Smiles & Smirks

Thanks for the April fools jokes.    Some ATC's here from the archive.

Thank you for the jokes Katerina and Michael. I learned something, Poisson d'Avril, I had never heard this expression.

And here is The Clutch Supplement. Double click to enlarge, I think...

I don't see the "Anti-Gravity Bidet" in your supplement?   Hopefully it will return in the future months?

Haha, I LOVE the dishwasher!

Thank you Sabrina and, Michael, a new model of the Anti-Gravity Bidet is on order.

Order this one as well Martha - the Fish Finger Glockenspiel !

This one is definitely a smile: a "Cat on Tablecloth" card from Mail Art Martha. It was accompanied by the "Marpril" issue, "Foldi22", and an Easter greeting note.

Don't worry, Martha, I received your mail in time for Easter. I'm just slow!

Stand your ground comics from Michael Goetz! Fun!

Franny Wahinehae invite us to have a Depinking, the novel treatment to enjoy exclusively at Walmarth! Thank you Franny for making fun of Barbie. Well done, I hate the anorexic doll. I prefer plump teddy bears, any colour but pink.

In these times of concern for the disposal of rubbish we should consider recycling our unwanted stuff, here is a list of items we could sell easily through the Sell and Buy Department at Walmarth, recently organized by the well known firm A1 Waste Papers Co Ltd.

Thanks Martha - also for the nice mail that arrived recently.  Always good to hear from you!   BTW   card printed by me and Mark Pawson in 2004.

Oh! so that  is a vintage card, even more precious!

Yes, nearly 20 years ago but seems like last week to me!  Ha ha!

Breaking news! The latest Art trend in Cascadia! One of the oldest and more traditional artforms, Sand Sculpting, mocks Technology!

Happy New Year 2024!

I received my copy of the Winter Solstice 2023 - Foldi 26 issue, with greetings for the new year. Thank you, Mail Art Martha, and I hope that this will be an art filled year for each one of you!

Thank you Fleur for posting here.

A slide show of Rudi Rubberoid works. RIP.  He was very funny and generous with his rubber stamps and letters etc. Much missed.  Slide show doesn't seem to have worked. nevermind - heres a photo instead-

Unfortunately I never had any contact with Rudi Rubberoid, so thank you for posting these stamps, Michael.

I can't remember how I became one of his contacts now.  Quite serendipitous isn't it how we made up our address lists!  The slide show does actually work ( for me anyhow!?)  if you click on the icon in top left hand corner of comment.

It does for me also and very good it is! Thank you Michael

Great - thanks Martha.  Acouple of new doodles -

Wow! You are not short of imagination!

Such inventive is absolutely beyond me, much admiration!

I cannot claim full responsibility - some of these images were inspired by drawings in the Sci-Fi Encyclopedia that I have, although I have changed them slightly.  "Leap"  is totally mine - off the top of my head. A new collage from my sketchbook -

Katerina! Michael! You two have shamed me, i haven't managed a single funny to add. Besides yours are so very good, I would never match them! Thank you !

Michael Leigh is such fun...British humour?

Here is a fun "Leap" from Brad Bradford in South Dakota, USA.

Thanks all.  I try my best!  It doesn't always work!

Well this does work! Ha ha

Thanks MIchael!

adding a fun SMILE:

photo from Haptic Erni in Hamburg :-)

A flying Beluga, so funny! (and inspiring)

Thanks for posting, Katerina!

Thanks Katerina! Well spotted and very funny.

Meanwhile, back at the Queendom, Walmarth has been delivering by snail its vouchers to redeem at the shop. Don't miss out, order yours now!

Some snails from me - designs for plate at Tatton Flower Show a few years back -

Thanks Michael! Very decent snails, mine would have eaten the flower in seconds.

Yesterday I received this intriguing envelope, with no return address. Who could have sent it? And why so shy? Watch this espace!

Was there anything inside the envelope Martha?   How intriguing!

It's a pity the postmark is so bad …

I am late it is nearly night here but the intention was good.

I had a shock when I went to buy stamps, from £2.50 they have gone up to

£2.80! Oh deary me!

Who sent this? It is extremely funny and clever. Thank you, NoName!

How many peas did you receive, Martha?

H aha!   Give peas a chance!  (I'll get me coat!)

I am afraid that I may not get all the peas I need in time for Christmas. I contacted Walmarth and I was told I should have ordered earlier.

Smiles from Cascadia ArtPost with Steve Willis' comic characters: