August 2012 Blog Posts (235)

If you love rust, trashpo, tin, and old signs, mail art couldn't get much better than this. Here is what it looked like straight out of its packaging, before the window provided the sun's backlighting:…

After sending a kind of strange abstract piece to Svenja which ended up looking like a square owl, I received this from her: All decked out in their babywear. Wow! Am I in love! Aren't you? Hilarious. I have many Svenja favorites, and this ranks right up there with them. It sorely tempts one to continue to send oddball not-meant-to-be-animal mail art to her.

She also…

A beautiful-in-every-way card from Stephen:  Uniquely and artfully done, and this peace piece has a wonderful sturdy feel to it, with myriad textures. Thank you again,…

A beautiful paint, pen and ink with redacted poetry from Ursula, who is a newer member of IUOMA and a new friend to me.

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thank you Ursula for the very generous mail box surprise and your friendship; the words are very haunting...…

Erni Bar has a right to be declaring this on his recent packages. This one from him arrived recently:  And here is what happened to it over the…

... and NBS is greedy. I ended up I.D.ing 3 trashpo buttons I wished for, figuring only 2 would arrive, but no:  Stephanie kept track of people's wishes and she sent all 3. They're fabulous. Thank you very much Stephanie, Claire, and Diane!…

You just know that it is a packet full of wondrous treasures from Cheryl Penn:

And it is....poetry, art, ...and Zine #2: The World a Town!…

From Svenja Wahl, Heidelberg, Germany

From Claudia McGill, Philadelphia, PA, USA

From Sarah Churchill, Pontypridd,…

Mail from the Planet of sad,…

I have to admit I have been too terrified to do anything more with this art. I have added to the coffee sleeve as instructed by Dkult's resident bad ass gangster Fat Steve "The Sleve" (no one knows the true origin of his name and no one dares ask)--how could I not with a bomb pointing at me? The problem I now have, is that Nadine did not tell me what to do with this Charbucks…

New MailArt, new blog on -> http://snailmailsuus.blogspot.nl/2012/08/mailart-from-stephanie-blake-guido.html

Pick-up-sticks?

A few of my "summer sticks" tape art have been said to resemble french fries...

 and also : "pick-up-sticks". So, dear Nancy was kind enough to send:

PICK UP STICKS in the mail! What a great surprise!!! Thank…

Great photo - collage - montage, thank you Guido!

Aaah, it's grand to be back amongst the stamp lickin' arty goodness of IUOMA. After 95 days of absence (with a quick peek here now and then) I am itching to find out what's new and who's who and check out the blogs and photos and read the 96 letters in my inbox and thank everybody personally for mail art sent to me in Latvia, yes there were lots especially from Dean...3 or 4.. and there's a boxful of MA right next to me which I'll open with my new Mexican obsidian letter opener after I've…

Great! Mail from Suus in Mokum. Handpainted. I see a skyscraper and a cloud in a nice abstract landscape. I love blue. Dankjewel Suus.…