templar59

57 yo Mum to 2 & g/mum to 3 who stole my heart all over again :-),(early) retired Executive. It feels SO GOOD not to have to wear business suits and leave my Jimmy Choo's for just going out! :-) Life is best lived in flip flops (in Australia! :-)

I am lucky to live in a beautiful bespoke house (nil carbon footprint by 2017) located within the very remote, wild & beautiful Nadgee Coastal Wilderness Area (via Eden): Sapphire Coast, NSW - Australia's premier whale watching spot!

I love and collect postcards that show:

• Islands
• Earth Sciences: VOLCANOES, Faultlines,
• Minerals etc,
• Medieval Europe: Castles (in particular),
• Medieval Tombs & Effigies/Brasses,
• Knights Templar: Sites throughout Europe,
• Anything to do with the Antarctic & Arctic,
• Archaeology,
• Geology (geologic wonders like rock formations)
• Lighthouses,
• ALL MARINE LIFE,
• Markets,

• SCUBA & Snorkeling,

• OTHER POSTCARD INTEREST AREAS:

• Toshiro Mifune

• Shintaro!
• Phantom Agents
• Procul Harum
• Movie: Jaws
• Clint Eastwood
• Hippie 1960's Art
• Area 51 (so kitsch! :-)
• Steve McQueen
• David Bowie
• Beatles
• Atomic Art
• Agatha Christie
• Art of Saul Bass
• Sir David Attenborough
• George Harrison
• Old Books
• Mail Boxes
• Album Covers
• Communist Propaganda Art
• ALL STREET ART: ie: Banksy, Blek la Rat etc

** I do prefer my postcards mint and unwritten if possible! (with sincere thanks!)

Mail art is a PASSION with me.

Now I am a regular participant with International Mail Art Calls and my pen pals are also on the receiving end of my mail art :-)

I prefer non cute, whacky and retro style of mail art which is best described as freeing my 'dADa' spirit :-) I love collaging and using found objects.

I have been a member of IUOMA (International Union of Mail Artists) for some years,

I love doing:

• ATC'S
• Art Journals
• Travel Journals ( I make one for each of my many journeys)
• Collages
• Altered Books
• I LOVE hand carving my own rubber stamps.
• I also enjoy making my own 'postage' stamps (postoids) as mail art 'extra's

• Crochet
• Paint my flower pots dazzling colours
• Beach comb for shells and driftwood
• Volunteer work at local museums
• Passionate member of Sea Shepherd (all the time! :-)

One can never have enough friends! I love pen paling and have been doing it since 1965 (Kindergarten!)

I use my old and trusty typewriter or I use my fountain pen. I only use a PC to write a letter when I am short on time or overseas.

I enjoy long and short letters and friendly, articulate conversation.

Of course all of my letters go out in mail art! :-)

Art should disturb the comfortable and comfort the disturbed (Banksy)