After several very busy weeks, my solo show at Exposure Gallery (upstairs at Thyme & Again in Ottawa, Ontario Canada) officially opened at the vernissage last Thursday, April 12. Called If Youre ...
So my brilliant plan to work on the BPS book over the next couple of months has been put on hold — Ive been offered a solo show at a local gallery, but turns out the only available time slot is April...
You have to see this lovely and wonderfully illustrated post on the blog Poemas del río Wang on the now-vanished delicate art of stamp placement. Depending on how you placed a stamp on an envelope, i...
Its a brand new year filled with promise. May your 2012 be filled with peace and happiness (and sweetness, too). And youll be happy to know that the BPS book is scheduled to kick into high gear this ...
Im smitten with this vintage postcard design for an iPhone 4 or 4S case — so pretty and practical. Available here from On Your Case on etsy.
I am beyond excited to tell you that Im in the holiday issue of Rue Magazine! Youll find me in the Blogger Side by Side feature on page 28 with fellow blogger Katie Quinn Davies of What Katie Ate, ac...
If youre in Ottawa on December 1, drop by and say hello to me at the Yule Multi-Artist Exhibition vernissage, 6 to 9 pm that evening at the Exposure Gallery, upstairs at Thyme and Again! Check out so...
... a moment of silence for Remembrance Day.(poppy photo by irving penn via flickr)
That sound you hear is the sound of deadlines whooshing by — specifically, the deadline Id originally set myself for getting the BPS book completed. In an ideal world I would have taken 6 months off,...
Tina of the always lovely English Muse blog has a great post about a Charles Simic essay in the New York Review of Books, in which he mourns the scarcity of holiday postcards. Highly recommended for ...
This is an intriguing idea — Snail Mail My Email is a month long, interactive art project transforming peoples emails to handwritten letters that are physically mailed, completely free of charge. Fin...
Love this vintage British poster from 1957, demonstrating how to address your mail correctly. Designed by Leonard Beaumont.(from the british postal museum & archive on flickr, via els 50)
Hello all! I thought BPS members might be interested in an illustration I did for the Globe and Mail newspaper today, accompanying a Facts and Arguments piece by Paige Raymond Kovach about her great ...
A quick note for BPS members participating in the Brazil postcard exchange with Hane — shes had a bit of a setback as she didnt get the financial support shed hoped for, but this month Hanes changing...
Just for BPS members — a little advance notice about a rather special giveaway on my automatism blog tomorrow! Ill be giving away a set of six collectable stamps produced by the Royal Mail, celebrati...
You might recall that my fab designer pal Clare designed some gorgeous BPS badges for members to display on their sites — and then I promptly forgot to upload jpg versions here so we could all actual...
Ive been doing another batch of postcard scanning for the BPS book, and just had to share this lovely one by BPS member Mari, commemorating the project. So wonderful.
Check out this fascinating article in Design Observer about the book Babylon: Surreal Babies, dedicated to a set of postcards from the collection of the British art dealer James Birch. The postcards ...
Love this charming postcard by Hsin Ping on etsy — and even nicer, all sales of it go towards Japan earthquake and tsunami relief. Get one here.
Nothing new — just a pretty postcard photo to share. Hope youre having a good week.(photo by Jon Day)
A quick note to let you know that Ive added new titles — and updated many of the current ones with freshly shot photos — on automatism vintage, my vintage book shop on etsy. Hope you can pop by for a...
Sorry for the long pause between posts — its been busy! But now that the final deadline for postcard mailing has come and gone, I can really get started on the BPS book. Presently its a lot of organi...
A few tardy packages of BPS postcards have trickled in through January and February — which is great, but waiting for them has meant that Ive delayed getting started on the book. So, final cut off da...
This post is a little late, but I just had to share a link to the cynically amusing slideshow recently posted on Design Observer. Penny dreadfuls (or vinegar valentines) were 19th century insult gree...
Ive just discovered that the charming Postcup by bailey doesnt bark is available through etsy! A black Pebeo porcelain pen and instructions are included with each cup, so you can write your own perso...
Ive got a post up on my automatism blog today about a gorgeous new postcard set from the Royal Horticultural Society — pop by to see more loveliness!(shown here is Citrus aurantium by Georgio Angioli...
A quick update — packages of postcards are still trickling in from members, so I havent been able to get started as yet on the BPS book — Im looking at settling down to it in early February now.(phot...
A very happy new year to you, lovely BPS members! Hope its a good one. For me itll be all about putting together the BPS book — looking forward to sharing the finished product with you a few months f...
Wishing you all a very happy Christmas — may it be filled with warmth, love, family and friends.xo(photo via tiny white daisies)
Like many of you weve been busy getting ready for Christmas, so things will slow down on the BPS blog for the next little while. Heres a sincere wish that all your mail (be it packages or cards) make...
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