Nancy Bell Scott's Blog (364)

Who is this man?

Maybe a relative of Svenja's:

You took a chance with the oh so delicate overlay, and it survived beautifully. Many thanks, Svenja ---

Added by Nancy Bell Scott on March 20, 2014 at 8:30pm — 4 Comments

Thanks to Frieder Speck, Jay Block, and XX Jones

from Frieder:   from Jay: from XX:…

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Added by Nancy Bell Scott on March 3, 2014 at 10:24pm — 2 Comments

Thanks to Erni Bar

A recent and all-time favorite in the crushed can department, posing as the Big Dipper and then a flower:    And handsome rusty lids!: And a light…

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Added by Nancy Bell Scott on March 3, 2014 at 10:20pm — 1 Comment

thanks to E. Coles and Raphael'L

from Emily: 

from Raphael: 

Nice, all…

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Added by Nancy Bell Scott on February 25, 2014 at 3:57am — 3 Comments

thanks to Keith Chambers and Eduardo Cardoso

from Keith:

from Eduardo: …

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Added by Nancy Bell Scott on February 25, 2014 at 3:30am — 2 Comments

thanks to Alicia Starr

She has been pondering abodes, in a wonderful way: …

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Added by Nancy Bell Scott on February 25, 2014 at 3:30am — 6 Comments

blogging note

My blog behindness is so bad that even the old blogjams wouldn't work. Appreciated + adored mail arts have been hanging out on art tables, shelves, stools, chairs, the piano, and in to-acknowledge bins, to-blog bins, to-reply bins. They make the place look fantastic! They've also led to blog behindness panic attacks. Ack! Others who have had these know what I'm talking about. Today blogging will restart, in pretty much a random, casual, and gradual fashion; and the end will probably never be…

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Added by Nancy Bell Scott on February 24, 2014 at 9:30pm — 5 Comments

Undeliverable, clearly

Wow, eh? The US Postal Service found this too difficult to deliver. Apparently it didn't like the handwritten first "e" in Nadine's last name. This came back today and I'm still laughing:

See, after studying it for 42 minutes, I noticed their circle around "Wendell." There must be hundreds of Nadines at #209: …

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Added by Nancy Bell Scott on January 10, 2014 at 9:00pm — 17 Comments

thank you to Jim SantAmour, Amy Irwen, and Svenja Wahl

Oh, I enjoy this fine 15-scrapper from you very much, Jim:  and this beautifully composed and stitched scrapper from Amy, which she says "is made of scraps just grabbed and put together--altho I used more than 3 pcs":…

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Added by Nancy Bell Scott on November 24, 2013 at 3:06am — 4 Comments

MUSIC via dart via Frieder Speck

He promised a music-composition mail art and he did it, with help from the low-tech gadget known as the dart: Second scan above is the back of the composition, with out-y dart holes. I am honored! Holes before music, holes marking the path for music, ending with…

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Added by Nancy Bell Scott on November 4, 2013 at 1:04am — 9 Comments

The Concerned Pug Society

By Meeah Williams: 

This was the first mail art received from Meeah. Is this a concerned pug or what? Yah, it is. Meeah's insight. And remember to Join Now and Join Often. I'm there. Thanks, Meeah . . . (By the way, borderline agoraphobic…

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Added by Nancy Bell Scott on November 4, 2013 at 12:30am — 1 Comment

Meeah Williams . . . !

She began at IUOMA by writing a most thoughtful blog post that had me thinking for a while. It struck me as perceptive, questioning, honest. Meeah's mail arts are multi-faceted; in a way they could be like taking a course in one envelope, in the best sense of the…

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Added by Nancy Bell Scott on November 4, 2013 at 12:00am — 4 Comments

Balance from Cerulean

It turned out that the site/blog of CERULEAN was one I'd run across on the Net and bookmarked, and have been looking at for the past 2 years or so. His work has a wide range, some raw + beautiful and some more-structured + beautiful. This, "Balance," arrived a little while ago, and I consider myself lucky. Today his site exhibits recent…

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Added by Nancy Bell Scott on November 3, 2013 at 11:30pm — 2 Comments

Likely 3scrapper from CrackerJack Kid

The backs: …

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Added by Nancy Bell Scott on October 29, 2013 at 9:30pm — No Comments

Claudia McGill and her art world

Several pieces from that world have arrived in my mailbox. Her work and her self are marvels of color and imagination. Please don't miss finding out how she works: http://claudiamcgillart.wordpress.com/…

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Added by Nancy Bell Scott on October 29, 2013 at 9:00pm — 2 Comments

2 mail arts from E. Coles

I became an instant fan of E. Coles when this abstract beauty showed up in the mailbox: 

A great piece. Then this boekie of elegant scraps arrived, with wonderful monoprinted covers--a few shots are below, along with Emily's note giving some background. Thank you again, Emily:…

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Added by Nancy Bell Scott on October 29, 2013 at 8:30pm — No Comments

"Sail Away" by Borderline Grafix !

Wow--beautiful stark yet mellow sailing-ship stamps from Borderline Grafix, who allowed me to keep this intact sheet by sending another to use individually on mail art. Slowly getting back up to some kind of speed at m.a. here. These are showing up one at a time on outgoing m.a. envelopes from me, with credit to B.G. Beautiful. Thank you again, B.G.…

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Added by Nancy Bell Scott on October 29, 2013 at 1:01am — 6 Comments

Richard Canard doesn't know what he's talking about half the time

That's what HE says. But it's better than average. 

Richard's random words of wisdom need to be Quotes of the Day someplace to benefit the imaginatively impoverished. I'd subscribe. Thank you, Richard, much appreciated as always. Best of all you've given me…

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Added by Nancy Bell Scott on October 29, 2013 at 12:54am — 6 Comments

Semi-consciousness from Carina Granlund

It's that state that happens after you're done with rest+retreat and before you can face the work of complete consciousness: 

That one moment, and Carina catches it and describes it in her inimitable way. Great turn of mind, as always! Revelations! Thank you so much, Carina --- …

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Added by Nancy Bell Scott on October 29, 2013 at 12:40am — 5 Comments

Comics and rust from Erni Bar

Again months ago, this comics-encased basket arrived from Erni: 

He'd gotten one himself from the shop of his mysterious, possibly delirious, never-a-dull-moment friend Senator Watrin ("The Senator") in Hamburg and posted it, I coveted it out loud, and he went back and bought one for me. Fabulous mail art! I was and am thrilled with it, and as you can see, mail art at…

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Added by Nancy Bell Scott on October 29, 2013 at 12:32am — 8 Comments

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