August 2011 Blog Posts (312)

Great postcard in the mail from Yvonne Neldel, she doesn't know it but I love red polkadottis. Thank you very much! Danke und liebe Grüße Svenja

Mail-art by IUOMA member Marie Wintzer (Saitama, Japan)

August 26, 2011 - Marie Wintzer is one of my best mail-art friends. So I was thrilled when I learned she and I would both have chapters in Edition #3 of the…

to simply display pieces that I have created, not for mail art, but for other projects here?  Would that be a misuse of the website?  Do others share artwork here?  Not just mail art... I mean?

Just pondering along....

Theresa sent this terrific little trash book that is anything but trashy:…

I received this fantastic trashbook today and feel like I hit the lottery. It is so amazing. NING wouldn't let me post every page not sure why but I will post the rest in another entry. The cover is that fantastic sandpaper Kat uses, I only realize now that I've posted this all upside down but it looks great any way you look at it. thank you so much for this Kat:)

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The envelope is Great...Thom used a news letter for this and then stamped, drew, collaged, stickered all over...Very Fun to check out every inch...then when I opened it, Thom shared some of his hand made "LIAM TRA" stickers!!! That was soooo awesome...thank you Thom...then on top of that there was some money!!!  hmmmm, now if I could just get the other half.... Thanks so much Thom....This certainly was my mail day.... *-*…

A great Collage over an Alaskan Post Card...Loved checking out EVERY aspect of this card... Jon is that you in the school age photo?  and if you look realllly close..there is a FACE in the black to the right...I love also how it looks like you put tape down and then pulled it up to strip away paper and then re-taped it over another part of the card...COOL.. and Thank you.....…

I got a wonderful envelope from Frieder Speck! The photo isn't as good as the real picture, it's already too dark to take a good photo - but I was so excited that I have to post it now!

Inside was a fabulous piece of art, which reveals that someone (Frieder?) can't keep any secrets! I love it, the tiny heads which are glued behind the…

On the back is the handwritten quotation:

"For some unknown reason, Mae thought about the number 5, whenever she looked at a de Kooning painting" (Her friends thought this was odd.)

The card featuring de Kooning's Lisbeth's Painting is altered by adding the number 5 and the thinking woman. Everything in the quote is depicted in combination on the…