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Very nice card arrived today from Thess to Thess :-)

Georgia sent a "thank you" for her donate-to-IUOMA project: 

exchange "faces"

'most welcome, hoping many…

Always a treat awaits me when I see a 5 blanks envelope in the mailbox.

This one is made on what is likely the hole of a mounting board.  I wonder what they do with their doughnut holes?…

Mail-art by IUOMA member Stan Askew (Pasadena, California, USA)

October 1, 2014 - This is the first mail-art I have received from Stan Askew in California. I offer many thanks for this fine package of wonderfully crafted…

Or as the saying goes, if you can't beat them, join them.

I looked up tuhkaksi, but it didn't help me.  But the cartoons and Paris map will…

You see these tantalizing textures?

Bits of color smashed and re-smashed somewhere on-the-road of…

Now this arrived with no name, no address, BUT

(no buts about it!) There is "Elgin", there is DK :-)

...Elgin Tech and "PRE-PURIFIED even:…

This arrived last week, but first now able to blog, I did open it :-)

Mail Art Martha is back in England, but the little boekie is from her time at the seaside in France!…

Always a joy to receive something from Piro

always special and fascinating, nice stampings and map bits,…

Jason Brown sent out this card as a thank you from his mail art project.

Looks like he had a very successful event!

All the best to you, Jason,…

Mail-art by Sinclair Scripa (Ludlow, Vermont, USA)

September 30, 2014 - My near-neighbor to the east, Sinclair Scripa, is fast becoming a regular correspondent. In the spring she sent me a Fluxus event…

A nice little card from Amy to say thank you for the London group card we sent her.

Thank you Amy, but I will have to disqualify this mail art piece.  I don't think we really say the "B" word.

But is surely made me smile.

These will always be treasured, as Guido's art lives on:

1. "When I see your face, I see my Face.."

2. Wild…

I didn't blog this edition in October,2013,

but it is so vital a part of the 10 Friour editions "Faces" by Guido:…

Some recent arrivals. First, just two of the jam-packed envelope of Diane Keys trasheratory. (Diane don't come round much here anymore so I can say pretty much anything I want about her.)  On the left is her artistic challenge by way of the Oats and Dairy Council. On the right, my entry. I broke most of the rules so I probably won't get my Tweets distributed…

Mail-art by IUOMA member Jim Leftwich (Roanoke, Virginia, USA)

September 29, 2014 - Although it is not signed and I have endured a number of mail-art pranks,…