April 2013 Blog Posts (201)

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...with this photo called "To no one yet"

A year or so later, the bag was given a name, Little Red Bag, and she's spent the last year travelling the world visiting mail artists! Now she's back!…

I received some fantastic mail lately, among them two trashbooks - one from Diane K. and one from Vizma, several pieces from Erni, collages, drawings and paintings from Svenja, Nancy, Cristina, Daria, MA Martha, Dean and Val, artistamps from J. Block and zine invitation from Jon, all of which I have not scanned and blogged yet. I just wanted to repeat my thanks and say how much I appreciate it all! I am quite busy right now with work and stuff, checking in on IUOMA only briefly once in a…

"to not care/give a fig" is defined by the online Cambridge Dictionary as "to not be at all worried by or interested in something." (dosankodebbie.japan.04.26.13)…

Amazing piece from Mr. Askew

Front: 

Back:…

Exhibition of mail art received while I was away at the seaside.

BLUE from Niklas Reed!

Niklas' card inside, "Chasing Ray":…

I drew a postcard today.

Who wants it?

Well what do you know, an envelope with life changing artwork by David Stafford arrived in my postbox today. It was in response to my last letter concerning the 57th step.

the front cover of my proposed epic Gothic poetry book.

reverse side…

Bonjour à tous,

PROJET

Thème : « Envoyez-moi votre âme ! »

Format : libre

Technique : libre

Date limite : Aucune

Documentation papier à tous et sur ce blog http://insomniesetartpostal.blogspot.com/

Adresse : « E » - Ambassade d’Utopia – 38 grande…

arttower, Germany:

Amy Irwen, Minnesota, USA:

Karen Champlin, Illinois, USA:

David Stafford, New Mexico, USA:…

Rider got this delightful drawing this week from Mail Art Martha's little friend, Indigo, who is 6.

He was very excited about it and built a little home for his new friend. . .

It is hard to tell in the picture, but this is the front of a…

Most intreguing! If you got one and didn't open it. . . Spoiler Alert!

OK-he came home from school with his face this dirty-this is the usual state of affairs, and I didn't have the heart to spoil the fun by subjecting him to the washcloth or even…

It is allways a pleasure to get mail from Member #2100!

Well, new material to test in the rubberstamp archivë. Will have a go with these wonderful items for sure!…

Heleen de Vaan (Netherlands) produced some very lovely PR-materials for the IUOMA.

One of them is this very clever IUOMA self-inking rubberstamp which she donated to the TAM Rubberstamp Archive and which I will be using on the new outgoing mail-art.

Last month was a busy month. Visits, work, and no time actually to deal with all that incoming mail that…

The most amazing box arrived, beautifully packaged in a cologne box, was the prototype for Dryerpo--from the Diane Keys Collection. This is Dkult's FIRST product line and it does not disappoint. A dirty wool sock was just the first of many pleasant surprises. The side of the box says "look for these other fine Diane Keys products:  trashpo supermarketadspo grocerylistpo--coming in supermarkets topopo, which I have no idea what that means but sounds intrigueing. ingredients are artisnal…

Richard has sent me some mail art saying he would dig up some trash poems that he had done. Well, this is the collection and they are fantastic!!…