Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)'s Blog – August 2014 Archive (53)

John Bennett No4 boekie

This is John's creation...poetically perfect: "Poetripas"

Also did a bit of "caressing" before "reading":…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on August 20, 2014 at 4:04pm — No Comments

"MEMORY" from Richmond Art Gallery...not VA but BC!

Back in Nov.2013, the Richmond Art Gallery had an international Mail Art Exhibit

that is "RAG" of Richmond, Canada in British Columbia, and not of Richmond, Virginia, USA :-)

Part of the exhibit was "exchange",

so when they…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on August 19, 2014 at 8:32am — 1 Comment

"Nostrils " project from Jon Foster

This is an Add 'n Return to Jon.

It is a "nose"...yes? Or/and is it North Carolina?

I am liking very much the…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on August 17, 2014 at 11:03pm — 1 Comment

Bill Porter sends a "note": August already!

Not to panic, Bill! Usually we are exchanging watercolor paintings ,

however this envelope had no such painting, but a nice fun illustration!

(I am liking the postage very much,too, and Colorado stamping)…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on August 17, 2014 at 11:01pm — No Comments

Symphony with BLUE ...wrapped in ORANGE peels, from Suus in Mokum

ORANGE peels arrive in Greece from Mokum :-)

The envelope is much fun!

and inside:

This is beautiful…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on August 17, 2014 at 11:00pm — 3 Comments

The London group did send to Greece, yay!

There was a mail art meet up in London on July 28, 2014,

And they were cuttingly creative, and very "peaceful"...This is a cut-up card that "takes off":…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on August 17, 2014 at 6:32pm — 5 Comments

Kim in Korea sends a nice packet

This arrived some days ago but first able to blog now.

Kim said there was "no washi" here, aha...but there is this little red washi, oh yes!

and there are many other nice stamps and stampings on her envelope:…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on August 17, 2014 at 5:04pm — No Comments

CAT MAIL from Roberto Bergamo in Italy

This comes from neighboring Italy: CAT MAIL!

Roberto does a great job on the envelope of portraying his two CATS:…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on August 17, 2014 at 4:48pm — 2 Comments

David Stafford sends a HOT encaustic

Encaustic is melted wax....and this one is melting from David :-)

Now it is a know fact that in August, both the State of New Mexico,USA,

and the country of Greece , are HOT! ...sweltering actually!

...and be careful: No…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on August 17, 2014 at 7:00am — 1 Comment

Mail art from John Held, Jr. back from HOT Japan

Yes, John was there in Japan...when record high temps were blazin'...very HOT!

It must have been a great exhibit however , honoring Shozo Shimamoto.

(me liking the map fragment in Japanese!!!)…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on August 14, 2014 at 5:54pm — No Comments

From Eduardo in Portugal, much and minimal!

Eduardo's envelope has a fun minimal collage on the front

"No Flags"...cute guy! Nice combo of bits and pieces:…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on August 14, 2014 at 5:52pm — 2 Comments

Dimitra colors/colours my world : BLUE some more :-)

And this is a second BLUE mail art sent from Dimitra in Patra, Greece.

Wonderful BLUE, for July, envelope.

And inside this beautiful "palette":…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on August 14, 2014 at 5:44pm — No Comments

Dimitra colors/colours my world : BLUE!

Dimitra Papatheodorou has an on-going mail art project with COLOR/COLOUR!

It is all about color/colour and for each month she has designated a special color/colour :-)…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on August 14, 2014 at 5:43pm — No Comments

ERNINESS Rocks! and comes in-a-box :-)

In the hot city for a day and went to the post office to pick up a package from Hamburg!

Now we all know that the exterior must be admired first:…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on August 13, 2014 at 6:29pm — 9 Comments

David Aponte sends a stunning card

This was waiting from "the other" David as I arrived in Thess today.

Always an interesting mail art piece from the Sub-Real Alchemy,

...and the actor is Earl Flynn? Must check it out

This guy is fun, too...and BLUE…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on August 12, 2014 at 5:10pm — No Comments

Angie is creating...Snooky is helping

Good to see Port Washington in the mail :-)

Stunning colors and textures...

me loving the details:…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on August 12, 2014 at 5:00pm — 2 Comments

DKult in the mail from Diane Keys!

Always fun to see something from DK

and it has been a long time, but now she sends lots and lots!

Great fun to open this packet...…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on August 12, 2014 at 4:54pm — No Comments

Buddha from Erni and The Haptic Werewolf sent TWO!

So HE encourages enlightenment and liberation...and mail art, too!

...Strawberry Fields Forever :-)

Two very…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on August 12, 2014 at 4:10pm — 1 Comment

More here..FluXus bucks from Cascadia ArtPost

Money, money, money coming to Greece, too.

other side:

These are fluXus Bucks from the Eternal…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on August 10, 2014 at 6:02am — No Comments

Haiku or two ...or more from Laura Hensley

Wonderful sun-burst mail art envelope arrived in Greece

and inside were tiny translucent papers with a haiku written on each...…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on August 9, 2014 at 1:12pm — 3 Comments

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