Mail Art

Mail Art

Mail art is so much a part of the person who is sending it.

I love drawing the flowers the most.





I have found that I really like to draw.

While I can draw some things fairly well, perhaps even accomplished.

Others are not so good, in fact they are pretty poor looking.

None the less, I enjoy it, and I figure. like crocheting, the more I draw, the better I will become.

I do very little journaling, so the drawing I like to do is usually on an envelop.
I get my ideas from many different pages. This is from the pages of a craft magazine.


The back of the envelop has pictures from another craft envelop.

I cannot name one person that has ever told me, they would rather get a plain white envelope, over a envelop that has some color to it.

Even those that work opening envelops would rather have a little bit added to the envelop, to break up the tediousness of the day.



Mail art is easy. If you just have a pen and an idea, go for it. I was in a hurry today getting the bills ready to mail and just basically doodled some art work




Mail art can be drawn or the envelop can be made of something different. I have used magazine pages, I plan on using a child's book, that is not in real good condition. I have sent and received ribbons on the outside of the envelop. I do not have any photos handy of the magazine pages I have sent.

However I love the part I can do myself, the art work. The drawing.



When I cannot sleep is usually when I do the most drawing and crocheting. So I get a lot done at night. Because I usually do not sleep well much nights.

I have tried to take photos of all the work I have sent out the door, but I get busy and want to focus on the tasks at hand and just end up sending the art work on.

Here is some someone sent to me. I think it is so beautiful.

This is the back side:

We do, at times, swap certain types or colors of mail art.
I have some spring art ready to be sent.
Here is another possibility for the spring swap:

I also have some red ready to be sent. I have finished two envelops for this swap, even though one is needed. I will probably send this one for the swap and the other envelop for something else. Front:
Back:



Here is number two of the red ones:



Some I have sent this week.

Sometimes I like to use only markers.


Other times I like to color only with the pencils.



But most of the time I like to use both and even crayons.


I also will do zentangle or plain old doodling.


I had been mulling over this idea for a long , long time. I finally got the courage to try it, and it took a few attempts to learn how to do it the correct way. That is pencil shaving art. This is my first try, that I have kept, the other one I did, I just had to toss in the waste bin. If you want to see some awesome art, look up pencil shaving art.


Others I have not sent and do not know when or who will get it.
Others I have done.




I hope I have inspired you to share in the fun and the thrill of mail art. If for no other reason, that someone must send better drawings that I do.

One Glorious Month into a Warm and Happy Summer

It has been a terrific summer. The garden is producing tomatoes and herbs, the flowers are starting to come out. We had a proliferation of roses, they looked impressive!

My clematis was doing fantastic. I am trying to harvest the seeds off of those, and that is a hard job. I am still getting the stragglers blooming. The baskets are holding their own; I have to work on those once a week. As the old blooms die, I take them off and harvest what seeds I can harvest.

My first morning glory bloomed today.
I wanted a photo if it, but I needed to take my fellow Mother –in-law to the doctors. So she and I made a day of it, until after lunch.

She went with her husband and I went to the library.

I checked out too many books, a few I have gone thorough some already, and know what I am able use out of them.

About a week and a half ago some new neighbors decided to move in.

They built their place in one day and were dangerous, so we wanted them out of here.

The photo above is of their said home.

DH sprayed it two times, and got the queen at least, there were a few that flew away.

I picked up the nest after it fell and looked at it.

Seven layers, all in one day. I think that is absolutely incredible!

I wanted to keep it and look at it more, but DH went out when I was gone and destroyed it.

But that nest urged me to be determined to make this:

http://www.hankeringforyarn.com/crocheted-wasp-nest

And I did, here it is hanging up front. But it will go in back.



We need the decoy for up here on the deck. Down in the far yonder part, by the back fence a nest would be no problem.

So a summer full of joys and stresses, but all are doing what the creator put in them to instinctively do.

Next summer, I may be going to an International Convention.

To get there, I need to earn my way. So I am selling things. And pinching pennies.

Many will be hand crocheted items, some hand crafted, some will just have added embellishments made by me and some commercially produced items.

The commercially produced items will mainly be crochet and knit books, yarns, and piano music and a few other items.

I am starting to sell items. Some will be hand crocheted and some handmade and some embellished by me, and some commercially produced and I do not need anymore.

I did get all of my yarn books sorted, or at least I think it is all of them.

I found out I have a few books that I have double copies of so some of those must go up for sale. I have offered them locally first, so if you are local and got the email and are interested, go ahead and contact me.

The purple one was a gift.

This set is on sale in my Etsy store.