15 June 2013

Postcard for Bloganniversary


Last month HMA reached two years. And it received this fabulous postcard by Heleen (the Netherlands). Also the envelope was really nice. And with the Postcrossing stamp! I don't know if my blog was happy to receive this, but I really did!


By the way, how do you celebrate the blog-anniversaries? (Well, I have eleven months to think about it...)

13 June 2013

Look Inside





Sent by XX Jones (Austria) and to Chantal (Germany).

Envelopes (for these collages) made of paper shopping bags and rubber stamp/stickers.

12 June 2013

Fly over the City

Fly over the boring, grey, tiring city


Sent by XX Jones (Austria) and to Chantal (Germany).

Collages made of recycled cardboard, washi tape, stickers, rubber stamp and colour pencils.

The second is my contribution to the Challenge #5 of Mail a Smile. The theme of this month was Your favourite city. But this time I took notice of Micu's words and interpreted the theme freely. Don't you want to participate? You have until 30th June!

11 June 2013

Sea Mail


Sent by XX Jones (Austria).

This belongs to a serie of 28 postcards (see here).

10 June 2013

Handmade Pink Envelopes



Two letters sent to Laura (the UK), on different days and from different countries! Even the stamps are twins: the king of Morocco and the king of Spain.

The first envelope was made of a reused shopping bag, and the second from a brochure of University of Lleida.

I guess the UdL took under consideration numerous aspects when it came time to design its brochure... but they never thought it would be useful to make envelopes!

09 June 2013

Tulips


Sent by Heleen (the Netherlands).

I'm not very fond of postcards with flowers... except when they happen to show tulips (and orange!). This is an almost-maximum card, because it has a matched stamp, but it is not official (it is a personalized stamp made via the official mail company website).

08 June 2013

Closing Museums Is Erasing Ideas


Sent to the Museum Jan Cunen (the Netherlands).

Altered postcard with stickers. The original designed by the Dutch artist Ange Panke.

I altered this postcard in response to this call, in order to help to maintain the museum alive, because it is threatened with shutting down. I hope it helps!

Read more, maybe you can also help the museum?

07 June 2013

Frogs of the World Challenge


Received from and sent to Eric Bruth (France), for his project Frogs of the world challenge:
The frogs of the world challenge is a project I launched to get, from as many countries as possible (and as many place in the world as possible), a cover illustrated with a frog, the flag of the country and the word frog in the language of the country.
This page presents the current result of the challenge. If you want to help me on this challenge, please contact me by email.
Maybe can you help him?

06 June 2013

The Alexandrov Kremlin Is 500


Sent by Eduard (Russia).

Silvery postcard and mail art call for the project The Alexandrov Kremlin is 500:
The project is dedicated to the coming 500th anniversary of the Alexandrov Kremlin, which is going to be celebrated in 2013. Therefore all postage messages should be devoted to this event. Venerable artists and mail art beginners are invited to participate in the project. The works are not valued or returned. Your works will be received till June 30th, 2013. All works will be published on this site. The final exhibition based on the results of the project will take place at the museum “Alexandrovskaya Sloboda” in the anniversary year.Please, send your works for the project “The Alexandrov Kremlin is 500” here:
Eduard Egorov
Flat 61, №14, Sosnovskiy pereulok
Alexandrov
Vladimirskaya region
Russia, 601655

05 June 2013

Postcards from Philippines

It is not easy to get postcards from Philippines and I guess it is not easy to get postcards from Morocco. So Maria (Philippines) and I arranged a swap of two postcards. These arrived in my mail box two weeks ago:



I like postcards with people. It seems to me that they show the real life. But usually I wonder if the picture was taken long time ago, and what happened with those people. Maybe these kids now are grown-ups...

I found interesting what is written on the back:
Philippine tricycle. It is three wheeler motor-rickshaw commonly used in the Philippines as mode of transportation on short distances. They can be found in every city, town or village. Tricycles are part of Filipino way of living and moving around without them would be difficult.



The second postcard shows Rizal Park in the capital city Manila. Rizal is Philippines' national hero.

Also the stamps say a lot about Philippines' culture:


The tamaraw is a mammal.
It is endemic to the island of Mindoro.

MaHal Kita = 'I love you'
Maria taught me some words in Filipino. I am amazed how much we can learn trough mail and postcards!

04 June 2013

Get off the Internet and Write a Letter


Taken from this blog which aim is to explain How to become a grown-up in 468 easy(ish) steps. Well, writing letters seems to be one of the steps in order to become an adult person. So I'm in the way.

03 June 2013

Glitter


Sent by Postmuse (the USA). It contained a postcard that I have recently adopted.

Do you realise the problem with glitter? It is not if you like it. The problem is that it does love you, whether you want or not. And it loves your table, your shirt, your hands, even your face for days and days... Anyway, I still think this handmade envelope is gorgeous, and it made my day!

02 June 2013

Cartas em garrafas

Cartas em garrafas ('Letters in bottles') is not exactly a mail project.

It is a blog launched by Soraya Carvalho, from Brazil, a site to publish letters (written in Portuguese, I guess). Any letter. People who write a letter (to a real or imaginary person, to himself, to a TV or book character...), to be sent or not, can publish it here by sending an e-mail.

It's like throwing a letter to the sea...

01 June 2013

Confetti Letter

First time I read about a confetti letter I thought of an envelope full of little papers of different colours. It could be a nightmare if you open your letter, as I usually do, in a cafeteria. More or less like this other idea, but in an envelope.

But it seems that a confetti letter is... Well, this is not my idea, but David Solomon's idea (Because I Really Felt It). So I let him explain it!