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Autumn Flowers hold another haul of beautiful Mail Art! GOTIJ!

My autumn flowers are embracing GOTIJ from Roberto in Puerto Rico, mail art from Angie, and Jen, and Mim in the USA, and Giuliana in Brazil, and FLUXUS from CMB in Ohio! And more...

The Milano gentleman comes with GOTIJ from Roberto! Great mail art envelope…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on November 22, 2011 at 3:00pm — 5 Comments

Announcement from Jen Staggs amongst the autumn flowers

Well, when you care enough to send the very best....

Now we've all seen Jen's FAB print on vintage paper, truly lovely.

A lovely way to announce to the world...oh, wait, she is NOT?

Just a FAB vintage pic to remind us modern-day ladies how lucky we are after the "revolution"!

Thank you, Jen! (But if it is…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on November 22, 2011 at 2:30pm — 3 Comments

"Pulp-po" or beautiful hand-made paper poetry from Nancy Bell Scott!

Hmmmmm? A feast or the eyes, and you should feel the textures! Nancy sent a package full of bits and pieces of her hand-made papers...lots and lots, see below:

Can't wait to begin a series of trashpo/ asemic/ MinXus mail art....my autumn flowers like all…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on November 21, 2011 at 4:00pm — 6 Comments

Autumn flowers hold a week's Mail Art.

My red-violet autumn flowers like the mail art that arrived during the week while I was traveling. Here is the perfect blue-taped-envelope from Karen Champlin and inside, a wonderful ATC! There isn't a map fragment, but I so spot the front of a gondola from Venice printed there or is that an asemic symbolThank you, Karen, 'love the "Lό ve", too!…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on November 20, 2011 at 9:00pm — 5 Comments

Winnie the Pooh and Pooh sticks from our dear Valentine!

See, a yellow Pooh stick, and a black one, too! Along with the Pooh sticks came special banana and fruit stickers for our Anna Banana Bingo project. And also, there is one of the special "slide art" pieces that Valentine Mark Herman is making, this one announces his exhibit.

There are some dear friends on Val's envelope:…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on November 11, 2011 at 7:30pm — 8 Comments

Haptic Werewolf works magic on 11.11.11. A special gift in the mail!

The Haptic Werewolf and Herr Haptic Erni greet the postal clerks as they hunt up a package that arrived today at my Greek post office. It is a sturdy box measuring 12x14x18 high in centimeters, or if you prefer: about 5x6x7 high in inches. Now a box like that has 6 nice sides...and Erni does a grand job of filling those sides both outside (on the wrapping paper) and inside (on…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on November 11, 2011 at 2:30pm — 3 Comments

Received from John M. Bennett, master of vispo...SOUL!

A fantastic envelope, full of the art of JMB arrived today.

This first pamphlet has the same title as a art magazine in Greece: SOUL!

John takes us on a soul-journey...in collaboration with another artist, too:…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on November 8, 2011 at 10:00pm — 7 Comments

Midnight in Paris...or what happens when mail artists meet in a cafe?

What happens? The Eiffel Tower goes in a "bubble" on a mail art card and gets sent to Greece...almost

('would that it be of solid gold).…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on November 7, 2011 at 4:00pm — 3 Comments

Are you a member of the 9B Club? Dynamic drawings from Lesley, top-notch member!

The "nine b club" or the "9B Club", consists of members who have discovered the whereabouts of 9B drawing pencils and/or 9B graphite sticks! ...and they use them, of course! Lesley Magwood Fraser has used a 9B pencil to create these amazingly dynamic portraits! And I am thrilled that they arrived today in amazingly dynamic Greece! …

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on November 7, 2011 at 2:00pm — 8 Comments

The Distant Drummer from South Africa arrives in Greece

Remember those "Women Who Carry the World"? The Women Who Up Hold the World?

Remember the Bhubesi Women that entered our world thanks to the creative genius of Cheryl Penn?

Ah, now they are traveling and arriving at various destinations.

I have been honored with the presence, and the present, of "The Distant Drummer":…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on November 2, 2011 at 8:00pm — 3 Comments

BERET...a beauty from Lesley Magwood Fraser of the South Africa Connection

Very French on the envelope from Lesley. And what could be inside?

Beautiful art, of course...with a red beret, so reminds me of Paris! sigh.…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on November 1, 2011 at 5:00pm — 6 Comments

Mail Art "365" in my mailbox today! thank you, Mim and Sue, and Jennifer!

# 329 from Mim is a beautiful collage with vintage photos and not so vintage. Old and new side-by-side, through the haze of time.Thank you, Mim! We began making a-card-per-day back on December 1, 2010 and now we are on our way to completing 365 mail art cards by November 30.... 30 more to gooooo! …

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on November 1, 2011 at 2:00pm — No Comments

Funny guys in the mail today! Thank you Val - Dean - David! OPA!

Let's set the pace with a bit of ouzo from the Greek Island Mytilene that arrived here via Santa Fe, New Mexico, from David Stafford. Just to cheer us up amidst all the "Greek turmoil" ( where? when?, whaaaat?) David with his great humor created a three-fold card that dances with fun:…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on November 1, 2011 at 12:40pm — 3 Comments

Tiny Town wonders from Mim Golub Scalin

The Lady in Blue came to Tiny Town for a visit. "The painted women stopped by - the residents of Tiny Town were reminded of some thing today". So write Mim about her Tiny Town visitor.

Others have come to Tiny Town and to Greece during the past few…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on October 27, 2011 at 6:30pm — 4 Comments

From John M. Bennett...full of vispoetics and maybe asemic zalops, too?

Happiness is...a full envelope in the mail box from JMB! thank you, John...all are amazing treasures!

Envelope, of course (you not?...me neither):

Great card, fun face for such a painful episode:…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on October 27, 2011 at 5:30pm — No Comments

From Thom...Who ya Gonna Call? Choco Ghost Busters?

There's somethin; new, in the neighborhood, and in my mail box too! And that ain't egg-on-his-face...it is chocolate!

This cutie guy 'tis not scarey at all. Just feed him some chocolate and he's a happy camper, er, I mean GHOST!

He comes along with a…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on October 27, 2011 at 4:30pm — No Comments

The case of the missing blog??????

Anna Banana Bingo....tally me banana!

Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on October 27, 2011 at 12:01pm — 5 Comments

The Art of Envelopes: inside and out from Marie in Japan, Mim, Dean Marks and Ruud!

From Cherry Blossom, Marie, in Japan, comes this envelope with a beautiful "woven" piece inside. BUT the envelope is also a work of art outside here, and when opened completely: inside, too!

The envelope is a beautiful container for a beautiful paper weave,…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on October 25, 2011 at 3:30pm — 4 Comments

KUANAS BIENNIAL - MACIUNAS and BEYOND

KAUNAS BIENNIAL – TEXTILE `11

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on October 17, 2011 at 2:30pm — 2 Comments

Holes and anti-holes from the one and only Haptic Werewolf, ERNI!

Yes indeedy, the haptic Werewolf strikes again, bringing wonderful RED and "hole"ly sandpapers, amongst other goodies. It is the one and only Haptic Werewolf in the whole/hole of Europe...surely in the whole/hole WORLD!

Dig it? The package is always…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on October 17, 2011 at 2:30pm — 4 Comments

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