May 2013 Blog Posts (244)

I found a memory of you and your doings in the work of a friend....Sorry, I forgot to mail you a little something when I could....

(I am still trying 

to be

a better…

top left Positively Postal shows of his new stampy machine; top right Val presents a peaceful lighthouse scene; bottom left a happy panda from Melissa; bottom right Dean has decided to upcycle book covers! Thank you all for sending to me - I'm delighted : >…

I found this empty addressed envelope yesterday. I would like to send her a letter explaining that I found it so as not to appear like a stalker. If anyone would like to contribute to a random letter to her to see how her life is going, please write or post what you would like to say and I will create a collaborative piece to send.…

Good thing come in THREE, so they say.

And here is the third packet that arrived in Greece with the other two larger parcels

...with super bar codes on all (check it out,Dean! )…

Oh, ERNI!

Besides the ONE parcel that came from Hamburg,

the postal clerk handed me a SECOND one!

Heavy and solid from the Off Scene Akademie Hamburg::

Heavy and solid from the Off Scene Akademie Hamburg...

opened…

From the 16 x 16 box....a little glass jar full of fun:

5 Caps and inside letters for playing "Oh Kate, make-a-phrase"...…

Also a small jar, well 2 cm wider,  from the Haptic Werewolf of  the Off Scene Akademie Hamburg!

But you cannot imagine ALL that was fitted inside this little jar:…

Always a joy to get a parcel from the Haptic Werewolf, 

as there is usually an EAT ART delicacy inside (now in fridge so as not to melt in this heat):

This time CHOCO covered mini butterkeks.…

Long awaited ERNINESS arrives in Greece! Mailed April 22, in Hamburg, may be the

looongest delivery time between Germany and Greek ...but it is HERE!

Always a fun adventure to get a postal notice that a parcel is awaiting to be picked up

at the Greek post office. The postal clerks are now very familiar with the "Smiling Doggie"

as they call…

*Thank you" again, Claudia…

Huh? Who wouldn't want to be there when Alicia cleans up? My hand is staying down. This is a stunner: 

This so-called clean-up hits a home run in my view. And it's hard to portray via scanner, but the central face in this piece is a translucent overlay on the faces lurking underneath. A Lady of the Lake. It is an intelligent, humble, searching face, with depth literally…

His First Day of Issue mail arts are extra special:  A notebook here, sitting somewhere between many other notebooks on the shelves, has many Edith Wharton quotes in it. I hope it turns up again before I'm dead. In the meantime, I love having this beauty from Bifidus. On the…

This first piece from Keith arrived a week ago, and what an elegant yet whimsical beauty it is. Did he know I have a thing for dots? Probably not. But everything about it works, not just the dots--other composition aspects, great colors--and waxy textures, which I'd love to hear about if you're inclined.

*Thank you,*…

That is one gorgeous, colorful, laughing man. One of your many finest, Frieder. I embarrassed Frieder a few months ago by declaring in someone else's blog post that "I like everything he does." He then sent this, probably thinking it's nothing if you read the back, but as usual I think it's really something:…

with a velvet finish. Repurposed direct mail never looked this good. Gorgeous Claudia. Thank you.

They speak for themselves. Rebecca is multi-faceted, as seen in these two very different and appealing pieces, both from this past winter: 

and the other side: 

Plus one of Rebecca's fused plastic and bits of trash stitched pieces (it really is a…

Angie and I both love the show Portlandia. In one fabulous episode (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0XM3vWJmpfo)

they find a crafty way to craftify things. This mail art made me laugh out loud. It's an excellent piece without the birds too. Thank you!…

Carmela tells me that her beautiful organic, meandering, haptic memory has been germinating for some time.  To see her poem in a book, made for 'Memories are made of this' (which will be holding a new pop-up exhibition in Suffolk in late June) visit:…