May 2015 Blog Posts (171)

We've been seeing this series and now one has arrived in Greece!

Poor frog, what is its fate? "boooo" who?…

'Rarely show my address as not to distract from envelope art

but of course, an address written by Richard is the ART!

and there is an intriguing print on the envelope, too:…

The London meet-up gang: LPC, are making and sending!

But I am way slow and behind, still lots to BLOG... acck!

Very nice collages from Scott. What a poor bear ...aw:…

Richly colored envelope from Martha was waiting in my mailbox,

and it has the "bunny washi" and the Queen!…

Fun series that Stripygoose is creating :-)

and the birdie-on-the-back is with BLUE, too!

Ah, we had a great fun in London, twas good seeing you!…

We are flying, we are flying...

All the way from Malta, the Knights of Malta reign!

Beautiful mosaic art on…

Shoes seems to be the theme today.  This is fun. I once bought shoes in Iowa from a specialized Drug Store, I don't know what they laced them with but I was tripping…

Mix in a little drawing, and there you have it.  Thunderbirds! I thought to title this one "Everything's F.A.B."  But then I saw the shoes!  And those are not cat eyes either. Fun, exciting & inspiring.  Why stop at five?   Thank you…

How to describe Licht? I love Eduardo's…

Emily recycles materials in…

Ruud has sent me a real IUOMA-stamp! New blog here ->

Beautiful print by Finnbadger from the London Pub Collective meet up :-)

With beautiful BLUE card too! (4x blue postcards actually?)

It came it this playful handmade A4 envelope

with all these "friends" greeting the postman:…

Nice brown envelope from Amy "5089", with even nicer "washi":

All about "the post"...and exactly the same washi tape that was on an envelope 

from Carmela in California :-)…

'Have many mail art duties to perform with many add 'n pass work to do.

This looks like fun, and hope to get it in the mail to some lucky person this week!

Also, Carmela sent this page too:…

Two envelopes arrived from Jack,

both for this new planting season :-)

One had the packet of flower seeds:…

Always fun to receive mail art from John,

always fun surprises inside and out...

and this time I get to add-to-and-return the Starn Twins, yay!…

Now this is vintage mail art! A real treasure began in 1983 (that I may send out yet again...)

It came in with the above..."fase" and new art directions for Ruud!

Check out the amazing details:

"trashpo" and…

Mail art by IUOMA member Linda French (Two Harbors, Minnesota, USA)

May 18, 2015 - Moan Lisa has a true talent for inventing mail art calls and concepts that have widespread appeal. The Bad Poetry call is one, as is…

“new art directions” (phase 6) by Ruud Janssen (Breda, Netherlands)

May 17, 2015 - Ruud Janssen has created many charts mapping trends, events, strategies, theories and other subjects related to mail art and Fluxus. These charts are…