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Happy to see mail art from Thom!

Two nice stamps, liking both very much!

They arrived in a hand-made envelope,…

Wonderful watercolor surprise arrived today from G.V.

Not  from Guido but from Gilberte Vermeulen!

For April 10, the Birthday Mania project, honoring 2013: 25 Years of IUOMA!

...and I like this calendar page on the flip side…

Always a treat to open mail art from Suus in Mokum!

This time she worked diligently on the checkerboard design,…

New blog on snailmailsuus.blogspot.com

I have been feeling so badly about not posting the entries from the 2012 Skull appreciation day Mail Art exhibit. BUT I'm finally getting to it, and if you entered last year, please check the blog to see if yours has been posted yet. I'm doing a few at a time because I have a shared scanner these days. I'll get them all up soon, because the 2013 event is coming up soon. You can prepared for it and once I have the details, I'll post them and you can enter your skull!

Valentine told me a while ago he had sent a package, a mail art starter kit, to Rider, my seven year old and I have been biting my tongue trying to keep it secret! Well, it arrived on a beautiful day yesterday when we were all out working in the garden and the secret spilled out, wonder after wonders! …

From Cuan Miles, South-Africa:

From Stephanie Turnbull, United Kingdom:

From Svenja Wahl, Germany:…

Some amazing stuff arrived this week, but I haven't been able to document it until today- 

Just in time for the last class, (and library exhibit, we think) ,Taidgh's brilliant envelope arrived with a booklet letter on mail art-we've been given the go ahead to quote him in the exhibition catalogue, whatever form that might take! So-behold!…

A very intriguing postcard, framed in a mat...mail just as is....came today...I keep coming back to it...it is drawing me to look deeper...

side 1 -

side 2 -

Carolyn is AKA "flypaper and kerosene"... thank you…

Susan, this piece if fantastic...love the colors and super texture *!*

a great mail art envelope full of surprises...thank you Judy *!*

What a wonderful idea and beautiful piece of art...

Thank you TOFU *!*

Tina is playing with some handcarved stamps...

Thank you Tina *!*

Mail art Received by Jay Block and it makes me consider the graffiti in mail art.…

I lived in Greece : Crete, Mykonos, Athens in the 70s and 80s - we had a design business and hotel in Crete.  I must visit Greece soon!

thanks MomKat!  I will certainly visit Notting Hill - can you tell me your real name and where you live.. and your special interest in this area of London. Yes, I haven't been using this site for a long time....

Always a "special delivery" when mail art arrives from Marie Wintzer in Japan!

...grand mountain...grand wave!

Another hand-made envelope, this one constructed from a Japanese magazine page:

fantastic inside and…