Send It to Get It!

It has been kind of busy around here lately and I have had to scramble to keep up with my letter writing and mail art.
Here are some of my outgoing envelopes and cards.

This is the back of Annejo's, going out to
The Netherlands.

More outgoing 

Mailart 365 cards
#101/365 and #102/365
I especially like the bike card. I am wondering if the string will make it to Gina's mailbox.

My sweetie built a tiny deck off my studio. And he just came home with  a red chair  for me to sit on so I can read mail  sitting outside in the sun.

Incoming - from Miss Red Letter Day, Jennie Hinchcliff and
John Held, Jr - my lucky day - or maybe I should say
A Red Letter Day!

From Rose in Australia
(notice Australia in the lower left corner)

A Royal Wedding stamp!
I wonder why no one put my face on a stamp when I got married?

Now really....is this nice?
I think it is pretty crummy for the USPO not to cancel the stamps and instead put
an ugly black line through them and ruin them.
Not nice.   "Dislike"

Wow! After Meike's story about my mail art my blog views went way up.
Kind of fun to see. A couple of new "followers" from Germany,
some e-mails. All fun.

And now guess what?
Since I have reached 100 Followers (don't quit on me, anybody) I am going
to have a give-away very soon to celebrate.

I was going to do it on this post but since it is a holiday weekend here in the
USA I figured some folks may be away from their
computers and on the road or out of town.
So, to give everyone a chance, I will wait till next week.

In the meantime, I am sending good mail so I will get
GOOD MAIL!

What do you think I will be giving away?

Outgoing and Incoming

Making lots of envelopes -- such fun.
These are from an old stamp collecting album,
ready to be filled up and addressed
and on their way.

A couple of Japanese magazine envelopes
already on the plane...

This one's for you, Garci.

Three more in the Mailart365 series

Outgoing letters
Sometimes I just feel in the mood to write a letter.

Mailart365

Mailart365 -- being a photographer
I have loads of old negatives and prints to play around with.

Feeling a bit sorry for myself yesterday, not a great mail week,
and look what showed up on my front porch from Kelly
(wouldn't fit through the mail slot).
and what a great surprise.
A CD too.

OK, I have absolutely no idea what this group is:
ELSEWHERE PHILATELIC SOCIETY
but with a name like that it has to be good, right?
Kelly told me about it and I had to join up.
It's based in San Francisco -- who knew?
Now you do.


Get busy and write some letters.
Make some envelopes.
Have some postal fun.

What Went Out

Outgoing mail

Mailart365
56.365
"Flyover Market"
Went out to a pal here in SF who recently went to India

Mailart365
57.365
"Thomas Cook"
Remember traveler's checks?
And Foreign Exchange?
Now I just bring my trusty debit card and hit the ATM.

Mailart365
58.365
"Enjoy Your Food"
Out to a Chinatown-loving SF friend

Mailart365
59.365
"Chinese Chop"
Out to a new 365-er who just mentioned she bought some chops

Mailart365
60.365
"Cottage Arts"

For Carter

and for Donovan (she likes sushi)

There is a surprise in this one

Last, a San Francisco envelope leaving town....

Write a Letter -- Get a Letter!

Random Postal Projects

Envelope-making afternoon

What will I do with these lovely ladies?
Any suggestions?
Just look at that hairdo on the left.

The postman always rings twice.
Oh wait -- that's a movie.

Japanese food envelopes
complete with chopstick wrappers and recipes (in Japanese).

Envelopes guaranteed to make you hungry.

Oh...the...worktable...
a happy mess.

Here I go again..
who will be getting these?

Airmail postcard went out to KT.
More about that later....
(Mailart 365)

Chinese menu envelope out to TrazyZ.

I made a whole bunch of collaged postcards too. What a fun day playing in my studio.

Now watch your mailboxes.

After a Long Weekend....

Some outgoing mail today, after a long weekend  with time to work in my studio.
Stephanie in NYC gets a take-out menu envelope,
Amazon gets a SF envelope and Barbara.....a collaged one.

Wish I had a vintage typewriter ad to add to this one.

I hope you can see the two babes in the photo. They do not look like they want to be in the kitchen cooking. One has a smoke and a bad attitude for sure.

Two in the 50's Set.
A friend of mine has been cleaning out her stuff and generously gave it to me --
50's photos, cooking booklets, all kinds of crazy stuff -- and I have been having so much fun playing with it.

Two from the India Set for Mailart 365

This came last week from Shelita -- how cool is this?
She turned a security envelope inside out.
Why didn't I think of doing that?

Here's the front.

Last but not least, ok - this isn't mail but someone wrote me she thought "just walking down the street in SF must be interesting". Indeed it is. Just looked down and saw this charming little note.

Happy Mail Day!

Some going out, some coming in....

Off to The Netherlands
Annejo has been patiently waiting.
At least I hope she's patient.

 and to G-Man in NYC...some G's for you....

Inspired by Valentine's Day -- a candy envelope 

Four in the Mailart 365 series
(this is sure keeping me busy)

Three more handmade envelopes going out,
Chinese menu envelope to Jen, San Francisco envelope to RO
and
(my favorite) a typewriter envelope to strikethru

This just in today -- a Valentine box mailing!
A bit battered but it did arrive safe and sound.
Thanks, Alice.

And three Valentine envelopes made it here on Monday.
Love all that red.
Thanks everyone.

Send good mail -- Get good mail.