April 2012 Blog Posts (355)

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Dean loves to play with words, and taking the twisted roads of language back and forth between French and English is even more fun. He knows how to build a story around the most (apparently) insignificant comment that comes up on a blog. So he knows that crêpes suzette only make me moderately homesick and that it is cheese (and alsacian Munster cheese in…

I sometimes wish RCBz would be around to tell us more about his pieces. I know I really like this card, but I can't explain exactly why. Esthetically, Hokusai's wave is always a winner. The card is built very simply around it. No frills whatsoever, and the back of the card is equally sober, stripped-down to the address. Is is a reference to the tsunami? Why the…

When I picked up this package at the post office I first thought someone had sent me a slice of chocolate cake. I was almost disappointed that it wasn't the case, until I saw that it was Alicia's last. She painted a great saddle shoe on one of her... I really don't know the name of it, what is it called? I think she is making pairs, I wonder if there is another…

Somewhere, Ben Franklin is doing a soft-shoe

mail received from Lynn Radford, Jennie Hinchcliff, Diane Keys, Susan McAllister, Mark Hardy, Tofu, Nick Johnson, Dr. Art Jones.

Yes it's the little things we do not see we must help others to see.  (No one famous said that,  I just made it up.)

Only the best bar codes money can buy.  Thank you Katerina

This was sent in an envelope because Katerina was told that otherwise the…

It seems that Anna Banana has been converted from Bananas to Bar codes.  Who's fault could that be?   How far do you think one could go by using only barcodes?  And where do we go from here?  Thank you Anna Bar codes Banana!…

Corn Flower in Greece.  My wife really liked this one.  She said immediately that it looks like corn flower.  I said, “Really, I thought the blue paint tipped over.”  Actually I have no idea what corn flower looks like other that the stuff in a paper bag or jar.  Lucky this one arrived in Paris under knowledgeable eyes.  Besides flowers, my wife also knows about birds and can…

 Mail-art by IUOMA member Erni Baer (Hamburg, Germany)

April 19, 2012 - Good friend Erni Baer (aka DharmaDaDa), for me, is one of the great current masters of all that…

Sometimes perfect is just perfect.  I sent a sick bag to Diane and her reply was to put all of this stuff into a refillable coffee bag.  Yes, I was perfect.