Monday, June 17, 2013

Storing Mail Art

In honor of MMSA's Mailart Monday blog hop I'm dusting off the old blog...woohoo!

People are always asking how we store our mailart. Short of the classic "in a box" or "in a pile" methods, I do have a couple of other suggestions.

I am a thrift store junkie and you never know what will cross your path if you just keep looking. This wire rack was for Christmas cards I think. A quick spray of chartreuse spray paint...voila! It fits perfectly on the side of a bookcase.


I've also punched a hole in one corner of a bunch of cards and threaded them on metal rings. The hubby built this rack on the back of a door with wire shelving and I use shower curtain hooks to hold the rings. This system also works to hold zip-lock bags of collage bits.


My last storage suggestion for today hangs on the wall in our guest room. We bought a full sheet of rigid insulation at our local home improvement store. (I prefer the blue one over the orange one...) I had a full roll of this Waverly decorator fabric that we had bought super-cheap. We wrapped the fabric around the rigid insulation and secured it to the wall with brass screws and grommets. Simple pushpins hold the cards onto the board. I haven't filled this one up, but I should really spend a day and hang up some of my mailart that is currently in boxes....


7 comments:

  1. fabulous solutions! that second idea would work really well for my space. a see a trip to the blue or orange store in my near future!

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  2. Oh I love these ideas! I never know what to do with the mail love that arrives and it's pretty much tucked away--what a fun way to display all that great art!

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  3. Great ideas, i really like using the rings to make "books" and also have some nice wooden boxes as storage...think treasure chest!! Thanks for sharing!

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  4. These are some truly great ideas. I particularly like the wire rack idea though I think i'll hang it on the wall in place of a bulletin board. It would also be a good way to hang and access stencils.....hmmm

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    1. Yes, it would definitely work for stencils too!

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  5. It's great to have stuff out where you can enjoy it. I have what is meant to be a wire curtain rod stretched across the wall in my studio up above the door where you might put a wall paper boarder. I cycle everything through it before it has to be boxed up. I'm working on a large journal that will have all kinds of storage for mail art. I think it will be fun too.

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    1. I have some kind of journally thing for mailart in the works too...still in the "thinking about it a whole lot and making piles" stage.

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