Smiles & Smirks

From Bonniediva's latest Bon-zine, Quaren-zine, to cheer us up.

Lovely stuff - thanks Martha.  Here's my three penneth -

Your collaged poem is great, Michael, and then, to complete the fun, this landed on the shores of Retailia from Adanaland:

On the back of an envelope. Surely this counts as a smirk.

I went to my post office to pick up my mail on Friday, August 21st, and received some smiles. Here's the August 10th smile from Walmarth, and that big cat is ready for a delicious meal!

It came wrapped in one of her folded envelopes with a newsletter on the inside. I'm including the folded envelope in this scan because the artistamps are so cool, too!

Thanks Fleur and michael for making me smile needed it!. i cannot write I sprained my right wrist. In areally stupid/funny way. details later.

O dear - hope your wrist is better soon Martha!

Please tell me if I can be of use to Walmarth Corporation.
Can I contribute?

Michael and Ilya!

Thanks Michael. Better now I mean the wrist. My ego is ailing, it took the worse tumble. i feel so stupid. I had reached the landing and put my foot on the next step, which, of course, was not there. And fell sideways. Rather funny isn't it?

Of course Ilya, anything you think is somewhat funny but do not injury yourself!

Glad to wrist is better Martha.  Yes, so easy to fall over especially as you get older.  I slipped on the ice a few winters back and kicked a nearby concrete bollard. My big toe went black and was very painful. Ouch!  So hopefully no ice this Winter!  Only in my rum and coke!

Take care, everyone! In the meantime, let the fun continue.

Right now, I'm working on a very silly set of mail art cards. As soon as I've finished them, I'll post a couple.

I've finished the very silly set of mail art cards. There are six cards in all, and I've chosen these two to post here.

Oh Fleur Silly cards? I like them. Mine are always silly. Sometimes I think I will be chucked out of the universe due to my lack of seriousness. That must be why I formed this group, sillyness is not only welcomed but a requirement.

Michael! honestly! Do not mention the o word here! Falling in my case is genetic. As a child my knees were always painted in lovely tones of black blue and purple with an occational touch of yellow, like a weird sunset. I am sure that contributed to my love of colour.

I'm glad that you like my silly little cards, Martha. I'll be putting one of them in the mail to you tomorrow!

I received this surprising card. Autograghed too.
Apparently somebody told Boris I admire him !?!

While you are in the store getting your Voodoo Doll don't forget to pick up your free Coffee Clutch.

...And the recent Double Coffee Clutch is such fun! :-)

Ann Golden forwarded to me an ATC made by Boozy Barb with the request to be added to the stock of Walmarth. And here it is

Blimey!  A bumper load of new stock!  Excellent stuff!

Cor blimey indeed! Fantastic, who is the artist?

An apprisal of the Coffe Clutch sent by Rebecca Guyver. Thank you Rebecca!

SUNDAY, OCTOBER 18, 2020

Cascadia Coffe clutch - Double clutch

The public service aspect to Cascadia's mail art should be highlighted. Coffee Clutch is chockablock with important information, words of wisdom from pioneers and paragons of the mail art network, funny, and full of details to keep your mind active.  

During the Covid pandemic, this is even more essential than normal. After reading the first side of Cascadia's four pages of his 'double clutch' I have identified a must contribute to mailart call, felt 'in-the-know' because i could answer some of the trivia questions and been entertained by the advertisements.

By the end I have learned about another mail artist I didn't really know about, cracked a smile about forever stamps, enjoyed the conflation of kombucha and kimchi, tested my skill on a tricky crossword, and wondered about a voodoo doll.

Enjoy the edition!  I certainly did!

The Voodoo dolls are brilliant and made me really laugh when I saw this post. 

A witty poem by Tiny Whisk

Your up early.  Post away!

Post early for Crustmush!

Sorry to hear that Martha.  Damn those pesky trojans!   Hope you are all sorted soon.  Hope we all are!  It's going to be a long tough Winter!  Still, we have our mail art to keep us warm and the new THING that never needs batteries!

What an ordeal, Martha! I hope that everything gets cleared up soon.

Martha, I was glad to get your message that this venue is working for you again. I've had some problems in the past, too, but they worked themselves out after a few hours. The ning platform does seem to be a bit flaky.

Thank you Fleur.

IUOMA came back to me!

I suppose Ruud adding a SSL certificate did the trick. My PC is full of security apps and it kept saying IUOMA is not secure. It took a while to become effective, sometimes things do not happen immediate in the www.
I was depressed and not sleeping well which I put to the strange life we are leading but it was not that. Now I am full of zest and gleeeeee! yi peeeee!
So you have to put up with me again!

That is how  I felt, grounded to pulp.

Thank you Michael you got it!

can't wait to receive...and mail stuff out

here's my addition...

Thanks William. Not sure I agree either with women being a joke on men or the other way around. Nothing funny the way humanity is behaving at present.

Festive greetings all !   Now here's a thing we all need right now - the Deluxe Gut Suit for keeping you warm this Winter and for deflecting those pesky snowballs!  Only  £49.99  from your usual dealer.

Covid Era Art History:

I didn't visit Walmarth in a while, had some smiles and smirks again now. Some good stuff availabe there. Just come more often, I guess.

That is quite funny in a repulsive sort of way Michael! Thank you!

Katerina, thanks!!! So clever. I am envious. Why didn't I think of it? Cos I am not so clever ...

Get the new improved Corona!

Only at Walmarth

Haha, excellent, Martha! 

That's great!

That's funny in a nasty covid sort of way Martha!    Surprised that beer is still selling well!   Novelty value only!

And, you can recycle your Corona bottles at Walmarth Cascadia - just look for the daily dumpster out back of the store!

I tried to buy the beer but I couldn't, so I faked it and then canned my idea. Should have gone to Walmarth.

Thanks Mel Anie and Jack in Cascadia and Michael and Fleur and Sabrina!

It is no surprise Corona beer is selling well with all the free advertising they get.