Urban sketches

For the LEP August swap I received a sketchbook from Meredith from the USA, to fill with some urban sketches and to pass on to Sarah in Hamburg, who will pass it on to Britt, Britt to Caroline (all in Germany) and finally the filled sketchbook will fly back again to Meredith. Great idea!



Thinking of 'urban sketches' I thought I had to sketch houses or any other kind of urbanization. However, I am not really able to draw buildings. Fortunately there are also mailboxes in the cities, and birds.



And no-one has forbidden me to add a tram ticket :-)
So finally (almost four weeks after the deadline, sorry sketchbook pals!) I managed to fill my pages.



By the way, 'Wildlife in the city' you can also find in Erni's blog, his pictured pigeons happen to live in Hamburg. the next stop of this sketchbook.

Writing without writing tools

The letter above has been written without the use of pens, graphite or anything else usually used for writing. You can read how the sender succeeded in writing this way!
I received it from Venus from Canada - thank you very much, Venus!

Meanwhile I was asked to write without writing tools also. My texts I've sent to some other member of a very secret League. (Click on the pictures to read full texts.)





A real challenge to invent 'new' ways of writing, to solve this challenge. Above some stitched words.



And by first forgetting my scissors, I learned that tearing paper into letters also helps. The quote above is based on a song of the British eighties indie band the Passions, my favourite song of this band I used to listen to in my teens.











For anyone who is curious to know but couldn't decipher the stitched extraterrestial words above:

Knit card and birds stationery

Made for my May Swap Partner at the LEP, the League of Extraordinary Penpals. Maybe just writing (during 7 days) would be enough, but I couldn't send my words without also adding some mail art (above) and some handmade stationery (below).
It appeared hard to colour such an amazing-coloured bird the right way, so why not send it as a colouring picture so the receiver can add colours to her own taste?!..