May 2016 Blog Posts (184)

Heleen sent me this beautiful banana envelope--I love the way she's written the address all around the image. Inside, a stylish, somewhat futuristic Fair Trade banana on a background of exquisitely drawn lines, and of course the trademark postage stamp edges. 

Also, a "Blob" card -- from a collection of "real weird animals" -- so silly and happy. Thank you so much, Heleen!…

Another fabulous envelope from Richard Baudet. For this one he has taken small bits of mail art pieces I've sent him and re-purposed them for this wonderful collage. On the flip side, a rubber stamp by Debbie Osborn, and inside, a hand-written sticker I can use for a collection box. Merci, Richard!…

MomKat sent me this wonderful Greek Dada Time card with an erasure poem, the Goddess Athena (wearing a bar code for a skirt in one of her incarnations), and thumbprint owls!

She also send some gorgeous Greek postage stamps and a bookmark/ruler from the Acropolis Museum, with owls! Those Greeks sure love their owls!

Thanks MomKat!…

Always a great day when I receive a new poem from Richard. This one is even more wry and self-deprecating than most -- we love you, Richard!

...like a clock whose hands are turning: TIME!

Circles...and stickers, too!…

Round like a circle in a spiral, like a wheel within a wheel..

Never ending or beginning on an ever spinning reel...

like the spiral that you find on SNAIL mail...

...must have some Greek yogurt…

      Another wonderful illustration from Suus.  How wonderful it must be to be able to draw.  You don't have to carry around bits of images, glue, scissors, and backing.  You just have a nice piece of paper and a pen.  But not any old pen, just a Faber-Castell PITT, of course.

      This reminds me that the flower business is a big machine in Holland.  And that reminds…

Finley was very proud of this new Air Mail stamp and who could blame him! Thanks for the great card Finley. Sorry the USPS is so rude to your vellum envelopes! I am still totally going to cannibalize those red stamps!…

Here are a few of the great pieces of mail art I received this month (so far). I'm way behind in acknowledging these kind creative folks -- so, a "blog jam" -- great name for it! 

Top left, Banana mail from Intransferivel in Brazil!  Top right, Jessica from Norwich, UK send these amazingly sparkly and cheerful flowers/circles. She also drew a really sweet envelope. Bottom Right, Briana Learnihan made this Circles within Circles card which came nekkid unscathed. You can't tell…

Ryusho sent me this extra beautiful envelope -- look at the seal -- he says that is the hanko, or Chinese characters for Ryusho. I think everything about this mail art is lovely.…

You can watch the migration event here: birds take flight

8/365.2 party time

Strange creatures from Mars arrive in Greece

Definitely DADA!

...to Feed Art to the World!

and the side…

Happy mail art day after a trip to Athens

Angie sends "vintage" and a tiny map fragment, could it be old Malaysia?

And this Spring fleur from Fleur arrived in Greece:…

Is it the plan of the Back-to-the-Past Home?

This is an ad-from-the-past :-)

and this too was enclosed: (remember Road Kill?)…

Mail art by IUOMA member David Alan Goldberg (Charlotte, North Carolina, USA)

May 21, 2016 - I am thrilled to share this card received from David Alan Goldberg. In his IUOMA-Ning profile, David states: “I created a steady stream…

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Looks harmless enough,and beautifully BLUE!

TIME, too...and for the Dancing Queen :-)

but what is…

Yes, another one, this from USA?

Lots of US postage,

and marked April 27...

Can it be he was flying…

Post marked April 20, and arrived May 20...

not bad for " URGENTE" Brazil Banana Post :-)

Great fun envelope from Intransferivel:…

365 birds migration