Books, Mail Art, Stamps

Intasar Khanani is one of my favorite

YA fantasy authors.

She is giving away five sets of

 Thorn (a retelling of the Goose Girl) and Sunbolt

 --two YA fantasies that I loved.

I reviewed them on my book blog

here and here.

If you are a high school librarian,

check out Intasar's Library Love Give Away 

and maybe 

you will win one of the five sets for your students.  :)

In the Studio

Folded a tag to make a pocket.

I'm not sure where I saw this idea,

but pockets are always fun!

I ordered some tiny new rubber stamps 

from Carolyn's Stamps

and tried them out on scrap paper,

brown paper, and on tissue from an

old pattern that I've been using in collage.

The tiny card with the bones was 

 in my Halloween stash.
(I cut it from some packaging that I saved--
sometimes the packaging is as wonderful as the contents.)

It was a tight squeeze, 
but the card and stamps fit right in the pocket.

 Bits of painted water color paper--

I made several of these a while back

and should make some more

because all of these tiny things are fun!

I'm adding tea bags to tags, post cards, and envelopes. 
--tea bag house--

I ended up liking this side better 

I placed a feather in a tea bag,

then added it to a grungy tag

I'm busy making more tags and some 
Halloween mail arty stuff.
Because it's fun.  :)

  

Outgoing Mail

to Cheryl in NYC

to Mila--another tea bag added to a postcard

 to Max

 to Bryce Eleanor

The cat images on B.E.s card above are from TomCattCreations,

 and I'm having fun with them.

Stamped on some dictionary pages

and glued them to the card.

Included with my stamps was a cool Halloween tag and 

a paper bag with stamped images that I will cut up and use for collage!

I LOVE lagniappe.