Some of the lovely post I've been seeing lately

This month and a bit has been a little slow for mail... both in and out.
Excitingly I got a postcard on Andy's REALwall (I couldn't resist the 'Like' button, it was supremely appropriate) I joined IUOMA which is a great Mail Art community. I have been overwhelmed by friendly people and cool inspiration.
Other things on the in/out list are as follows:

A Munari Story of paper book from my sister. Its from this awesome shop Upon a fold

Aska sent me an introduction to her project. Contact her at aska[dot]doll[at]gmail[dot]com if you are interested in joining in... she wants it to be massive. Now I have to start work on my response to send back.

Postcrossing from China

A lovely year of the rabbit PC from Lauren off Sendsomething.net

A ridicuously cool package of goodies form Felicity. I LOVED the short story she included (The Smile on Happy Chang's Face by Tom Perrotta) and also treasure the very special horse notebook... check out her blog she is one super cool cat!

The BEST Christmas stamp ever from my cousin in the UK... even though Wallace and Gromit gave me nightmares when I was little (that psychopath mute penguin anybody??) I still have a soft spot for the long-suffering Gromit!

Very elegant Freebie postcard from Reauk

Freebie Postcard from Melissa in the US

This Postcrossing PC had THE LARGETS STAMP EVER!! Check it!!

New Year's resolution PC from Kaz

The first 2 postcards my friend Jayzii has ever sent... I am proud to have been the one to recieve them!

Black and White PC swap from the USA

I might just have to re-award the title of "Coolest postcard I have ever recieved" to this lovely! A WHOLE POSTCARD DEDICATED TO THE FUNNY VEGETABLE STAMPS FROM FINLAD I AM IN LOVE WITH. (If the capitals were not giveaway I really like them!) Thank you thank you thank you to Postcrosser Ella, I am writing back with rewards soon :)

Letter to Gaby from IOUMA

Letter to Angie from IUOMA

A package to Aaron for the Disposable Lens Project

Sending out my envie giveaway to some lovey ladies - Felicity, Ariadne, and Zoe.

Incomming!

A great postcard from Frances in the Philippines detailing where her trip(s) of a lifetime would see her go - India, South Africa, Maldives, Spain, Rome and Grece - there were INSANE similarities between her list and mine!

Art PC swap from Kim in the Netherlands, Klee always makes me smile he just makes such cute images :)

Art PC swap from Enid in Canada - My mum loved this card because my parents spent their honeymoon in Canada and she was telling me all about B.C. and where they had gone etc etc.

Another art PC from Lori who loves them, but is only just starting her collection - this is Milton Avery's 'Bridge to the Sea'

A greeting from Kathrin near the North Sea - I am seriously glad I am in Perth facing the prospect of a long hot summer than preparing for winter up there right now!

Postcrossing from Marion in the Netherlands, the home of Van Gough one of my faves!

Postcrossing from Yonehara in Japan "These splendid works contain the natural beauty of Japan"

Postcrossing from Jill in Taiwan, the photo os of this train station totally overrun by cats!

The 'Altered Ad Card' Swap on Swapbot from Susan, I genuinely LOVE this adaptation!

'Quick Super-Awesome Ad Cards' Swap on Swapbot, I am curious as to what "Brisk" is... but it looks cool!!

Threadless T-shirts arriving!



My Pmegranate haul - 100 random postcards, and 30 special Burce McCall 'Serious Nonsense' cards.
And the awesome Einstein poster that they were wrapped in. I ironed it flat and it's now up on my wall!

OUTWARD-BOUND

Postcrossing


My contribution to the Mail Clock


Thank you notes to my Mix-Share swap Partners

These were the first lot of my 130 Pomegranate postcards to go out to some cool kids that only live a few minutes away from me so I often forget to dose them up with a bit of postal goodness.
Talweez (some creepy cats)

Doita, a fellow James Dean fan!

Thrishna

Joey

Natalie

Postcrossing to QLD


2 parcels of mail goodness for a group swap on Swapbot

Postcrossing to Poland

This lady had a request for wine related cards, which was great because I had no idea how else I was going to send this to somebody without looking like an alco.

Hi, my name is Molly and I'm an IKEA catalogue addict.

It's been 12 hours since i flipped through one, marvelling at the minimalist design prowess of the northern Europeans. Their bold colours, their light perfectly sanded wood, their allen-key construction methods.
It seemed appropriate that I began my creative diary with my current obsession - Detournement of tourist postcards and IKEA catalogue images. I started it with my Uni project made up of an original 9 postcards - I had received them in swaps, and was slightly unsure of what to do with them as it would be a bit odd to receive an Alcatraz postcard from Perth Western Australia.










I continued it the other day for the "altered ad card swap" on swapbot:



I enjoy this contrast of these two groups of objects. IKEA's very engineered/designed products that we use as consumers to assert our individuality (which is slightly ironic) or belonging to a certain group of society and create our 'home' with - they define or build our 'own' space within this world - our sanctury. Versus the ideal/famous images created to sell a location - Miami beach, the infamous Alcatraz island, the best aspects of a place - why you would want to visit. These are very public images linked with the identity of a place that nobody owns as such.
I also love the crazy scale weirdness you get to play with!

So anyway that was day 1 on my adventure!