November 2011 Blog Posts (225)

Hmmmmm? A feast or the eyes, and you should feel the textures! Nancy sent a package full of bits and pieces of her hand-made papers...lots and lots, see below:

Can't wait to begin a series of trashpo/ asemic/ MinXus mail art....my autumn flowers like all…

Oh I take that back! See, in the most interesting 1970 "Son of King Kong" Newsweek article below, Richard underlines Purina Monkey Chow, so we do have cerealism after all: Also enclosed is Poem by Richard C. ("Quing"), which I enjoyed warping my brain over, and…

Oh, it's big: "Some look at things as they are and say "why?" I look at things that never were and say "ERNI"! Fan club members seem to be getting not one but three membership cards, so I'm assuming we should stand on street corners and enlighten the unknowing…

I like this zippy request/order to the post office: ...and love the painted envelope itself. Inside were recent IUOMA materials. Thank you so much, Ruud, your MA is always a treat! …

This I have fallen in LOVE with....it is just great...thank you Deanna....

A great selection of Poems published handouts by Marymark Press...Thank you Mark Sonnenfeld!…

I was very sorry that Debbie is no longer a member of IUOMA....I L.O.V.E. her work!!!...but she if still very active with her art...I am very pleased that we have stayed in contact...thank you Debbie for the wonderful piece!  *o*

Mail-art by IUOMA member Marie Wintzer (Saitama, Japan)

November 21, 2011 - In the wake of the phenomenal interest in Trashpo, does MinXus have a prayer of gaining a respectable market share…

My red-violet autumn flowers like the mail art that arrived during the week while I was traveling. Here is the perfect blue-taped-envelope from Karen Champlin and inside, a wonderful ATC! There isn't a map fragment, but I so spot the front of a gondola from Venice printed there or is that an asemic symbolThank you, Karen, 'love the "Lό ve", too!…

Well, first off, I am one lucky turkey-butt for all the wonderful postal friends I have and for the mail art I receive regularly.  I could sit here and make plaintive excuses for why it is that at this time of year I seem less and less able to come visit my favorite web community, but nobody really wants to hear sob stories about ugly work schedules and keeping one's circadian rhythms as normal as possible during these dark, dark, colder calendar days. Ugh... one gets up when it is dark.…

Just a wonderful carved piece from Jen.  It's printed on the back of an old ledger!  Thank you Jen!…

A large envelope arrived from Erni Bär in Germany. The stampsheets I sent him are returned in this large envelope full with messages. You won't see me angry when someone sends a gift like this. The Erni Bär Fan Club stamps are now formally in the TAM Rubberstamp Archive in Breda!

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Wednesday 16 november: my first mail art arrived!

A wonderful envelope, painted in beautiful shapes and colours!

Inside this piece of art a poem, Guido Vermeulen made for me, after he had seen the video of my paintings

with the music of Debussy.

Thank you so much, Guido!…

Three stunning beauties, first from Katerina, a Happy Thanksgiving card: Great colors, great shapes, great movement--I love it--thank you, Katerina!

A painted face from Georgia: Wonderful, Georgia, thank you! I have become a real fan of your…

Helen knows how much I love her painted abstracts on cardboard. That's why it was extra nice of her to send me another, and this one has a barcode, no less. I absolutely love it. Dear Helen, thank you very very…

Fleur made ATCs of the National Garden in Washington D.C..  They remind me of the "Trading Cards" I loved as a kid.  Just beautiful.  Thank you! 

Grigori sent me important documents for any Mail Artist.  I especially like the oath!  Thanks Grgori!…

Wonderful ATCs and cereal Trashpo from Amy!  Thank you!…

Great Stuff from Nancy Bell Scott. So…