I get it now!!  road kill+ white trash==trashpo!!!  I DID wait to open until my birthday. Thank you so much for thinking of me.  XO

DK

It looks better now that you have blogged it, thank you Katerina. You take so much trouble I am affraid this year I am only sending snail mail in response and do not blog. I am getting a lot of post and I cannot get enough time to blog it all, and it would be wrong to blog some only, such pity.

Dear sweet Katerina,

Thank you so much for your WONDERFUL birthday card!
Is it on the way to me?? :)
I LOVE it!

Thank you so much Katerina, for your virtual and also for your recent real cards!!  Planning to mail something soon! XXXXX

I got all confused, to are so generous with your birthday cards. I got the William Blake card, perfect timing and thank you of thinking of me!!! And I only remembered to open you birthday card with the horn full of plenty now! Thank you again!!

Love your new pic with the santa hat, cool, Mama Kate

Dear Katerina,
Your beautiful birthday card arrived in my mailbox today.

I loveeeee it!!!
Thank you so much!
Hope you have a wonderful week. :)

Hi Katrina, thank you for the Happy Birthday IUOMA card. The Sorcerer's Apprentice? Did you know that I live around the corner from Disneyland? That mouse is one of the noisiest neighbors I've ever had . . . although, it is fun to go over and play at his house, so there's a bit of a trade-off on the bad neighbor thing  :]

Mama Katerina!  Thank you for the wonderful Birthday Card!  You are so sweet! It was my first birthday card and is now brightening my life on my fridge. You are so thoughtful!

Jen

Add and pass mail art on it's way! :-)

I got this by email today:
"When people start to fight publically it might be time to just close IUOMA. This is not where I made it for."
The link brought me to the main page of this site wher I did not find anything about a fight.
Is it a hacker or there really has been a fight I do not know of?

I am sure you would have known of it so please reasure me all is well, Katerina.The shutting down of IUOMA is inconceivable!

Interesting that you don't know why you were attacked, I have never seen anything obnoxious or offensive coming from your kitchen.

I have already withdrawn from most groups on the IUOMA and would quite happily have retired completely had it not been for Filipetti's wonderful 'Blue Roads' group.  But all these current shenanigans are giving grist to my intention of quitting the IUOMA in May although the real reason for my retirement is because I want to do something else.  I am also going to reduce the amount of snail-mail I do.

There is an expression doing the rounds at the moment "Don't sweat the small stuff." Don't sweat the small stuff Kate.

hugs

rod

Merry Christmas and Happy NEW Year!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

-domenico.

C'est moi! It's a tribute to Phil Everly who died at the weekend.The collage is called 'Hairstyles', because circa, 1960, Don'n'Phil'n'Val had very similiar hairstyles. Two of these guys became very famous, and two are still alive. Yes, the Evs were very influential, and were really the first to sing harmonised rock. I only ever managed to play two tunes on the piano -- Handel's 'Water Music', and the Evs  'Tile I kised ya'. I saw them in concert twice -- one in London, the other time in Maastricht. RIP Phil

Hi! Concerning the Birthday Analysis of IUOMA members here is:

Today's News: Basically -- no change, with 'active' Membership hovering about 570; This could well be Erni's last day of freedom (but provisions have been made for that in this analysis -- see the note below for 10 January). We're with you, Erni! From the French barricades rings out the cry, "Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité et Arte Postale!"

What is the Greek equivalent of that rousing cry for freedom of Mail Art expression?

Shout it loud and clear. Thank you.

I was going to reading it in a mirror, but don't have a Greek mirror in the house.

So, er...thanks??

Greetings on Erni's Day, from one of IUOMA's 547 'active' members to another of them.....

Latest news and report from the 'Birthday Analysis':

Today's Headline News: predicted 'Active' Membership falls for the 5th day running to an all time low of 547 -- less than 17% of the nominal IUOMA membership.

Mail Art history will be made in Hamburg at 09.30 today when one Mail Artist (Erni Bar) presents himself at the local Police Station to defend himself against charges made against him by another Mail Artist.

Who is Erni's accuser? All should be clear later today. 10 January, could well be Erni's last day of freedom. We're with you, Erni! From the French barricades rings out the cry, "Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité et Arte Postale!

Kat, there are no cherries anywhere in the South of the Fleurieu Peninsula!! It was a bad year....will juniper berries do?? with tonic? ;-P

Thanks for the info. Will be ordering guests to bring me cherries and juice, etc all weekend. Yes, I can torment too!!

Hi Katerina. Happy mail art new year to you also!  Thank you for the mail art. Very nice with the blue greek cat :) 

Blogged your birthday card!

http://thepostalleger.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/katerina-never-misses-...

Bonjour!

Tear yourself away from the Hippo World Tour for a moment, Dear Katerina, and consider today's Birthday news:

Today's News:predicted IUOMA 'active' membership rises, for the 3rd day running, and now stands at 607. Today's Birthday Boys'n'Girls, all 6 of them, were evenly divided between 'activists' and 'non-activists'. One more week to go -- what will tomorrow bring?

Love the postcard KN! Thanks! :)

O Projeto de livro coletivo continua aqui com endereço atualizado: 

Bolg.: http://www.tocadoloboartepostal.blogspot.com.br/

Bonjour!

No need to buy any Birthday cards for today's IUOMA boys'n'girls, because none of them celebrating their 'anniversaires' are active here. Here's the headline news

Today's News:predicted IUOMA 'active' membership falls slightly to 611, but stays above the 600 level. Nearly 200 people have been incuded in this Analysis to date, but only 36 of them were around IUOMA enough to receive your and mine birthday greetings. And with 5 days to go.....? Watch this space for Tomorrow's Exciting Episode!

And, as usual, the rest of this 'absolutely fascinating analysis' (to quote B&T) can be found on my Blog;

BIRTHDAYS TODAY (15 JANUARY, 2013)....AND EVERYDAY FOR A MONTH OR S...

Bonjour!

Please see the Birthday Analysis report below.

Of course I'm only joking about the number of 'hits' it has received. They've all been for the Off Scene Akademie, the Pudding jumper, and all the rest of the Hamburg Aktion.

Today's News: predicted IUOMA 'active' membership rises to 636, and stays above the 600 level for the third day running. Over 200 people have been incuded in this Analysis to date, but only 40 of them were around IUOMA enough to receive your and mine birthday greetings. We wtill have 4 days to go before this month-lon analysis is finished. Will 'Active' Membership get over the 20% mark? It hasn't done so since New Year's Day. Watch this space for Tomorrow's Exciting Episode!

PS: 'Active' membership may, as several people have told me, be 'low' and disappointing', but the 'traffic' here on he site has been very high, with over 170,000 'hits' last month: BANG! (169,999 following this Blog, of course!

Bonjour! Very early start today, and I managed to get the data in my analysis for tomorrow's (18 January) birthdays. Here's the latest news:

Today's News: on the day when your one and only statistical analyst goes into hospital for surgery on his foot, IUOMA's predicted 'active' membership falls slightly to 630, or 19% of the total number of members. Membership has been between 16-21% since the New Year began, and has been constant at 18-19% for the last  week. With just 3 days to go, can it reach the 'magic' figure of 20% (as predicted by Mr Pareto)? Watch this space for Tomorrow's medical bulletin and Exciting Episode!

Thanks, Katerina. I ONLY do Greek dances with my red tasselled Greenk hat on, though.

I am home, and  recvering from the op -- that mainli involves sleeping for 48 hours to get rid of the effects of the general anaestheric, and not drinking alcohol for another 1" hours, 9 minutes and 11 seconds...not that I'm counting, of course!

Happy Birthday to....

Well, you're safer sending stuff to real-albeit-dead artists rather than IUOMA-here-in-theory-but-far-gone-in-practice ones.

Here's todays' latest news...one day to go! Watch this space! Click this blog etc (700+, I hope, views)!

Today's Last-Day-But-One News: a small increase in IUOMA"s 'Active' membership to 643, or -- the 'Magic' figure -- 20% of the total number of members. With just 1 Birthday Day days to go, can it stay at the 'Magic' 20% or even climb higher and prove Mr Pareto wrong?

Will more than 700 people view this Blog? (Come on folks make it happen, pleaaaeeeeese!)

Watch this space for Tomorrow's FINAL & EXCITING Episode where EVERYTHING will be revealed

Beautiful SunCoinsetThank you very much, ευχαριστώ Katerina!

I also blogged your beautiful mail art here.

Bonjour Katerina!

I hope you have a Happy and Sunny Greek Sunday.

here's the latest Birthday Analysis Headline News.

The Analysis is almost finished...one more day to go.

Regards,

 Val

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ONE MORE DAY TO GO: there's been a fall in the number of predicted IUOMA"s 'Active' membership to 632, or 19% of the total number of members. With just a single 'Birthday Day' to go, can the Active Membership receive a last minute birthday boost?

The Statistical Analysis suggests 'No', but, as Mark Twain said, there are 'Lies, damned lies, and statistics'. However, he didn't have anything to say about Mail Art and/or IUOMA

The FINAL & EXCITING EPISODE of this Nail-Biting Drama where EVERYTHING will be revealed will be broadcast about 06.30 (CET) tomorrow where EVERYTHING will be revealed!! DO NOT MISS IT!!!!

                                 And an INTERPRETATION of the figures will be offered.

Hi! Yes, I do realise that there are lots of Mail Artists, and Mail Art activity, outside IUOMA. But I'm only concerned with IUOMA's membership -- is it active or no? -- and nothing else. Ruud has figures that mention all sorts of things about the volume (170,000 views/month, for example) and type of activity, but they fall outside my little 'investigation'. I'll keep your point in mind, though, when I attempt some conclusions.

Merci! Val

Good Morning!

The Birthday Analysis is finbished. Here are the findings. Bestest, Val.

I have been 'monitoring' those IUOMA members whose Birthdays have appeared on the 'Birthdays Today' part of this site. I started this, because I did not recognise many of their names, and wondered if they were indeed active members of IUOMA?

This led me to try and define what an 'Active Member' was, and to see how many of those whose birthdays were listed are indeed active.

I found that about 1 in 5 of them were active, and extrapolated from this that the Active Membership of IUOMA (based on the starting figure of 3263 Members on 22 December, 2013, was, at the end of the month's analysis, about 630.

The daily statistics for the month long period are below. (As are the methodological and statistical shortcomings, of which I am only too well aware.)
Mark Twain wrote that there are 'Lies, damned lies, and statistics', and you can read whatever you like into my statistics (and lies!).

I draw the following conclusions from them:

i) about 20% of IUOMA's Members are 'Active' as I have defined it.

ii) the remaining 80% may or may not be active Mail Artists outside the IUOMA network

iii) at one time this 80% were active IUOMA Mail Artists --that's why they joined (but see vii) below!)

iv) it is not necessary to be in any network to be a Mail Artist (well, I suppose you have to have at least one other person in your network to send Mail Art too!)

v) within IUOMA, a small number of people are responsible for a large amount of activity. They are the 'Super Actives'.

vi) as to the rest of us, well, we have different levels of Mail Art activity. I see it a bit like a love affair: start enthusiastically and with great passion, but then what you do and how vigorously you do it sort of tails off over time, and eventually you just get to live with your Mail Art personage.

vii) many IUOMA Mail Artists have been and gone, and, I trust, are still Mail Arting. As Mail Art is supposed to be enjoyable, and it certainly is for me, I would like to dedicate this whole Blog to one of our number who you have probably never heard of, but whose approach to Mail Art somehow seems to encapsulate what it is all about: fun. This is Deletemeplease's profile:

She bcame a member of IUOMA, joined one Group, but never posted a message, photo, or blog, or joined a discussion, and has not been heard of or from since.

Vive Mme Deletemeplease!

Thank you so much!

Got your newest card in the mail today, thanks so much. Every time I pull my mail out of the box, I know when I have something from you. You've really created a voice and it's great. Thanks so much for sending and I'll send something in the mail very soon.

I've been slack about sharing...but as you can see I am setting about remedying the problem !

Grazie!

thanks for the NON mail art Kat!!!  very offensive.  I believe you were implying I had a heart of stone:)

xo

DK

Greek Mail Bird and Onion Elephant!
Published here.

Again thank you very much, Katerina, ευχαριστώ πολύ!

Something in the mail winging it's way to you! Enjoy!

Thanks for the beautiful "blue Greek security islands" collage and related tea-time fun!! "The constant comment" was the best----one of my favorites!!!!! They don't have the Lipton lime in the states, i will look online! Peace, love ,art, and tea!XOXOXOX,

Neil

Thank you very much for the Hedgehogs, Katerina!

They are amazing, also because they can be at two places at the same time: in the Onions group, and at the Real Weird Animals site :-)

Also thank you so much for the Dolphins and, above all, the Platypus, I'm so happy with all of them!
I'll post those later. Ευχαριστώ  πολύ, πάρα πολύ!