Tales from Studio Mailbox

Winners Announced

I'm so pleased with all the comments and facebook visits for my little give-away!  I wasn't expecting so much enthusiasm since I haven't been blogging recently.  It means a lot.  There's nothing worse than hosting a give-away and then nobody enters to win. Worst. Feeling. Ever.  (Not that I'd know, but I'm just sayin').

The results of the drawing are as follows:

The two winners of the Daisy Yellow Zine, Issue #5 plus small prints are Anne and Sandra L.

The two runners-up who have won prints are Eveline and Barbara I.

And the two third place winners who will receive some mail art love are Chris in St. Paul and Janet.

Thanks again everybody for the support! Please send me your mailing addresses and then keep your eyes on your post boxes!  Enjoy a creative and inspiring weekend... xx tj

Publishing Party

My friend Tammy over at Daisy Yellow invited me to contribute an article to her latest Zine.  I was so flattered that despite my hiatus I could hardly say no.

What did I write about?

My article talks about what happens when you stop blogging!  I hope you enjoy it as well as the rest of the inspiring content that Tammy works so hard to put together.  I'm excited to be a small part of it.

Interested in winning a copy of the zine? 

Well you're in luck, because I have two copies up for grabs.  And if you win, you'll also be the recipient of one of the limited edition prints I recently made.  They're from a lino cut block printed in a clam shell press on beautiful heavy weight paper and then further altered.  (The TJ version of free-styling). 

I have quite a few of these so for those of you who tweet or have your FB pages running on a mainline into your veins, then it's your lucky day.  I'm giving extra prints away for helping me out.

Here are some ways to get yourself entered repeatedly:

• Leave a comment here.
• Like the Studio Mailbox facebook page
• Drop by the Studio Maibox facebook page and post something
• Share the Studio Mailbox facebook page on your wall and beg your friends to like me
• Tweet me.
• Pin me.
• Paint a pretzel on your body and post a photo on my facebook wall
• Spray paint your car with pretzels and my site name
• Name your new baby or pet 'Studio Mailbox' (by doing this you are agreeing that they become the mascot as well)

Whatever you decide to do, just make sure and tell me in the comments how many times I need to enter you in the drawing.  Or just make a bunch of crap up why you couldn't do a damn thing for me and I'll probably feel sorry for you and send you something anyway.  The deadline to enter is Friday, June 15.  If you come across this post after the deadline, just let me know and maybe we can swap some mail art.

I'm going to be SO excited if I get done with my move and have a bunch of new fans and friends, but let's go slow ok?  Like comes first, then love. 

The block locked up in the chase, inked and ready to print.  (That's a little ATC)

Action shot of me printing.  Not the most normal expression but hey my tongue was sticking out on the other one.  Seriously.

A finished print laying on top of a pile of unfinished prints.

PS - a note to my old readers, this was fun.  I miss you guys!

Kindergarten Journal Page

My son's road to kindergarten has been an absolute horror.  I don't have a lot of energy to even write about it. Let's just say it's brought up a whole interesting slew of stuff that's not fun to discuss.  My journal page pretty much sums it up. I made this months ago, and the quest didn't end until yesterday. 

A letter finally arrived from a small neighborhood school that just so happens to have room for one little German boy.  

Tomorrow I'm posting again about a small but exciting give-away.  We're also moving apartments over the weekend. I'm trying to think of it as a complicated hotel room change, but the reality is that we are actually going to have to redistribute all the toys and debris around here and apparently we won't have internet or TV for a few days either. I guess it's not OK to run cables and shit down the hallway of our apartment building from the old place to the new one.

Once we settle we're going to enjoy our summer.

And then I think I'm slowly going to start up again around here.  After I chase the kindergarten bus for a few weeks of course...