February 2016 Blog Posts (274)

I'm skipping to the end of the wonderful fun we had getting mail & Gnome Gifts from Carina in Finland, so this will be a "backwards blog" in that sense.  I'm just eager to show you all the little pillow and reading material she hid away in a wonderful piece of mail art she sent to us. It was immediately put to good use.

Now I'll do a 360 and show you the…

Well I must admit, this is one of the most fantastic puzzles I have ever read.  It must have taken hours to make.  Then again the scanning of it was also a challenge!…

Dean has cut up packages and put them together into this new wonderful banana creation. Dean got his certificate in odd-shaped cards several years ago, and it's good to see he is faithful to this art form. I'm sure he has a banana box full of gathered banana…

This article by Bob Black changed my life thirty years ago...

http://bostonreview.net/archives/BR11.4/black.html

It has arrived in Greece! Happy HEART Day...everyday!

May have come earlier, but back logged at the post office,…

Wonderful envelope full of goodies!

A Peace Crane, tiny origami attached to a Japanese "wish" card.

'Shall hang on a tree, oh yes!…

Mail Art by Unknown (Orlando, Florida, USA)

February 22, 2016 - I received this very large postcard-size, laminated mail art from (I think) Orlando, Florida, headquarters of Disney World. My guess is…

Hello !
My mother « Granny Eliane » turns 80 on March 2.

Please, send her mailarts for her birthday !
She is so happy when she receives mail !

Her address is :

Eliane MOINE

2, rue de la Boudière

54000 Nancy
FRANCE



Thank you for her. 
She will answer you of course.

No. 000023…

More Redactive Poetry from Keith - thanks!

Only thirty more seconds here in Paris until World Banana day is over for another year.  Ops, it just turned another day.  But wait, I'm thinking that Finland is so North that maybe it's still  World Banana Day there.  In fact it's so North how…

Only ten more minutes here in Paris until World Banana day is over for another year.  So here it is, the one and only  Banana Split Moon by Katerina Nikoltsou.…

I received the above erasure poem from Keith Chambers. On the other side of it is the stamp below.

A few weeks before I got the compelling work above, I got the postcard below.…

Cover of DKult Doodle Therapy TLP #8, Before the Sunset Fades, compiled by IUOMA member Rebecca Guyver (Suffolk, UK)

February 21, 2016 - The new DKult Doodle Therapy TLP #8 has already…

The stamps are brilliant.  I think I'll submit them to La Poste !

Thank you…

Or the title could have been; "Cross Banana" Ops,…

This arrived some time ago but best to blog it on Banana Day!

Anna Banana sent a sheet of fun banana artistamps,…