April 2018 Blog Posts (132)

Splashes of wonderful COLOR!

all about the envelope:

and surprise cards inside as well:…

The envelope was "basically" colors :-) all the way from Bangkok!

Inside, very joyful art, too:

Nature at…

Bernard Zilling sends "love" and color popping out all over!…

A rare mailing came last week, from Clemente Padin,

and it took a long time to arrive: since it was mailed on February 5!!! Wow!

But so nice that it made it, a joy to see Clemente:…

Fellow Minnesotan, Amy Irwen has sent me lots of mail art goodies...three Add + Passes, some FAKE $$$$, a Humming Bird note pad AND...an envelope with cool postage stamps and unique rubber stamp images!

Love it, Amy! Your prolific work with mail art really inspires…

NATURE, lovely nature! From France! I'm a sucker for backyard birds and flowers ~ heck, I love all nature. So, of course this beautiful mail art from Elena is a welcomed piece for me. Thank you, friend! 

In Elena's note to me she referred to the mail I sent her. She mentioned that I speak French well. Truth time, Elena ... I cheated by…

This blue-eyed "sadsack stuffy" add + pass made its way to me from Winter Garden, FL. Arrived in my Minnesota mailbox on April 14. Thanks, Amber...This will be an interesting (and cute) A+P to start!

April 13 brought this FAB mail art from Jon Foster! Love it, thanks Jon! 

The mail includes a note about Add + Passes ~ how they are fun, but can pile up quickly. He suggests just having fun, and not spending much time making them perfect.

Jon ends with telling me that when I want to work on a collab book, to let him know.…

This full packet arrived some time ago,RED hot!

Now finding time to blog...DADA and all, from April10th!…

From the Celestial Scribe (Patricio)- a lovely religious envelope , and several pieces with interesting quotes. Sad to report that your Celestial note  was stuck to the inside of the envelope (glued) and as I was taking it out , some of it, is illegible. :(

Thanks…

Stickers and selvages...lots and lots on this fab envelope!

KitKat, too :-)

From the "Migrant" project:…

It's MIMimal! Very Josef Alberts inspiration.

 Very nice indeed, and also Mim sent more punched CIRCLES! Yay!

There is also an A4 page included with a nice letter :-)…

This arrived while i was away on a trip to Athens,

now i am back home and it is a joy to see all the mail art waiting to be shared and blogged.…

"DOTS" came in today's, Friday's mail delivery!

Super nice painted  envelope

...and a bit of ORANGE for Holland today:-)

Inside was an ATC size encaustic hard board

painted beautifully:…

Thank you Heide !!

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