November 2014 Blog Posts (199)

I am flat broke at the moment so I have a whole sack of unstamped mail waiting to go out...so for those I've promised mail to - pls be patient: it is ready and will be sent on payday. The mail will of course take priority over school fees and electricity bills, no question of that! ...Of course this is all assuming the post office has enough stamps for me - i'll definitely be depleting their stock significantly!

thank you Susan

The texture is amazing on this piece... many thanks

Welcome back and many thanks XX Jones

I really like this card, but I cannot determine who sent it. Asemic signatures have limitations. …

Can you spot the banana?  This page folds up to be a very nice story book.  No, I don't think that Rebecca drew the images up side down.  It's just the way it turned out on the scanner.  Love this idea.…

I honestly believe that Lynn is on to a new art movement here.  It's memorizing.  I even tried putting it in my microwave to watch it turn around.  "Far Out", as we use to say.  But kids, don't try this at home.  I'm a trained professional, and the first one on our block to have a…

It's like the song; Ba Ba Banana, have you any wool?   No Sir, No Sir only peels.  OK, OK, I'll work on the lyrics a bit more.

    This Banana little gem came right in time for interNational Banana apprecation day on the 18th of November.  The Banana group celebrates it every year with a Mail Art Call for Banana art.  It's good fun.…

Dear Fellow Mail Artists:  

We all like sending mail and we know how great it feels to get it, right?  Real mail from real people (instead of junk mail churning out from machines) brings joy, makes us feel connected to others and brightens our days.

Think what a huge impact we could have by including socially isolated elderly or ill people in our regular…

Mail-art by IUOMA member Jack Oudyn (Ormiston, Queensland, Australia)

November 18, 2014 - I believe Jack Oudyn is making original and important contributions in the spirit of the spectacular vispo and related…

            Eu não poderia amanhecer sem seu amor, sem ele nada sou...pois és um rio desaguando em mim onde sou seu mar que nunca vai ter fim. Meus pensamentos são flores perfumando os caminhos e atalhos que me levam á você...pois me fascinam de um jeito que não sei explicar. Você é ternura, pecado e luxúria um sonho encantado, meu espelho, meu poema...quando a gente ama…

The above photo shows an amazing example of what can be done with a little stamp dater!

Pier Roberto Bassi is sending out A4 sheets with mail artists' names

and we are to create, add, alter using a stamp dater.…

This very colorful envelope arrived today with a "skull"

and the "airmail" edges are hand made!

Full of…

Very nice mail art arrived from Art Tower,watercolor: "Big Mother"

Yes, a very HAPPY mail art day! And in a super great hand painted envelope:…

Stamp by IUOMA member The Blessed Father (San Diego, California, USA)

November 16, 2014 - I am inept and otherwise clueless when it comes to the art of making stamps. I have to rely upon the generosity of strangers, as…