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| Mail, mail and more and more mail.... Can there ever be too much good mail? |
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| Sorry to have to admit it, but yes....there can be too much mail, especially when you've been at it for as long as I have.... I have boxes and boxes and boxes of it plus shelves and cupboards filled with it and some mail hung on rings... |
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| I have officially run out of storage room. So, what do I do? Well, recycle and re-purpose it, of course. I have been sorting through endless boxes of mail and sorting things into piles... |
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| Some of it I am just admiring....looks how pretty these piles are....Before I put the mail into boxes I sorted it by who it as from and wrapped ribbons around it... |
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| And -- NO -- of course I didn't put it all in the recycling bin. I saved A LOT (hence how this whole problem started in the first place....). I saved the most amazing mail art, my favorite pieces and collections of letters from folks who are my dear friends...I tossed old mail from people who only wrote a few times and stopped.... |
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| I have two envelopes stuffed with postage stamps I tore off the envelopes...... |
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| And I found some terrific stamps to use for making "Stamp Heads"....(I wish I had more of these, aren't they perfect?) |
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| And I started a "collage papers" pile and started layering the papers into the sketchbook I am filling with collages... Here is a "start".... |
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| and another......pasting down the first layer and covered with a little gesso to mellow it out, leaving the images still showing through... |
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| All of this is from one dear friend.... |
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| Lots of stuff still in the art cupboard! The things in here are my most favorites -- but I think I need to sort it and maybe wrap up the mail by artist. I always think a stack of mail with a ribbon around it looks like a present. And then I can grab a bunch at a time and browse through it.... So???? What are you doing with your good mail? Do you keep everything? How do you store it? All ideas and suggestions welcome. I am still organizing. |
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| I think I still have a lot of sorting and repurposing to do..... I should invite some of my more organized friends (you know who you are) to come over and help me. I'd give you treats. Any volunteers? Send Good Mail -- Get Good mail |
