December 2013 Blog Posts (122)

Wild Billy Haddock stamp sent via Amy Irwen (Rosemount, Minnesota, USA)

December 6, 2013 - I have been a Haddock fan since the Zine Age. Haddock, aka Wild Bill Haddock and Billy Haddock, is a veteran mail-artist who is part of the…

Rod summers' "VEC" will be 40 years old in 2014! Wow!

Congratulations, Rod, and "many more years" : ΧΡΟΝΙΑ ΠΟΛΑ!

Beautiful "minimal" leaf and bits for Autumn...

thank you so much, Rod!

xxx…

Thank you, Guido!

This is so colorful, made the postman smile 

and wanted to know the story .

Very nice "vintage" ledger from Helder in Portugal for "TILT" : Money!

And already a few pages added.…

There is a place in Sigean, France..."La Rotonde"...

'was there with Val and a good glass of wine.

Now that Val has "given up walking...now flying" , my he be well!

Here is the "art side" of the altered card that my dear…

Yes, it takes THREE blogs for mail from Off-Scene Akademie Hamburg!

Erni is kind enough to FEED Art ...and also CHOCOLATE to Greece :-)

Sooooo...take a German Lebkuchen, with sliced almond atop:…

So, the box from Erni is OPEN and what is inside?

Under the paper towel:

And all kinds of fun surprise!

It is always like Christmas, when a parcel arrives from Hamburg:…

So today I packed up a parcel for the Haptic Werewolf (left) and went to the Greek Post

Office to send it TO Hamburg. Postal clerk Matina was all too happy to GIVE me a parcel

FROM Hamburg, too! (on right, see?). Talk about making our postal service HAPPY:…

Mail-art by IUOMA member Fine Art (Escondido, California, USA)

December 5, 2013 - New friend Fine Art in balmy…

Too too excited not to share this marvel!

("Timber" - ha ha ha! %_^)

I will just quote some of the text of the "thank you" letter I wrote Vizma:

"I feel like I should be addressing you as "lover-girl" instead of "greedy wench!" I received…

May everyone find their beautiful thing this holiday season....maybe even something you find in your hardt...

Stripygoose - #73 Noisy Shearwater...

Arttower - IOUMA Mail…

I received this cool piece, that includes a Trash Puzzle, from DK. The really cool part is that it arrived on my birthday.…

....some REAL Christmas cards/messages/envelopes, etc, mailed to me -- me, personally -- through the post, with a stamp, with my address on, etc. These I will value. To me they represent the spirit of Christmas.

What I do NOT, definitely do NOT, want are impersonal and mass electronic circular Christmas messages sent to me and a Hundred and One other people (and their dalmations) at the same time. These I do not…

WAU! and Holiday greetings from the Kunsthund Santa!

TWO collage cards from the Off-Scene Akademie of Hamburg are here!…

 December is here! It is the month of gold and silver for the mail art project…

Check out http://constructionsea.blogspot.com/2013/12/echolocations-cope-c-mehrl-bennett.html

for more! The postcard here is from Susan McAllister. …

Another boekie made up of sheets of toilet paper

stamped or "added" by mail artists around the world arrived in Greece.

What a great project..."Field Study" from David Dellafiora in Australia.

Here's a sampling of the pages…