Miss America and ATCs

Today I went to a thrift shop and bought a Barbie sports car. I was hoping that my crash test daughter doll would fit it in - but - NOOOO - she's too big. She looks good sitting on the back of it though - if I changed her arm and hand position to the Princess Di wave she'd be all set! Maybe a ribbon across her chest too, 'Miss Airbag 2005". The name fits right now - she only has one boob sewn on ... okay.. it's late, what can I say? Change of subject!

I also joined some online swap group called Nervousness. I'm on 'newbie' status there.

Nervousness is a LMAO swap group. LMAO stands for something like Land Mail Art Object . Here's what they say about themselves: Nervousness.org is our online presence, where we try experiments in Land Mail (also known as Snail Mail), to see if we can find new ways for people to interact and communicate.

They seem to do all types of swaps and other projects too. Like this one teenager said he went to a bar mitzvah and got a plastic license plate with his name on it as a party favor. So he's going to mail it around to 6 people so they can alter it artistically. He'll get it back when they're done.

What's different about this group is that they rate you. You actually have to be nominated by someone and then seconded by someone else before you become a full member and can participate in all the activities. Then you get points or something for being a good player. To get nominated you have to post to the forums and do some 'newbie' swaps. There's one for the month of April that seemed pretty quick and easy - do 3 Artist Trading Cards (ATCs) and send them to the hostess in Canada. If you play nicely you'll get nominated. So at 11:30 tonight I started making ATCs. Got all three done too! Funny - because I had thought I'd put away my paper arts after a bad altered book round robin. I"m not that good of a paper artist but I'm pretty happy with at least one out of the three. I'll try to take a photo of them tomorrow.

Man, am I a glutton for punishment or what?