All Blog Posts Tagged 'trashpo' (101)

The Blessed Father sent me an oversize custom playing (post)card. It's great!

He also sent me a Vietnamese Lunar New Year card. I received 4 for 5 days ago and meant to post it. I was born in the year of the snake (1989) and I just love…

The "mighty sacred trash heap," you see, is "immortal," and very much, "not dying."…

I have to say, this is probably the best thing I have received from Not. DUSTIN DE WIND!

Here is Carina's amazing Boekie. The is pretty phenomenal.…

Thanks Dustin! …

A+ Carina.  This one is stamped 'ERASURE VALLEY REGIONAL LIBRARY'. Eraser not needed on this one. Carina style at its finest. Thanks Carina.

p.s. Carina drew little broccoli florets on the back side.

First up from Elgin the awesome Interface Trashpo Collage from Diane.  It doesn't look like it even lost any bits along the way Diane. I have no idea how you always manage to make everything you touch so trashionable but pretty soon you may be on the run from the trashpoparazzi.  I'll be proud to say I knew her when...  ;) and I'll be proudly wearing my glittery D-KULT for Life…

Yep, just a plain white envelope from Stephanie Blake but inside another colorful envelope and Official Trashpo pins WOOHOO Can't decide which is my favorite...love them both :)

A colorful painted collage from Claudia McGill.  The front says Sunrise,…

If you love rust, trashpo, tin, and old signs, mail art couldn't get much better than this. Here is what it looked like straight out of its packaging, before the window provided the sun's backlighting:…

... and NBS is greedy. I ended up I.D.ing 3 trashpo buttons I wished for, figuring only 2 would arrive, but no:  Stephanie kept track of people's wishes and she sent all 3. They're fabulous. Thank you very much Stephanie, Claire, and Diane!…

One gorgeous collage:  She included several interesting tidbits, and among those here is the main eye-catcher:

Her note is included above to show the relief it would provide here in OOB and Diane's great sensitivity to safety. As a leading trashpo…

These very cool buttons came in the mail a few days ago. Thanks very much - these must be very difficult to make as they are less than an inch in diameter!

It's trashpo, and it's rustpo, and it hangs: 

Opening this was like ZING--is it my birthday?--it would be hard to choose one, but this has to…

Katerina found and sent me this great rusty can lid:  It's a beaut. It's a young one--probably hasn't reached adolescence yet--so its rusty and rusting journey through life has a marvelous freshness along with the telltale signs of time and exposure.

Does Katerina send only the lid? Noooo. She made a (blue) art card incorporating her own originally designed rusty-can-lid…

Lynn sent me a wonderful and original trashpo piece, part of a short series, and it is an honor. Much thought, inspiration, and work went into it, and the shape of no other mail art I've seen matches it: 

Please excuse poor camera quality…

Inspired by DK's recent trashpo videos and the discussion which broke out on my previous blog post, Oh! For the Love of Trash! (which can be found here: http://iuoma-network.ning.com/profiles/blogs/oh-for-the-love-of-trash?xg_source=activity) Moo and I set out to see what we could discover of the remains of an old trash pit out…

Sometimes, living on a 7 acre plot, where it was routine to dig holes and bury trash in bygone years, has it's advantages. DK wanders the streets of Elgin, eyes wide open for bits of this and that. Me, I tend to hunt in my own backyard: Piney Creek Acres.

Last week, I was walking the dog and the sun glinted off something shiny and black! I couldn't…

Diane sent me a little bit of everything, including some excellent rust and this fabulous holey piece of metal she found which I love:

Everyone likes to know whether the customer comes first in any business endeavor, and we are assured of that with DKult in the following card Diane sent:…

This piece was a thrill to find in the envelope--colors, text, use of paint, all aspects of Diane's work that I love: 

There are some DKult lessons in the beauteous trashbook below, including topics such as cooperation, courtesy, all the things in which I'm terribly deficient, so it's great that Diane sent this to me:…

Note the first check out date: Dec. 23, 1974. and the card pocket still intact. Love this Diane. I'm the lucky one here. The binding gauze is gorgeous. Thank you thank you.…