Birthday Mailart...

I had super mail this morning ... my Mum has sent me this beautiful mailart envelope with an early birthday card (she likes my birthday to last a week). I had absolutely no idea it was on its way ,  her and my Dad are away at Su's looking after her cat Tasha while they are on holiday ,  talk about being taken by surprise LOL.  

This picture below shows the front and the tiny weeny pin holder to go with it.

The next picture shows the reverse with the French writing across the back and the mother of pearl buttons my Mum has put onit. It has not come out the right colour for the linen on my pictures but the whole thing actually looks quite antique in real life and I can't seem to capture that which is a pity,  I need to practice getting good at pictures !!

When the buttons are undone this next picture shows the fabric it is lined with and the lace bows. I really love it especially since it is the first mailart my Mum has done. The tiny pin holder is all stitched 1 over 1 ( as my Mum knows how much I love tiny xxx's) with tiny scissors and 3 tiny reels of cotton, a miniture quilt and ABC on the reverse side.  

Inside were more surprises as it has the pin holder a beautiful birthday card a small credit card size card with a lovely verse about daughters and a silver heart ornie with 'best wishes' embroidered onit and a tiny red button at the bottom of the heart which is shown below as I wanted to show that as well. Thank-you so much from my blog Mum (even though you are not online to read it )  I LOVE it all as I have told you :)  and feel very spoilt...it brought a tear to my eye :-)))

What a nice day...

The mail art that Su sent to me for our 'summer' mail art exchange has arrived today and its beautiful. It is stitched on linen banding which works really well for envelope size. Su has used linen threads for this which give it a lovely faded kind of look.




The back is really nice with a little picture of my cat Marsha and a lady (me, well why not ;) in her garden. Su has done tiny 1/1 butterflies fluttering through the garden. Some of the 'flowers' are little wee buttons to match with the front of the envelope.




This next picture is a close up of the detail including the buttons for the flowers around the base and twirling up the birdhouse stem. Thank-you so much Su I LOVE it :-)





Speaking of a nice day...I got another little surprise from my Mum today...the things in the picture below are from her. There are post it notes wishing me a nice day, 2 lovely pieces of cotton fabric, a Yankee 'Fresh Cut Roses' tart, small wooden beads, a really sweet little handbag on a wire to hang up and last but not least the tiniest, prettiest gold 'victorian' looking frame...now I will have to do a tiny picture to go in that. Thank-you so much Mum and Su...I am having a 'nice day' thanks to you both ;-)))

Mail Art Exchange

I have done a mail art exchange with Su and now it has arrived I can show you the pictures. Our theme was Summer and we decided to mail them this week instead of the 1st day of summer (21st) as we had both finished and were excited to see what each other had come up with. This is the first mail art I have done and I thoroughly enjoyed it...my 1st picture shows the front before it was sent of course.




This picture shows the lining fabric and the back with the envelope flap up and the little summer verse I made up just so there was a surprise when it was opened. I used nice buttons on this as I knew Su would love them.



This picture is just to show a closer view of the verse, I used over dyed threads on this envelope and took my main inspiration from a Shepherds Bush chart I had but I modified and adapted it quite a bit so it would fit. I used smyrna stitches for the flower centres and the little row of purple tiny flowers.



The last picture is a full view of the back including the pink shell button that I used to seal it down ready for its journey in the mail.



I am so pleased that you love it Su...and to know it made your day :-)