December 2018 Blog Posts (120)

Holiday cheer! Bring in the tree...from Ed Giecek.

What a FAB print, as always! Front and back on the envelope,…

Lovely vintage from Heide Monster in Houston,Texas,

and it is WONDERFUL trashpo / recycled baggie and SUGAR FREE card, too!…

AUTUMN: still a nice season, before the snow and cold of winter!

Beautiful drawing by Jessica arrived some time ago,

but now in December the leaves are falling in Greece , with the cold rain.…

Having fun with cats and oil…

Thank you very much for the many postcards that are coming for the project of mail art "landscape 2019"
The works of:
Giovanni and Renata StraDa Da, Bruno Cassaglia, Roberto Scala, Sabella Bana, Morice Marcuse and Katerina Nikoltsou

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Some fantastic stickers!

and I am already adding them to Add/Pass pages :-)…

Ah, yes, he's still there?

"ORANGE" card for Trump with Sticker dude stickers and great postage:…

Very nice,it is a brown baggie with black print,

an image of bear eating fish :-)

And  a red card:…

Diane was one of the first mail artists I ever correspondent with. She does not disappoint. A moody package arrived sometime in 2016, I think. I did not know there is such a thing as a black student's spiral bound note book. Did you know that these things are called "College Block" in German. One of many cases of fake English products terms in the…

Great Mail from Jon Foster and various goodies, stickers, comics and a poster - or is it an add and pass? I find it particularly brave and hilarious, that as a teacher, he produced stickers (and I think T-shirts, if I remember right) saying "I learned nothing from Jon Foster". It reminds me of a teacher I met on a conference, who wore a t-shirt saying…

David Stafford is another faithful correspondent, who has not given up on me, sending cryptic messages, despite my slow responses - sending an ampersand to the rescue of poor old x! …

A gorgeous envelope from Richard Baudet arrived this summer, with great textures, colours, calligraphy and many French ladies! Thank you so much!

Nancy makes these wonderful, and sometimes teeny tiny collages, small treasures to collect. I often wonder, what they would look like blown up to say 3x4 meters or so. These, again are from 2016. Thank you, Nancy!

Coincidentally, I received two/three parrots around the same time in…

Andreas Kuntner

Another Austrian Mail Artists I reached out to for the first time is Wolfgang Kuntner and his cabinet of curiosities (Wunderkammer). He replied with an envelope full of cool stamps and added leave…

Recently I have made an effort to reach out to other Austrian mail artists. Here is a great print from Wilhelm Schramm that I got in return!

Randomly going though my archives, here is a postcard from Torma Cauli, from Budapest, and given that Budapest is only a few hours from Vienna my closest mail art neighbour and faithful correspondent.