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Mail Art Monday: Magic

April 30, 2012 in Mail Art, Slideshow

Hello again! Don’t Mondays come around quickly? Here we are again with the lowdown on my Mail Art comings and goings this week. OUTGOING I started off the week with a ‘lucky’ card for Jennifer Ley in the US. Everyone needs a little luck now and again! While on holiday in Scotland just over a week ago, I sketched 3 postcards of the beautiful scenery around me and popped them straight into the postbox. 2 of these have already arrived at their new homes. Katerina Nikoltsou received this sketch of Loch Lomond… … while Thom Courcelle received a sketch drawn [...]

Tags: Adopt a Postcard, Arac, Carina Granlund, De Villo Sloan, Janine Weiss, Jennifer Ley, Katerina Nikoltsou, Mandy Schuster, Marie Wintzer, Miss Thundercat, Steph Dodson, Tarah
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British mini Tour

April 24, 2012 in Blog

My husband and I have just returned from a week travelling the north of Wales, England and Scotland to celebrate both our Birthdays and our first Wedding Anniversary, and we had an absolutely fantastic time. I should have posted pics as I travelled, like a good little blogger, but I’m just not that good. So, rather than bore you with too much detail, I’ll give you a very quick picture tour of our holiday… First stop, Colwyn Bay. Then on to the Lake District, stopping off to enjoy the scenery on the way. The beautiful Lake Windermere – a wonderful [...]

Tags: anniversary, Beatrix Potter's Tea Room, Colwyn Bay, holiday, Lake District, Lake Windermere, Scotch Whiskey Experience, Scotland, The Famous Grouse Experience, whiskey
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Mail Art Monday: Monsters

April 23, 2012 in Mail Art, Slideshow

Hello everyone! Did you miss me? I had a lovely birthday and anniversary, and spent a cold but awesome week traveling around the north of Wales, England and Scotland. Maybe I’ll find time to do a little blog and share some photos with you. For now, though, I have to catch up with my Mail Art Mondays, having missed last week’s! And it’s a MONSTER!… OUTGOING I owe Tarah – Miss Thundercat a lot for introducing me to IUOMA, and opening up my mailbox to a world of Mail Art, quit literally! So, the least I could do to thank [...]

Tags: Angie & Snooky, Arac, Arty Slides, Bris Chris, Carina Granlund, Christine Jones, Dean Marks, Gilberte Vermeulen, Jeannine Saylor, Karen Champlin, Katerina Nikoltsou, Lindsay Stewart, Luzia Castaneda, Miss Thundercat, Nancy Bell Scott, Rebecca Cook, Steph Dodson, Suus in Mokum, Svenja Wahl, Tarah
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Mail Art Monday: Easter Exchanges

April 9, 2012 in Mail Art, Slideshow

The Easter Bank Holiday weekend has left my mailbox a little emptier than last week, but postie has still been rather busy… OUTGOING A bit of a random one to start. Cadbury’s Chocolate are holding an Olympics themed competition, providing postcards with a blank area to ‘Write your message of support [...] to keep Team GB pumped!’ Not sure this is exactly what they had in mind, but I couldn’t resist taking advantage of the pre-paid postage! My reply to Michalis Kotsaris finally arrived. I made this postcard out a photograph from a magazine and a headline from another to [...]

Tags: Angela Helmenstein, Dean Marks, Jill French, Jon Foster, Katerina Nikoltsou, Laurence Gillot, Michalis Kotsaris, Stacey Cann, Vizma Bruns
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Mail Art Monday: Super Warewolves

April 2, 2012 in Mail Art, Slideshow

It’s been another busy week for the postal service around the world, and I’ve had many ‘Good Mail Days’. OUTGOING I started the week off with a big MIAOW for Erni Bär, made from an old ad. It got a bit battered on its way over to Germany… maybe someone dared to try and put the cat back in the bag and a claw fight to the death ensued. You never know. A reply went out to Jim SantAmour in the US, who sent a photograph postcard to me a couple of weeks ago. I made this postcard out of the same ad as the [...]

Tags: Andy Hoang, Anna Micciulla, Boo Cartledge, Erni Bär, Jon Foster, Letter Writers Alliance, Mailart 365, Mim Golub Scalin, Patrice Keats, PrettyLily, Sue Hobbs, The Haptic Werewolf
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