BANANAS

Thank you, Jay!

Banana mail so far… I will open tomorrow and await others! Thank you in advance!

BTW: from Dean, Stripygoose, Carina and Katerina! Yeah.

Thanks all for wonderful, cool bananana mail!! I will post pictures on my page. Here is a detail of Dean's peach scented card and the sudden clarity banana. Have a great day :)

Welcome to Stripygoose to the Banana BAnd.  Birds & Bananas, now that's going to be interesting.  Well both begin with "B".

 Happy interNational Banana apprecation day everyone

     This is what I received as of today.  So thank you to Stripygoose Sue, Jay, Carina, Lynn, Rebecca, & Katerina x 2. They are all wonderful and Katerina even broke into a new dimension.

     I will blog each one as soon as I can.  But right now I need to make and send one to Stripygoose Sue & Jay.

Thanks again for making this day feel like New Years day.

I've done a little blog of what I've received so far: bananas by: Stripygoose, Dean, Katerina, Carina, Angie, Jay Block 

http://thepostalleger.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/banana-appreciation-da...

I guess no banana from Keith (bad Keith) but expecting one from Mim, maybe Heleen? 

Happy International Banana appreciation day to all from me, too!

Sure, Rebecca, I owe you (and all of you) my banana mail art of 18th November 2014...

But as you see, my banana art still has to grow. Not enough slices for everyone yet, but I hope (and expect) them to be there, and be sent, and arrive, before New Year's Day (so one more of this kind of day, Dean!)!

And I was lucky today: received beautiful Banana mail art, too. I'll post them here right now.

But first some pictures: these are sustainable energy creating Bananas. 

(seen in a shop window in Paris, last May).

And some poor (because empty) Bananas at the Tuileries, also in Paris.

Who unexpectedly multiplied (wish my mail art did that by him/herself, too, then I would have been in time to send it in time... *sigh* )

Received Banana Day mail art,

Thank you, Katerina!!

Thank you, Stripygoose!!

(I'll post this and the back side on my real-weird-animals blog later)

Thank you, Angie and Snooky!

Thank you, Carina!!

(The special stamp I'll post in the IUOMA-Vinyl group :-) and the envelope will follow on my real weird animals blog)

WHich red Banana?

Ah, there he is (always had thought it was the apple's fault, Snow white should have left it in the old lady's hand):

Thank you, Dean!!

How did you manage to have your mail - and all mail that arrived today - smell after peaches? 

Hilarious mail. Thank you for posting, Heleen. And I loved reading Rebecca's blog... So glad I participated.

Hi, I blogged three this morning, and another three more tomorrow

Carina Granlund  http://iuoma-network.ning.com/profiles/blogs/carina-granlund-baba-banana

Lynn Radford   http://iuoma-network.ning.com/profiles/blogs/lynn-radford-banana-label-art

Rebecca Guyver   http://iuoma-network.ning.com/profiles/blogs/rebecca-guyver-spot-the-banana-and-more

Blogs coming tomorrow;

Stripygoose Sue

Jay Block

Katerina Nikoltsou

Ten minutes to two a.m. Finally finished my Banana Appreciation Day Mail for you. *phew*

I'll put it into the letter/mailbox tomorrow, hope they'll have a safe and happy travel.

Who needs sleep when you can be making Banana Mail Art?  Thank you for staying up Heleen.  We are all proud of you.  Looking forward to seeing your Fair Trade.

PS Peach oil is the only thing I had, but thought it would be funny anyway.  I'm now on the lookout for Banana essence.  In Paris Banana essence can be found in sex shops, but I'm too shy to go in those places.

(Just checking if anyone ever reads this stuff.)

Some great Banana Mail Art here!

So far have from Dean, Carina, Stripygoose, Lynn Radford,

and from Angie and Snooky:

Thanks for all so far...

"eye" have to wait to blog, doc says "not too much internet" :-(

Maybe i can use my Banana Phone from Dean?

Yes, we gotta some bananas...now blogged :-)

• Banana Mail Art from Rebecca

• Banana Mail Art from Stripyoose

• Banana Mail Art from Angie and Snooky

Thank you for the fun banana mail art!

...tally me bananas (and blogged :-)

Hello? Banana phone call from Paris

Banana Mail Art from Lynn Radford

Banana Mail Art from Carina in Finland

Thanks Kat! very Warholesque.

Received the most amazing envelope:

- stitched to close (I hardly dare to openit, by this delicate beautiful thread line :-) ), and:

- Banana shaped!

Thank you very much, Rebecca!!

A mysterious large squared envelope arrived. Carrying these non-banana stamps. (I am happily surprised to see that these Greek stamps have been designed by our famous Dutch stamp-and-banknotes creating Joh. Enschedé).

You would have throw me out of the Banana group for these Grapes if I wouldn't post what was inside this envelope. So I do.

An amazing large Banana, cut out and sent by Katerina!

The inside contains lots of my favourite colour: Turquoise!

And a beautiful handmade Banana, with a too right quote... I should have been listening to MomKat!  (*sigh*  still sad that the Banana I've sent to Greece never arrived...)

Thank you very much, Katerina!

Oho! I never get to see what postage stamps the clerk puts on "large-size" packets....I just pay. So Heleen got "September" ones, usually our 20 gram for mail art is only 90 euro, and they are "November".

And yes, Enschede designed them (no bananas :-(

There were two big bananas cut from the heavy-duty Chiquita box:

where is the other one?

No bananas today in the USA? Pumpkin and Apple pie??

Happy Thanksgiving Day!

Au contraire! I made a banana cake, with pecans and chocolate chips - my families favorite cake.  Here are all of the Banana Mail Art pieces that I received. So much fun. I love them all! Thank you, Banana friends.

Ooops, typo - family's not families. And I made the cake for our Thanksgiving meal, as there HAD to be bananas included.

Bravo Mim & hope you had a roll in the feathers after your meal.  No?  You watched football ?!!!

Have a fun thanksgiving weekend, Mim, and thanks muchy...

your banana arrived today in Greece, "Black Monday"?

Why not call it "Gold money"? :-)

I have a full peel of bananas now and have updated the blog with the bananas I received from Mim and Heleen! You need to read right to the end of the blog to see theirs!

http://thepostalleger.blogspot.co.uk/2014/11/banana-appreciation-da...

Here is glimpse:

And finally the BANANA Mail from Heleen has arrived!

Yellow in the mail box from Heleen

...with the adorable banana slices :-)

Maybe that's what it means to be going Dutch.

To see Finn Badger's groovy envelopes and a Wallace Stevens poem visit:

http://thepostalleger.blogspot.co.uk/2014/12/finn-badgers-going-ban...

wonderful Rebecca.  Thnks for sharing

WELCOME Petrolpetal to the Banana BAnd.  Looks like the bananas are going to move up a level.  See you in the banana post soon.

Jay's "peach" Banana Mail arrived,

just in time for One-Month-After-Banana-Day celebrations :-)

Thanks Jay!!!

Welcome to FinnBadger & Tiffany Bahan who are now members of BANANAS Band. I'll have to look what I have in my banana bag.

Hope to see you in the Banana Mail Soon.

I received this directly from Retailia.  But what could it be?

Well your wishes are my command , Dean.  Here I am, repentant not to  have celebrated Banana Day, too many suff to cope with in this mai art thing but I would not have it otherwise.

To everybody in the group:

Happy and creative 2015!

Happy Holidays to the Banana Band! xxx

Thanks to The Artist In Seine for this delicious mail that shows how a saddened banana or two make themselves happy again. More chips, please! And happy bananas for 2015.

Banana Mail...from Artist in Seine, or is it Cat Mail? :-)

blogged:

Negative/Positive shapes of Cat Mail from Paris

Happy Bananas to ALL in the New Year !

Phillip, did it really arrive with no stamps?  Too bad, because it was a nice Paris one I put on.

And while I am here, something on the bright side from Snappy.

The forth guy from the left doesn't look to happy about his banana.  Maybe Snappy can straighten him out!