Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)'s Blog – May 2018 Archive (33)

Painted envelopes by Ruud Janssen

Always a joy to see an envelope of lively colors by Ruud in the mailbox!

Another one that came some time before, too:…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on May 28, 2018 at 8:00am — No Comments

No name, no return address...but we know :-)

This guy struggling to hold down the flying whatever,

is David Stafford in New Mexico, with a "BatMan Octopus"?

I see an octopus...A Greek/Chinese octopus, blue even, and with a ancient coin, duh:…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on May 24, 2018 at 2:05pm — 6 Comments

Mail Art from Thess to Thess

Nasos is a new member here at IUOMA and sending

the tiniest envelope ever!

but it passed the HELLas postal machine and arrived safely.

what amazing can fit on a 7x11 cm (3x4inch) envelope!…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on May 24, 2018 at 2:04pm — No Comments

Heleen is puzzling me...

Two mellow-yellow envelopes arrived from Heleen,

and both contained pieces of a puzzle,

a trashpo puzzle of recycled cardboard,paper:…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on May 24, 2018 at 2:00pm — 9 Comments

Mary Grellner sends a trashpo baggie boekie plus

Mail fun items from Mary arrived in Greece! ATC, book marker, card,etc.

And a very lovely designed trashpo baggie boekie:…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on May 23, 2018 at 11:39am — No Comments

Ohhhh, amongst the crowd from Keye in Canada

Keye Climacosa created all these little characters,

on the envelope, and on the card inside:

and one…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on May 23, 2018 at 11:38am — No Comments

Artists-Artistamps from Cascadia Art Post

Jack Lattemann is making a great series of artistamps

with portraits of mail artists,

and I am happy to be among them (next to William M.)

And they are used in this stamp-collage:…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on May 23, 2018 at 11:30am — No Comments

BLUE from Taiwan

William stamping his hand-of-approval in BLUE!

'doing some fantastic stamping!

CHEERS!

I'm liking…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on May 19, 2018 at 4:20pm — 2 Comments

BLUE from Snooks and Angie :-)

Fine beautiful BLUE...blue-green...

Oh, this warms a MomKat heart!

with a stamp-of-approval by Snooks :-)…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on May 19, 2018 at 4:19pm — 1 Comment

It's VIOLET from Matthew Stolte

A richly royal colored envelope, with stickers and fun,

full of some mail art goodies...Add 'n Pass:…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on May 19, 2018 at 4:15pm — 1 Comment

CIRCLES...stitched from Amy Irwen

Came in a see-through and liked by my postman, too!

Beautifully executed and lovely textures!

What's not to looove about this creation,

even the flip side is fascinating:…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on May 17, 2018 at 6:53pm — 13 Comments

From Pat Landon in Florida, USA

Selvages, of course...and fun stickers on the envelope:

Inside, a very nice card:

Thank you, Pat,…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on May 17, 2018 at 6:52pm — No Comments

Tree of Spring from Heleen in the Netherlands

A tree, a tree...it's all in-the-name :-)

Heleen's illustrations-stamp cards are fabulous.

Here are trees...beautifully painted!…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on May 16, 2018 at 8:34am — No Comments

Yellow "eyes" from Ruud :-)

'Gotta love Ruud's painted envelopes!

"Eye" see yellow eyes :-)

And inside, a packet full mail art goodies:…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on May 16, 2018 at 8:19am — 2 Comments

GREEN from Jon Foster

Happy mail art arrived from Jon,

in this GREEN envelope full of mail art goodies:

...battling the great…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on May 16, 2018 at 8:17am — No Comments

Ficus Fractals splashes in the mail

Yet another colorful SPLASH packet from Fike!

with three special cards inside...me liking the asemic (been there, done that :-)…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on May 16, 2018 at 8:15am — 1 Comment

Keith Chambers sending nice print

Colorful postcard with creative block printing:

I'm liking this very much! ORANGE-green-touch of yellow!…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on May 15, 2018 at 10:26am — 3 Comments

"Blackbird" zine from David Stone

This is A4 size, with cover design by Cheryl Penn,

Contributions by many:

A special edition with writings…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on May 15, 2018 at 10:25am — No Comments

Army mail from Mike Parsons

Always fun to see "MomKat" mail from Mike,

and inside a vintage 1945 envelope from the Army!

Excellent…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on May 15, 2018 at 10:24am — No Comments

BLUE from Tofu!

Wonderful multi-print with BLUE,

super nice Spring!

Always great postage, too:

Thank…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on May 11, 2018 at 8:35am — 2 Comments

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