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You might remember Kanji Puffs. One of the girls on Angie's blog had to get several of them excised from her throat I think (the girl's throat, not Angie's). But no worries, it's a minor surgery and absolutely routine. Today we learn a bit more about those wondrous little things filled with wholesome goodness.

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All these pieces deserve a blog of their own, but unfortunately time is exerting pressure on these early autumn days. So here are three fantastic pieces for you today.

My first envelope from the very talented Cathérine. Perfectly matching the card. I admire her work greatly, she has a unique style, very pure, very delicate, yet their is a…

Lisa Iversen (Skybridge Studios) is sending me this beautiful piece. I say piece because I am not entirely sure in which category to put it. When I received it our conversation went something like this: 

M - Thank you for your wonderful bookie, Lisa. 

L - The black bead is supposed to be a volcano. 

M - black bead? I can't see any black bead? 

L…

And the trip in Time and Space and Fantasy continues with this envelope from Cheryl. After reading the mysterious message on the back of the envelope I couldn't wait to open it.

What was urgently sent to me was..... a piece of Cinderella's…

Katerina is truly the boss of all Sandpo. Her latest sandpaper (book cover, you can't see it on the photo) creation is one of the very first asemic trashpo bookies.

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I think I got it now. One of the reasons why Cheryl is such an outstanding artist is because she is also a very good storyteller. Almost anything will sparkle her imagination, and her ability to create new stories knows no borders.

But just like her books are not "orthodox" books, her stories aren't either.

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Sometimes you hold a book in your hands and you don't understand a word of it, and strangely, it makes it even better! 

Lesley is sending me this gorgeous little book based on Sir Gowain and the Green Knight, a 14th century poem relating the adventures of a knight of King Arthur's Round Table. 

I am copy-pasting a piece from Google because I…

This is the date Karen wrote on the back of the card, adding to the mystery of it. Maps, train time tables, red thread, black tape. Are they going to give me the answer to what happened on that day? 

Thank you for sending, Karen, your great cards are always muchly appreciated!

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Heart really matters for Katerina, we know that, and we know how good she is to us at IUOMA. Cheryl, Angie, and I think Lesley have already written a nice blog about her Heart Matters bookie, so this is slightly redundant, but can one ever have too much Heart Matters? I don't think so...

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Although this is my first envelope from her, Theresa must know my love for vintage and antique. And actually, more than an envelope, this was a very delicately wrapped present, what a fantastic thing to get in one's mail!

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Heart Matters so much that it needed a few additional boekies from Cheryl, and I am the VERY lucky owner of one of them! As Cheryl says, the more it Matters, the Better.

With ensuing Consequences.

Every time…

When I saw Nancy's work featuring on several blogs I was hoping to receive something from her, and I didn't have to wait for a very long time, her first envelope arrived this week, lucky me.

Nancy dug up an old box full of of antique print blocks and stamps from her attic, check out her blog if you haven't seen it yet, it is very impressive. She started to use and…

 Imagine my surprise when I found an envelope from GA in my mailbox with a familiar Hello Kitty stamp on it. I rubbed my eyes in disbelief, rubbed them a little bit stronger, but it was really him, sending me mail from the Peninsula, one of the best hotels in Tokyo. The one and only Grigster was downtown, a few stops down the Yurakucho line, and he didn't tell his…

I met David last year when he was a guest researcher in our lab for a month. Those were really good times, we had fun. Towards the end of his stay we found out about our common interest in photography, went out on a great photo walk (that cemetery with cherry blossoms, for those who have seen the picture, was taken on that day), and had ridiculous photoshopping…

This is one of my favorite postcards. The scanner really did a lousy job because it didn't know how to deal with the contrast between the matt paper and the piece of transparent film, but I can tell you that it looks great in real life. The photo reminds me of old pictures of my grand parents working in the fields, and the questions and puzzling faces leave it open to a…

After I picked up this card from the mailbox and reading it while taking the stairs I was so taken by the story that I ended up at the fifth and last floor in front of the landlord's door :-)) and back down again....

David is such a talented storyteller he must be known way beyond the borders of IUOMA. I let you enjoy the story...

The ink splash drawing (I'm…

Word lovers will be thrilled today (as I was), Cheryl is sending me three absolute goodies, putting on the balance text and image and how we perceive them. The first of them, "How text and image lie", was the original piece, which gave rise quite rapidly to additional thoughts and ideas, new work to complete her concept.

My first thought when I opened the…

I've had this piece by DW for several months now but it got lost in the middle of a jar of seasonal pickles. I think it is time to bring it back to daylight because it is quite a remarkable piece.

This was an early Cherry Blossom Asemic, and the only one of the series that I actually received. I am very fond of the colors, the delicate beauty of the asemic writing,…

Lesley is sending me a wonderful bookie, her Heart Matters, which shows again all her talent of drawer and book artist.

The book can be flipped and viewed horizontally or vertically, depending on the page and your mood.

Lesley's Heart is a truly physical and palpable organ. Just like any other organ, it has its own physiology and rules, no way around…