July 2015 Blog Posts (151)

This is nice to see in the mailbox!

Full of wonderful messages for all to read:

and inside: ART and my fav,…

Mail art by unknown trashpoet (Liverpool, UK)

July 20, 2015 - I have received some wonderful, D-Klassic, anti-art derived Trashpo from Liverpool in Britain. Unfortunately, I am unable to identify the sender and do not…

Sadly some of my collage blocks got knocked to the ground at a show recently and are in a less than perfect condition for me to sell.

Would anyone like one?

They're original cut and paste collages on thick 2.5" x 3.5" pine. (ATC size) Ready to hang or prop on a shelf.

I guess I could take them apart and sand them, but that makes me a bit…

Jan sent me a great, bone-shaped piece of mail art.

Complete with these amazing cat stamps that were, sadly, cancelled with a scribble. Does the PO really think I'll soak this to try to reuse the stamps?…

Bando - PACIFICA – MENTE arte e mentalità di pace in un secolo di guerre 1915 - 2015 INIZIATIVA INTERNAZIONALE di MAIL ART a SANT’ORESTE

A thick card, layered in RED arrived,

and I dared to slice it open...like a small book cover,

found a nice collage card inside:…

He was there!

...and so was Napoleon :-)

Bullet holes from the Battle to prove it!…

Mail art by IUOMA member David Stafford (Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA)

July 18, 2015 - Actually it is not a journal; it is a large postcard-size piece from David Stafford that looks like a journal cover. I am thrilled…

...and on a beautiful BLUE envelope!Another mail art piece from Fleur!

Lovely flower within, of course :-)

Me thinks it is a "Mexicana Rose"...simple pink rose that are growing

all over the place here at the seaside shack in…

This also in the mailbox...meow!

Beautiful art work...

and it arrived with many BLUE cats :-)

...in…

Arrived in the HOT city and found lots of mail art awaiting :-)

A fun black cat from MailArt Martha plus summer ATC!

and from the Adagio Cafe with Stripygoose.…

Here comes another w.w.w.* from Japan. Wise message on a HOT day in Greece!

Some nice old, vintage stamping for the Sky Traveler on the flip side:…

Lorraine sent a card with ALL the stamps received!

And it is hard to see details:

but perhaps you can spot…

From a very young mail artist, Misra, comes a very nice card with stamps.

...and a cut-out HEART...recycled…

Mail art by IUOMA member Lucky Pierre (Charleston, South Carolina, USA)

July 18, 2015 - This is slightly convoluted. Queen of Trashpo Diane Keys (Elgin, Illinois, USA) posted a comment saying she might be losing her…

Here is a matchbox and collab collage from Nikki Soppelsa USA…

Vibrant life collage received from Jon.

Mail art by IUOMA member Dopesick San Francisco aka Michael Kelly (Plymouth, Massachusetts, USA)

July 17, 2015 - A few years ago I started seeing work by Dopesick San Francisco (DSF) posted online. I was impressed, a little…

Hi I just got a mail from San Francisco. 

I cannot read her? hand writing and don't know whose is this.

I could read San Francisco CA, and also she is working on matchbox.

If anybody sent me, or anybody know whose it is, please let me know. 

Thank you.

Right now Osaka is in the middle of typhoon, so this is little damp. …