February 2014 Blog Posts (328)

The best is yet to…

And it keeps going ...…

Edmund Hippo was very happy with all the mail art that arrived today in Greece.

But especially thrilled to see this "Cat" and the contents from Kim Jung Youn.…

http://iuoma-network.ning.com/photo/albums/my-stamp-of-iuoma-member-since…

Stunning "Landscape" with acrylic and inkpen arrived in Greece today from Itta.

Beautiful flow of colors

and nice stamping of her initials, too.…

Oh, yes, this is an interesting beauty of a mail art card.

David Aponte created a very minimal piece actually,

but by adding the map fragment, got my curiosity up as to its location:

"Lottsville"...and "Bear Lake" , that's PA…

Lovely cat-card from Lynne Gurnee in EUREKA (that;s Greek), California.

Nice "MomKat" and looks like a gentle stray.

Many stray cat and kits under my balcony here in Thess, Lynne.…

A "return to sender" mail arrived back in Thessaloniki...with that horrid "pink" sticker:

Mail art that I had sent Roland Halbritter looked like it had been tampered with, 

someone defaced the name and address, etc. If this was the…

But they did arrive today, perhaps, even with the wrong code, he added big letters: GREECE!

Edmund Hippo was very happy to see "Kate the Kat" finally receive these Cavellini and genii stickers!

Received this and a rubber stamp art page from ML

Thanks, PIRO!

Color My World!

Thank you

envelope painting....thanks again!

by Constança Lucas (Brazil, São Paulo)
http://www.quequen.unicen.edu.ar/mailart/?p=437

At 1st glance, I thought this DKULT mail was from Diane Keys...

But no, the sender was Bad Becky!!! No value? I beg to differ!!

This oversize mailing had to be collected from the post office...…

A delightful surprise arrived in the form of a Luftpost letter from Alan Brignul from the UK. It included four lovingly designed cards (or pages of a zine called "The rambling Urchin"), as I understand, created on an old fashioned block printing machine.

Also i received  a beautiful handwritten personal letter.…

I am a big fan of David's mail stories and he knows it! Lucky me, I have received quite a few. Here are two recent ones. Firstly, an interesting report on recent siren sightings. David, I am very glad you pointed out to me the danger of siren extinction, as I they are very dear to me! Save the Sirens!…

A lovely collage composed of various bits of paper rescued from the street (I suppose) by Diane. Exquisite composition, delicate monochrome colour scheme juxtaposed with the frivolous message: Work schedule: Week of the stoner. Diane, you made me laugh! …

Erni is such a prolific mail artist, so I have missed posting quite a few of his mailings. Here is one:…