More Coin Envelope Booklets

Warning:
Making these coin booklets is addictive. I can't stop.
And now I've run out of the
coin envelopes.

I have started three more using similar envelopes that are
a lot bigger -- with a book/library theme...

Do you like these?

Pretty Pictures

Yes, it was that time of the year again -- Vintage Paper Fair time -- and you lovely blog readers know I am crazy about the VPF!
So, I am taking you all along with me and showing you some of the delicious eye candy I saw there.

My first stop is always the .25 cent postcards. I'm in postcard heaven there. They aren't for serious collectors (not the .25-cent cards) but they are for postcard lovers -- and there are a whole lot of us at the fair...but there are enough cards for all.

I strolled around to see what I could see and spotted this fabulous book of Victorian paper ephemera...the dealer told me it was well over one hundred years old. He was trying to sell it intact and not by the page, which I commend. What a shame to tear it up.

What I wouldn't have given for it....look at this page! But alas it wasn't to be....the price? $350.00.
But we can look!

(this one is for Dori!)

How fun is this page? I didn't buy the book but we all get to look at the pages. I should have taken a video (but I was afraid  I'd get in trouble).....

Don't you just wonder who made this? A girl? or a woman? Sitting with paper and scissors and glue -- just like we do...

I also coveted these cut-outs of the great state of California and San Francisco neighborhoods....$12.00 each but I still passed....I am the 25-cent shopper...

The BodyScope
I don't know what it is but I want it.....(nope, didn't get it)....

These pages were reasonable....$2/page.....

What did I buy? I collect beautiful old vintage flower postcards and found all these for a quarter each...I was happy..

I love how this advertising card for thread is in the shape of a spool of thread...

Fifty Cents for each of these...pretty affordable I'd say....

I never knew people did banking by mail like this -- on postcards! Hum......seems like we like to keep our banking more private these days....

I always like to check out the cursive writing and cancellations on the cards too.

SCORE!!!!
My favoriate finds at the fair were a couple of Japanese passports -- and one was absolutely covered in immigration stamps. SWOON.
I am sure going to have fun altering these.

Sometime you guys have got to come to SF for the Vintage Paper Fair -- it happens every January and August. And just think -- we don't have any snow in January and August is cool as a cucumber. And I know all the good places to eat nearby too. So, what are you waiting for?

Here -- I'm saving you a seat!

Hope you enjoyed the visit. Now, remember --
SEND GOOD MAIL -- GET GOOD MAIL

folders and booklets and mail -- oh my!

OUTGOING MAIL
I have been busy. Sometimes too busy to even photograph my mail and projects before they go out into the world....playin' a little catch up here..

OUTGOING
This isn't snail mail -- it's squirrel mail!

OUTGOING MAIL

OUTGOING

OUTGOING MAIL
I love using air mail envelopes, don't you?

You guys know how I am -- I can't leave things alone --I had to play with my outgoing air mail envelopes a little bit....

OUTGOING MINI FOLDER
I have been making and sending lots of these little folders -- with surprises tucked inside, of course.

Like this......

...and, like this......

I made the folders, tucked in the treats and decorated some coin envelopes to tuck everything inside...and then put in another mailing envelope...

Here's another...

After all that, I got busy making coin envelope books...they are really easy to make and fun...
Here's how you do it
I do wish I could take credit but I can't. And, not only that, my mail art pal
Andria
is the person who, not only directed me to the tutorial but also sent me that cool coin booklet she shows in her post.

I made one with a vintage photo theme for my photographer pal Monica and put it inside an old negative order form sleeve...
You only need five coin envelopes to make a booklet -- but hey -- you could use seven if you felt like it...and the tutorial suggests using the small size but I've been finding you can use ANY size...
no rules!

Cut up an old film developing manual and added a vintage photo which includes my mom!
She always liked to be a part of my art.

This coin envelope booklet went out to my pal Dori.....another vintage theme inside...

The cool things is, the booklets have pages plus you can put tags and surprises inside each page too...a little treasure hunt. I am having so much fun making them I had to order a box of coin envelopes online...

More coin booklets -- these are the smaller (#1) size and really fun to make and fill up. I put tags in the sleeves of the pages like the red Mr Zip tag above.
Now get busy and make some yourself!
Anyone want to make me one? I need cheering up -- no mail days yesterday and today and someone stole a box a friend mailed to me right off my front porch.
I am kinda cranky.

Tan Tan Ramen lunch -- I had to eat to keep up the energy to make all these things, right?
And to cheer up after getting no mail for two days and having my stuff stolen....

SEND GOOD MAIL -- GET GOOD MAIL
(at least that's the way it's supposed to work...)