January 2014 Blog Posts (288)

Thank you, Laura, so good to see you in my mail box!

Very "oriental" with wonderful layers of paper designs.

Nice stamp, too!

All the best for "365", what a wonderful card you sent!…

Thank you, Dorina, your card arrived in Greece.

Lovely ceramic blue Iznik (?) vase, brings back happy memories for me.

"The Past is HERE"...yes, but today "is a PRESENT" :-)

Beautiful stamp, too:

Mail art coming your way…

Sonja sent me a spectacular piece of art on handmade paper embedded with seeds and grasses.

Beautiful BLUE, and also beautiful collage with paint.

'Liking the paint stamped across nice textured paint, 

and the papers creating layers of color and texture...beautiful horses!…

plus a heart of her own!

Claudia has a special technique which leaves delicate moss and fern like textures on her paint. Exquisite.…

"I imagine myself floating" I think this was my very first mail art received!

bright and friendly!

Scary lady...

A fat booklet of drawings, and poetry. Intriguing and thought provoking.

...makes me grin!

I saw my son enraptured by Ray Charles on youtube - and I was thrilled to show him Connie's mail with the Ray Charles stamp. He was quite taken with it! 

This blogging thing gets away from me. I've got stuff that goes back to the late Creataceous age. So...I resolve to make no more mail art until I catch up with my thank yous. What prompts this totally unworkable resolution is an amazing mandala that arrived today from Suus. Check it out. This is a person who can stay between the lines. After my lizard brain is through thinking:…

When I first joined this site, I drooled over Amy's fibre art pieces. I was thrilled to receive one of my own! And when I saw it,I was blown away by how perfectly the colours coordinated with my decor. Telepathy? No...she later reminded me that I had sent her some of the sari-ribbon which she had then used to make my quilted card!…

I always love Cuan's mail....

A really nice collage from Katerina!

You could have blown me over with a feather when Richard managed to find a mannequin stamp to fit the Mannequin theme...I love,love,love…

Don't forget that it is 2014 and GAC documents are being produced all year.  Go to Tiziana's website to get involved.  Thank you so much for sending me the postcard, fluxus stamp sheet from TAM and the add/pass.

front of envelope

front of postcard…

This was one of the first pieces of mail art I received, and is one of my favourites. Its drawn on something that looks and feels like silky tissue paper.

Hello my dear mail-art friends...

Thank you again for you mail-arts dedicated to Lutz, my father !!!

He was so much surprised to receive your very nyce works !!!!!