TINY MAILBOX

It's time! TINY MAILBOX goes on display this weekend. Please stop by if you're in the area. I'd love to show you my mailbox!

TINY MAILBOX

River Arts Studio Stroll

Sat and Sun, June 11 &12, 10 - 6

Cotton Mill Studio, 122 Riverside Dr.

Asheville , NC

Tiny Mailbox Update

My daily trips to the mailbox have been very exciting lately as mail for the TINY MAILBOX has been rolling in. When I was planning TINY MAILBOX I was so focused on the practical details that I forgot about the fact that all this mail would be coming to ME in my mailbox in large quantities! Silly, I know, but it's true. What a treat! I've even felt a bit guilty that, at least right now, I'm having all the fun. But, TINY MAILBOX will be up in a few weeks for others to enjoy and I'll be sending out a special something to participants after the show. Thanks so much to all who have sent in mail. If you're in the area please come see TINY MAILBOX.

Tiny Mailbox

River Arts District Studio Stroll

June 11 & 12

Cotton MIll Studio

122 Riverside Dr

Asheville, NC

what I've been up to

Hello Friends and lovers of tiny adventures,

Are you a fan of sending and receiving mail? Mail the old fashioned way? Snail mail? Escargo? Slow mail, like slow food? I am! It's hard to beat the joy of opening that box on a pole, peeking inside to find greetings from a friend next to bills and endless catalogs. Or the fun of creating a little something to fly into someone else's mailbox. It's a rose to smell, a moment to pause, a tiny adventure before the rush of daily doings resume. No matter if the greeting doesn't always bring the sun. Raindrops help to make things grow.

So here's the pitch: my friend, Mark Boyd, and I built a tiny gallery last winter. It's a 6' x 6' structure that exists as a freestanding portable gallery free to the public. During the River Arts District Studio Stroll, June 10 - 12 in Asheville, North Cakalackey Tiny Gallery will become TINY MAIBOX. I'm asking anyone interested to make and mail whatever you would like to be included in TINY MAILBOX. This isn't a mail art show, it's a open show to demonstrate the wonders of slow mail and encourage others to take up their pen (so to speak). Besides the mail you send on display, I will also have free blank cards and envelopes for viewers to take with them so they can create their own slow mail. There are a few guidelines:

1. There are no guidelines-

This show is about the joys of sending and receiving mail. So make or write something you would like to receive in your box on a pole. All entries will be displayed on the walls of Tiny Mailbox and will become the property of the Official Archives of Tiny Mailbox. For your effort in promoting slow mail I will make and send (by mail, of course) a surprise after the show ends. Please pass this call on to anyone you think might enjoy participating. The more the mailer. (sorry, couldn't resist)

Please send all mail postmarked by May 10 to me, Margarer Logsmell, 122 Riverside Drive, Studio D, Asheville, NC 28801. Remember to include your return address so I can send you your surprise. Oh, and your email address too ( yes, email is a fine way to communicate also) if you would like updates/photos as the project progresses. I promise not to clog your in-box. The update will just be a link to this blog where I'll post the post.

THANKS!

yours truly,

Margaret Cogswell, Tiny Post Mistress

aka- Margarer Logsmell

small tin paintings

air mail

Today feels like spring is somewhere closeby.....

The Tangled Skein

Try we life-long, we can never

Straighten out life's tangled skein,

Why should we, in vain endeavour,

Guess and guess and guess again?

Life's a pudding full of plums

Care's a canker that benumbs.

Wherefore waste our elocution

On impossible solution?

Life's a pleasant institution,

Let us take it as it comes!

Set aside the dull enigma,

We shall guess it all too soon;

Failure brings no kind of stigma -

Dance we to another tune!

String the lyre and fill the cup,

Lest on sorrow we should sup;

Hop and skip to Fancy's fiddle,

Hands across and down the middle -

Life's perhaps the only riddle

That we shrink from giving up!

William Schwenck Gilbert

I recently created this crown for a client based on the poem The Tangled Skein by William Schwenck Gilbert. The crown is to be worn on special family occasions and celebrations. I had such a good time making a piece knowing that it would become a treasured family heirloom.

Thanks, Tom!