"Some of you may have heard of the phenomenon of mail art. Recently, I've been cleaning out the bedroom I grew up in and have come across bundles of letters I received as a child. They're from girls I met at summer gymnastics camp, college friends and boxes of tightly folded back-and-forth notes passed in the halls of high school. Some of the bundles have found their way back to the writers. Others, I'm still searching for the long lost writers!My point is, I miss receiving mail! I'd love to swap mail art with some like-minded people. The cool thing about mail art is that you don't have to think up one-liners to send to a complete stranger. And it's not as committed as a pen pal. All you have to do is decorate a post card (or scrap of cardboard and call it a postcard) or an envelope and send it off. Found objects, bits of blurry photos you were going to toss when you purged your photo box, your best friend's favorite saying - the sky is the limit."

– climbergirl

"We have started a sisterhood here on the forum called... Sisterhood of the Traveling Art. We exchange mail art with each other which can be as simple as a postcard with a giant Kansas Cottontail rabbit with a cowboy riding it or a handmade piece of your own design. Use whatever you have on hand (we aren't art critics here) fabric scraps, old photos, stamps, rocks, glass, magazine clippings whatever the spirit moves you, to us it is art in it's purest form, and deserving of a place of honor in the mailbox and eventually our domiciles! It is a HOOT to get this stuff"

– MeadowLark

There is a list of Ladies and each person sends a piece of art to the next lady on the list. This art can be big or small, usually made on or of paper but doesn't have to be. It can be collage, poems, illustrations, painted, or whatever you can think up. It can even be a post card that you found. And then you seal it up and send it off. It's a great feeling to spend time on a piece of art and than send it off never to be seen again and it is also a wonderful feeling to then receive a piece in the mail not knowing what is in the envelope, it's always a surprise. It's a wonderful connection to get to know people through their art.

– Sqrl

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"I opened my mailbox this morning and another treasure from a dear farmgirl friend awaited me..."

– Meadowlark

"Hey Farm Girls!

What a wonderful thought

that in our rather small but

very significant way,

we are promoting love,

joy and connection throughout

the world rather than

hate and violence.

How this is needed in

our world today.

I know that we will

continue to

grow and prosper."

– Connie

"The mail gods just delivered a delight from the land of New "JOYsey"

– Meadowlark