December 2012 Blog Posts (238)

Lettres d'amour = love letters

Factures = invoices - bills

Smile from France !

Laurence

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Lettres d'amour = Love letters

Factures = Invoices

Smile from France. Laurence

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Erni lives, "E" is not dead

http://insomniesetartpostal.blogspot.fr/2012/12/recu-de-erni-bar-allemagne_9.html…

I have two blogs that I blog on regularly. One is for my Mail Art and for other things in my life - nothing really personal, however, as I like to keep things personal. I have lots of images of my trips, mainly our artist residencies in Paris. They were always so meaningful in terms of being able to create work. Also, I got to visit with Dean, Andy, Elena, and Positively Postal early in 2012.  The other is my recipe blog. I was going to put my Mail Art on it but ended up using it for my…

Many of the IUOMA members are familiar with Christine; many were friends of hers both off and online. For those of you who are new to IUOMA and did not know who she was, she was a member of IUOMA, a believer in Fluxus, and a talented artist and teacher. She was also an avid gardener, and for those of you who want to find a way to remember her, my suggestion is that you plant a plant in her memory in the springtime. She would appreciate that. It can be a vegetable, shrub or tree - perhaps…

Thank you, Carina for the way cool postcard!!

The following was written and posted on her Facebook page. Please take the time to leave your thoughts on her page or, as she suggested, make some art.

Christine Tarantino, 64, of Wendell, Massachusetts, died on December 7, 2012 at Hospice of the Fisher Home in North Amherst, Massachusetts. She leaves her loving partner, Douglas Dawson, and their two cats, Oscar and Lucy; her brother, Peter Tarantino, of San Carlos, California; her nephew, Kyle, and her niece, Lauren;…

This one makes me a bit sad. Erni sent this to me after he left IUOMA less than a week ago.

The typically large envelope full of stamps and stickers on the reverse side shows a large version of Erni the Art Hammer, which as far as I know, came from Antonin Grigori. It also includes also a message: Gestapo has just left the building.…

This card does not reveal the sender, so I am making a wild guess. I think it is from David Stafford, who's pieces elsewhere are being sold for hundreds and thousands of dollars! He kindly offered to send me something for free.

I had a…

Some time ago Dean and I had a discussion about a particular type of vintage tourist postcards, where an image of the place is placed within the letters of the name, which I like. Dean came up with the term "raised letters". And now he…

A nice surprise came this week from South Africa from Cuan Miles. A surprise because we had no contact before. However, I did send something to South Africa a while ago. 

The card is a delicate collage of a piece of…

This letter came a while ago, but I forgot to blog it. A beautiful dark blue envelope with an angel holding scales and lots of stamp portraits of mail artists. 

I recognize Erni Bär and as far as I know one shows "E" himself. Included was…

Here's goodies from Amy: Here's the book from various artists:…

It must be a secret society!!!!  The evidence is MISSING *!*

What is the secret handshake, so I can get the exact location...…

Received documentation from E this week...Ambassade D'Utopia had 216 artists participate...

Happy Holiday's "E".... *!*

Who IS that guy in the picture? Thanks for sending to me E : > )

...always find your way back to love... that's just perfect and I was treated to a fab haloween poem too. Thanks Thom : > )

thanks you Val, Dean Taidgh, XXJones and Claudia - I'm very late in thanking you but trust me these have all brightened my day - even though the actual day was a bit of a while ago : > )

What a great surprise to see mail art from Nancy Bell Scott!

The envelope is all map, inside and out, and I loooove maps, and map fragments!

This is easy to recognize locations...it is China and Japan,

and an old map…