Update

Hello friends,

Just wanted to say hello and let you know that I'm terribly behind in everything right now (including sending out those giveaway winners packages).  After Clay getting sick, then visiting my parents out of state, and then me being sick, I am behind on work as well as all the things I love to do like writing letters!

However, Thanksgiving break is coming up and I'm hoping to get lots of things done.

Hope you are all doing well!

Incoming card and doodles from Aaron

I love narwhals!

Googly Eyed Horrors!

A letter to my cousin Aaron. This is one that I made at the Halloween mail art workshop in Chicago. The image I used was already pretty creepy but I think the googly eyes made it even better!  Also, the Johnny Cash stamp was pretty great for Halloween mail.  I still think that the USPS should make a Halloween stamp at least every other year.

"Have a horrible Halloween."

Lovely stamps given to me.

Back in Business!!

Hello everyone!

So when I said I'd be gone a few weeks I guess I actually meant more than a month.
But here I am, finally with wireless internet at my new home.

I've received some lovely mail welcoming me here.  Thanks so much to those penpals who have sent me things. I've been making a start at replies.  

But first I'll show you some things I sent before I left New England:

I love these two stamps of the snail and the 2 letters.

Recently I've really been loving Crayola's "Twistables Slick Sticks" crayons.  They really are slick and give a really lovely bright color. They aren't good for detail though.  It's a really broad tip.  But they are so much fun.  I've also gotten into glitter and in more recent mail art I combine the two.  Can you say awesome?

The old man is actually a sticker that I MADE! with my awesome friend Dana and her cool sticker making machine.  :D

a postcard that I made for my parents from a map used on my recent trip to Mt. Washington in New Hampshire, home of the highest recorded wind gusts on Earth. When we went there in July it was winter coat weather on top and blowing over 80 mph.

back of the postcard.... this is a joke to my parents from one of our favorite movies... I passed by the location of the film. Do you know the film?

found an old check book log and made some mail.  I love grids and things on mail art.

the twistables are in use here again

a cool dino fold-and-send that I think I got from Tara at the letter writing social that we had.  With an added skeleton sticker of some watery monster. :-D

Well folks, that's all for now, but you can expect some more frequent postings from me.  Cheers!

Pepe the King Prawn!!

A letter from my cousin Aaron.  Enjoy his awesome drawings. :-D

Neck Data and Flying Monsters

My cousin Aaron sent me the zine that he helps make:

Neck Data.  Issue #14 :  Neck Dada

I'm pretty darn sure that that's his drawing on the front.  It's kind of funny because his drawings really remind me of my brother's doodles and drawings that I remember from when we lived together.  At one point in time it was a lot of cars and handguns. haha

I sent him back some flying monsters...

Super Cool CUZ

Have I mentioned before that I have super cool cousins?

This is a letter I got from one of them: Aaron.

He sent me a zine not too long ago too.  I'll post a couple photos of that soon.
I love his illustrations.

Letter and Illustrations from Cousin Aaron

I have the coolest family.