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| Always happy to be on-the-road....even if I have driven up and down Highway 5 about three million times. Hello LA! |
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| The road trip might be getting a little old by now but I still love hanging out in a hotel room with my art supplies and a bunch of tourist brochures to tear up and play with....it never gets old.... |
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| Breakfast of Champions Hotel buffet (delivered to my room by the cool guy I travel with and happen to be married to). I can collage and eat breakfast and drink coffee all at the same time. I even get up early just to have time to work on mail art. I'm dedicated. |
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| What's Your LA Story? I can't really tell mine here because the trip didn't go as planned but this is a mail art blog, not my life story. Let's just say being in an LA ER on a Saturday night isn't for the faint of heart. |
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| A few art supplies traveled with me -- very few -- mostly I need a glue stick. There is a whole set of ABC rubber stamps in that Curious George Altoid tin -- pretty cool, huh? It is nice when it's a road trip because you can bring along MORE STUFF. |
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| OUT GOING MAIL No hotel stationery but there was a fun place to stick my outgoing mail art. The desk clerk did look at me funny while I was photographing this. But, by now, I'm used to getting looked at funny. I kinda wanted that sign.... |
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| Off to explore Olvera Street in LA. -- right across from the cool Union Station. It is a tourist place for sure but you can really have fun there if you like mail art and postcards. Trust me. |
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| Postcards -- and lots of them. They have tons of them including lots of vintagey ones for 25-cents. I get really fed up when I go to places with no postcards. |
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| This one stall always has these cool embroidered postcards -- my favorites! And this time they gave me an idea for some mail art....... |
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| Need a giant Mexico pencil? Lots of the Lotteria games/cards which are always great for mail art. they even had a day of the Dead set this year (for 3x more $$) (yes, I got it) |
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| More postcards....I am too cheap to pay $1 though... |
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| Day of the Dead stickers? Yes, I think they will work for Halloween mail... |
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| Philippe's (Home of the French Dipped Sandwich) Philippe's is right there too -- a block away from Olvera Street & Union Station. A fun spot with sawdust on the floor. |
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| A good place to finish up writing your postcards while waiting for food.....and I just happened to have made a Philippe's postcard to send to a pal.... |
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| There it is now -- the French Dip! |
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| Philippe's gives you FREE postcards too. Always a plus in my book. And you can buy tee shirts and Philippe's mustard too. |
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| Should I wear this for Halloween or Day of the Dead? What do you think? |
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| One last breakfast and collage-making session and I was back on that darn Highway 5 for the drive back. SF to LA LA to SF SIX HOURS So, if you are heading to LA, I suggest a stop at Olvera Street for some fun supplies, lunch at Philippe's and check out the cool Union Station. It's all good and once you get there, there is no more driving. We parked for $4 all day. No driving is LA is a good thing. And mail is a very good thing. What are you been making and sending? Halloween mail? I am working on bunches of things, as always, including Thanksgiving mail-art and prepping a small travel journal... Say hello! |
