3/5/21 EDITED TO ADD : competition has been won, answers at bottom of post 🙂
30/4/21 EDITED TO ADD: I wrote this blogpost a while ago, but never published it, so I will publish it today, the last day in April, a month in which I have reposted an old blogpost everyday on Instagram and Facebook
I took part in an ongoing monthly Swapbot postcard swap for the whole of 2020, the theme was “Facetime” , and each one had to be a portrait of a person or animal, and be in portrait orientation.… Read the rest
Category: postcard swaps
dear diary : part 19
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12/10/20
This is my first blogpost since my website got updated and things look different, it looks much more plain, so I need to
add a photo here
and I need to make this paragraph quite long so that when you look at the main page for my blog the excert that it shows contains more than a single sentence.… Read the rest
dear diary, part 18
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18/08/20
Halfway through the eighth month already, even this unusual year with it’s unprecedented lockdowns and social distancing is galloping past at an alarming rate. It seems like only a few weeks ago since I took part in a a Valentine’s Heart Swap , you can read about it here
Well it’s time for another swap, this time called “Happy Houses” , I had to make 2 textile houses and send them to a partner, and I also received 2 from someone else.… Read the rest
Dear Diary, part 17: 5 doodlebombs and a wedding
17/07/20
My friend bought one of my scarves as part of the Artists Support Pledge , you can read about it at the bottom of this blogpost. She posted a photo of herself wearing it on Instagram. I loved the photo so I printed it out , doodlebombed it and posted it to her. I’ve asked other friends to send me photos to do as well.… Read the rest
dear diary, part 16
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26/05/20
Here’s a card I sent for a swap on Swapbot, I’m doing one every month in 2020 on the theme of portraits.
It’a actually the other bit of the photo I used for last months, here they are back together again.… Read the rest
dear diary, part 15 : in secure
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28/04/20
Been a while, not much to report, not been out much.
I took part in an interesting swap, I received an envelope of art supplies and I had to make something from them and send it back to the person who sent them to me.… Read the rest
dear diary: part 14
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24/03/20
A month since I last blogged, a lot can happen in a month, eh?
Some of my handmade postcards have reached their destinations, so I am free to share them with you.… Read the rest
(not really) dear diary: part 12
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21/02/20
I must confess that I have failed in my commitment to keep a diary style blog and write things down as they occur. It has been 11 days since I bloggled anything.… Read the rest
dear diary: part 9 – post haste
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27/01/20
I sent this postcard for a swap on the theme of “Yellow and Orange” and it has arrived with it’s recipient. Note the letterbox stamps, swanky, eh?
Here’s another swap I did, the theme was “Sender’s Choice”, I made it using recycled packaging , old stamps, a photo from a photo book, and some doodling.… Read the rest
dear diary: part 8
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23/01/20
Today I posted one of the sets of collaborative cube templates on to the next person. I had 2 weeks to add my contributions to them, here’s what I did.… Read the rest
