CITY MAIL at SAPPYFEST!

Photo by: http://www.flickr.com/photos/kn0ttyn3rb/
She has some other, really lovely photos on Flickr from Sappy, too!


Alison and Jess at the City Mail table. That's me to the right!


Photo taken by Mark the Goon
More sappy flicks and cleverly written stories at www.sappygoon.wordpress.com


I received a couple things this weekend and I'd love to share them with you.
I'm a sucker for a sweet and anonymous letter...




Handprinted postcards by City Mail!



All in all, a good mail weekend, even though I was nowhere near a mailbox!

WARNING: There is nothing pertaining to mail in this post.

Sappyfest.

The best weekend of the whole year. Always and forever.
This weekend was a rollercoaster that was the size of two small town blocks.

Filled with:

Good friends and new friends







The ladies' bed in the ladies' room. A dream.




Doing nothing and everything at the same time




Bars on cars in parking lots






Dancing on busses, dancing on chairs, dancing on band gear, dancing (falling on friends) in shopping carts




Bonjay and Charles Bradley, totally uplifting, totally emotional and moving at their most maximum.







Other highlights:

Shark Attack, AKA Arcade Fire played as a secret guest.

Jenner's leg getting crushed by a tall friend in a shopping cart as he was being wheeled home and requested " a blossom from the tree". This might not have been one of Jenner's highlights but hot damn, it was hilarious watching in slow motion as everything toppled.

Sappyfest NEXT WEEKEND!

Sappyfest in lil Sackville, New Brunswick is a shining beacon amongst overpopulated and overwhelming summer music festivals. It takes place in a two block radius in the middle of a small town. The vibes that you will feel during the three days of music and sunshine and crafts and camping and great music will be only perfectly pleasant to the the 11th degree.

Do you smell what I'm steppin' in?

I am overjoyed with this years line-up and I thought I'd share a couple videos of my favourite artists that are playing!!! EXCITEMENT! These videos are ALL good. Watch them ALL.

MY CITY HAS FREE LOCAL MAIL

Seriously.

It's called City Mail.



Several handmade mailboxes speckle the city in places like the downtown library and your favourite coffee shop or the art gallery on the corner. You drop your mail in, and it gets delivered to anywhere in the city.

This exists.

A newsletter is distributed monthly with the mail to let you know what's going on and what's coming up. Maybe the newsletter includes a musical questionnaire, and once you fill it out and send it back, maybe you get a personalized mix tape to suit your tastes. That happenned one time.

You can send mail-a-grams to your friends all over the city and choose to send things like poetry, handmade soaps and delicious treats.





Don't you wish every city had this? I do.

(Photos were taken at Nocturne last year. One night a year, art is EVERYWHERE in the city. Weird parades in the streets, fire circuses in churches, films playing on the sides of buildings, and even post offices in closed down photo stores)

Mailart365 #136-#147

Short and to the point:

I Went Away...

And then I came back.

So, hello.

I was in Montreal for a couple of weeks, and now I am back in Nova Scotia, sooner than expected.

So I'm back to the paper:

Paper packs!



Craft packs!



Notebooks!


I have a stupidly huge pile of mail to go out, and no mail service to send it. Does anyone know when this will be over??

SEXY TIME

Sexy mail?
Yes please.

Original writing by Jenner Berger, on vintage postcards.
All you need is your lova's address.
Visit her ETSY!






Oh and speaking of sexy-All I've been listening to lately is beautiful, soft and slutty R n' B music. So perfect.

Featuring: Canadian "The Weeknd". Yes- I spelled that correctly. And yes- you've already fallen in love with him.