Paw Prints

Still scanner-less, I received a postcard from Kiyotei yesterday. Quite welcome in the interlude between two days full of long meetings.

Well, i’ll keep is short. Laptop crashed. Sent off for logic board replacement. Returns. Crashes more, and often. Sent back off.

Decompressing from work takes a substantial bit of time, too.

So it goes.

I received wonderful ATC from Amy on Saturday; a beautiful post card from Racheal Monday night. My laptop is off to have the logic board replaced, so scans & comments will need to wait.

I received wonderful ATC from Amy on Saturday; a beautiful post card from Racheal Monday night. My laptop is off to have the logic board replaced, so scans & comments will need to wait.

two sets of the cube ink pads 2 @ 3.95 = 7.90
Colorbox pinwheel 19.95

A 2″x2″ puzzle piece seems like a doable project. And she’s sending this week, so i know what else is in competition: bewailing the dead logic board in my laptop. (LMAO2005.04)

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I did complete the mariposa lily stamp (AS2005.04) yesterday, after much fussing with the printer. The original design was much darker, but once i had the magenta ink head cleaned, it seemed black was about to go. I lightened up the stamp, added one pixel outlines to the text, but after printing 64 of them, i realize the denomination is hardly legible. Ah, well. I did do a proof of the background image and the stamp, plus the paper airplane cancel — turned out that white was just too pale on the image.

The issue with the black ink causes a hesitation in printing for the actual mailparavion/avionparmail submission. (See address past the jump; 15 Ninthmonth d/l) I did print the almost ATC sized images needed to fill the center pane of some old formal stationary. As i used a cream colored white-out to first obscure the old name, i wondered if men ever doodled the formal married names of their intendeds. Maybe they just don’t get past “Joe+Sue.” I never changed my name, and now Christine’s matches mine.

For these small greeting cards, i put the stamp and cork cancel on the back, along with the title, date, and signature.

These eight cards, FM2005.12.01a-h, (but, argh, this should really be 2005.13) will go out to friends and family for birthdays and such. I’ve three others print outs on plain paper, a little bigger than 3×5, that i may make cardstock cards for. I still need ten to meet all the sendings for the the last third of the year, plus mail art post cards. The mail art cards definitely need to go on photo paper.

I’ve also an ATC to commemorate the new stamp: ATC2005.01.03 .

AVIONPARMAIL
Via delle rose 7
21057 Olgiate Olona (Va)
ITALIA

On Tuesday evening there was mail from folks from the secondary nervousness condition. Miss Kitty was returning the favor of a postcard from the postcard exchange. The scan doesn’t pick up the intensity of the glossy paints she used in some places. Quite fun!

Swampgirl’s torn and woven paper ATCs were my choice in a PIF. I’d played with weaving some years ago, in this series of Interactions, Twills, and Checks. Her choices of breaking up the woven image and adding collage elements on top and nestled into the edges — particularly the smooth, arcing curves that contrast — are different than mine and an inspiration. I’ll add these to the ones HeyMaggie did in 2003. Maybe i’ll display them together….

On Tuesday evening there was mail from folks from the secondary nervousness condition. Miss Kitty was returning the favor of a postcard from the postcard exchange. The scan doesn’t pick up the intensity of the glossy paints she used in some places. Quite fun!

Swampgirl’s torn and woven paper ATCs were my choice in a PIF. I’d played with weaving some years ago, in this series of Interactions, Twills, and Checks. Her choices of breaking up the woven image and adding collage elements on top and nestled into the edges — particularly the smooth, arcing curves that contrast — are different than mine and an inspiration. I’ll add these to the ones HeyMaggie did in 2003. Maybe i’ll display them together….

FM2005.13 — i’ve done the digital work.

I received in today’s mail an invitation from mailparavion/avionparmail for a mail art exhibit at http://www.mecenate79.it/ . I’m sure it was the collection of addresses at, say, http://www.mail-art.de/ from which they got my address — nothing personal — but it was quite fun to get the invitation, nonetheless. The exhibition will focus on “the concepts of flight and progress as bonds between tradition and future.”

I don’t think the digital image i created — a cloud over Atlanta, taken from a plane in 2002 superimposed with a trippy butterfly ink drawing done tonight — is particularly thought provoking, but it is *fun*. I needed fun. I’ve also 20 birthday & similar greetings i need to send for the next five months, and perhaps this is the right image for that as well.

I’m thinking i should make a mariposa lily stamp. The mariposa lilly & the butterfly connection may be obscure, but i like it.

2005-06-10 image 135 — a butterfly
2005-06-04 image 37 — mariposa lily