Postcards from around the world

The Postcard Crossing Project has been around for about three years now, but I just stumbled on the Web site through another artist's blog (thanks wackystuff!).

You sign up to send and receive postcards from people all over the world. One member just received his 1,000th postcard! The site is trying to log 2 million received postcards and is about 23,000 shy.

I just signed up because it sounds like fun -- and it's so much better than getting only bills in the mail!

Check it out:





I also put a perma-link in my right-side column.

Monica Zuniga's giving this away!

Uplifting spiritual artist Mónica Zúñiga is giving away this beautiful piece of art on canvas. Check out her blog by clicking the title above this post to find out how to enter. Or check out the link "Hands & Heart" on my artists blogroll to the right. I've been a fan of her work for a long time and recently bought one of her gorgeous paintings!

So much art, so little time...

Perhaps this time piece I created earlier this month at Jo's will help remind me to make more time for art. I'm so busy, art has taken a back seat recently to all my other priorities. Which is a shame, considering that art helps ground me and bring peace to my otherwise hectic life.



This clock is made out of a little tin lunch box -- about 4 inches by 3 inches. It was primed with Killz before I splotched on acrylic paints to give it an antiqued look. Others dabbed on alcohol inks, which I did use for the clock hands to dull some of the shininess.

The swirls and stuff are from a rubber stamp and some rub-ons. The BINGO card is a cut-out. The clock numbers are on little round pieces of wood, on which I stamped the numbers. Some artists used Scrabble tiles.
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