On the 12th Day of Christmas...Finnbadger and others

[Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)]

12 new mail art works arrived in Greece!

Including this beauty from Finnbadger, selvage and a TREE

on a paper baggie envelope, with HEART FOREVER postage :-)

Many thanks, Phillip!

xxx

12 on the 12th Day:

1.  Cheryl Penn, Edition 13 World is a Town

2.  Cheryl Penn, Edition 14 World is a Town

3.  Stripygoose, a giraffe and an owl :-) France birdie, too

4.  Finnbadger, the TREE envelope +

5.  Erica Durante , index card art + owl

6.  Alan Bignull, FluXus Bucks in-the-bag

7.  Bill Porter original

8.  Jason Brown and call for the POD

9.  Tiziana in Italy, folded boekie

10.Patricia Landon, stamps and stamps

11.Melissa Fletcher, CatMail, meowy Xmas

12.Amy Irwen, ATCs and stitches

[Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)]

[FinnBadger]

[FinnBadger]

Looks like it went through the machine upside down - the bottom left stamp is canceled (it must have gone through top right - you know, the 'correct' way to place a stamp). The envelopes were made from grocery bags, so even though the paper is thick, it is quite rough where the handles were attached, or at the corners and folds. I am not surprised it didn't travel quite so well, as I'm sure these parts can catch on the machines, but some of the look of it may just be because it it was originally a bag.

I made these in Jan 2015, so it was fun to hang on to them until December before releasing them into the wild. You can see more that I sent to non-IUOMA friends here:

Envelope exchange 1

Envelope exchange 2

[Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)]

It seems the postal system didn't recognize those lovely "Hearts" as postage stamps,

and the brown baggie envelope came "chewed up" a bit :-(

But so happy that it did arrive...never "too late" :-)

[FinnBadger]

Make that 21 days... my math is clearly worse than usual.

[FinnBadger]

Wow, glad to part of the XII on the XIIth day of Christmas. This one took its time, did;t it? 16 days seems longer than usual.

[Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)]

T'aint a "partridge", but from Strippgoose, 'tis a birdie (ze French birdie):

more to be blogged...in due time :-)

[Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)]

:-) Still celebrating the Holidays!!!