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The Windmills Of Your Mind is a collaborative art book with various interpretations of the eponymous song. The idea originated with Katerina mailing this booklet to Cheryl, and it all started rolling.

The windmills of Katerina's mind are colorful and sparkling and I imagine them twirling incessantly. But then she includes those quiet and slow old windmills in beautiful USA stamps, and I now know that those are equally important. Oh yes they are... Lyrics are printed on the fragile…

I had big plans for this booklet but the paper turned out to crumble when folded, which is fine for the vintage effect, but still, so damn difficult to handle. It still want to use it though...

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Thank you for the beautiful print!!!

Σ' ευχαριστώ πολύ για το πολύ όμορφο χαρακτικό!!!

Αρχίζω να κάνω συλλογή με τα έργα σου, που μεγαλώνει σιγά - σιγά!!!!…

Lucky me! I was presented today with Cheryl's contribution to this project at our printing workshop that we are both attending. No postal service quirks to worry about with mail friendly hand delivery! Cheryl manages to cover all aspects of issues discussed in the various mail art groups in her windmill mind - asemics, haptics, vispo and layers on layers of paint, text and collage - such a clever girl!…

I made this concertina book with signatures in Cheryl Penn's bookmaking workshop last year and decided to use it to store mail art that I have received from Karin Greenwood and Elize Rowan, 2  of my South African friends. As in my last mail art book that I made to store Cheryl's mail (see my photos of An Extraordinary Correspondence with Cheryl Penn) I used old drawings of mine cut up as the "pockets" to hold the work. As I dont sew or have a machine I stapled the pockets on....

This…

“Milan for international creative talent: Fuori Art, contest and Milan Summer School”

Milan and Berlin: two cities very alike, complimentary and stimulating to the mind that together can mould the great talent of the future. With this idea in mind the Milan City Council is presenting itself in the German capital with an event that will be held at the Kulturbrauerei in Berlin …

Mail-art by IUOMA member Lesley Magwood-Fraser (Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa)

March 9, 2011 - The South African Mail-Art School, established by Cheryl Penn and essentially based on Ray Johnson's New York Correspondence School…

Happy Pink and Blue Bunnies, with funny pear and flowers and star stickers! "Cute"? No HAPPY MAIL!

Who from? Of all people, can you get a clue from the blue tape on the back of the pink envelope?

Hmmmm. How about a Hello Kitty angel?  What a great…

Mail art in the mail box today came from Athens and Troy...but not from Greece ;-)

No. 47 of 365 from Naomi came from a gal born in Athens...(Ohio) And it is a great Olympic theme with

postal history stamps. Thank you, Naomi! Also in the mail box was a…

First one must carefully handle and open this Japanses envelope from Marie.

There is always a most wonderful Japanese painting or print. And there is a stamp

with a butterfly for Spring (ha!) and a stamp for that SNOW we had in Greece yesterday!

Thank you, Marie! The envelope kept the vintage booklet safe and secure,

Inside:…

Marie and I have been swopping work for a few months.  Her work which is aesthetically fantastic WANTED a home. The Book as Vessel.  She sent me a bookmark which I made into a cover for an artist's book titled A Book for Marie.  The colophon reads :

A Book for Marie.  Unique Artist's Book made by Cheryl Penn to hold the artwork of Marie Wintzer, Japan. (Mail Art Correspondence from fellow IUOMA member). Pocket Book, collage binding, including 3 hole pamphlet stitch, size A5, 36 pages,…

Another special playing card piece, I like the Asemic marks on the front as it seems to say EM, my daughter's name! The reverse side has layered cutouts with a hidden image underneath, rather like the cutaway applique method used in needlework. Thanks Cheryl!…

Mail-art call for the Museum of Instant Images (Netherlands)

March 8, 2011 - The Museum of Instant Images has issued this call for a project based on the concept: "... the essential nature of lists, poets who list things in…