December 2014 Blog Posts (228)

The envelope is full of wonderful stamps and stampings

many cats of course :-) meow!

..and an octopus, and a…

Winter Wonderland in BLUE on the envelope from Amy,

so "cool", so BLUE and lovely...even a touch-of-blue for her stamp!…

Peace... and  greetings from Mim

lovely BLUE, and companion mail art, too.

Many Holiday mail art greetings overflowing in my little mail box:…

New blog here ->

Such as this blog post. WHERE does it appear besides my page? Makes me nuts. Guess I'll go do art.  --Linda

Is it just me, or does anyone else wander around lost sometimes on the IUOMA site? I keep thinking the stuff I put in will all appear in the expected place, but it's a bit of a tangle. Lots of places to enter stuff that may appear somewhere else. I think. Also, I can't seem to choose what shows up in the slide show on my page. I used to have more patience with this kind  of thing, but I've gotten to expect the mechanical and electronic world to do ONLY what I deliberately direct it to do.…

Mail-art by IUOMA member Susan McAllister (Berkeley, California, USA)

December 18, 2014 - Susan McAllister has been a fantastic correspondent in 2014 and has factored into my sub-project of mapping West Coast USA mail-art.…

My stepdaughter has just joined IUOMA after seeing what I have been getting up to. Her IUOMA name is Triple L. Let's give her a big welcome!!

I had been wondering what to send back to Laurence in response to the great little game she sent me naked in the mail.

A few days after it arrived, on garbage collection day, this was attached to my trash can:

And the back:…

Stripygoose Sue went postal on this one.  Amazing, and she did it all by…

Mail-art by IUOMA member WA Rodgers (Takoma Park, Maryland, USA)

December 18, 2014 - Inside-the-Beltway, Washington, DC-area correspondent WA Rodgers sent me this lovely holiday mail-art that displays her distinctive style…

I was very happy to receive this Seasons Greeting card from Tofu.  Funny enough, two years ago in May, I was in Yosemite with Erni's Mummy.  Tuolumme Meadows was still covered in…

I received a little project from Jon to find a new body for his friend Borat.  I like how Jon photoshop (the verb) the moustache on this guy.  A great job Jon.  It had me rolling on the floor with laugher.

OK Jon, we'll see what we can do.   If you would like to take…

Antonia Mayol sent one of her BLUE and snowflake card!

How do you suppose she created the fine textured white markings???

Lovely holiday greetings:…

TiAr has fantastic stampings, stamps, and greetings always...

And here is the Holiday Town greeting card that was in my mail box…

Now this is a nice surprise...

Landscape and a punched circle :-) Let it snow..let it snow...let it snow :-)

Thank you, Tofu!…