CIRCLES
Call them circles, call them dots, use a hole punch, use a template, draw them, scribble them, paint them, collage them. This is all about circles and how we make use of them.
Call them circles, call them dots, use a hole punch, use a template, draw them, scribble them, paint them, collage them. This is all about circles and how we make use of them.
Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)
Oh, wonderful Mim Circles!
Oct 30, 2014
Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)
Mim Circles in Greece :-)
Oct 30, 2014
Mim Golub Scalin
Oh Angie & Snooky, I forgot about my disk Mail Art. Hmmm, need to do some of those again. Thanks for the reminder!
Oct 30, 2014
Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)
Oct 30, 2014
Eduardo Cardoso
Oct 30, 2014
Mim Golub Scalin
Lovely, elegant, peaceful, Eduardo. Thanks for posting.
Oct 30, 2014
Eduardo Cardoso
Thank you!
Oct 30, 2014
Jennifer Jones (JJalltheway)
A couple of circle cards going out today. Dang, looks like maybe I scanned them too big. Sorry.
Nov 1, 2014
Jennifer Jones (JJalltheway)
Nov 1, 2014
Mim Golub Scalin
Nice JJ! This dotty thing is running me around in the best of circles!
Nov 1, 2014
Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)
Nov 2, 2014
Jan Hodgman
Judy Staroscik sent a pack of goodies including a Cirlcles ATC. Very fun:
Nov 4, 2014
Amy Irwen
Nov 5, 2014
Jennifer Jones (JJalltheway)
I'm a sucker for stitches on mail! Nice work Jan.
Nov 7, 2014
Jan Hodgman
I'm somewhat amazed it made it, Angie, as we have one postal employee at our local PO who is quite persnickety about regulations, and I couldn't find anything about mailing a round object. I just put it in a mailbox so I didn't have to face her across the counter!
Nov 7, 2014
Keith S. Chambers
Hey Jan, there are no restrictions about oddly shaped letters and postcards, just additional postage for those odd shapes. "Regular letter size" falls within a certain [rectangular] ratio. Squares, circles, octagons and biomorphic shapes incur a surcharge because they do not fall within the specs of running through the sorting machines. It all boils down to what is machinable and what is nonmachinable. The robots have their limitations.
Yes, I think every postoffice has that one timid clerk that says, "Oh my . . . I'm not sure if we can do that." You're right in just throwing it in the mailbox and not dealing with nay-saying clerks. The usps [dot] com website postal calculator asks about these odd shaped pieces and will include aforementioned surcharge.
I spent a few decades of my life designing direct mail advertising and went through offered usps seminars to get me up to speed. You know what they say, you need to know the rules before you can break the rules.
If anyone gives a rat's patootie, http://about.usps.com/publications/pub25.pdf . . . there's even a [plastic] template tool that you can use to measure your mailing piece against, both in ratio and thickness. I've got one or two stowed away somewhere in a box.
My advice to everyone is forget the rules and continue to challenge those folks down at the sorting center. Onward.
Nov 7, 2014
Keith S. Chambers
btw, cool piece Jan, I too am a sucker for stitched mail pieces.
Nov 7, 2014
Linda Pelati
Hi!
Nov 7, 2014
Mim Golub Scalin
Nice circle pieces everyone. Love this!
Here's the rule from Dean, Artist in Seine. Put appropriate postage on your piece, do not put your return address on the piece, pop your mail into a post box, and voila! The postal system has to carry on and deliver the mail. It always works for him and I use his rule when mailing oddly shaped pieces.
Nov 8, 2014
Carmela Rizzuto
For Liu Miao's 'Postcard Everyday Project', Shanghai, China. By C Rizzuto on E Kamkar's Paste paper with collage and gel pen embellishments.
Nov 8, 2014
Dean aka Artist in Seine
Mailing oddly shaped pieces? Who me?
Nov 10, 2014
Karen Alekyan
http://iuoma-network.ning.com/photo/albums/circle
Nov 11, 2014
Karen Alekyan
http://artistbooks.ning.com/photo/img-0075?context=album&albumI...
Nov 11, 2014
Victoria
Hello everybody!
Nov 11, 2014
Mim Golub Scalin
I cut up prints of a collage I made for a project, to standard PC size. They were ripe for altering! Here are two of the four I've made so far.
Nov 16, 2014
Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)
Oh, yes, very nice Mim! 'Liking them very much!
And here are a few "circle" US postage stamps...Xmas is coming?
(wish the Greek pPost had circle stamps, and self-stick)
Nov 17, 2014
Jennifer Jones (JJalltheway)
Nov 21, 2014
Jennifer Jones (JJalltheway)
Nov 21, 2014
Jennifer Jones (JJalltheway)
Nov 21, 2014
Jennifer Jones (JJalltheway)
Oy! I can't seem to post more than one scan at a time today. Sorry.
Nov 21, 2014
Mim Golub Scalin
Nice, JJ, really so nice. Not an "OY!" at all.
Nov 22, 2014
Mim Golub Scalin
Love the circle stamps, too, MomKat.
Perfect for our group.
Nov 22, 2014
Mim Golub Scalin
Nov 24, 2014
Clelia Vettrici
Nov 26, 2014
Ruud Janssen
Nov 27, 2014
Ruud Janssen
Nov 27, 2014
Victoria
Nov 27, 2014
Mim Golub Scalin
Hello back to Italy! And Nice circles Ruud. Yes Victoria, I'd love a sticker!
Nov 28, 2014
Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)
Circle art from Jan...stitched!
Nov 30, 2014
Ruud Janssen
Nov 30, 2014
Clelia Vettrici
Dec 2, 2014
Clelia Vettrici
...drawing on paper A4 with fantasy inside...
Dec 2, 2014
Mim Golub Scalin
Dec 4, 2014
Amy Irwen
circles, circles, circles a.n.d. I'm dizzy!
Dec 4, 2014
Jan Hodgman
for fátima queiroz:
Dec 4, 2014
Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)
"Peppermint" circles from Judy Staroscik...yummy!
"circle" postage too!
see blog:
Judy and Joey (doggie) sent Peppermint CIRCLES in the mail
Dec 7, 2014
Richard Canard
06.01.14 Dare Ms. Mim & Ti Ar Ra, .... I just stumbled across Ti Ar Raden's December 30th "Circles" contribution & thought it was very beautiful. All best to you. Richard C.
Jan 6, 2015
Mim Golub Scalin
I agree, Richard C. Ti Ar contributed something quite stunning. A nice last entry for 2014!
Jan 7, 2015
Mim Golub Scalin
Jan 7, 2015
Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)
Jan 7, 2015