Yee--haw!

The rider under the YEE-HAW! is wearing pigtails.

I finally learned how to photograph mailart with dangly stuff

After all this time, I decided to try photographing the mailart with dangly bits rather than scanning them. Great, isn't it?  And it only took me -- what, two years? -- to come up with a way to document this type of mail without all the bits slithering into each other while being scanned.  These are the last of the Holiday Mail for Heroes group.

A little reminder:  if you want to take part, the mailing deadline is December 10, 2010.

It's all about the shoes

 

I figure most cards the Red Cross receives are either gender neutral or specifically for men, so I always end up making several that are specifically for women.  If you're wondering what the shoes have to do with holidays, please note that the leopard shoe top left appears to have a poinsettia attached.

Ho Ho Red

 

Another piece for the Red Cross's Holiday Cards for Heroes.  Apparently I had a number of tiny little pretty pieces of fabric in my hand when I decided to make this one.

Heigh ho! Heigh ho! It's off for shopping we go...

Another card for Holiday Mail for Heroes sponsored by the American Red Cross.  If you go to their web site, you can watch a nice little video showing cards being delivered to two hospitalized people in 2009.  Grins all around.

Let It Snow. But Not Yet.

I'm back to making mail art again, thanks to the prodding of the American Red Cross.  They've teamed up with Pitney Bowes again this year to deliver holiday cards to wounded soldiers, veterans, and families of active military personnel.

Cards can be hand made or store-bought; and the postmark deadline is December 10.  Check out the Red Cross website for specific instructions.

You can mail a maximum of 15 cards to Holiday for Heroes,  P. O. Box 5456, Capitol Heights, MD  20791-5456.

247. Christmas

From the It's Only a Book project in which I'm deconstructing my 2003 book, Grace: A Memoir, and turning it into art.

246. Christmas

246. Christmas
From the It's Only a Book project in which I'm deconstructing my 2003 book, Grace: A Memoir, and turning it into art.

Holiday Mail for Heroes 2009

The Red Cross with the aid of Pitney Bowes is again sponsoring Holiday Mail for Heroes. Cards will go to service members, veterans, and their families. The Red Cross will begin accepting cards on November 2, 2009. For more information head over to their site.

The mailing address is not yet available, but if you plan to make rather than purchase postcards or greeting cards, now is the time to begin work. Limit: 15 per person, 50 per organization.

Specific guidelines are available on the site. Easy on the glitter, folks, and you don't need to include envelopes.

We interrupt this broadcast --

I'm working on fabric postcards to send to Holiday Mail for Heroes, a project in which the American Red Cross and Pitney-Bowes are teamed up to sort, search, and deliver one million holiday greetings to military men and women, their families, and veterans.THE DEADLINE IS DECEMBER 10, so if you want to participate -- and I know you do -- you need to get moving NOW.
All kinds of greeting cards are accepted, whether store-bought or custom crafted. Write a salutation like "Dear service member," add a short note, and sign your name. Don't put an address, though.
Pop one or many into an envelope and address it as follows:

Holiday Mail for Heroes
P. O. Box 5456
Capitol Heights, MD 20791-5456

Again, the postmark deadline is December 10. Any cards postmarked after that date will be returned to sender.

My grandson Bradley (who graduated from boot camp in Great Lakes, Illinois, on Friday) and I thank you.