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10ème Journée Mondiale du Faux Timbre d'Artiste

Le comité de la Journée Mondiale du Faux Timbre d'artiste a l'honneur de vous annoncer que la Maison du Patrimoine à…

It all gets blogged one day!

Faces,faces,faces...nice work on artistamps!…

Discovering mail art from months gone by :-)

Very interesting cards from Seattle,…

Long ago this arrived, but here's the blog,

my, oh, my, I have really slowed down :-) !!!

Lovely collage card:…

stamps from Mark Valentine and Thom Courcelle.

Bruce Grenville sent so many sheets, stamps, first day covers, announcements of issues and heaven knows what else that I don't realy know where to start.  Mark Valentine sent an explanation in a booklet.  I may soon need a bigger suitcase!…

Sorting through the pile of welcome mailart, I find several clusters of artistamps, and it occurs to me that this might be a good time to introduce my Artistamp Projection.

Some years ago, a chum gave me an old spring-back stamp album and I decided to use it for all the artistamps I had accumulated.  the idea (I call it a projection because it is part art project and part stamp collection) now lives in a small suitcase and includes four albums, stockbooks, bundles of envelopes,…

Several years ago I started a little project for no real reason except the fun of it, then I became ill and it got put by.  Luckily it had not been very popular but I have felt guilty about not having finished things off and sent the promised documentation.

Well, being more or less back now I decided that my first job was to bring the project to some sort of end.  this time round I have had more interest and it seems that, now I have the required ten stamps, I can get on with my part…

I'm certain that every one involved with this eternal network has their own way of doing things; that is one of the great joys of the thing. 

I have been busy for the last month doing acres (so it seems) of collage and dozens of envelopes so incoming mail has been largely put by until a more auspicious time.  Today was the day and I have just spent a delightful hour as a sort of island in a sea of post!  Wonder after wonder; generosity piled upon generosity! 

My September is…

The USA premier!

And a few more fun packets from Joel Cohen, this from SanFran :-)

What fun! FAB mail art omens...

see those little color papers? Future mail art :-)

and lots of stickers!…

It had to be a fun meet-up!Snap+Share!

Must have been a great success,

(coulda, woulda , shoulda been there?...but so far away)…

Always a treat to see richard in the mail!

Two cards arrived...Number 1: Da..duh :-)

and Number 2:…

Another postcard from the fab Richard Canard - this one received April 17, 2019.

Smiley Face postcard from Richard C. (Carbondale IL).

Gotta love the smily face! Richard's wisdom on this face card reads, "The…

Mail art from Jimmy Connors (Germany) received February 15, 2019...

Postcard from Jimmy Connors (Germany) featuring his cut-out 'windows.'

I had to look through my mail art logbook to see if I had received any…

A bonanza of Bonnie-ness arrived with a mini journal of information about Bonnie's practice.... who knew about the days of clowning and making suggestive X rated balloon hats for adults?

I just bought and brought back to running condition this 1901-1905 vintage No. 27 Singer Treadle machine with the Sphinx decals in fair shape and look forward to using it in mixed media and fabric art creations.…

A postcard of interesting random scraps from the art table of Robin Jeree.  It's a bit like archaeology thinking about the projects that led to these bits and pieces. 

A packet full of wonderful mail art goodies:

We are lovers of "selvages"...from stamps and stickers:…