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Beautiful Blue Poetry from Marni W.

I found this beautiful blue mail art hidden among the computer generated junk mail on my front porch. Without even looking at the return address on this white envelope with a woman wearing her hair in a bun, I knew it had to be from Marni W. The lovely printed swallows in flight gave it away as her style, and as always, mail art from Marni is a wonderful respite for…

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Added by Minneapolis Gnome on June 26, 2015 at 5:07pm — 1 Comment

Make the world a better place: Send Mail to Lonely Elderly People

Dear Fellow Mail Artists:

We all like sending mail and we know how great it feels to get it, right? Real mail from real people (instead of junk mail churning out from machines) brings joy, makes us feel connected to others and brightens our days.

Think what a huge impact we could have by including socially isolated elderly or ill people in our regular…

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Added by Minneapolis Gnome on November 19, 2014 at 8:30pm — 5 Comments

Mail Art from Kit G

This is another long - in coming blog post about the ah-maze-ing mail art I got from Kit Gonzalez!

She used a brown gesso on a bubble mailer and then painted this crazy-awesome cat on the front in full color, but she didn't stop there! She painted flowers on the back, too:…

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Added by Minneapolis Gnome on November 10, 2014 at 7:34pm — No Comments

Mail Art from Marni

This blog is soooo long in coming. I got more wonderful mail art from Marni Webber about a month ago. This lady really inspires me to make better mail art. This time she sent me a FORTUNE TELLER and two mini zines of hers in a handmade collaged envelope. The envelope has 3 D glittery stars, the background image being a painting from a magazine and a cool dog is added on front. For more in depth photos of this awesome art received, come look in my mail art received album. Thank you,…

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Added by Minneapolis Gnome on November 10, 2014 at 7:13pm — No Comments

More gorgeous mail art received from Marni Webber

So I said there were TWO envelopes from Marni in my mail box, right? Here's part of the contents of the one postmarked 09 SEPT 2014 with it's rainbow embroidery, visual, olfactory and tactile goodness:

That's a real teabag, with a wolf inside and words and red thread, and a handmade ea bag envelope and OH MY! Fresh, exciting, creative…

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Added by Minneapolis Gnome on September 16, 2014 at 5:21pm — 1 Comment

My first mail art from IUOMA arrived, and it's wonderful. Thank you Marni!

On Sunday I discovered TWO awesome mail art pieces hiding among the junk mail on my front porch. I have no idea if they both came on Saturday or if they arrived separately and were there for longer, but they made me so happy, thank you Marni! The first one is postmarked 04 SEP 2014:

The envelope is made out of a magazine page with added tiny little black paper sparrows…

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Added by Minneapolis Gnome on September 16, 2014 at 4:32pm — 1 Comment

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