Mail Art
As anybody who’s ever gotten mail from me knows, I love to send fun mail. What I lack in artistic talent, I make up for in stickers and colored markers and fun stamps.
Recently inspired by some activity on Twitter (blatantly stolen from the brilliant @leahjones, let’s be honest) as well as some newly discovered blogs devoted to mail art, I’m stepping it up. (See especially Time After Tea and Stationery Addicted for inspiration). I am going to try to send one letter a week, and you, my readership of ten, are the lucky recipients. I’ll post pictures here of the mail a week after I send it, so as not to spoil the mailbox surprise for anybody.
If you want in on the action, please add your name and address to this form. I will do my very best to include strangers and international recipients. I promise neither the profound nor magnificent, but I will try to brighten your day with something addressed just to you.
To kick things off, I’m posting pictures of a little note I wrote to a friend who I’m pretty sure doesn’t check this blog regularly. I made the envelope from an ad in a magazine, which I folded using Angry Chicken’s guidance. That’s a Peanuts Valentine’s sticker on the back.
UPDATE: Yes, even if I know you personally and you are positive I have your address, please still use the form. It’ll help me keep track of everything.
Posted 27 January 2010
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oh! i used to do this in college…so many years ago. might i suggest using double sided tape on the inside so you don’t end up with all that tapey shiny-ness on your lovely envelope?
emmit & jasper look forward to mail art from aunt laura.
If you have a sewing machine, I’ve seen some nicely sewn paper envelopes too.
This is right up your alley since you have a love affair with fun postcards and letters.
@jaq – good idea. Will have to pick some up soon.
@Lezlie – sadly, I can barely fix a loose button. I LOVE the idea though!
Laura, you monkey, expect my address.
And expect a return parcel, since this sort of activity is a hobby of mine, too.
Great to find this site, by the way….
Ohhhh pretty! those wouldnt happen to be paper source printable labels would they? perhaps in eco or soft white? I spend wayyyyyyy tooo much time there :-) miss you lady! looking forward to the pretty mail. may steal that sewing idea from my momma though
@Katie – of course they are P.S. labels :) My favorites are the oval ones in pool.