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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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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on December 10, 2012 at 12:30pm — No Comments

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

Yes! Oh, Erni!

Something good is coming from the Haptic Werewolf! Yes! A THUG BOX!

All us'uns "self-promoters" are spreading the good karma :-)

We "stick" together...and the world with UHU

Good to see Erni smiling...lights…

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

Haptic Art from Marcela in Argentina

It is always a special treat when mail art comes from Argentina.

This is very thick and richly black haptic art from Marcela Peral.

I tried an angle shot to see if it would capture the thickness of the paint:

But such rich…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on November 28, 2012 at 11:00am — 5 Comments

Artist in Seine For Daze in Cherry Blossom's Alsace

Nice large card from Dean Marks as he traveled to Strasbourg:

Looking at the map fragment...beautiful Alsace, yes Marie?…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on November 28, 2012 at 11:00am — 1 Comment

Add 'n Pass boekie comes from Carina Granlund via Louise Kiner and from California!

This is a sea symphony book cover for an add 'n pass boekie that originated in California, rocky cliffs!

Interesting vintage pages with prints and drawings,

originally from Lee Goldberg in California:…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on November 26, 2012 at 4:30pm — 6 Comments

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