Friend Ryuko S. of Tono, Iwate, found this beautiful postcard showing a cat under the blossoms on a recent trip to Tokyo. Hand-dyed with natural dyes, the cloth at the center of the card was made by the Shigeta Dye Workshop. Ryuko knows how much I love cats. Her family runs Chikurindo, a sweets shop in Tono, which has the best akegarasu, a local specialty and one of my faves. I often used to have tea at the shop with Ryuko and her dogs. This card will go straight into a frame and onto a wall. Tono is in the northeast and cherry, flowering apricot, and other blossoms are now at their peak, just as they are here where I am in Pennsylvania.
Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Monday, April 28, 2008
Sunday, April 27, 2008
field of greens
Saturday, April 26, 2008
something fishy
Friday, April 25, 2008
What's on a Cat's Mind
A fun postcard from penpal Anu of Helsinki. She writes that she was a in great mood because spring is finally coming. She says her cat is very excited by the arrival of spring, she caught her first mouse in the garden. "Not nice," she writes. Card is made with watercolors, flower petals and leaves, color pens, stamp and the picture of the cat is from a "cat" lottery ticket. Thank you so much Anu I love it!!
Vanilla Postcrosser
Baseball CD
Taiwan
A fun handmade card from Postcrosser Hsiu-yin of Taiwan. She made a map of Taiwan from facial puffs, wrote the word "Taiwan" out of toothpicks and the small images are cut from tickets. She added a UPC code and wrote, "Taiwan Touch Your Heart." It's one of the sweetest cards I've received in a while!
The Wind Play Ball
Wednesday, April 23, 2008
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
St Helena Post Office
Monday, April 21, 2008
ila borders
Sunday, April 20, 2008
tom gordon
Saturday, April 19, 2008
the japanese game
Friday, April 18, 2008
Spanish Grass
Norton CD Mail
world of pain
Thursday, April 17, 2008
honda takeshi
A card came yesterday from Honda Takeshi, an artist from my old 'hood in Tono, Iwate prefecture, who uses charcoal pencil and paper. The piece shown is from his Walking in the Mountains series. This one is April and shows a tree clawed by a bear. It's been so long since I've been back to Tono that this card just about made me cry.
Tuesday, April 15, 2008
the babe's best bread
Sunday, April 13, 2008
doug and desi
Saturday, April 12, 2008
Friday, April 11, 2008
"the whole damn orchestra"
That's what Lauren Camp aptly titled her appliqued and quilted take on the great Ella Fitzgerald, shown in this postcard. Camp has a wonderful series of works on jazz, which traveled around the US for years. Check it out at www.laurencamp.com.
Thursday, April 10, 2008
heart
Wednesday, April 9, 2008
pitching basic
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
j-roll
Another old media guide yielded a Jimmy Rollins page. I turned it into a postcard with oil pastels, baseball stamps, and Wite-Out. I happened to be at the game described where J-Roll hit a grand slam in the 5th, tied the game, and won some fan a car. It was a truly hysterical game from its crazy start to euphoric finish.
Monday, April 7, 2008
what happened to...
Sunday, April 6, 2008
Oakland A's Postcards
cable car
usps scores
I spoke too soon. It took a week from Pennsylvania to San Francisco but the card below finally arrived.
Saturday, April 5, 2008
play ball
Friday, April 4, 2008
chutley
lorraine glessner show
Thursday, April 3, 2008
mrs. october steps to the plate
Before I dropped my 93-year-old friend Jessie F., aka Mrs. October, off after Monday's home opener in Philadelphia, I badgered her about making a baseball card for the current mail call. After all, she's been a Phillies fan all her life, her father played professional ball, and she's been to every World Series game since 1964. Not happening, she said, I'm not clever or creative. This afternoon I got back from interviewing an artist in Philadelphia to find this card in the mail. A home run!
bamboo grove
Wednesday, April 2, 2008
Home Opener 2008
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
all that glitters
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