Creative Sprint and a couple new mail art collages

 These images were on my desk, just like this, so I put them on a blank and glued them down. I like the odd juxtaposition.

 I'm enjoying making compositions with hand, butterflies and moths. Maybe it's cause Spring has sprung in this part of the globe.

 In a few days, Creative Sprint will start. It's 30 days of prompts that will put you in great creative shape.
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It'll be fun. There are no grades, no competition, no judgement, just a bunch of us making stuff daily and then posting it, or not, to a variety of platforms like our blogs, or instagram, or whatever.

 Here's what our tree looked like last week. This week, it's all green leafy. My honey had a lot of sweeping up to do in the back yard/garden.

Some collages - Mail Art, not sure.

 One of these was framed and donated to an art auction for the nearby elementary school our kids attended.

I can't remember which, at the moment.

The others might be framed and put in an exhibit, or not. They may eventually become Mail Art.

All, I know is that I'm having fun with hands, moths, and butterflies.

Spring is in the air!

So much time has gone by - Mail Art catch up!

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 I won't go into the long of it, but I've been busy, and on vacation, and busy, and so on.

But I've been making Mail Art, and that's good.

Here's a few of the numbered ones.

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Mail Art, of course!

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#42

This past week, I was using up more of the scraps from my table, but couldn't resist altering a commercial card.

#40 is an old card that  shows a motel that no longer exists. We stayed there probably 20 years ago when we first got our dog, Smitty, because they permitted dogs. it was just over the dune from the Atlantic Ocean on the OBX of North Carolina. We had a nice time except that we got kicked off after 2 days. A big storm was expected so they closed every place and made us all leave. Normally, it takes 3 hours to get home, that day, it took seven. The dog was freaked and never rode in the car again.

With #42, I started a new series, hands and butterflies/moths. There'll be more of these coming up.

And so we start a new month - hello February!

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Here #33 through 35 are more of the table scraps pieces. The scraps are the left over bits after I cut things out. I really like the way they turn out. Oh, I'd better get busy cutting out more things as I have no more scraps to use.

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New Mitts

#36 and #37 are alterations of more of our friend Keith Long's exhibit cards. I saved them from many years ago and glad that I did. I have such fun with them. So far, the response I've gotten from him is good. Whew!







I'm still knitting, though I have no local sales locations, at the moment. I'm almost thinking of stocking my Etsy shop again. I stopped because there are so many similar products out there and the competition is strong, and I can't compete price-wise with commercial work from other places, if you know what I mean. Meanwhile, I love good yarn. These are made from a Merino wool.

Lunch meeting

Just for fun, here's a photo of something our grand girl left behind after a visit. She plays with salt & pepper shakers that I keep just for her.  What's going on here? She surely had a story to go with this set-up.  Got a story about this for us? Let me know.

Finishing up January 2016, WOW!

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Zinn's altered card

Zinn's collage as an Add and Pass

Here's a group of my abstract collage Mail Art pieces made from scraps on my table. Love calling them my table scrap collages.  #30 is an alteration of a show card for an exhibit in 2008, of sculpture by our friend, Keith Long. I sent it to him, won't he be surprised!
#32 is for Connie Jean's on-going squirrel art exhibit.

Zinn was playing at my studio table and, as usual, wanted to collage on a card. She chose the pig card to alter. "I need some small people to go on this card," she told me. And She made up a story, which I wrote on the reverse.
Anyone want to receive this card? Let me know. Her parents aren't archiving all of her work, so I'm sending out, after scanning.
She also made this collage from more of the bits on my table. I decided to make it into an Add and Pass which I'm sending to one of my Mail Art buddies. Miss Z has quite the eye, doesn't she. She'll be 3 mid-March, just to give this some perspective.

I'm learning from her, as well as her observing what I do.

Altered cards, captions anyone?

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A friend sent me these postcards that she'd collected in San Francisco a few years ago.

                      I immediately set to work altering them.  As I found images to collage onto them, I found my self laughing at the captions that came into my mind.

Do you have any to offer?