Mail-Art Cafe

Thanks, Ruud, now to get the mug! :-)

Some IUOMA pudding comes with:

I = Ice cream from Val

U = Umeboshi plums from Kate

O = Orange peels, dried and grated, from Erni

M = Mango mash, from xx

A = Apple Pie from Angie (and Snooky)! :-)

Yes, very tasty and healthy "umeboshi plums" from Japan,

mmmmmm!

Happy Thanksgiving to USA friends at the Cafe xxx

Gather 'round the table:

Oh!!! That looks wonderful Kate!

And now tea time, Rod...yoga tea time:

Mmmm ginger-orange with vanilla!

Memories Made of This exhibition in Hadleigh Library Day 1/2 today.  

A mother and her two children came into the library at 4pm, I approached them, saying that I didn't know if they had time but that I had a mail art exhibit and a 'making table'. MAIL ART she said, 'I'd be very interested to see that… mu dad was a correspondence artist.' Her dad is Michael Lumb! Bizarre coincidence in a rural Suffolk village!

I have four windows at the library and an alcove just for Simon Warren - he sent me more than 135 pieces!

Wow, looks great Rebecca! :)

Congrats, Rebecca! That is a fantastic exhibit in-the-windows!

How about a hot choco today in the Cafe:

mail art call in unexpected place series !

https://witness.theguardian.com/assignment/5277db80e4b00ff3f5c0fc26...

have your Guardian weekly at MAIL ART CAFE

and a peaceful cup of tea...

Time to get the Cafe ready for the New Year 2014:

Greek Vasilopita and a few twinkle lights:

and the bubbly:

Let me bring the Greek New Year bread: Vasilopita, a bit closer...

and SMILE going into 2014 :-)

  This evening I'd sure enjoy your company with your Vasilopita as well as the bubbly.  Until then for this afternoon lunch, hop on down to the Flying Chicken to share some Hoppin' John?  I'll even read the squirrel story to you.

Happy Mail Art New Year 2014, Liz!

Good to see you at the Cafe, gal from Troy :-)

'Would love to come by for Hoppin' John and I'd bring along

some feta?

Sunday sippin' tea

Time to gather at the Cafe

and have a nice soothing tea?

Or a Hot Chocolate for our friends in the snow and below-zero weather? How about a nice cold beer for the Aussies :-)

I'll have a hot choco thanks...(in a BLUE cup, sure!)

Anyone want some PUDDING?

Make that CHOCOLATE pudding, please!

Thank you, enjoy your dessert!
I would love to (chocolate pudding, and coffee, with milkm no sugar please), but alas no, I first have to eat my pumpkin/red-lentils soup (orange!). And here you see a picture.... I was too long at the computer (IUOMA) now, and the soup first was watery, but now it has been cooking dry!...

Thanks for waiting for me.  So good to come in here to warm up.

blue linen for Katerina, tea for all. Heleen, milk for your tea is just to the right where you can't see it .

Thank you, Elizabeth, too! Tea with a 'wolkje melk' (- 'a little cloud of  milk') is delicious, too!

Heleen, as in the foam on espresso?

No, a real 'cloud'  inside of the tea! :-)
See for instance here (but after stirring, the milk and tea mix so the cloud dissolves).
Enjoy your cup of tea!

Oh, yes, the cloud!  It is a real cloud!  thanks.

Anyone fancy a slice of my new bread with butter and strawberry jam?

That looks yummy, Rod! 

I'll take a piece and have a nice soothing cup of Tilio (Linden) tea

to calm me before going to sleep (after midnight here in Greece now :-)

It's indeed yummy, just had a slice.  Is Greece in a different time zone!!??? it's still 20 minutes before the midnight hour here in mild Maastricht.

Hello Rod :-)

Greece is way ahead of ya in time, dear buddy!

Yes, we are one hour ahead, it is 20 minutes to one-in-the-morning.

Sorry to rub salt into a wound already stinging Dan but the goat's cheese sandwich I made this morning was so delicious I found myself forced to repeat the edible action:-)  But baker me sends sincere sympathy that your are reduced to a c-t-c-o.  Would that I could send you a loaf... I could send you the recipe for when you are restored to full bakability proper, I could post that here, but you'd have to keep it a secret for, should the mail-art world start baking 'the bread of Rod' a multitude of bakers would go out of business and I'm not sure my conscience could bear that:~).... Dan!

http://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite-france/2014/02/07/01016-20140207AR...

Happy St. Valentine's Day, IUOMA!

Dan, your heart of rose is beautiful and uplifting, thanks for that.

Here, the extra cold, many days and nights below 0°F - 17°C, suggested a hearty carrot & other vegetable filled meatloaf, yes, with the egg.  Come on in.  Today is "warmer" for walking over here, low 30°'s/1°'s. 

In the east side and middle of New York State, our  usual for March high temperatures is 25°/-4° - 45°/7°.

A local hairdresser shop with some imagination!

My new mail art blog:

fierceclouds.blogspot.com

Tea in the cafe :-)

(at the new Acropolis Museum , Athens)

Time for turkey and cranberry sauce and apple and pumpkin pie :-)

Winter Solstice Day :-) PEACE!