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Beautiful Piece...

a bright intense beauty from Katerina...makes Winter melt awhile for a while!

thank you Kat...…

Mail-art by IUOMA member Diane Keys (Elgin, Illinois, USA)

January 18, 2015 - In Part II of this documentation of a large package of Trashpo that Diane Keys sent me, I first present a cryptic yet excellent example of her style and…

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.…