If I can make someone smile or perhaps get a smile on MY face when I open my mailbox (which not one day goes by that I don't HOPE to find something FUN popping out of my mailbox) then I think I've done my job and tried to make the world is a BETTER place by making just one person happy! Addresses are sometimes altered for protection so the overall visual of the envelope may or may not be the way it was.

Friday, February 7, 2014

Envelopes from when I was in the hospital... Jan 2014

From Nettie

Hmmmm, I think this was from Teri

From Jane Farr....

From Abbey


From Anita

From Deborah Basel

And, I think my all time fave get well card was from
Ella!

Front of Ella's postcard... Her mommy is Gabi G.

Sunday, January 26, 2014

Some more fun envies...

Sorry it's taken me so long to post... it's been wild and I have so much to post!!!

Of course, the addresses have been altered to protect the innocent...

This was done with a Ruling pen and gouache

Sunday, November 3, 2013

Great Snail Mail!

There is nothing like one of Anita's POP UP cards!  She's the best!
Brightening my day is just what the doctor ordered when I got this in the mail.

Anita's envelope to me...
Birthday card to my sister
Congratulations card envelope to a friend
Birthday card to a friend....

Some of my Gratitude cards.... Addresses obscured to protect the senders.....

With love....

and gratitude....

Wednesday, October 16, 2013

Left handed renderings *(addresses altered for protection)

The names were done with a parallel pen left handed.. (I'm right handed).
She has since moved...so this is an defunct address.

They sure added a different, fun look to the whole thing.. TRY IT!

After learning how to make pots with Connie Ferguson at Legacies I in
Dallas, 2005, I fell in love with the process.  This was one of the
cards I made for a friend's birthday!

Watercolors are so fun!


This is my OLD neighbor!

Here are a bunch of envelopes for a Pointed pen exchange.... a few years ago.

Tuesday, October 15, 2013

Recent envies and cards

Addresses altered for protection


I received this, one day recently, out of the blue from my friend Judy Hovde.

This was on the inside... what a nice surprise!

Tuesday, September 17, 2013

My latest envelopes...

Copperplate Gold ink on dark envelopes really just pops off the paper!

Less is more when it comes to flourishing here....

I love the copperplate gold on black envelopes...

Walnut ink and FineTec Gold palette with Copperplate gold ink

More Copperplate Gold ink

Tuesday, September 3, 2013

Great card from an old friend...

I met Heather Matthews Lee in Dallas at legacies back in 2005.
We hit it off right away... not sure who we even knew each other,
but it didn't matter... we have been friends ever since.

It was great to see her again at IAMPETH in Albuquerque this past July!
We reconnected and it was so nice!  Julie Gray, one of her best buds,
was there as well and I was happy to see her again!  Facebook is
one thing, but FACE TO FACE is another! 


Heather had a lovely necklace on and I admired it. 
She remembered and included it in her card to me.
It just floored me when I opened the card! 
The necklace says:
Love and Be Loved!!!
You know, us calligraphers, we need to see and have our letters!!!