Stuffed.

Ladies and Gentlemen,

I completed a life long goal to exchange an art project through the mail! The lovely, sweet, and utterly cute Madeline Rhodes and I did the matchbox stuffing project I'd reported on here earlier this month. The game was to find a matchbox and stuff it with as many mini treasures as we could find in two weeks. Then we stuck them in an envelope and sent them on their merry ways to each other. One stamp, about a week, and a lot of excited mailbox checking later...I got my goodies!

The goodies. They came with a note that read "Anna!! This is Fun! Open carefully (there may or may not be a sewing pin in there! XO"

Ms. Maddie did a great job stuffing. I could barely open my matchbox because it was so full of fabulous finds. There were some tiny, silk flowers, a few beads and charms including an utterly precious Buddha and a golden mermaid, a dime, a penny, some fake flower petals, a push pin, a coil of brown paper, and a glass ear of corn. Ah-maze-ing.

My treasures.

I hope Maddie enjoyed her box o' goods as much as I did mine. I highly recommend this to all of you. Get on it. Also Madeline Rhodes is a very talented blogger and jeweler. Be sure to check her out.

Let's Trade Stuff.

I've been craving getting a little analog in this digital world and I found a way to do it, but I need help. I need volunteers! Participants! Willing players! I want to make use of the good old mail system for creative purposes. I love getting mail, who doesn't, right? It literally makes me giddy. So, I discovered this thing called matchbox swapping and I really want to try it out. You take a regular, little matchbox and stuff it with tiny items that you find that are small enough to fit inside. You can choose a theme for the items (kitties! mermaids! shoes!) or a color, or anything really, and once you've stuffed it, you trade it with someone you like (like me, maybe??). Here's a video of a stuffing in action:


You could do the trade in person I suppose, but I think the mail is much more exciting. So, who's down for a little stuff and trade? Here are some more boxes to inspire you via a Flickr pool dedicated to the art of matchbox stuffing.

You wanna? Let's do it! Please? Don't make me beg...