Carina's Blog (412)

From Torma Cauli, a small folded trashpo card, photo of a door/lock and funny envelope.

From FinnBadger, a ghostly map, marbled paper (with shaving cream!), collage and wonderful stamps.…

Thank you, Jay!

An amusing package with a clever little slide inside! I have put up the color slide on my window and there it stays for a while, while pondering what it means. Maybe it is David's childhood slide, maybe it's just a funny commercial sample that Kodachrome…

Use what you have and make a crazy-good Trashpo boekie as this one by Toni! The book is made up of tags and pieces of scraps from Eugene. Last page…

I love how this wonderful book by Frieder arrived in a very modest envelope. The surprise was all the greater when I found what was inside: an accordion-style book with hard covers, size:13 x 16cm, monoprinting, drawings and poems (written on a typewriter). Love it!…

From David Stanley Aponte, FREEDOMTHROUGHART, Klaus Johansen, Pascal Coupechoux, Monsenhor Envide Nefelibata, Dean aka Artist in Seine, Nico van Hoorn, Unknown from Portugal, MailArtMartha, David Stafford and Enrique Fernandez. Much love & thank you all!

The stamp is made from a recycled…

From Keith C. Walker, a really wonderful book, "Mental Mechanix", size 10x14cm and 22 pages. Great collages and quality on everything! Thank you,…

In search of bar codes, Dean ended up on a factory floor in a printing company, came across these color tests and the rest is history. Very cool! Love how the gold frame looks three-dimensional and highlights the work. Thank you Dean!…

At first glance, this masterpiece looks like a house of cards, but only technically.

Actually the card is very sturdy and it even has a…

This delightful little book came…

Possibly a document destruction bug? Thank you for the fun and surprising card,…

"Short Stories", is a very well-made and beautiful accordion book from Ptrzia aka TICTAC.

Ptrzia has cut some clever lines in the book where she put in loose collaged papers.…

This strange card arrived like this, iron-shaped and with an eye.

It turned out to be a four panel celebration of music and entertainment of great stature, such as Liza Minnelli, Elvis, Supertramp, AC/DC... No wonder I heard music when I opened…

From: Keith Chambers, David Stafford, Frank Voigt, Katerina Nikoltsou, Virgo Stanislav, Henry Denander (Faux Birds/book), Nina Hermus (trash book), Borderline Grafix (DKult Fan Club Press), and Rainer Wieczorek.

Thank you all for the great mail!

Dean has cut up packages and put them together into this new wonderful banana creation. Dean got his certificate in odd-shaped cards several years ago, and it's good to see he is faithful to this art form. I'm sure he has a banana box full of gathered banana…

Fabulous artistamps & Valentine's mail-art from Angelica! Signed and numbered, 8/30.

Thank you so much, Angelica!

More of…

Pickled herring and a (very) bad sunburn. Little did David know that these themes are very well known to me. Every summer I have to choose which one I prefer, and it's always a difficult task.

Thank you for the wonderful mail-art,…

Always fun to see Jon's…