The Mail Art Experiment

Diana H, a mail artist I know from IUOMA, discovered a stash of pages covered in handwritten scientific experiment notes.

I participated and the page arrived in this amazing envelope.

With a note on a nice card.

I received this page.

And turned it into this (the silver parts may be hard to appreciate.

If you would like to see more altered pages head over to The Mail Art Experiment's Tumblr page.

And if you are in Crozet, Virginia, the exhibit runs August 21st to October 2nd at the Crozet Library.

The exhibit announcement arrived in the form of this lovely card featuring six of the altered pages.

To Diana and Mary

Envelopes and artistamps sent to Diana and Mary.

Containing these collages.

Love and hearts

Love from Diana

A heart from Mary

And one from Brooke

Envelopes 755 and 760

To Diana and Alan

Trifold

A wonderful piece folded on three for mailing.

And an animated December stamp I missed last year.

The Lake Philpott Project

All of the Philpott Lake postcards that were sent back to Diana were part of an art show.

Here's the flier:

And as a reminder, here's my entry:

Envelope 629

Envelope 629.

An IUOMA valentine, and bonus stats

A valentine from Diana H at IUOMA.

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Bonus stats

It has been quite some time since we had a change at the top. There is a new leader in most viewed posts. During the last year or so, the blog hit a new monthly high for visits in December 2016 of 3920, driven I'm sure by the blog advent. Also, the blog passed 50k views in the last couple of months - thanks!

Top 5

1 (-) Edelweiss Post

2 (1) St Valentine's Day

3 (2) Exchange 11 - Mr Charles resplendent

4 (-) Camels on Sunday Stamps

5 (5) Sunday Stamps - boats and ships

Advent - Philpott Lake

Diana H over at IUOMA found around 50 terrible postcards taken of Philpott Lake that she offered to people willing to alter them.

Here's my take on it. You can see more on Diana's tumblr page.

Philpott Lake

Diana found a stash of quite ugly postcards of Philpott Lake.

Sent in this great envelope, with instructions to alter and return.

Goodbye, ugly tree stump, hello, ugly green monster.

Sent back in envelope 660 - now this is what a lake should look like.

You should be able to see more of these altered postcards here.