March 2016 Blog Posts (267)

So I realized after sending out some mail the other day that I've been having some anxiety about the receiving of said mail (like emotional not physical). It has impacted my attempts at making more mail art. After a little thought I've come to realize I just haven't been here long and don't know any of you (yet). So in an attempt to keep this sweet & simple I purpose a game...

My 'Post Title' are key descriptors of my recent art endeavor (excluding the phrase GAME TIME!).…

Correct me if I'm wrong, but (as the postage has already been paid by the addressee/original sender) one could technically repurpose pre-metered envelopes without additional postage for personal correspondence, aye?

Back in the 1990s, a couple of friends sent me letters in these envelopes, and no one went to prison.

Thank you for any and all…

Ain't No Mountain High Enough from Birthe's Mail Art to arrive.  I think the word here is; "Stunning".

Thank you Birthe, I'll send you something back, but it won't be at this level.

Bumblebee C. Sent me this Pop Up card of the Singing Nun which when opened properly reveals a Brother Superior wielding a dangerous putty knife. (S)he's also exhibiting some transgressive behaviors which makes me wonder if Bumblebee knows Dame Mailarta also from Victoria. Also included in her envelope:…

Mail art from Heleen also arrived postmarked  for "Leap Day": 29.II.16

Very special envelope, with "snail mail" inside:…

Quick arrival, the Artist in Seine sent an amazingly large card, No. 1-2-3-4!

La Poste and HELLenic Post may have seen the markings for "Leap Year" 

as it was a very fast delivery!And all the wonderfully mellow-yellow…

Cool hand carved stamps/and or Prints from the desk of ed!

envie..

sheet 1 and 2

AND...AMAZING ATC's from…

From Anaheim, California, comes a simple message...

and  of course we know that "pulchritude" means "η ωραιότης",

(it's Greek to me you see :-)

It's in the postage stamps and stampings...

Spring has…

It's recycled, reused, refreshingly DKult!

And some details, pay attention, very important:…

Something special from the Off-Scene Akademie in Hamburg!

It is a well-wrapped package,

in need of…

Blue Time Post stamped 29 February 2016 arrived today in Paris.  Boy that was fast.  My guess is that Kats made 40 of these and someone has to buy all of them back…

The Greek Post wrapped in security plastic InSeine's "boxed" mail art from Paris,

...and how appropriate to have a sticker notice in French and Greek .

This is the "box" collage (slightly smashed):…

Very nice surprise in the mailbox! Artistamps from Wisconsin !

...collaboration with the Bennetts at "Luna Bisonte".…

I am so excited--these are the first artistamps anyone has ever sent me! And they're gorgeous. So is the little painting, which has a tiny sticker on it that says "pass" but I don't think I will.…

TWO minizines arrived from Olivia today! Both are, to use a word I really don't like much, adorable. But they are. I especially love the little frog in a top hat.…

Really lovely PC from Dean. The photo definitely doesn't do it justice. It says "Happiness is here and now."…

Juana Almaguer sends me this hand carved print ATC of SAM, the monkey who went into space for N.A.S.A. It's so beautiful and sad.

He must have seen how much I like tissue paper--this clock has a very complex history which he explained to me but my brain is fried right now so I don't remember it all. Something about how the Romans had two 24ths or two 26ths in February? And this wonderful erasure poem inside the fabulous clock envelope.…

Love this clock from MomKat! Also check out these leaping people on the reverse. Plus, stickers on the inside of the envelope!…

Just love Heleen's hand painted crows and artistamp "perforations." Her monkey envelope is pretty sweet, too.…