All Blog Posts Tagged 'stamp' (53)

Three letters today! Lucky me.

From Fleur I received this green envelope with a smaller origami envelope inside:

Inside the ornate envelope is this little ATC gem:

It's a snowy, handmade reindeer! What a perfect holiday greeting. Thanks…

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I was just having a little internal mail art crisis of faith - thinking about what crazy stuff I got myself into here, sending absolutely ridiculous things through the post. Do you ever get that? And then I found this letter from Ruud in my mailbox, with sheets to send in with samples of rubber stamps for his archive.  I have not sent anything to Ruud yet, waiting for the right…

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In this little matchbox, resting on a bed of wool from her sheep I got this little snowman from Vizma

As I dug deeper I got the story of How the Snowman became an Arac....WOOHOOOOO!!!!!!!!

She says it reminded her of The Monkees guitar and I totally agree.  Thank-you, thank-you, thank-you!!!! I've been stamping it on everything around and…

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Hi, i am a new member early this month and have my first few mail art pieces to send!  One will be going to Brazil. any takers for any of the others?

Read more about them at my blog.…

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GOTIJ! Mini graffitti with sir wonder dog charging the general in uniform. Who is that guy? Always enjoy your self portraits, (see lower left of envelope).

:--D   Thanks…

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Meus novos carimbos. My new stamps.

... in that I whooped and hollered, I'm so thrilled with it:

To me this is a really fine work that includes elegance, contemporaneity + history, and mystery. The red and black/brown giving the face its soft-tissue structure and expression are a bold move, one that I find very successful.  The eyes are fascinating and enigmatic -- sometimes I see them as spookily blank,…

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Thought I'd lost these after closing my antiques shop: Variety!…

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And here she is, a lovely lady, in a collage by Roberto:

I love the composition and colors, Roberto!  La Tia Julia is identified not only in a nice note from Roberto but also on the back of the collage.  I think she must be special to him:

The…

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That silly rabbit thought he couldn't burn. Well well well... Unbelievably cute doesn't mean unbelievably smart, does it? :-)

In any case, this is a fantastic envelope from the rodent lover (that sounds wrong) Miss James.



Rabbit looking at the moon.... Here in Japan the rabbit is highly symbolic, and strongly associated with the moon. I found an interesting article on the paradoxical and contradictory… Continue

Thanks for the lovely stamping and stamps! ^o^