is/was Noel Rockmore.
There was, also, a book review of Mark Richard's new book House of Prayer No. 2, which sounded really interesting. Who'd have thought that I'd find this magazine so interesting?  Not me.

#84 Ululating

The first time I ever came across this word was in Ulysses by James Joyce, which I read while at University. I thought that Joyce invented the word. I liked it so much that I did an etching related to the word. Now, I'd like to be able to ululate about all of the troubles going on in the world today.

Instead, I'll make more mail art.

I tried to post the definition here, but somehow error kept coming up. I guess you'll have to look up the word on your own.