Month: February 2012

March Photo a Day

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My friend posted that she was throwing a contest on Facebook for people to do the March Photo a Day run created by Fat Mum Slim.  I love her name.. big fan of Fatboy Slim.  I figured I’d give the contest a go since I’ve always wanted to do it, but never have for some reason.  Also, I like to win contests!  I have to get the most LIKEs on my Photo a Day pictures compared to anybody else.  Looks like I may win since only two of us are playing.

Check out the contest details and challenge yourself creatively and DO IT!!

Dream Recycled Travel Art

Dream Travel Art by Stimpdawg
Dream Travel Art, a photo by Stimpdawg on Flickr.

Sorry for the lack of art posts! I’ve been super busy planning my wedding. It’s a lot of work!! I understand why people hire wedding planners now.

My friend Andy got me interested in mailart. I bought a few things while traveling and started making mailart. This was a piece that I started on in India. I never finished it since it just didn’t feel finished. I call this Recycled Travel Art.  I took old train tickets, luggage tags, Lonely Planet pages and travel magazines clippings and created art.   It took me awhile, but I finally finished it.. and added a quote from a Morrissey song.  Can you tell me which song?

Here’s the envelope for this mailart piece. It was sent to Susanna from IUOMA in Germany.  Go check out my mailart on her blog!

Cabernet Ninja

Back of Envelope from Austin by Stimpdawg
Back of Envelope from Austin, a photo by Stimpdawg on Flickr.

I got my first mailart!! So excited! I did a happy dance when I got it. SERIOUSLY!!

Austin from IUOMA made a cool CD of music for me.  He wrote a little note for me on this Bob Marley card.

Austin is a talented artist.  He made this cool board with a ninja on one side and a Cabernet Sauvignon label and buttons on the other side.

How very cool!!  I asked Austin how he made it, so I’m going to make a similar mailart.

Bug Dream

Bug Dream by Stimpdawg
Bug Dream, a photo by Stimpdawg on Flickr.

This postcard is headed to Malaysia to a guy who sent me a postcard on Postcrossing.  I got this postcard from the cool hotel Dream Bangkok. The hotel is modern with the best free hotel postcards I’ve ever seen and I’ve been a lot of hotels!  This is one of the unique postcards that are available.  The rooms have a blue light that aids you to sleep.  There’s also artwork of different dreams in the room and the corridor. If you’re ever in Bangkok, Thailand – you should stay there.

Beer Postcard

Beer Postcard by Stimpdawg
Beer Postcard, a photo by Stimpdawg on Flickr.

This funny postcard is headed to my friends Andy and Elena who live in London, England. I love sending Andy postcards for his my REAL wall blog, so I can see them on the site.

I saw this postcard in a souvenir shop on a recent trip to San Francisco. There was a lot of funny ones.

Can you tell me what musical the music sheet behind the postcard is from? You can see the larger picture by going to Flickr.