Mail-Art Cafe

That was a nice hot BLUE cup of tea that Suus in Mokum sent me...

but they serve Maine brandy here at the cafe...sure, go for it! xxx

They do? Wow. Though since the nice hot cup of tea from Suus is BLUE, there's no question that would be the choice for you, Kat!

There are limits, it's true. I once made blue spaghetti. It wasn't popular.

Yum, home grown snow peas to eat and home grown ruby grapefruit to drink...with tequila of course! Sideways again cos you lot are all asleep on top of the world!!! Nah, my computer hates me...

Aw, Viz...me is here at the cafe in Greek morning time.

And if I recliine on the couch with the laptop,

like at an ancient Greek symposium dinner...

well, the pasta and beans are upright. :-)

Cheers!

and folks...the "tea" is  golden honey brown color...

the tea cup is BLUE! "BLUE cup"...of tea, see?

I don't know about the blue pasta though, I've made a sauce with blue cheese, is that what you mean, Nancy? Or did you pour blue curacao on it??

I drink my tea green in a mug with sheep on it and then I put in acacia honey which is... honey coloured.  I once dyed rice green but then couldn't eat it. My new pickled beetroot is both red and delicious:}

Viz, I put blue food coloring in the spaghetti water while it cooked. It worked! And it was ugly! 

Some of my painted book pages are stained with wine, beet juice, brandy, or green tea or pau d'arco tea.

Blue spaghetti, eh? Will have to try that...

but not green rice, Rod! hahaha!

Some really nice colored tea:

Oh, no, it's not recommended. :--} Gorgeous tea color there.

After beautiful chilled blue ice, have a share of my warm dense espresso with a lot of cinnemon and the chocolate thing down at here at the café.

Mail art coffee!

Fantastic , Vizma! Now you are really having fun with those apps!

Great stuff!

Vizma,

Did you mail me that cuppa?

Oh Vizma, that's fab!    A little tart with art, eh?  What kind of tart is it?

Ha! An Art Tart, Elizabeth!

Dan, I wouldn't want to spill it, I'm sending Bad art instead, warn your mail box!

Happy, happy tonight at the Cafe:

Ruud, nice cup of...hot choco? capuccino?

And where is that group? site? where we are able to order IUOMA hats and bags and mugs, etc?

here it is: http://www.cafepress.com/iuoma

Thanks, Ruud, now to get the mug! :-)

Some IUOMA pudding comes with:

I = Ice cream from Val

U = Umeboshi plums from Kate

O = Orange peels, dried and grated, from Erni

M = Mango mash, from xx

A = Apple Pie from Angie (and Snooky)! :-)

Yes, very tasty and healthy "umeboshi plums" from Japan,

mmmmmm!

Happy Thanksgiving to USA friends at the Cafe xxx

Gather 'round the table:

Oh!!! That looks wonderful Kate!

And now tea time, Rod...yoga tea time:

Mmmm ginger-orange with vanilla!

Memories Made of This exhibition in Hadleigh Library Day 1/2 today.  

A mother and her two children came into the library at 4pm, I approached them, saying that I didn't know if they had time but that I had a mail art exhibit and a 'making table'. MAIL ART she said, 'I'd be very interested to see that… mu dad was a correspondence artist.' Her dad is Michael Lumb! Bizarre coincidence in a rural Suffolk village!

I have four windows at the library and an alcove just for Simon Warren - he sent me more than 135 pieces!

Wow, looks great Rebecca! :)

Congrats, Rebecca! That is a fantastic exhibit in-the-windows!

How about a hot choco today in the Cafe:

mail art call in unexpected place series !

https://witness.theguardian.com/assignment/5277db80e4b00ff3f5c0fc26...

have your Guardian weekly at MAIL ART CAFE

and a peaceful cup of tea...

Time to get the Cafe ready for the New Year 2014:

Greek Vasilopita and a few twinkle lights:

and the bubbly:

Let me bring the Greek New Year bread: Vasilopita, a bit closer...

and SMILE going into 2014 :-)

  This evening I'd sure enjoy your company with your Vasilopita as well as the bubbly.  Until then for this afternoon lunch, hop on down to the Flying Chicken to share some Hoppin' John?  I'll even read the squirrel story to you.

Happy Mail Art New Year 2014, Liz!

Good to see you at the Cafe, gal from Troy :-)

'Would love to come by for Hoppin' John and I'd bring along

some feta?

Sunday sippin' tea

Time to gather at the Cafe

and have a nice soothing tea?

Or a Hot Chocolate for our friends in the snow and below-zero weather? How about a nice cold beer for the Aussies :-)

I'll have a hot choco thanks...(in a BLUE cup, sure!)

Anyone want some PUDDING?

Make that CHOCOLATE pudding, please!

Thank you, enjoy your dessert!
I would love to (chocolate pudding, and coffee, with milkm no sugar please), but alas no, I first have to eat my pumpkin/red-lentils soup (orange!). And here you see a picture.... I was too long at the computer (IUOMA) now, and the soup first was watery, but now it has been cooking dry!...

Thanks for waiting for me.  So good to come in here to warm up.

blue linen for Katerina, tea for all. Heleen, milk for your tea is just to the right where you can't see it .

Thank you, Elizabeth, too! Tea with a 'wolkje melk' (- 'a little cloud of  milk') is delicious, too!

Heleen, as in the foam on espresso?

No, a real 'cloud'  inside of the tea! :-)
See for instance here (but after stirring, the milk and tea mix so the cloud dissolves).
Enjoy your cup of tea!

Oh, yes, the cloud!  It is a real cloud!  thanks.

Anyone fancy a slice of my new bread with butter and strawberry jam?