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    I’m puzzled

    August 8, 2013 - By 

    puzzle mail art1 puzzle mail art2I was feeling the need to make some mail art. My favorite kind to do are large puzzle pieces. Several years ago I bought a large floor puzzle at a garage sale. I’ve been sending altered postcards naked (meaning just addressed and stamped on the reverse) through the mail ever since.

    The people at the post office know me and always get a kick out of the objects I send through the mail…such as a water bottle filled with goodies. Altered CD’s are also fun to send. I can’t seem to find a picture of any I’ve sent though…grrr.

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    Altered Puzzle piece

    August 10, 2011 - By 
    Finished another one and popped it in the mailbox yesterday. 
    One of the postmen said he gets a kick out of the mail art and postcards I send and receive. 
    He asked me about the postcards one day when I was mailing a very boring package.
    I had no idea they paid that much attention! 
    Fun to know that mail art not only brightens the recipients day but the postal workers day as well.

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    UFO’s–finished

    July 20, 2011 - By 

    Since we’ve been pretty much stuck in the house lately I’ve been exercising my creative side by attempting to finish some UFO’s…unfinished objects.

    I have a stack of these type of projects. Some just have a background finished. Others are a train wreck and are in need of a do-over. 

    This small canvas board was one of those. Whoa! You can’t even imagine how ugly the background on this baby was. I didn’t take a before picture…it was too awful.  Now I happen to like it.

    This puzzle piece was another that had been abandoned sometime last fall when I ran out of steam after gluing papers to the backs of a dozen or so pieces.  I used my scrap bucket for most of this one.

    I’m also working on a mixed-media painting. So far I’m just layering and layering…no photos yet.