I want to show you another mail art project I signed up for. I was playing around on Flickr, looking at mail art and the Good Mail Day group when I found this. So of course I had to sign up to play! The project is called Friends & Faux; there are several postcards traveling around the world, having started their journeys in the UK. #17 came to me inside a plastic envelope to protect the paper quill faux postage. Everyone who receives the postcard creates their own faux postage and then sends it on to the next player.
This is my contribution, an acorn against an oak leaf background, on some vintage book paper. It will be on it's way to the next destination very soon!
Something else I've been participating in is
Postcrossing. This one is making my mail box happy! You go over to the website and sign up to send and receive postcards from all over the world. You send out your first card and when it is received and registered, then someone else out there will send a postcard to you! I've sent cards to Japan, Russia, the Ukraine, and the Czech Republic, and received them from Singapore, Oregon in the USA, and the other two cards you see there are both from Belarus. If you like snail mail, I encourage you to go sign up!
What are your plans for the weekend? I believe I am getting some new studio furniture and shelves this weekend. (hoping hoping hoping!!!) I really need to get that place in order. I currently just don't have enough storage space, so things are in baskets, scattered around the floor and closet, stacked up on the sofa. I spend so much time looking for things that I just get frustrated. The sofa is leaving because it is taking up too much room and is just a place to throw things.
In addition to furniture shopping, I still have more work to do in the yard - and this really is the last chance to get it done! We've had amazingly gorgeous, warm weather, but the snow is coming next week. It's November; I guess I need to resign myself to that;)
Since I have such a busy weekend planned, I think I'm going to spend the rest of this afternoon crocheting, and watching the sun filter through this beautiful yellow-leafed maple outside my front window.
Happy Friday to you all! See you Monday!
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Edit: I had to add this! It came just after I hit publish. I call it Snail Mail Fail!
Yesssuh, I love snail mail...the stamps, unique penned sentiments, the mailable art, the textures, and pretty much everything except for the blight of junk mail.
ReplyDeleteBut I don't think that I could follow one more thing...even with the glee of it all.
Thanks for sharing Bobbi! :)
I know what you mean, Jan! I keep wondering when I'm going to say "enough!" but I can't help myself!
ReplyDeleteBoth look super fun and cool (I so love getting mail).
ReplyDeleteLove the postcard art. So funny...just today I was looking at some interesting stamps I received in the mail and thought I would play with.
ReplyDeleteThe stamp art is very sweet. I'm amazed at all the different ways people think of to be creative. I guess that's what creative means?. :)
ReplyDeleteSounds like a Devine way to spend an afternoon!
ReplyDeleteI have been blog hopping and painting dinning chairs. Tomorrow I am setting a table for a baby shower at a vineyard will post about it!
Those postcards look like a lot of fun xox