Outgoing Mail Art

I finally got back into the groove and started responding to my large pile of received mail. Here are a few envelopes I sent. 

Total failure at LetterMo btw.

I made it a week and a half into Month of Letters. I was doing great, frequently writing letters in the morning or a quick postcard at night even if I was exhausted. But then I worked a ten hour day and went out immediately afterwards to celebrate with a friend who got a fly-out interview, and that was that. Oh, well. There's always all the rest of the Februaries of my life.

I did manage to send out quite a few Valentines though.

Congratulations if you made it to the home stretch!

Painting, Drawing, Bar Art

Since last fall I've been getting back into sketching and drawing and watercolors. I made a sketchbook over several months as a Christmas gift for my parents. These are a few of the pages.

It's been super nice painting again. I did a lot when I was in high school, but later mail art kind of took over my space and time.

I've also been doodling a lot with friends at bars. This is so much fun. It's bar art, or b/ar/t or {b(ar}t).

Through the looking glass

Clayton rearranged furniture and put up white string lights in my office while I was at work one day. I came home to find my mirror in the office and such a lovely magical reflection in it. My desk, the ficus plant, my hummingbird mobile, warm lights. As opposed to the quite bland white wall behind the mirror. Looks like a different room.

Start of Month of Letters and Valentines

It's that time of year again! Lettermo, where I try to write and mail a letter or postcard a day for the month of February. Some of these were done at the end of January, but on Jan. 1st I wrote two, Jan. 2nd I wrote one and after this blog post I'm going to do my day 3 letter. This is the first time I'll be trying to do this while also working a job where I have 10 hour shifts, so we'll see how that goes. Although I've never successfully finished the challenge before, so...

Anyway, Valentines energize me and I generally do very well in the beginning of the month when I want to make everything pink and crazy. For this month I'll be erasing the name and address of the recipients and posting the photos right away instead of waiting for them to arrive before putting up photos.

Clayton saw this (above) and said "Cute." Not what I thought his reaction would be. haha

As you can see I like my Valentines to be mostly goofy.

Anybody else trying Lettermo? Good luck!

The Tortoise and the Hare

More supplies from work above. This cookie box was so cute I had to use it. Perfect size for a cd! I sent my dad the George Harrison cd Brainwashed.  The cookies were really good too.

I had one stamp left in my Harry Potter sheet, and it was Severus Snape because he's my favorite character. I put it with my collection of other stamps that I keep and don't use. The deaths of David Bowie and Alan Rickman were very upsetting to me. Although I love Snape, my favorite Alan Rickman role is definitely Colonel Brandon in Sense and Sensibility.

Outgoing

I get lots of great cheese stickers from work- like this one Midnight Moon Goat Gouda. It's delish.

I can't remember if I've posted anything with this stamp I've made yet, but I love it.
There's nothing you can mail that can't be mailed.

I'm considering making another stamp that says: It's easy. All you need is stamps.