June 2018 Blog Posts (161)

A very nice little boekie ( TLP)  +plus...arrived last week from Wisconsin!

Well done, full of color and vispo poetics! Enjoy the read:…

David Stanley Aponte loves to pack many things into a business envelope...or two...or three,

and me lovin' the BLUE on his recycled envelopes, too.…

Thank you Deb !

Thank you Judy !

Thank you Tiina !

Add & Pass sheet completed by Manuel Xio Blanco (Galicia, Spain) for E’s Fan Club. Starter by Monty Cantsin

June 3, 2018 - I am coming to accept the fact that my PO box has become North American headquarters for E’s Fan Club, which is being managed from some unknown, distant location by Monty Cantsin and Karen Eliot.

I received this very interesting E’s Fan Club a&p from Manuel Xio Blanco. I am not familiar with this artist, but a…

Mail art by IUOMA member Jayne B. Lyons (Lakeville, Minnesota, USA)

June 2, 2018 - I am so pleased to receive mail art from Jayne B. Lyons. I have already made Jayne’s acquaintance here at IUOMA-Ning. I find her engaging, curious about mail art history and – apparently – a born pack rat who collects and deals in vintage ephemera including stamps. This is a promising profile indeed for an artist bound for Eternal Network glory.

The…

A few months back I signed up for USPS "Informed Delivery."

As per the postal service's website: "Informed Delivery allows you to view greyscale images of the exterior, address side of letter-sized mailpieces and track packages in one convenient location.*

* Images are only provided for letter-sized mailpieces that are…

So lovely and light!...and BLUE!

they are embossed and very delicate feathers.

Also, Toni set many other goodies, too:…

Excellent handmade envelope by Brooke,

with a painting by Hopper,

and inside: vintage automobile!…

It's OK!

A fun box arrived the other day from Hamburg,

full of goodies ,…

I just received mail from Karen Eliot in France. 

Sabela sends me this wild fishy dance card Love the colors! Also she send me one of the E Fan Club Add & Passes, which I will send on to MomKat once I add my 3 cents to it!

I started this one, with adds by William M. and Judy. I LOVE the queen's head on the acrobat! Thanks, you two!

Bonnie's right, there is something inherently peaceful in a circle. These are lovely. Thank you!

Fleur combines photography  and art and a beautifully precise way of putting things together. This is her new format. Thanks, Fleur!

Brooke play with color and shape is so clean -- I love it. She tells me her daughter Isabel had some "significant" surgery a few weeks ago and both she and her daughter are pretty much housebound. Send 'em both some mail, everybody!

Haven't heard from Denise in a while --so nice to get this beautiful piece with the wonderful Rumi…

So helpful, David. Where can I find the outfit I have to wear to do these exercises? I haven't seen anything like that in about 50 years! Great envelope, too!…