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Happy New Year 2013 IUOMA from Ruud!

The world will not end tomorrow

because we need to celebrate all the New Year 2013

for IUOMA 25 years!

Some great pieces here, Ruud,

thank you very much,…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on December 20, 2012 at 10:30am — No Comments

Visual Poetry and fragments from Cheryl Penn

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"FEED THE WORLD" from Rod Summers

Rod Summers sent his smiling face and "Feed the World"

We all know about Erni's "Feed the world Art"...

well this card came from Rod Summers in the Nederlands:

everybody sing now:…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on December 18, 2012 at 4:00pm — No Comments

Minimal Marks from Marks (Dean)...assault? a salt and battery :-)

So this is rare...just a red cardboard card and a bit of lithium...and salt (of the earth)

The salt (salz from the airplane , I think) is full and ready for use on my celery :-)

But the lithium battery, well...it just shines and…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on December 17, 2012 at 5:00pm — 9 Comments

Cerealism + Cubism from Dean and Ana on Mail Art Monday!

What sparkle! What joy! A cereal box top design by Ana Kawajira (sequins!) and squares by cubistic Dean Marks:

Collab mail art they created on Oct. 28...before Ana left Paris to return to Brazil.…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on December 10, 2012 at 1:00pm — 3 Comments

Katerina receives from Rebecca Guyver and from Sarah Churchill

Beautiful card from Rebecca! A dream watercolor...

and magic forest on the flip side:

Also Xmas arty slides from Rebecca arrived on this sunny Mail Art Monday:…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on December 10, 2012 at 12:30pm — 2 Comments

Katerina receives a "House Call" from ARAC!

Do we humans think that the earth belongs to us?

Ha, ARAC shows the other view of the planet. Good reminder.

The back side of the card seems to have been a rip-off? Pieces missing?

But I love the ancient Greek Comedy mask…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on December 10, 2012 at 12:30pm — 3 Comments

HeeBeeJeeBee Land sighting!

Always so great to receive mail art from Test Tower at HeeBee JeeBee Land!

In November Test Tower writes that he was able to attend the Grand Opening

of MOA = Museum of Artistamps in Seattle! How great is that!

On the flip side of the card is more MOA:…

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Katerina receives from Nancy Bell Scott. Yay!

What a great surprise to see mail art from Nancy Bell Scott!

The envelope is all map, inside and out, and I loooove maps, and map fragments!

This is easy to recognize locations...it is China and Japan,

and an old map it…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on December 7, 2012 at 2:30pm — No Comments

Katerina receives from Marguerite Keen "Square Art"

Well, they are lovely "square art" art squares, almost like a mosaic.

Marguerite's collage of colors and squares on a stamped

postcard is delightful.

'Love the details of each one...each a painting on it's own.…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on December 7, 2012 at 11:46am — 1 Comment

Niklas Heed heeds the call for arty slide :-)

There is an arty slide exchange going on for Xmas and cartoonies.

Some time ago Niklas sent me little Pippi and she is posted over at the arty slide group,too.

The other side of the card is a great surprise indeed! Very vintage, a time gone by.

And Niklas has added drawings of all the people in the park:…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on December 7, 2012 at 7:38am — 2 Comments

Katerina receives mail art from Guido!

FIGHT! "Go to the mattresses!" (Or are the protests now over?)

It's the back side of the famous "Delos Man" by Guido:…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on December 6, 2012 at 11:00pm — 1 Comment

Blog Jam: Katerina receives mail art from SkybridgeLisa, from Helene in France, from Oman, and from Fleur

Well, my mailbox gets full of mail art too!

Lisa of Skybridge Studios sent me this vintage post card

and in BLUE with seashore on the flip side..beautiful calligraphic writing!

Question: Where is…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on December 6, 2012 at 11:00pm — 3 Comments

Erni receives from Torma Cauli in Hungary

It's been quite a while since I received mail art from Hungarian

top artist,…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on December 6, 2012 at 9:30pm — No Comments

Erni receives from Nancy Bell Scott ...and Rust that Never Sleeps

DECEMBER'S CHILDREN IN GRIEF…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on December 6, 2012 at 1:30pm — 6 Comments

Erni receives from Ruud Janssen

BEST WISHES ON THE OTHER HAND

The long announced letter finally arrived on Dec. 5th.

Mijnheer Ruud Janssen has sent nice things and written nice words.…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on December 6, 2012 at 1:00pm — 1 Comment

Erni receives from Alicia Starr: LIGHT!

LITTLE BOOK OF LIGHT FOR ERNI

As the days are getting darker and shorter

rapidly light in our houses, flats, rooms is most essential.

We need a good balance of lumen now.

Alicia Starr from Iowa City must have thought carefully about that.

(Here is the envelope and its…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on December 5, 2012 at 5:30pm — 4 Comments

xxJones with Autumn Leaves arrives in Greece

Special mail art in the mail box this morning.

Along with this see-through beauty from xxJones,(thar's a bear..a Baer!)

came a super mail art package from the Haptic Werewolf

More about Erni's package in that other…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on December 5, 2012 at 11:30am — 2 Comments

Erni gets a BOX from Frieder Speck

What I received from Frieder Speck today can be called bizarre for sure.

It all began with this parcel.(Check out those bar codes, Dean!)

and the flip side:

Good German handiwork...not entirely bullet proof.

The act of…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on December 4, 2012 at 11:00pm — 5 Comments

Dean Marks: A Room with a View

What does she see out her window?

If she is a guest at Boulevard de Bercy in France, she sees this:

And, if she's had champagne, she may see THREE of 'em?…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on December 3, 2012 at 1:30pm — 11 Comments

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