January 2015 Blog Posts (247)

Just learned of another Postcard site with a good mission, please visit: http://postalatry.blogspot.com/2014/05/postcards-for-humanity.html
in addition to http://www.postcardhappiness.com/postcard-happiness-project/

Wonderful handmade "map" envelope arrived from South Africa! Fly-away postage, too!

Petrolpetal has fun "Swimming with Elephants"?…

This is Svenja's envelope which sets the bar pretty high for what's inside. Wham! That skull is aheadin' my way. Svenja has jumped on the Underwater Living bandwagon pretty hard. Both her inside and her outside contain watery themes. (You can just run with that however you want…

     Starting with this amazing clear see though envelope, an incredible…

Mail art by IUOMA member Nancy Bell Scott (South Portland, Maine, USA)

January 17, 2015 - Nancy Bell Scott is not as prolific as many of her contemporaries; so when she issues a new batch of her totally distinctive…

Another wild one from the Rose down under.  Can you hear the thunder in colour? If not, then the three-man board will hear the appeals.  (Which in the British language…

Two years later, same card, different address. Please note the new address:

Thanks Antonio.  I'll send you something a bit…

A nice change, and yes, something completely different. But still wonderful.  Thank you Susan.

Funny enough, I just got back from exploring lava…

AAAAAAAAh....Just this,

sent in-the-mail on a cardboard  postcard size trashpo piece,

while at a cafe perhaps, in Oporto, Portugal…

Mail art by Maria Morisot (Cedar Falls, Iowa, USA)

January 16, 2015 - I am not sure if Maria Morisot is a real person or another construct among Moan Lisa’s (Iowa City, Iowa, USA) deep structure identity explorations.…

Well, these arrived from the whimsical world of Theo…

Surprise mail art arrival from Italy in this colorfully painted envelope.

...with very fashionable postage stamps!

But inside is a rare mysterious material???? on an ol' floppy disk!…

Well, the Whimsical Wortles came in this envelope from Theo Nelson,

along with these fascinating artistamps of the Republic of Whimsy

The stamp is titled: "In a Transcendental Moulin Rouge...…

Piano-tangle in plastified postcard. New blog here ->

http://www.rayjohnsonestate.com/art/to-ray-johnson/works/54/

The envelop is an intriguing map with lot of places that I would like to visit. And then inside a little booklet with nice words. The sewing makes it so special. It already stands on a place where I can enjoy it often. Thank you so much for this wonderful piece of mail art.…

End of December a other special mail art piece from Cascadia fell in my Mail box. Always a pleasure. This time he looked back to all the mail art contacts in 2014. I am glad that I was a part of it.

On the 26th of November I received the triangle envelop of Phillip Lerche. And....... forgot to blog about it. Today I have seen the blog from Katherina (Momcat) and found out that I didn't notice the Upside Down Jenny. I had been reading about it and so I am very honored that it is now in my collection. No Photo this time, because the blog of Katherina shows it all. Thank you Phillip! 

Love and Peace for the whole year. And lots of things to look forward to.…