Cherry Blossom Time

Today I mailed out six postcrossing cards.  All of them depict scenes from Washington, DC during Cherry Blossom time in early April.  Aren't they gorgeous!  And, for those of you who think I can't count, there was a duplicate of the last card.

It's Getting To Be That Time Again

Time for one of my all-time favorite cartoons.

Do You Know About Peachy Cheap

Here's an item some of you might be interested in.  12 rolls of tape for one low price.  Check it out at Peachy Cheap.  And no, I am not affiliated in any way with that site.  They offer deals good for one day only, except on weekends when the deal runs on both Saturday and Sunday.  I held off ordering this tape all day Saturday and it still hadn't sold out at noon today, so I took that as a sign I was supposed to order.  It still hasn't sold out as of this posting, so maybe that's your sign????  Call me "Enabler."

Book of Days 2012

Besides letter writing and mail art, my next favorite activity is art journaling.  Here is the front cover of my 2012 Book of Days.  I'm following along with our fearless leader, Effy Wild.  Here's a link to her Book of Days site.  The basic program is totally free.  There is also a Facebook group to join if you like.

She provides two or three videos per week where you can watch her create pages in her own art journal.  Very helpful for those like me who have a huge gap between the idea of my page as it exists inside my mind and what I actually translate onto on the paper.

I won't be posting the journal pages here, but if you are interested you can follow me on Pinterest.  It amazes me that I have 60 followers already on Pinterest, but I've never pinned anything to a single board!  Who are these people?

Security Envelope Trees

If you know me at all, you know I love to use security envelopes in my mail art.  See my post Never Buy Another Envelope. Imagine my delight to find this Christmas card in my mailbox.  It comes from Marguerite Keen of Piccadilly Post.  Check out her blog post Trees Galore! to see the much larger piece she made and donated to a museum fundraiser.

So Marguerite, thanks so much for the card and for all the other mail art you've sent during 2011.  All the best to you and all my other blog readers in the new year.

Not Your Run-of-the-Mill Post Office

Can you imagine checking your P.O. box here?  Or sending off your mail art and Postcrossing cards here? I received this card through Postcrossing.  It's from China and shows the General Post Office of Shanghai.  WOW.

Team Ginger Sure Can Run!

    

     Good thing I had a heads up from Pen Thief and LWA to keep a lookout for the Gingerbread Man because that he sure is making the rounds. 

     I spotted him at a 5K Run to benefit St. Jude's Children's Hospital.  But he wasn't alone this time.  He had teamed up with two of his cousins.  Just as I approached them, the race started and Team Ginger was out of the blocks in a hurry.  I heard the GB Man laugh and shout, "Run, run, as fast as you can.  You can't catch me.  I'm the Gingerbread Man."

     He was right.  I didn't catch him or either of his cousins.  But then, I probably couldn't catch them even if it was Februrary and they were drenched in molasses.

     This postcard sighting is off to Mrs. Schindler's Kindergarten Class at Nottingham Country Elementary of KATY, TX.  Hey, there, Limner...do you know this school, this kindergarten class, Mrs. Schindler?  If not, they must be close.

An Equation For Fun

Hmmm, that picture doesn't show up as well as I'd hoped.  So here they are one at a time.

Get your favorite pair of scissors.

Then gather your junk mail, you know, all those credit card offers, subscription renewal requests, and catalogs.  Next, snip out your address from a few.  Wasn't that nice of them to send you free address labels?  But, they're sort of plain.

So while you have those holiday catalogs and store ads from the Sunday paper handy, clip a few Christmas images.

Bring on the glue stick!

Adhere your address labels to the appropriate spots and you have holiday return labels for all your seasonal mail.  Aren't they cute!

Just the Way It Is

Yesterday's outgoing mail included these four envelopes all made from Hardees' bags.  The only time a bag from any fast food joint gets chucked around here is when food stains the bag.  Fries are usually the culprit.

Just Letting 'Er Rip

One day a couple of weeks ago I blew the dust out of my Photoshop program figuratively and out of my laptop literally and started making some address labels for my Postcrossing cards.  One of the prototype prelims morphed into the envelope you see above.  It's now on its way to a new correspondent in Canada.

This post is dedicated to Limner who had begun to fret a bit about my slackness online, but now she's over it.  She's catching fish faster than JC can throw 'em in the sack and trying out new recipes in her head and generally having a grand ole time.  I'm glad.