Halloweeeeen outgoing!

Mummy monster mail art swap:

Joined a October/Halloween washi tape swap. These are the ones I'm sending:

 Zombie mail art swap, back and front:

Halloween mail galore!

Outgoing Halloween mail:

Made from a book jacket given away by a library:

I wrote a quote from Macbeth that's hard to read in the photo: "Eye of newt and toe of frog... wool of bat and tongue of dog... for a charm of powerful trouble, like a hell-broth boil and bubble!"

A homemade card, a piece from a medical dictionary, and a printed out movie poster. 

For a werewolf swap- I was happy with the werewolf and moon I drew and matched it with another old movie poster.

Dancing monsters go into the post box!

I think this is the creepiest Halloween mail I've made yet this year!

Outgoing Mail

I've been joining lots of Swap-bot swaps lately. This one was for a mail art envelope and flat surprise inside:

I've been sending out more postcards recently. Mostly to family and friends as a little hello/thinking of you message.

 I think this is to a penpal I found from sendsomething.net, another great place to find people who send mail!
 

I was really feeling the fall vibe. There's practically nothing I love more than woodland animals wearing clothes and being ridiculously cute. Look at that awesome sweater vest! This illustration is from a children's reading textbook.

Top envelope illustration from the same children's reading textbook, and bottom is from a water damaged book about Star Wars memorabilia.

 Also made some more Halloween mail! If there's anything I love more than cute animals in clothes, it's spooky weird Halloween shit and the great color scheme of black, orange, purple, lime green, dark blue.

Making use of some pages from a medical dictionary...

and again here:

Pink Halloween  :)

I've been meaning to take more photos of my incoming mail to share here as well, since that's definitely half the fun of penpal-ing! I succeeded in taking ONE photo of an incoming letter. Lol. I'll do better.

Halloween mail already!

Well, I've already started with the Halloween mail. There were several Halloween swaps on swapbot starting in late August and I couldn't resist! I've already seen a house in my town decorated for Halloween as well.

I love the Curious George sticker I put on this.

Homemade (but barely by me) Halloween cards. I actually received these awesome library card decorations last year in a swap so I decided to put them on cards for this swap. They are so pretty! I added the fuzzy bat, but that's all.

Homemade Halloween postcard, plus two bookish postcards for another swap:

I can't wait to buy the new Halloween stamps the USPS has coming out! I still love the jack-o-lanterns from last year, but I only have a few left.

Last Year, Halloween Mail

Halloween is one of my favorite holidays to send mail for. All these photos are from last year when I had a little Halloween party with a mail art component. Some of these I sent, and some of these my friends made and sent to our friend Ian, who moved away.

 front and back, above and below

 This was a cool thing I bought at a Halloween sale the year before when everything was half price after Halloween. Holographic image.

 Clay has had a book of R. L. Stine's Goosebumps postcards forever. So this year I commandeered it.

Fun, fun, fun!

Transition your castle for the new season!

For those of us with a small budget, the changing season offers a challenge to transition our summer castles over to a more appropriate look for fall and Halloween. 

Here's a simple how-to for revamping your look!

First, find that castle you've been enjoying all spring and summer with those bright blue skies and flower pots out front

 With a few simple supplies I can show you how to transition into fall.

- a black sharpie (it goes much faster if you have one of the King Size ones)

- orange glitter glue




First, using the Sharpie color in those blue skies and flower pots.

Next, trace the outline of the castle with the orange glitter glue.

Ta da! A Halloween castle, made from simple things you can find in your craft closet at home!

If you want to layer on some more accessories, don't forget to wait until the glitter glue dries.