NtholMeil, therapeutic tools, a kit - Carina Granlund (Finland)

Carina's mail art creates a world that beams with happy potential.  All the characters are hopeful, of excessive beauty, power, strength, wise beyond their years, more playful than you can imagine. Having said that, nothing could have prepared me for the delights of this parcenvelope!

Wrapped in a map of Africa was this slightly manically methodical stamped brown paper envelope. What does it mean?  It means Carina is so much more organised than I can ever hope to be...  

Unwrap the map, open the envelope and find the fat lady and the cobra plastic/fabric/buttoned boekie.

Of course I'm enchanted. 

 Apparently my lucky number is eight.  I have my own bauble-bottle-cap to remind me.

The back makes me adjust my undergarments, do a few pilates pelvic tilts and wonder, is this a calorie counter, an exercise tracker, a place to record your worst nightmares?

OH no!  It is a (drawing) kit, Carina's latest obsession! Lucky me X 8! Phew, she doesn't think I need to go on a diet, I just need to draw more.

Carina's holiday peep hole birthday wishes

 The book is the perfect size to hold and admire - it's about palm size. 

Celebrating a birthday between Christmas and the New Year is usually not to recommended.  but when something as glorious as Carina's peep hole book arrives it all seems worth it! What a beautiful gift! Carina has written telling me a bit about Finland.  With the asemics and gestural imagery I feel intoxicated.  Is THAT Finland?  If so, I'll be saving up for a trip!  Thank you Carina. I am charmed and delighted!

Ps.  I am so glad Carina told me she made her book on the holidays. On the day I received Carina's book I got a few other pieces and my husband who is a bit of a workaholic in a non-artist way believes that all YOU mailartists must have 'time' to make mail art.  I have always assumed you are like me, sandwiching the making in between jobs, families and everything else.