Playing With Face cards

I've always taken it for granted that all face cards are the same.

Not so!

Check out these queens above.

Similiar to each other, but each quite unique.

Kind of neat how they all face different directions too.

I love the wild pattern combinations on their clothing.


And here a couple of old jokers.

Need lots of all one kind of face card?
I have them for sale in my etsy (of course!)
Royalty comes by the dozen, while the jokers I only have 8 of.
Each group would make a cool display all framed up or maybe you need a bunch of knaves for an Alice in Wonderland altered book?
You could also create some unique invites to a girls' art party with all queens.
hint, hint
Or create a kingly collaged cigar box for the man in your life.
You can tell I had awhile to think as I played with my decks and decks of cards.

Art Mail From Laura

Laura is one of those quick draw people who claimed one of my postcards in a giveaway. It was first come first served with an address. She was so inspired by the whole postcard mail art thing, that she sent me this woven offering. Such a sweet image!


Not to be out done, I created this for her. Childish silliness with unrelated children's book writing that vaguely "works".




No sooner did I mail my card than this one arrived the next day (she had mailed her two cards at the same time, but this one traveled slower). I love the whole vintage-y campiness of it!

I think we have a swap going on.

WAY Before White Out

Just had to share one of the vintage oddities I have

in my collection of, well, vintage oddities.

Before microwaves, before the Internet, before cable TV.

Before White Out and correction tape.

If you're old enough to know.

Your old enough.

heehee

Additonal note:

Linda mentioned erasing the carbon copies too. I HAVE a box of carbon paper too!

What obsolete items do you collect or hang on to?

Mail Art- Postage Stamps

"The function of the artist is to express reality as felt."

Robert Motherwell

It has never been SO fun to send art mail than now.

The US Postal Service recently issued these Abstract Expressionists stamps-

artists creating in the 1940s-50s -and wow! They are fun to arrange on an envelope!

They vary in size and the largest is a relative billboard for a stamp.

These First Class (44 cents) stamps come in a sheet of 10 for $4.40 so are not a huge financial outlay all at once, but if you are like me, you will want more than one sheet.

You can buy these and other beautiful stamps on-line and have them mailed to your door.

Save time by not standing in line at your local PO and get exactly what you want!

USPS.com

This has been a public service announcement by an excitable artistic type

who works in a small-town Post Office.

Quit complaining about long lines,

go on-line and find great tools for enhancing your creativity.

Then mail it!

Antique Linen and Laces Stitchery Kit

Just listed it in my etsy shop.

A kit of heirloom materials for stitching an heirloom quality sampler.

Quantities are limited.

Read about the antique linen here.

My Heart in Hand

A little something I have on display on my pack porch

that also happens to be for sale in my etsy shop.

I like to say that I am not in the "keeping" business.

I get more enjoyment out of sharing and selling things.

If I was rich and could afford the postage,

I would just mail most of my stuff away as RAKs.

For free.

The heart is a ceramic one I made and

the hand is something vintage I picked up somewhere.

One of my current etsy offerings.

So much treasure and so little time to list it all for sale!

No Calorie Peeps

Found these at my local fleamarket.

Reminded me of Easter gifties I got as a kid.

Ten cents each.

CHEAP, cheep, cheep!

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May you have a blessed Easter

and may all of your treats be calorie free!