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Mail art by IUOMA member Amy Irwen (Rosemount, Minnesota, USA)

November 6, 2015 - Amy Irwen is a talented and prolific mail artist. In addition to more “classic” correspondence art, she makes image-text collage that is of…

This is to be framed...an original by Art Tower,

and with this stamp: definitely a Happy Mail Art Day!

Also this card was included, too funny:…

Recycled old, old, and rare Greek air mail envelope arrived from res!

Sooooo nice to have, and it was filled with goodies:…

So, if you send an owl...

you get an owl, or two from res, or more!

from Fleur.…

....with owls by Helen Amyes,

and other fine stampings on toilet tissues :-)…

This is a beauty, a mosaic beauty, who?who?

and also the card with minimal cut 'n paste landscape...

a Fleur from Fleur!

Precisely cut and flowing with BLUE:…

November 6, 2015 - I am thrilled to display this lovely mink ranch-themed work. However, I do not know who sent it. I  would very much like to give credit, so any help would be appreciated, especially since I know I have seen this somewhere before but cannot remember where.…

Gü is working on her branding again. I think this could be sort of like a change of address card for her new name: Gü (formerly G___ U______) but still in Norwich thank god. In which case: Duly noted Gü though I may occasionally leave the ümlaut behind to save valuable time. In the cellophane bag a lower case "u," inscribed on side: "What wood u do without G?"…

Correspondance créative pour un monde meilleur

A surprise "banana" envelope arrived in Greece

Many fun banana stamps from Anna Banana's big event in Victoria, Canada:…

And then, many years later, Coca Cola came along.

And there was Light.

(Or even Lite in some markets)

And there was Zero.

And there was Life

And there was even Cherry Cola, as in.....

"I met her in a club down in old Soho/ Where you drink champagne and it tastes just like cherry cola/See-oh-el-aye cola."

(It was originally Coca cola, but the Coke people wouldn't let the kinks call it that -- but…

Image-text by IUOMA member Carl Baker (Peterborough, Ontario, Canada)

November 4, 2015 - I invited Canadian visual poet Carl Baker to send me some work that would give a sense of what he has been doing recently, and I received these…

...might just be a  yellowish/greenish canary :-)

and  a very nice birdie indeed at Tenerife,with the Super Moon perhaps?

Thank you very much, Stripygoose Sue,…

This was specifically sent for October 31...ORANGE and Halloween Day

The card has definitely a "Dracula" on the front, drops of blood...and lady bugs?…

Are you scared?

The postman was a bit frightened, but then we don't have Halloween in Greece.

Excellent envelope made from a "zombie" calendar...ewwww.

Will not even imagine what this is on the card:…

Various lovely items.

Today I received an amazingly beautiful relief print from Emilio Carrasco, a mexican (Guanajuato) artist.

Plate size is 130 x 100 mm and have full margins in a heavyweight cotton paper.

I'm so pleased with this print that am gonna mail him one in return tomorrow morning.

Thank…

Thank you…

Iconic Lucky Pierre stamp (Charleston, South Carolina, USA)

November 2, 2015 - Rather than losing it forever to the landfill, Lucky Pierre, wisely and generously, sent this memento of the New York City artworld to the…