December 2012 Blog Posts (238)

A simply wonderful Christmas card!  Thank you so much Claire!

     The Long package arrived to our gardien (concierge).  She said directly to the mailman; "That must be for Mr. Marks".  Yes, she now knows Erni's art when she sees it.

     I open the box and all of these things popped out.  And yes, I should have taken this picture before half that chocolate bar was gone.  Not very professional of me. Was that Nancy speaking about self control?

     So I put on the oven glove and clapped my hands.  It worked !!! No noise.  I replaced the…

This was Assignment No. 4 in Moan Lisa's Art Academy. Starting point was a piece of everyday clothing. I might have been the only one to take this literal - I altered a ladies undershirt with paper and…

In the last last couple of weeks I sent out quite a few letters with various things inside including a piece of a puzzle. It is a fragment of poster of a painting; all in all there are 16 pieces. I hope all the recipients will post their piece online. The first one to guess the artist/ subject matter of the painting will receive a special price. …

When you recieve mail art from Dame Mailarta, you know it.  A large envelope filled to the brim with all sorts of things to amaze you.  OH dear, a Boy Scout badge!  I always wanted one, but you had to do goodie good stuff to get one, and that wasn't my thing at the time.  However, once I did get a badge that said; "Danger to Brownies".

    Also included here is a really pro publication of Dame Mailarta's Diamond Jubilee Mail Art Exhibition.  Now that took a lot of time and effort to…

When it rains, it pours.  Or as they say in Mail Art Martha's Retailia, it's raining like barcodes.

And with that a blue xmas tree with a white Paris skyline.

What else can I say but, Thank you…

Val travelled all the way to Newcastle in the UK to get this landing card and to empty his bank account for me.  An activity I hope catches on for the rest of you.

Thank you Val, now what can I buy with 9p?

My first ever mail art from Willemien who sometimes lives across the river from me.  However, this one is sent from Germany.  Shades of green, we forget how powerful green can be.  Lovely to see washrooms in nature. Yes, look again.

On the back it reads; "Mobilin Die Kinderseiten in Zusain".  I'll have to get out my German dictonary out, but at first glance, I…

A wonderful little surprise from Sarah which arrived in a homemade envelope.  At first I didn't see it. I read the title on the back, I looked at the picture again, read the back, looked again.  And there it was; Lava flowing from the spice cone.  I guess it just looked normal to me.  Very funny and clever.

But wait, there's more.  Inside the homemade envelope…

Jay is a new IUOMA friend...very lucky and surprised to find this in my mailbox this week...thank you Jay *~*

Look forward to future exchanges in 2013....

Melissa is awesome with her digital designs....thanks *!*

The dominant colour seems to be orange! New blog on http://snailmailsuus.blogspot.nl/.

Guido, coincidence |kōˈinsədəns, -ˌdens|noun1 a remarkable concurrence of…

from Agatha Christie's Miss Marple, right Richard? Haptically rock solid in my book. Thanks.…

Susanna sent me the most amazing bound book of laser copied collages and I was so thrilled to see some bits of found trash that I had sent her included. I would scan every page but there are so many I just love this!!! Next is something from Eduardo Cordosa

many items helpful for the running of DKult. DKult Portugal recruitment campaigns seem to…

Yes in the left corner, it's a mink (or otter), carrying a fruit basket! Confusing message but I love it!

Rebecca, I like this…

Mail Art Omen has again left a lot of material to Dean, ok, actually it was mail artist Ana Kawajiri who generously…