Catching Up Is Hard to Do

OUTGOING
Busy playing catch-up. Various mail going out - two handmade envelopes and a postcard to Belgium and a
SHOE. Yup -- a paper shoe -- we'll see if it gets delivered.
And maybe next time I'll send a high heeled shoe.

(Update: I just got the word -- the shoe was delivered!)

OUTGOING to Vizma in Australia
Can you see the paper clothes? on the left is the collar of the shirt.

Outgoing to Susanna in Germany
She Liked It!
Click here to see what's inside the envelope. I liked
seeing those faces peeping out through the vellum.

See???

Outgoing to John Held Jr
The Gutai show -- with mail art
John was a co-curater of this show at the San Francisco
Art Institute (my alma mater)and there are shelves of mail art you can pick up and look at. If you're in the Bay Area I recommend seeing the show.

Outgoing to KC in SF -- vintage recipe cards and a
vintage kitchen collaged postcard

Outgoing Collage Postcards
You can never have too much joss paper and Asian ephemera --
at least I can't!

OUTGOING
Collaged cards edition with security envelopes, washi tape,
vintage stamps, postal ephemera -- these babies are ready to be mailed out at the National Postal Museum in Washington, DC.
Rumor has it there is a special postcard so we'll see..

Outgoing
Here's another one...these were fun to make...I knew I was hoarding my old USPS insurance forms for some reason.

Outgoing to Cuan in South Africa - I love international mail art!

                    

INCOMING
Hard to show you this fabulous pop-up booklet from Stephanie Blake (IUOMA). I brought this to our last mail art meeting for show-and-tell and everyone loved the booklet Stephanie made.

Mail-Art Meeting
This time I actually made some collages with found papers at the meeting (instead of just gabbing and eating cupcakes).
Two cards I made are on the left and two Annie Yu made are on the right.

And here they go out -- along with some other outgoing

One of our Co-Op mailart members works in the Book Arts and Special Collections (zines and mail art) Room at the Main Library -- and we are so lucky that she brought a box of mail art to our meeting for inspiration.

Cappuccino
Go have a cappuccino in your favorite cafe and make some mail art while you sit there.

Thanks to all of you who commented on my last post when I asked if I should continue the blog.
Your comments were much appreciated and gave me some incentive to keep going.
I would love to hear from you -- what you like,don't like, any questions,
ideas, special requests??

Cappuccino & Art has a Facebook page too so if you're on FB please "like" my page. I post outgoing mail photos and interesting postal links on there -- things that aren't on the blog.

March is the birthday month so I am looking for a happy mailbox.
Unlike todays where there was nothing.
Nothing!
That is pretty unusual for me and not a happy mail day.

Take care of yourselves and send mail art!