New Year Postal Presents

Gung Hay Fat Choy
Happy Lunar New Year to all.
Love those Buddha's Hands citrons.

This envelope arrived this morning
filled with cow (cow?) stamps a friend got for me while in Mexico.
How cool are these?

And then, another friend dropped a big envelope on my front porch filled
with vintage aerogrammes and stationary she collected on her travels around India
and California.

Wow!
 What a great start of the day today and what great pals I have.

I am counting all of this as New Year gifts even if they didn't arrive in
Lucky Red Envelopes.

Have a good one, everybody.
(and big thanks to RO and DD)

Mail, mail everywhere!

Incoming mail -- beautiful, isn't it?
All these beauties are waiting to be responded to.
Yikes!

I will get around to it, no worries.

Working on my Lunar New Year Cards using some of the photos I shot at the Flower Market over the weekend.

Here's the backs of the cards...
hope they arrive OK. Having a bit of adhesive issues.

You all know by now that I find the various papers I find in Chinatown irresistible.

These take-out menus were also irresistible.
Handmade envelopes.
One of SF's supervisors want to ban handbills left on porches.
I'd better make envelopes while I can still get my hands on them.

More handmade envelopes
read to be filled up and sent out.

Four Mailart 365 postcards ready to rock and roll.
Or, at least get mailed.

I am having a little bit of trouble keeping up -- better work harder.

Send good mail to get good mail!

A Nice Day

Took a lovely walk around Chinatown and admired some mailboxes.
Love that red.

Looking up.

More mailboxes. Like that weathered look.

Love the old-fashioned ones.

Home for lunch and the reading of my wonderful mail.
(thank you Annejo and Linsey and Fast Eyes)

 I love hearing from Tallie.

A poofy postcard handmade by Jen (IUOMA). Even the stamps were sewn on.
So wonderful.

An embroidered woman on the back.
Who knew I wasn't supposed to cut it open?
I need to get out my sewing machine and sew it back up.
Thanks, Jen.

I have been working on my mailart projects too.
Photos to come.

Beautiful weather, interesting walk through Chinatown, good mail.

Et Encore

I love old dictionaries, especially French ones.

I buy them to cut up for mailart and collage but often I can't bring myself to do it.

Cursive writing chart.
The French take their penmanship very seriously.

The illustrations are wonderful.

More Words
These are in French
Mais oui

A Little of This....

MailArt 365
 #20/365

MailArt 365
 #21/365

Some lovely incoming on Friday

More from the Rubber Stamp Queen, you know who you are.

And look what she sent me -- see those PG's???
A rubber stamp with my initials. 

MailArt 365
#18/365
MeeMee Restaurant in Hell's Kitchen NYC

MailArt 365
#19/365
Winter in San Francisco

More mail out into the world...

And more.....


So, that's it. A little of this and a little of that. 
I bought a stash of the beautiful Lunar New Year Stamps today.
Made some great envelopes out of Chinese Take-Out Flyers.
Soon to be off to the wonderful San Francisco Film Noir Festival in our beautiful old Castro Movie Palace. I love the constant feeling of dread (with a side of popcorn).


Have fun everybody!

What a guy!

Just came across this guy in my files.
I love the flowers and of course the La Poste box.
The mustache? Not so much.

Happy Find

Cleaning out my desk drawers over the long weekend....

I came across this wonderful stash of older stamps I had put away...

and forgotten about....
How exciting! Now shall I start using them on mailart or stash them away to find again in  a few years?
What does everyone think?

I am quite partial to the Lunar New Year Stamps.
Very soon we will have a new one.

No mail yesterday -- hoping for a double batch today.