Jen Staggs's Blog (9)

Helen recently sent me this piece about which she states, "I sat down with your last few mail arts & made this series."  What an amazing compliment! It is a folded triptych featuring mixed media of prints and collage.  I am loving it to pieces! Thank you, Helen!!…

A blog post to the DKult Compliance Committee:

As per the request of KDJ and to prove that yea, verily, DKULT is indeed the shit, I send you all this image of my new tattoo applied to a hiney.  I am hoping that the image below will be acceptable to Thom, DeVillo and Neil as well as Angie, the official DKult tatt officer. 

Ever your devoted DKult…

I just posted the video of me opening this amazing object for the first time, but what you can't see in the quick movie is the detail in the packaging and the little oddities and silliness I found the more time I spent digging.  (The steampunk part is the leather arm strap...) And then there is the awesome playlist.  To see the actual device, check out the video on the right side of the IUOMA homepage.  David, you are reaching the highest levels of enchant-i-tude.  I love it and I'll gladly…

Apparently, licking too many stamps can have little-known consequences like pregnancy.  Thankfully, Dean Marks has provided an unusual mail-art object for the delivery: a French-government-supplied bandage kit!  Complete with plastic scissors, drape and two tweezers in the French national colors.  Trop bien!  Merveilleux!  It also includes a real scratch-n-sniff strawberry stamp, a thing I didn't know ever existed and I am sooo excited.  What a fantastically weird and wonderful piece of…

I am enchanted with Don…

After rooting around in old houses this weekend, I picked up a pantograph and some fountain pens to add to my art supplies.  These two pen-shaped things were among my purchases.  Anyone know what they are?  My guess on the red one is a) a burin…

Tonight, at 8pm, UPS Guy knocked at my door and proffered this box...(with scissors to show scale...)

After taking a hacksaw, blow torch and three pairs of box cutters to the outside and pulling out five miles of tissue:

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