The Colours of Poetry

Mail art from Sherri A. in California.  A lovely idea to use paint swatches as poetry inspiration.  And I like the fact that she uses the British English spelling for "colour."

Where did the time go?

Bad, bad mail artist! I have had such a busy spring between work and my over ambitious garden that mail has built up on my desk, waiting to be returned.  I'm taking a use it or lose it personal day from work and the morning is too gray and drizzly to be out in the garden yet. So coffee cup in hand, I'm sitting down at my long neglected desk.

Received from Rachel Freeman

Some wonderful photo collages from Rachel that came unsolicited. Hmmm....I'm going to have to think of something good to return...

#004 & #004.5 - Mail

#004 - My return postcard to Grigori.  At my daughter's school, the other day, I found this old outdated "first dictionary" that is just a gem.

#004.5 - My daughter, seeing Grigori's postcard to me, decided she wanted to send her a post card too.

Recieved from Debbie Dosanko

This came from Debbie in her return gift of blank etegami cards for my tomato etegami submission. Thank you!

Bed Rest

I'm coming out of forced bed rest of over a week due to my silly appendix which decided it was tired of living inside my body. It just demanded to be removed in quite an obnoxious manner.  All is well now despite some lingering soreness.  I have a some catching up to do now!

Recieved from Grigori Antonin - USA

My first received mail art. :-)

Thanks Grigori!

Etegami Entry - Tomato Dreams

This is first entry to any mail art call.  This is an etegami which is a Japanese art form where there is simply a drawing with a few apt words usually on a post card (as is this entry).  For more information on etegami, you can go to this website: http://etegamibydosankodebbie.blogspot.com/

#003 Leaves and Bookmarks

What started as a project to create a bookmark with tango lyrics turned into quite a larger project.  On the way to tango in Ashland a few weeks ago we stopped in at a lamp store and discovered these lamp shades made of skeletonized and dyed leaves.  We thought that would be a cool thing to try.  Well the other day during a futile attempt to find some morel mushrooms I discovered a whole forest of these skelelenonized leaves.  They are moldy and dirty, but with a little dyeing with food coloring, look pretty neat.  I'll try a lampshade next.

Outside of card with dyed leaves.

Inside of card.

 Envelope Front.

Envelope Back.

Bookmark Front. I actually had to relearn how to make a friendship bracelet for the tassel. That brought back very old memories.

Bookmark Back, with slightly altered tango lyrics.

#002 Birthday Accordion Book

An accordion book I made for a friend's birthday with the envelope I sent it in. The saying is a Celtic blessing that I ran across at a friend's blog.

The envelope stitched closed with a naturally died hemp embroidery thread.