DKeys

I know. The Martha Stuart School is a legend & many are carrying on the work. Too much going on now, but maybe later.

Thank You for the very nice blogging of my envelope, much appreciated! Wish I was trashpoing more like the Queen of T. but I am a slow learner and have to be a spectator as it is.

Peace!

Niklas

Hey DK. How are you? I'm back from my retreat and trying to catch up on my tasks now. I've posted your last postcard here. There's an interesting story in that card. How do you find such great scraps?

hi Diane...package has arrived...SUPER!

Diane, if you still have the photo of your mysterious owl fortune, I would love if you could post it again on my wall. I liked it very much and I lost all the comments before August. Thank iouuuuuuuu :-))))

Way-Extra WOW in mail arts from you today. I'm overwhelmed! The trashpo mobile is one of the very best presents ever; I absolutely love it. Thank You, DK! All to be blogged soon.

And your daughter made an appropriately trashpo-classy little collage, which is also a winner. Clearly she was born with your utterly interesting art instincts. I've already photographed the mobile in case it falls apart, but I don't think it's going to. Can't stop touching it, though.

Thanks for entering the contest. You have been named to the Order of the Tangerine Mink. KDJ has received a posthumous award:

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Youhouuuuuu, great!! Thank you Diane. I really love that piece so I was sad it was gone...

Yay! I'm glad you liked it. I just learned how to make that non-adhesive accordion/star binding on my North Carolina retreat. In fact, I made the original embroidery book sitting out in the woods during my retreat. I would love to make a whole suite of travel books now, so I'm collecting pictures this month while I'm in and out of town. Catch up with you in a few weeks!

Yeah, my sea spiritual arrived! Thanks for enthusiastic mention of it too.

GRAZIE!!! un abbraccio . bruno -

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Diane, does this look familiar? Is it from you? There was no return address but to me it looks like Diane Keys :-)

Thanks for the great postcard...all those lists reminded me that i needed
to buy milk...jim.

Hello Diane - thank you (and Claire and Stephanie) for the trashpo buttons/badges - love them and will put them to good use on the cardigans that have lost buttons... thanks for sending to me - it was such a neat little package and really fun to receive :>)

Hello Diane - it's so funny that you say Claire did the button/badge creating and she says it was you - what will Stephanie say? Maybe that's all part of the mailart democracy... love those buttons anyway :>)

DOINGPOETRY IN THE WORLD Mailart project Doingpoetry: Poetry, Art, Society Free size, medium and technique No fee, no jury, no sales, no returns The show will be held in Pavia in 2012, November 23-25 At Santa Maria Gualtieri during PAVIART POETRY Festival 2012 Organization by O.M.P. and Farepoesia Documentation: all submissions will also be posted on the web sites under costruction in http://www.farepoesia.it/mail-art.html info: daliobaracchi@hotmail.com Artworks should be sent by snail mail DEADLINE to be received 2012, October 30 send to: TITO TRUGLIA Via Torino 37 I-27100 Pavia ITALY

your mail art has landed..thank you so much

But where to put the staamps?

"Oompah, oompah,

Stick 'em up your jumper!"

Do you know why stamps are always stuck on the top right hand corner of a pîece of mail, and not, say, in the bottom left hand corner?

Val?

Why are stamps placed on the top right hand corners of letters?

Well, Ms Keys, postage stamps were first introduced in May 1840 in the UK. It's hard to imagine now, but at the time a postage stamp, and paid mail at a fixed rate, were brand new ideas.The just-beginning Post Office issued some sort of advice sheet to local Post Office masters (it was a male only job then) giving them instructions about the sale and use of the stamps -- the first one being the Penny Black. One of the issues that had to be addressed was where on an envelope this little sticky bit of paper called 'a postage stamp' should be placed? Various places were tried in experiments (there was no franking automation -- everything was hand-stamped, so that wasn't an iisue), and it was decided that it should be on the top right hand corner. What followed from this was that Queen Victoria's head on the Penny Black would look to the left.

It sounds so simple and obvious, but the debate behind it was quite long and not without some controversy.

And since that day all postage stamps everywhere have been placed in the top right hand corner, and when faces are on the stamps they almost always face to the left or look straight ahead, never to the right.

The End.

Another boring, or interesting, fact about the first ever UK stamps.

No other country was issuing them at the time, so it was unncessary to put 'Great Britain' on them. GB stamps are the only ones in the world that don't -- even today -- have the country name on them.

All other countries, following the regulations of the Universal Postal Union, MUST include the name of the country on their stamps.

You live and learn!

hey Diane, your cool, (semi?) laminated card came today - thanks indeed chere!

Whahoo! Glad to see that the box arrived! I packed it at the seaside shack, under the olive tree, and I guess that little critter got inside then. I hope you "eliminated" the threat to the American environment, we don't want any foreign element  crawling in the bushes of Elgin, Illinois! Well, the trash pieces can be used and "recycled" into mail art or trash art at your exhibit...have fun with all of it!

Hello Diane! Thanks for your laminated trashpoem card. Wonderful! Have a great day!

Oooh, what a wonderful compliment that your daughter likes the necklace with silly things.

I thought we were friends too. Now it's official! A mail art envelope will make it's way out to you soon. Take care!

“(BIG) Guarulhos” Biennale Internazionale del Piccolo Formato.

Sono Invitati a Partecipare Artisti provenienti da tutto il mondo inviando le proprie opere d’arte per :

“(BIG) Guarulhos “Biennale Internazionale del Piccolo Formato.

Tutte le categorie delle Arti :disegno, pittura, scultura …,Libro.. oggetto, montaggio, installazione, grafica, fotografia, arte elettronica e arte di strada: Formato massimo di 10 cm x 15 cm per opere bidimensionali, 15 x 15 x 15 cm opere tridimensionali, opere video deve essere di almeno 15 secondi a 1 minuto come un mpeg.

TEMA :Libero

Tutta la documentazione in linea. Nessuna giuria, , nessuna selezione/ senza quota di iscrizione le opere ricevute non verranno restituite ,andranno a fare parte della raccolta Biennale (BIG Guaruhlos” )

Tutto con le regole MAILART .

Scadenza 30 Novembre La Biennale è prevista per 8 Dicembre 2012 Anniversario della città di GUARULHOS… si consiglia di inviare al più presto possibile visto che i tempi postali per il Brasile sono calcolati in una media di 20 giorni di viaggio.

La Biennale nasce sotto forma ironica , lasciando libero il tema della Biennale ,perché il solo organizzare ufficialmente una Biennale In uno stato di fragile democrazia può essere rischioso
GRAZIE ……………………Vi aspettiamo numerosi
Date Esposizione : 08 Dicembre 2012 e 08 Febbraio de 2013 Location Amorexperimental Versão Beta, Ateliê Conexão, Ateliê Coletivo 308, Ecatú Ateliê, LádaMata e Toca do Lobo, em Guarulhos-SP, Mairiporã e Recife – PE, e nos espaços virtuaishttp://bigpequenoformato.blogspot.com.br/. E no canal youtube do I BIG:http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCfaGo9z62nt73C-UrFieBxg?feature=mhee
Indirizzo Postale x spedizione opere:
I BIG
AC Alexandre Gomes Vilas Boas
Avenida Emílio Ribas, 2115
Agência Gopoúva – CXP 1004
07051 970
Guarulhos– SP
Brasil

onvocatória Simplificada \ Simple call
Qualquer pessoa pode participar, artistas, artistas postais ou qualquer outra pessoa ao redor do mundo, enviando o trabalho para a I Bienal Internacional de Guarulhos do Pequeno Formato, nas modalidades desenho, pintura, escultura, objeto, assemblage, instalação, gravura, fotografia, arte eletrônica e arte ur

bana: As dimensões dos trabalhos deverão ter, no m
áximo, 10 x 15 cm para obras bidimensionais, 15 x 15 x 15 cm para obras tridimensionais;As obras na modalidade vídeo deverão ter duração mínima de 15 segundos e máxima de até 1 minuto, em formato mpeg.Não haverá júri nem taxas e os trabalhos recebidos não serão devolvidos, devendo ficar para o acervo da Bienal.
Documentação on-line para todos os participantes.
Enviar trabalhos para:

I BIG
AC Alexandre Gomes Vilas Boas
Avenida Emílio Ribas, 2115
Agência Gopoúva – CXP 1004
07051 970
Guarulhos– SP
Brasil

Artistas / correo artistas / cualquier persona de todo el mundo están invitados a enviar obras de arte para (BIG) Bienal Internacional Guarulhos del Pequeño Formato.
Los trabajos incluidos en las modalidades de dibujo, pintura, escultura…, objeto, ensamblaje, instalación, grabado, fotografía, arte electrónico y arte urbano: debe tener no más de 10 cm x 15 cm para las obras bidimensionales, 15 x 15 x 15 cm obras tridimensionales, las obras de vídeo debe tener por lo menos 15 segundos y hasta 1 minuto en formato mpeg. Documentación en línea. Ningún jurado, sin tasas, No hay vuelta Postal / No hay tasas de inscripción.

Enviar trabajos a:
I BIG
Alexandre Gomes Vilas Boas
Avenida Emilio Ribas, 2115
Agência Gopouva – Caixa Postal 1004
07051 970
Guarulhos-SP
Brasil

Artists / mail artists / anyone from around the world are invited to send artwork for Guarulhos International Biennial of Small Format Artworks

The works included in the modalities of drawing, painting, sculpture, object, assemblage, installati

Grupo Toca do Lobo - Mail Art Call

Convidamos voces para participarem do nosso Projeto de
Arte Postal
Mago ou Magi, plural da palavra Persa antiga magus,
significando tanto imagem quanto "um homem sábio",
que vêm do verbo cuja raiz é "meh", significando grande, e em sânscrito,
“maha". Mago usualmente denota aquele que pratica a magia ou ocultismo;
no entanto, pode indicar também alguém que possui conhecimentos e habilidades
superiores como, por exemplo, quando se diz que um músico é um "mago dos teclados",
pois toca com perfeição o instrumento musical.

Tema: Mago
Técnica: Livre
Tamanho: A4 ( no máximo)
Inicio do Projeto: 2010
Término do Projeto: 3 / 11 / 2013

Qualquer pessoa pode participar,
Artistas e qualquer pessoa ao redor do mundo, enviando trabalhos com o tema “Mago”.
Não Haverá Júri e os trabalhos recebidos não serão devolvidos.
Os Trabalhos serão catalogados e estarão disponível no blog da Toca do Lobo sem valor comercial.
Exposição dos trabalhos online no blog oficial da Toca do Lobo e exposição em espaço público.
Os trabalhos podem ser enviado para o endereço:

Grupo Toca do Lobo
Rua: Nossa Senhora Aparecida, novo Nº69 (antigo 28) Apto 21
Vila Fátima – Guarulhos – São Paulo
Brasil
Cep: 07191-191
email: tocadoloboartepostal@hotmail.com
blog: www.tocadoloboartepostal.blogspot.com

Hi Diane! I've posted your mail here on my blog. Apologies for being tardy, but the two months I spent in and out of town really bogged me down. I'm sending you something in the mail this week, I hope it doesn't disappoint.

Glad you like! Something else is on its way XX

Thanks my Trashpo DIVA for your Bday wish, :)

Diane, thank you for your comments! Some of my happy flowers are on the way to you!

:-)

Diane, good to be friends! See you and/or Send you! Willemien

Thank you Diane! I am curious! Warm nearly-winter greetings from Paris, Willemien

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Bonjour!

I got your card. Thankyou, It is truly BAD!

What's this about M.O. Bride Yuki and a dowry?

What's expected...sheep, camels, pigeons, bad mail art?

"Good girts go to heaven. Bad girls go partying", or something like that.

"Good mail artists go to heaven. Bad mail artists get involved in Diane's MOBA";

Regards,   Val

Bonjour! I'm not a Trashpo member so can't comment directly. But as to the preservation of the pîgeon, it was probably a piece of Dean Mark's mail art that's gotten passed around;. Val

Merci!

'Good girls go to heaven' is the title of a Meat Loaf song (written by Jim Steinman). The Loaf  gets the bumper sticker award.

My ex had a mantra that went something like, 'Good girls go to heaven, but I'm going shopping with the AmEx card'.

Send a photo of Yuki, please

Thanks! Yes, of course Yuki can make my clothes. Will she also be able to style my hair like her's?

17 yesterday! Some politically themed. Obviously the election is an in inspiration -- but of what I'm uncertain.

Hey Diane, got your great card yesterday - thanks! ^_^

My semi-silence & little work is due to an impending move... (thanks for noticing %_^)

14 Black today.

Do you think that De Villo Sloan is a real person? A real Mail Artist?

That DSM III is indeed pure genius and I've GOT to have it! I threw mine away but I think I still have a mini.

Thanks Diana I only wish I had thought of taking a photo with/of the waiter, too late now. Your piece hasn't arrived yet, how exciting!

Diane, your amazing envelope arrived today, and by golly what a beautiful sensitive drawing line you have. It will soon be in my blog i will let you know.

I've dumped your trash here, thanks you ;)

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