BANANAS

Great finding for the dollypartonchallenge, found on instagram, made by illustrator Olivia de Recat:

www.instagram.com/drawingolive

Download the Bananavisor. Here is the template ready to print

BananaVisorFOR%20GROUP.pdf

Enjoy!

Happy Banana Day!

Anna Banana celebrates her 80th birthday today, Feb.24!

"Anna Banana (born February 24, 1940 as Anne Lee Long in Victoria, British Columbia) is a Canadian artist known for her performance art, writing, and work as a small press publisher. She has been described as an "innovator, entrepreneur and critic", and pioneered the artistamp..."

Happy Birthday to Anna Banana!

And thank you, Cascafia Artpost, for sending Birthday mail!

*not ‘Cascafia’ but Cascadia Artpost, of course

And more Anna Banana b-day mail art thanks to Cascadia Artpost:

Beautiful B-day artistamps straight from the Heart (Coeur),

thanks to Thom Courcelle: 

Banana Mail Art from Cascadia ArtPost

and from Thom Courcelle arrived in Greece, too:

(very late delivery after 12 days of no mail delivery!)

nice set of artistamps, too:

Fun Banana Day visor from Mail Art Martha!

...ready for our Mardi Gras:

Every day is Banana Day!

Thank you, Martha!

Bananas from the Artful Writer in Australia:

Going BANANAS from Patricia Landon:

Every day is BANANA Day!

From Mary Anne in the UK

It has arrived! From Heleen in Amstelveen:

Heleen's envelope is FAB, too!

flip side of Heleen's envelope...

turquoise BANANA washi tape,

with garlic? onion?

and lots of bananas :-)

I have an idea, garlic and onion flavoured banana ice cream, any one?

Some very good bits of sketching all over Mary Ann's work and the washed out collage is great.

I just had to join this group after seeing chat comments for it. It reminded me that Ive got some banana shaped postage stamps from tonga in a stamp album i started years ago as a teen.

Found this just now while looking for something else. Must try it.

Banana and oatmeal cookies.

You just need two bananas, a cup of oats and dried fruit to taste. Mix all the ingredients, add a little maple syrup, then form into balls and bake at 180C for 15 minutes. They are especially good with yoghurt and lift me up on dull days. Says Viviana, Italy

I will use honey instead of maple syrup as I got none.

Thanks for posting this , Martha! I too will use honey as there is no real maple syrup here. It sounds delicious with Greek yogurt!

Banana mail from Heleen :-)

going bananas...

Visual Mom/C.M. Bennett, has a fun project!

see her blog:

 Will you take the #bananahat challenge?!

Jeanette Geissler "banana boxes" 2021

Jeanette Geissler "Bananenkisten" 2021

Bananas arrived from Greece, along with a wise Mail Owl, and in time for Saint Valentine’s day!

Thank you very much, Katerina!

Happy World Banana Day!

From Cascadia ArtPost:

Banana Mail Art that may arrive by the 4th of July???

Katerina! either I am going bananas or the internet is. As you probably know I wrote to you in Ernie's blog and if I look it up here in the PC , my comment is there. I went to the phone so I could see the pictures too and found that my comment is in this blog, which if you look here it is not !!!.

So very BANANAS!

I am so very confused that I will go and make Chocolate and Banana brownies. Just those two ingredients. Will share recipe if it works.

Going bananas, Martha! Enjoy your brownies :-) EAT ART!

Banana Artistamps from Cascadia ArtPost, too:

Okay, Third Wednesday in April is Banana Day!  Who is in for a Banana Day exchange?

I most defiantly am I missed out last time! 

Luck me, I got bananas AND Squares in the mail.

Ok. the culinary experiment involving bananas and chocolate did not work. Or it did, if you do not expect a cake. It was sort of a banana custard with chocolate. Tasted delicious. Might as well mash the banana and pour melted chocolate on top.

I used very dark bitter chocolate and an over ripe banana.

Oh, yes, Going Bananas for April 21!

(a 'return-to-sender" mail art card will be re-used, recycled :-)

Okay, so far we are three for Going Bananas on April 21

Hello Ilya,  Rules?  We are working with Artists here.  Artists do not obey rules.  It's like herding cats.  But to answer your question.

Yes, you can make an artifact with the image of Anna Banana and mail it personally to Me.

And I will personally put Anna Banana in a crate and personally send her to you with a bunch of bananas.  Unless she eats then during the transportation.

But the rules idea of 21 April Banana Day is that a few of us will send a banana themed Mail Art to each other.  And hopefully they will arrive on 21 April Banana Day.

I hope I was helpful and not too silly.

Hi,  I got a message from Mail Art Martha.  She is in for 21 April Banana Day.

So we are now four.

Bananas to you Europeans now in-the-mail, might arrive by April21???

...or there after?

To Anna Banana in Canada and Ilya in Russia, and a few fellow Americans, (might get Banana Mail from Greece by April 21, 2022 :-)