February 2013 Blog Posts (219)

An U sent me a boekie, and a very chunky one at that. It's It feels lovely and makes crispy, crackly noises, and my cat was smelling it VERY intently! Do you have a cat at your house, Anete?

Have a read...…

I love this! An A4 sized Champagne postcard! Le Brun! Now Dean will surely remember than I'm not Burns, the crossed out name made me laugh! I'm hoping this house might belong to some of my distant ancestors...must look into my French genealogy…

My snake talisman has arrived from Alicia Starr!! After 2 snakey episodes already this year Alicia promised to send me a new talisman... the one she sent me last year must have had an expiry date.

The Minxus Mongoose, Night Security Guard, Buddha and Holy H2O should do the trick!!…

This is where I go is a mail art exhibition with a local (Vancouver, Canada) and worldwide call for 4 by 6 inch postcards.

My objective for this exhibition is to affirm everyone’s potential for creativity and to introduce my local (Vancouver) community to a movement they can be part of. 

This project consists of an exhibition held at Britannia Art Gallery—a community art gallery– in Vancouver…

Beautiful day with snow and sun. Lil Red Bag goes for a walk in Amsterdam. This is the Westerkerk with Westertoren. Slippery pavements, careful!

Very long queue... What are all these people waiting for so early on a sunny…

Received a lot of nice things from Jack Latteman, so time to send him something back today.......

A wonderful deluge of mail arrived for my 70th birthday, and I wish to share the joy.

Special thanks to ALL! xxx

Pink was from Sarah Churchill with beautiful stitchery:…

White winter transform fallen leaves into gold. And black seedspots dripping as a promise of the new creation. Thanks for these great feathery sketches, and sorry that I can´t really show them here in their real beauty. Thank you very much!…

An envelope full of art, and the envelope art itself came in. My first Mailartamail, thanks alot! Something will go on the way soon!…

Two similar…

Supercool fire-safety tattoo & beautiful boekie. New blog on snailmailsuus.blogspot.com.

I'm on cloud nine this a.m. Trashpo is official-

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In my haste to get the video of the show out, I neglected to put all the participants names in the credits. I am very sorry about this. I was so excited to show it and am also not very good with making videos, but I WILL fix this!!!!! If you know you participated and did not see…

To fold or not to fold, that is the question.  I received this Origami Banana and an original MAil Art Martha trademark postcard.  The item on the right is an add & pass, which is difficult for me as I never use envelopes, but I'll try.

Thank you Martha, I keep unfolding it and re-folding it to see how it…

This is what I like to use for collage. The surface is prepped for pastels but it's also excellent for collage!

At Blick's

I was beyond excited to get an envelope with the unmistakable writing of Nancy Bell Scott. She has never failed to replenish my art supplies==intuitively seeming to know when my trash stash is low. I love every last details and your artwork is beautiful. Thank you…

I was beyond excited to get an envelope with the unmistakable writing of Nancy Bell Scott. She has never failed to replenish my art supplies==intuitively seeming to know when my trash stash is low. I love every last details and your artwork is beautiful. Thank you…

A day later, I am still thinking about and laughing from this mail art. The Roadkill meat Platter Raffle is a great idea for DKult. Turkey…

The Jewel of South America

Taidgh's mail art is unbelievale. His style is unlike anything I've seen before and I love the whacky world he has created. He has trademarked…