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Sheri Rice is an artist who's always trying something new. I love that about her work. Here is a teesie boekie, probably not much more than an inch…

This one is HUGE. It took two full size scans to get it all. R. Cohen!…

I really love the textural quality of this paint. The scenes behind the paint have a wonderful industrial feel to them, and the stripes evoke the American flag -- lots of symbols here if you want to look at it that way, or just beauty to enjoy.…

There's NO WAY my scanner can give you an idea of how wonderful this book is! All the art in it is 3-D pop-up. It's gorgeous! Thanks Denise!…

From Eva! Check out the very cool stamp commemorating the fire of Santander.

Some short time ago, Nancy Bell Scott posted her own picture of this lovely work she completed, and titled it "Finish Line." And I am the lucky recipient. But on the back of the piece she has written a new title: "The Road Between."

I'm not sure, but I think I like the latter title. "The Finish Line" seems so...final. Like we pushed…

I couldn't have asked for a nicer surprise if I had gone trick-or-treating door-to-door!  So wonderful to hear from Mary, who has been a regular Halloween mail-art friend. This year, she sent a hand-stitched quilted piece on cardboard with plenty of Halloween themed characters—cats and bats and skeletons and ghosts... The soft, cozy fabric makes them all seem…

Just ask David Stafford!!!

Yes...but what KIND of casserole, God's chosen want to know... I mean, it's the Last Supper, after all. The reverse of the postcard goes into even greater detail...

If I didn't know better, and if the postcard weren't so stiff, I might've guessed that this piece was an old used paper napkin on which David…

I got quite a mail art surprise from Dean (that Artist in Seine). Completely unexpected and a thrill to gawk at and peruse through. As "boekie" mail art goes, this one's a star—a collection of all sorts of classic and antique images, papers, ephemera, textiles and even holograms (!) that make for une grande tournée d'art collage.

Wish that you all…

The thing about Mail Art is... that they often work REALLY well as bookmarks. Especially really magnificent and beautiful pieces of Mail Art that I wanna keep near me so that I remember to blog about them.

But the OTHER thing about using Mail Art as bookmarks...is that if you read as much as I do and have a gazillion books around that you're using…

Boy, did I get  wonderful mailing from Melissa Wand.  I had sent her a Souvenir of the 2016 U.S. Election, and she sent me back this envelope with a couple of cute politically-themed postcards,a nice note, and several political cartoon clippings.

But I have to admit that the best part of Melissa's mailing was the envelope...because it IMMEDIATELY…

...we have some bananas today!Going Bananas!

Here are a few of the Banana Mail Art cards that arrived

for Banana Appreciation Day, November 18, 2016!

First, from the Artist in Seine comes the "Banana Hammer"...really:…

Arrived back in Thess. to find Mail Art! Yay!…