The chickens are here

MMSA 'All things chicken' postcards arrived...

From Ellen and Dorothea

From Joyce and Honi.

Joyce's card was one of the post office's pre-stamped tree cards. And I enjoyed the chicken on the address label Honi printed.

Update:

As Eva commented below, I also thought this was a great topic for creating art postcards - quirky enough to get some interesting art submitted, and broad enough to give anyone a lot of options. I thought people unfamiliar with MMSA might like to see the rest of the chickens. So here they are:

My submissions, with theme-related envelope.

Chickens part 1

Chickens part 2

Chickens part 3

Sunday Stamps - Boats & Ships

USPS has been issuing pre-stamped postcards for many years.

Here are examples from the last two years, a deer and a tree.

They offer a packet of printer-ready, perforated postcards featuring a sailboat stamp, which fits today's Sunday Stamps theme.

Stamp closeup.

The theme also brought to mind this stamp I have received from Eva from Spain:

And I also received this stamp commemorating the Battle of Mobile Bay during the US civil war on a nautically themed envelope.

And I sent this Earthscape stamp featuring barges.

the whine of the wind

Found poetry sent to Nancylee.

the seas survived

I always send the host of MMSA, Karen I, a postcard separate to the challenge. Usually it is something similar to the ones I send in for the swaps, so I don't blog them separately, but for the Found Poetry challenge I created 6 separate cards, so thought I'd share the extras.

It is still national poetry month, too. Here's a bonus link to a great infographic about haiku.

I used one of the post office's stamped postcards to paste the book page onto. I didn't realize the PO sold these until recently. The cards are fairly small (and the pre-stamp fairly large!) but they are decent value for money if you are buying other things online.

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