FinnBadger's Blog – July 2015 Archive (10)

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Martha sent this great minizine featuring her drawings of a pair of horses she met. It is enclosed in one of her trademark newspaper homemade envelopes, and accompanied with a trashpo flyer, and a collage where she reused part of the envelope and art I sent her.…

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Added by FinnBadger on July 29, 2015 at 2:09pm — 2 Comments

Artist in Seine in America

AiS sneakily sent a card from his trip to the US. There is always a lot to look at on his mail art and I almost didn't notice the stamp - it is from one of my favorite sets, EarthScapes.…

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Added by FinnBadger on July 27, 2015 at 9:14pm — 5 Comments

Fab bag book from MomKat

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Added by FinnBadger on July 24, 2015 at 2:17pm — 2 Comments

These shoes suck, but this book rocks!

Minneapolis Gnome (Steve) sent me a fantastic art book!

It arrived in a Chipotle wrapping paper envelope (I looked for a burrito but didn't notice one).…

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Added by FinnBadger on July 23, 2015 at 2:21am — 4 Comments

Cats and dog bone

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?…

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Added by FinnBadger on July 20, 2015 at 2:42pm — No Comments

A two chicken adventure

Stripygoose was one of the London Pub Collective 2014 who sent me mail art. I sent her an LPC packet, and she sent me this great homemade envelope. The bird's eye is a little freaky!

Inside, one of her trademark birds.…

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Added by FinnBadger on July 19, 2015 at 4:16pm — No Comments

Life collage from Jon

Vibrant life collage received from Jon.

Thank you!

Added by FinnBadger on July 18, 2015 at 2:15pm — No Comments

Cupcake with a hidden message

Linda F sent me this silk and plastic cupcake through the mail. It has a large label attached which partly covers some of the cool vintage stamps. These are from the 1984 set issued for the 23rd Summer Games held in Los Angeles, and feature the following sports: wrestling, kayak, diving and long jump.

The large postage label covered the entire message on the back - it peeled off enough to see that it was from Linda, but the rest of her…

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Added by FinnBadger on July 12, 2015 at 3:40pm — No Comments

Ronald McDonald (almost) gets Goofy

Another fascinating envelope from Keith.

Containing, among other things, this gem:…

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Added by FinnBadger on July 11, 2015 at 2:02pm — No Comments

Incoming from DKULT

Plastic bag folded into an envelope shape.

And double-sided trashpo.…

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Added by FinnBadger on July 9, 2015 at 3:54pm — 2 Comments

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