Extremely Zalopy mail from Viviana, colorful and bubbly as usual. Thank you for brightening up the mailbox Viviana!…

I have been admiring Lindall's asemic series on her IUOMA page, I think they are fantastic. It's always great to receive cards one has commented on a few days earlier. It's like magic, a wish granted! Thank you Lindall, I love it!…

Absolutely non flat envelope from JF Chapelle, with PEACE card and Dalai Lama stamps, aaaand, the footprint of that fluXUs piggy I have been admiring for such a long time. I love receiving FluXus mail, thank you JF!!…

New mail from the one and only Grigori Antonin to his devoted Marie Antonette :-))

A yellow envelope containing an A4 sheet which I will happily Pad and Ass on. And on the back of the envelope, Groot Suster (to me, every woman with blond hair in a comic = Groot Suster) is very much inspired by Mary. Now that's a twist! Usually it is rather the other way…

I have several blue tape envelopes from Karen Champlin. I don't really know what Karen and De Villo's blue tape collaboration really is about, but I take it as a seal of quality :-)) Her ATCs are pocket-size masterpieces. Extremely well crafted. I love the neatly punched holes on those (and the A inside!). Every time I see them I think yes, she truly is the…

I dared and I opened :-)) Totally worth it. Thom's Halloween envelope contained a great poem full of tricks and sweets.

And look a the ghostly robe! I agree with you, Thom, Where's the Love, where's the Love...

Thank you for…

It's been a very long time without a card from RCBz. My fault only, I am afraid, I haven't sent him anything for months. So this was a very pleasant surprise in my mailbox. I like his cards, he has such a distinctive and unique style, but every time I am blogging them I am in a bit of a trouble. Where do I start? What do I say? I feel that I don't understand…

Stephanie Blake is sending me the sweetest of things. A sweet voodoo doll! She took a picture of her childhood doll PJ and made some fantastically crafted mail with it. I love it. And look at that cotton cloud on the back of the card. There's nothing sweeter. 

Has anyone ever tried sweet voodoo? Does it work? I think I might give it a try. PJ looks very…

During the last months we have seen some of Cheryl's Dreams resurface. Most of them were wintery Nightmares, inhabited by blinded Pigs, haunted by Monsters of all kinds. This recent series is a continuation of it, but also a new start. We are clearly slipping into a warmer and less tormented season. Without ever leaving the Fantasy behind, of…

Trash books are undoubtedly the big thing right now. Nancy very kindly wanted to send me one, but she also knows that I am not that much into trashpo. What she managed to make here is a trash book that contains only treasures. I have to say, I was blown away by her work. Every page is absolutely exquisite. I can't even start listing all the textures, the…

Katerina's mail always brings good mood to the house. It makes me smile unerringly. While traveling to Paris she sent many postcards to her IUOMA friends. On one of them (I forgot who the recipient was) she used a cut out from a menu advertising a sushi and coffee lunch set. Sushi with coffee is an odd idea for the least and it made me laugh when I saw it.…

I must be on one of Bifidus' good lists, because he sends me three times a wonder. Three cards that arrived over two days, and that, when put together, reveal a majestic (if bloodcurdling) creature. Partly human, partly animal, he just beheaded a man. Bifidus used his signature maps, adding thick rivers of text to it. The back of the cards too is layered to…

Big surprise in my mailbox. My first DK mail, yeeey! Two postcards on carboard. Could it even be very personalized mail? Did DK see my Chance/Choice picture and is sending a reply to it? Is it Chance or is it Choice? The characters on both cards are all blinded with the word Chance, Kings of which Kingdom, we will never know. The cards include numbers of…

Lesley is sending me a very precious little book. A book full of Wisdom. I keep turning its pages, I keep asking questions with the hope of a Revelation. Who knows. It looks like this boekie could tell me a few things indeed. Each page unique, minimal (minimalist? I never know the difference), full of treasures. I'll let you appreciate it's beauty through the…

Recently there have been several great blogs about mail art related to Memories and Memory. The piece that Nancy is sending me breathes the same air of Reminiscence. It comes with a wonderful letter, relating sweet childhood memories, freewheeling days at her grandparents' farmhouse. A child's universe, a lost world, but how come ever so present in the adults…

Katerina sends greetings from Paris. Lucky us, she brought her mail art "equipment" to France, and she even carved a special "Paris" rubber stamp for the occasion. Thank you for always thinking about us, Katerina, this is much appreciated!

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Transgress

1. To go beyond or over (a limit or boundary); exceed or overstep

2. To act in violation of (the law, for example)



As far as the page is concerned, I think that Cheryl is transgressing it with every piece of art she is sending out. Guilty as charged. Her books never look like any other books that ever…

This is Lesley's second chapter for the Windmills of My Mind collaborative book. She has produced two fantastic chapters filled with the most beautiful etches. Faces, profiles, eyes wide open or tired eyelids, each of them has his own windmills, his own little world of rolling thoughts. Thank you Lesley, I hope I can send you a chapter very soon, as soon as those…

Finally done! My book containing all of Cheryl Penn's mail so far. One year! But it's full now, I have to think about the next one...

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A poetry-themed mini blog today. The first card is a beautiful painting by Marni Zainodin (Malaysia). I like the poem a lot:

We're both looking at the same moon in the same world. We're connected to reality by the same line. All I have to do is [.?.] draw it towards me.

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