November 2018 Blog Posts (164)

Still amazed that these pieces make it through the postal system. Note that the postage is on a thin bit of paper sticking up out of the cut-out envelope! And one bit is on the envelope itself. Somebody in the post office had to really think about how to frank this!…

So original and creative. I love this!

Richard apparently took his own advice and detached before mailing!

The last piece from William before he disappeared into the wild savagery of Paris. A stamped "Phobia" piece and of course, a wonderful…

Pam McVay sent some original doggie art,

so sweet, and with a nice touch-of-BLUE!

thank you, Pam,

mail art from Greece coming soon to you, too.…

Very lovely, very minimal,

Thank you so much,Julia,

Julia in West Virginia, travel to Penn State :-)

...liking the US postage CIRCLE stamps:…

One day in Berlin!

Elke Grundmann sent a large A4 fold-out card,

with a fabulous 3-d constructed composition:…

Large packet arrived from Erni in Hamburg,Germany,

always fun for the postman to see,

many images and wise words on the outside of the packet:…

Mail art by IUOMA member Anja Mattila-Tolvanen (Palkane, Finland)

November 22, 2018 - Apparently Anja Mattila-Tolvanen is among the ranks of those artists who believe I am – in truth – the great Monty Cantsin. Legends die hard, and I won’t expend any more time or space protesting I am not Monty Cantsin. (I suppose in a way we are all Monty Cantsin.)

I do, however, envy the great Monty Cantsin for having the ability to inspire Anja to…

A handmade envelope shows a tiger, me thinks.

So I opened it up and there is the Big Cat! Meow, grrrr.

Inside is something fishy:…

(even on Thanksgiving Day! ;-) From Kathy Barnett comes some skulls on the envelope, spiders on the card!

...and her magical skeletons inside,

that can dance and move their joints in all…

Interesting first zine from BonnieD... Thank you!!!

Mail art received from Sabrina S. yesterday...

Post service is up again in Belgium, so I receive today Autumn mail art in the mailbox

I love the tree/leaves stamping on the…

Cuan Miles often sends a tidy little package with postcard sized collages, smaller collages and even smaller ATCs. These are from two letters quite a while ago.  

So far I have not been able to produce any ATCs myself…

Who? who?This owl is bringing mail art to Thessaloniki,

...and this is the lovely owl that is inside the envelope.

Heleen does beautiful illustrations, and this original ,painted, postcard is…

A three-block print of the winter mountain,

BLUE on the slopes,…

An original watercolor postcard came in the mail the other day,

and it is stunning,

glad to see that ToFu was enjoying the warmth of Mexico!

Many thanks, hombre :-)…

Heavenly trashpo!

a fine baggie with goodies all the way from Brazil,

and inside , some fine mail art, too:…