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Fab envelope full of muti-colored circles...

and inside treasures:

The beautiful BLUE collage of beautifully…

...with a touch of Beautiful BLUE, of course!

as it is titled: Beach Shack...by the sea...brown beach? :-)

I am liking it both ways up!…

A rare inside look at the headquarters of the Stafford Corporation.  The Auditing Department is normally considered the heart of any major Corporation and equipped with the latest technology.   But on a Friday afternoon in the heat of the summer only one sound could be…

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..."because they wanted to be small"!

About the size of ATCs, two beautifully created "scrap" collage cards arrrived

from Nancy Bell Scott....who need not worry about being "quiet at art"...take it slow :-)

Even the flip sides…

Well these are simply gorgeous.  OK, two years old, but already they look vintage.  I can't imagine the time it took to put these together.  Fabulous.

Thank you  Borderline Grafix

Mail art by IUOMA member Jason Motsch (Conneaut Lake, Pennsylvania, USA)

September 17, 2016 - The greatest trash show on earth continues with brilliant work by trashpoet and committed Kulter Jason Motsch. Those versed in…

It's an old Dutch fairy tale about the night where the bedbugs came down from the mountains and carried away all the children boots.  But wait a second, there are no mountains in Holland, and if this is an age old Dutch fairy tale, children would have been wearing wooden shoes. 

Thank you Willemien.  Can't wait to see the one about the little Dutch boy who plugs a dike…

Deep BLUE and the Lido in Paris! Wow!

What a collections of cards-leftovers :-)

I am thoroughly enjoying…

When a larger than A4 envelope from San Francisco arrives,

it just has to contain stunning TAO ART from Mike Dyar,

...this time it contained TWO masterpieces, thus two blogs needed :-)

First is a three-fold 16x44cm long (about…

Mike also sent a larger masterpiece, dressed in black,

Open...and unfold...…

Jokie is back from Alaska with inspiration.  This one was inspired by an encounter with a polar bear.  Happy Jokie lived to tell paint the outcome.

Thank you Jokie and happy to hear you enjoyed your trip.

PS: The assistant who stamps the date on incoming mail has been "let go".  If anyone is looking…

I've been the lucky recipient of a few artist books recently. This one by Sheri Rice is a nice addition to my growing library of artist…

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Hear ye Hear ye, Hear ye Hear ye, Retailia Times tells all.  Other highlights; Loose Marble Still Not Found.  Police are rolling their eyes.

Thank you Martha, very funny stuff.

I should have posted this the other day when I received my postcard, so I'm doing it now! I received a surprise postcard from Debra Mulnick and I just LOVE it! She did a wonderful job embellishing both the back and front of the card :) Thanks, Debra! …

This AWESOME surprise was waiting for me in my mailbox today. I'm in LOVE with this purple octopus. The colors and detail are fantastic! Thanks, Hagitha Krytal. You ROCK!…

San Francisco dreaming, on such a rainy day.  Could this be Haight Forest during an earthquake? No, it's another wonder of Tofu.  Love this style.

Thank you Tofu

Starting with a sketch of Denver.