November 2013 Blog Posts (222)

Delighted to have another IUOMA 25 year exhibition in a few weeks.  This one will be in Suffolk UK. There is still time to send mail that will  hang in the windows of this Edwardian Library in the heart of a market town.

A new project for you:

This appeared in the UK 'Daily Telegraph' of 12/ix/2013:

"Australia's postal service has released a world-first 'video stamp' which allows people to send a 15-second video with their parcels. The new service allows senders to scan a coded stamp on their mail bag and record a message on their smartphone via an app, and then stick the stamp to their parcel. Recipients can view the message by scanning the message on their smartphone or tablet or by entering a code on the…

Angie: your collage is lovely!!!!!

I really like the mix…

never seen any creatures like these and I am in love with them.  Imagine them as an all girl PMS band.…

So great to hear from a trashpo soul This came in a crushed oatmeal container in an'oops we fucked up your stuff" usps bag  , which I don't think they actually did. It came loaded with CA garbage my favorite being the Trash Sign.   Thanks NOT Giving credence to an…

I am leaving the real name out to see if anyone can guess whose it is…

my first PC collage...Cuan and I have exchange many ATC's, but now we are into bigger (can I say better...nah) BIGGER things....

Happiness is when Cuan sends me greeting from afar *!*

and...two altered playing cards....…

Ruud sent a package of many things, including a Fluxus rubberstamp page, two rubberstamp TRSA blanks, several of his Mail Art Matters Recycled Matters Printed Matters stickers, an original artwork and an Add and Pass.  As you probably know, the envelope is very important to him.  This one is a memorial to Rain Rien Nevermind with Ruud's new memorial stamp:…

A lovely collage card from far away

Sorry, no Greek Elvis rock...in Greek that is :-)

Lots of Elvis though, by Elvis!…

Really a great rubber stamp!

'Have been waiting some time for this 

Now to use it on mail art going around the world!…

What an interesting vintage card that Laurence sent.

Remember when "Halloween" was innocent dress-up?

Cowboys and princess outfits, Dutch gal, Chinamen, and clowns?…

An envelope full of wonderful mail art omens arrived in Greece.

Hand-made envelope...Eye see you!…

There she goes, just a-walkin' down the street, singing...do..wat...diddy...do..

David took one of my BLUE mail art cards and got

busy doing fashion design. Here he is, working on the dress pattern:…

Cheryl Penn sent some massacred paintings with helps. Dense as I am I did not realize until I received this current offering that Cheryl's technique involves 1) Making the Painting 2) Photograph It (and possibly write the narrative story) 3) Cutting it up and sending out the pieces of the painting along with the photograph of the piece from which it…

Today I found two mail art in postbox. What a day!

From Sandra:

From Susan

Thank you girls a…

Oh, the mailman is ringing the bell:

His arms are FULL...all for me? 

Well one nice BIG packet (25 x 35 cm) is:…

thank you Rachel..love all the postage stamps *!*

I love this...the cut outs on the papers brings it all together...

Super Mim *!*

A great Block Print and Poetry from Thom...

Every year, Thom delights us with some wonderful bit of "spookery"...thank you Thom for including me *!*