Family Lunch

This week the whole family was able to get together and have lunch with Bannack. Sara made some incredible veggie chili and though no one was able to stay for long we all got to sit down and share lunch European-style.

Bannack was in a great mood, growling away, and even managed to take his first photographs. They’re pretty good, you know, for a baby. I set the shutter timer and gave Bannack the camera, he composed the shot (steadying the camera by putting a corner of it in his mouth) and voilà!

I hope we keep this tradition up, it improved my workweek tenfold.
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Mail Art Inbox: Flex and S. Blake

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Sunday with Barbie

Barbie's Dream Home

I spent my Sunday afternoon at my grandma Irene’s house looking through a 1960’s Barbie collection. She recently and reluctantly acquired it from a friend who had been holding on to it for years. Not knowing what to do with it, Grandma asked my mom and I to see if it was worth anything. It has all been played with but it’s well taken care of. Barbie, the teen-aged model, Skipper, her kid sister, Ken of course and his buddy Allan, they’re all there.
Grandma and I sorted through the extensive wardrobe sorting out the Mattel tagged clothes from the off brand and homemade, laid them on the dining room table and snapped away.
This collection is eBay-bound and my grandmother is intending to give the profit to charity. We’ll sell them together as a lot to get it over with in the hope there is some rare gem somewhere in there that will entice someone to bid high.
Grandma and Barbie

Mail Art Inbox: Frips, Fluxus Dakota, Flex, Philyaw

Over the past few days I’ve gotten a lot of great mail art in my PO Box. From the top: a new correspondent, Fluxus Dakota, sent a nice Art Detox post card; Frips, one of my favorites sent an incredible pack of artistamps; another great envelope from Flex Mentallo; and though it’s small here William Philyaw sent a great pair of artist trading cards.

Senders receive: Swift Post/PO Box 997/Helena, MT/59624-0997

If you want to see them more closely, I’ve posted the single images here.

Mail Art Inbox

Illustrator: Matthew Hodson

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Check out Matthew Hodson’s portfolio.
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