BANANAS

Nope... Banana Mouskouri. (That's a Greek, female singer).

Welcome Suus to the banana bunch.  Yes, I just knew you would fit right in here along with Mouskouri, who I think lives in Paris, or at least has a place here.

   Looking forward to seeing how you might put a bit of banana in your mail art.

Right now there is a deadline for Monday.  Look down the list.  I just might have to time to pump one more out to you.  You can send something to anyone on the list if you want.  Glad to see you here.

Is the list in Angie & Snooky's comment (sunday) the list of the Banana-naaas?

yes, that's the one. For Banana Lover's day on Monday, 27 August.  The idea was to send cards to people on this list.  As many people as you want.

  No pressure in the banana bunch.  Don't worry if you do not have the time for this one.  There will be another call in September, and another one after that.  We can't have people bananas all the time!

I went to the beach yetsreday to find some more Sea Monsters. One of them found my secret trove of Bananas and ate them, alas.

In the sixties I was told frequently I looked (had the same glasses and I am dark and we latinos all look the same of course) and spoke with he same accent as la Mouskuri. Odd, nobody said I sung like her.

Well now I am off to post my bananacards to catch the early post tomorrow.

Then to La France to meet the Great Val. Oh, la,la!

Whilst preparing Banana Mail I stumbled across last year's Banana Bingo... Oh, how I wish I'd known you all then... I think you'll get my reasoning when your mail arrives....

P.S. The Banana Splits used to be one of my favorite Saturday morning shows when I was a kid. Anyone else remember them?

Hmmmm, yummy banana splits!

Do I remember them?....at the "Drugstore" and at the "Drive-in"!

Now I make them here in Greece with bananas from Ecuador! Yummy

Happy Banana Day everyone :-)

Hey, Mr. Tallyman, tally me bananas...here come the banana boats :-)

HAPPY BANANA LOVER'S DAY!

GO BANANAS!

B-A-N-A-N-A-S!

GO BANANAS!

With the help of some of my Sea Monsters I posted my Banana Day stuff this morning.

And then I took the Monsters to the beach.

Val

Today I stopped by the PO to pick up my held mail (I was up at my new home last week) and what a great surprise to find a Banana Lover Day card!  And on the correct day too, August 27th.  Thank you Dean.  I've been missing my mail since I closed my POBox, so it was a double surprise.  A Banana card and received on the correct day; August 27th.  Not that I would have known any difference though.....

Next week, I will be up at my new home - most of the time, and have my scanner back up and maing mail art by October.  I hope.  I miss you guys!

Thanks for the card Dean.  You know how to make a girl smile.  :-)

Did my best to post my BANANA-GRAMS today, but the universe went BANANAS! Will post tomorrow. Sorry for the delay! :/

"A juicy scandal" - Cool Banana Day mail art from Angie! Love it!

Did not get Dean Mark's Banana card yet, but he is off hiking in the mountains, so maybe it is hard to find a La Poste box? Although he was wise to send in advance, like Angie, have have some cards arrive on Aug. 27 Banana Day. Yay!

However, Banana Band Europe cards have arrived in Greece today...and post marked August 27! Perfect!

From Valentine...the Sea Monster Bananas:

From Carina..."How to draw a banana" 46 of them...all hand painted! Great:

From Janine...LOVE  and nice poetry, and information. Beautiful boekie!

What a "banana" treat in my mail box, thank you everyone!

And the postmarks, which are very mportant, of course:

France: 

Finland:

Switzerland:

I, too, got a Greek banana -- thanks Katerina! Val

From yesterday's trip to the EX (an end of the summer fair in T.O.)

'Got a BLUE banana smile from Mail Art Martha today! Yay!

What fun...and her royal seal...plus the postage, but the postmark is off :-(

Great happy card! Thank you , Martha!

Bonjour Janine!

Bonjour Louise!

Many thanks for the bananaday stuff.

Keep it flowing...

Val

Great BaNNana mails! Here are some more

http://iuoma-network.ning.com/profiles/blogs/banana-day-27th-august...

Thank you all!

Thanks for my Banana Day card, Dean! I'll make sure that they all have the right sort of suntan cream on, and that they don't go to the nudist beach. Mercy Buckets, Val

PS Is it OK for the lady Bananas to sunbathe topless?

Louise..that's a Zombie Banana!

And another drawing has Zombie Kitty eating a banana! too funny!

IF other Banana Day cards have arrived, I won't know until next week.

I am finally spending some time out at the seaside shack WITHOUT

a sun rash! Yay! 

I am "eating up" these banana cards that are here! Great stuff!

I received these 4 banana cards in the mail this afternoon:

From Janine, Mail Art Martha, Katerina, and Angie. Thanks to all you Banana girls for these wonderful cards. So clever and very bananas.

Erni (and anyone else who doesn't want to cut "Andy"): you could always photocopy "Andy" and then cut him out if you want to make him do a "banana dance". I would have made "Andy" dance for you all, but like Katerina, I will be spending some time at a Lake side shack, and will be out of touch for a few days, so it will have to wait until next week.

Have a great weekend.

On Monday I did manage to find a post office .  And what a beautiful post office it was in this small village which a huge church for St. Bernard.  But no bananas to be found in the village square.

     Happy to see all the great Banana work being posted.  I was amazed.  And my guest is there is more to come.

A box full of Banana fun.  What did they ever think hit them in this small village.

Now off on the Robert Lewis Stevenson trail in the search for more Banana ideas.  Hope to be on line again in a week or so.  Have a great Banana week to you all.  Thanks for blogging.

Hope you had a great time in St Bernard, Dean! Great photo, looks really like a charming place and lovely summer.

I got a Banana Boat from Katerina and trashpo Banana mail from Martha, thank you both of you!

Dean IS the St Bernard! That explains the bottle of brandy around his neck.

Superb work of Lynn and Lisa, Erni!

First Banana Group Banana-card received ever! From Martha. Thank you!

My first piece of Banana Mail came from Lisa Iverson... Half of the monkey's tail fell off in transit... Poor Monkey.

As I was leaving home for a weekend at camp, Val's piece arrived. Sadly, no scanner at camp to upload a pic of the "Monster."

Banana graffiti from Augustinestrasse, Berlin. I took the photo one week ago..

Sweet baby Dolphin -

What a celebration, what a great Banana day/week!

Thank you all!

(Borrowed this picture from Marie's work)

"Love that (Greek :-) Banana Dolphin!

Nice to see all the bananas...maybe there will be some in my 

ail box tomorrow when I go to the city? Have all the banana boats

reached their destinations yet???

Thanks for the card LisaBanana!

Mine got here safely, Katerina.

Val

I HAVE A NEW THEORY!!!!!

Anna Banana and Mail Art Martha are TWINS!

They look the same.

They behave the same.

They are both incredibly creative.

They are both great & very original Mail Artists.

They are -- how can I best put this? -- crazy (in the nicest possible way, of course!)

Well that give y'all something to think about.

The evolution of this IUOMA-shattering theory is this, and I would appreciate your assistance in answering the questions:

Given the recent discovery of the twins Anna B and M A Martha, what other sets of undiscovered twins are there? Specifically, who are the twins of Erni and Dean? (They are not twinned together)

Val

Monkey business and banana art waiting for me in my mail box

as I returned to the city today. Thank you , Louise ad Lisa xxx

Lisa's monkey arrived in Greece  in good shape,

and with a great banana on the flip side, wow!

Along with Andy Warhol, Louise hand colored a big banana!

And Zombie Kitty showed off her "banana hat":

Twins?

Definitely:

Valentine Mark Herman

and

Valentin N. Dolgoy 

Twins (Val you really should start another group for this topic:)

Oh, Erni

and

Bruce Willis? (Oh, Bruce!)

Twins:

maybe that should be

Dean Marks

and

Bruce Willis?

Speaking about Dean Marks, who took-a-hike and is not around to see this :-)

His Banana Olympics arrived in Greece!

Fantastic athletes...banana lovers all!

(must blog details :-) Thank you, Dean!

Katerina...OK I'l start a Twins Group but if, and only if, after I run it for a week you agree to take it over (cf Cats?!).

I thought that would put an end to that idea.

But if anyone else would like to pick up the Twins Ball and run (or dance with it) then go for it!

Val

NO, no group leading for me...too slow a internet service to keep up with group posting. And you are such a GOOD leader, Val! xxx

Getting back on track at this BANANA group:

Here is the blog for the Banana Olympics  :-)

Dean Marks sends Banana Love and Banana Olympics!

Here is the link to my blog post in celebration of all the Banana Mail I received! http://iuoma-network.ning.com/profiles/blogs/go-bananas-banana-day-... 

Das ist sehr gut, Herr Haptic Erni! 

'Got a "banana" card from the ol' Banana Man, Wolfgang Skodd.

Unfortunately he doesn't get to his IUOMA pages :-(

But he's all BANANAS and more! ...and in Germany, too!

I received 2 great Banana Day cards in yesterdays mail. One from Lisa Iversen:

I love how the monkey is painting the crown on the "Bannana"; very funny.

And one from the "Banana King" himself, Dean:

Anyway, I hope you can read it. Both Pete and I got quite a chuckle out of it. Thank you both and I hope you had a Happy Banana Day!

xxx thank you, Lynn...lots of banana stickers now in Greece!