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Last week I mistook the art charms for the trashpo buttons! But now they arrived, supercool. Thanks Stephanie, Diane and Claire - more than cool. 

So I wrote the below material on my blog and felt I needed to share it. Just a thank you to all you lovely people.

"I have to think the lovely people at IUOMA for getting me exciting about making things, no matter how stupid or trivial. Since joining that lovely group of people I’ve been overrun with ideas for projects. It started with trading postcards across the world with people that I’ll never meet, then I did that zine about China and sent it across the world, then the…

Suus and I are having a "BLUE" exchange...

and she now has begun painting her own papers and they are fabulous!

Look at the tones and strokes and spots ad dots!...oh, so very nice, Suus! Thank…

Elegant!...and perfect for displaying on the side of my bookshelves.

Surely will bring good vibrations to the studio apartment!

Musical messages in asemic-style (for me), on chopsticks, knotted together...…

A beautiful giddy astronomical work from Dean!  A work that makes me think back on the Canticle of the Sun, I sang in the junior club and my time in the Masonic Society (joke)!

Note the buttons on the green line!

Love the mysterious arrangement,…

It's trashpo, and it's rustpo, and it hangs: 

Opening this was like ZING--is it my birthday?--it would be hard to choose one, but this has to…

This is in the top of the line of the Old Orchard Beach collection: 

Yes, Katerina found this elegantly and thoroughly crushed can, and stitched it to a beautiful card she arted. I was ecstatic to receive this--it's like no other and has much soul. She…

This is "to get you arted," and who wouldn't want to be arted?  Or *more* arted? I love more anytime, especially when it's free and art historical and romantic. This is a beautiful thing, Grigori, and are those lipstick formations we see on the face of the Haptic Werewolf? What a shock!

Here we have beauty A-N-D brains on the flip side. An Ed McMahon voice-over would be…

Another mail art in the thrill category--barkpo composed on corrugated cardboard by Neil:  To me this is both down + dirty and aesthetically appealing. What a combo. I forgot to ask you, Neil, and others will probably want to know, did you actually find the "stump tree work" ad along with the bark? Either way, I love it. Thank you again, Neil, and for your lovely note on the…

Cheryl sent me cross section of a 'massacred' larger work along with a photo of the entire piece. It is beautiful and smells deliciously of paint. Below is a piece from Svenja Wahl and she has written "Don't Ask" on the back.I can only speculate as to what she means, but it definately makes me WANT to ask. She has adhered this delicate paper to the back of some plastic-such a…

La muestra del Musée de la fin du monde, puede visitarse hasta el 19 de este mes en el Château de Chevigny in Auxois, Burgundy.
El material recibido y algunas fotos del Musée se podrán ver hasta que el mundo se acabe en la siguiente dirección:
http://museedelfindumonde.blogspot.mx/
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Visual poetry by Marie Wintzer (Saitama, Japan) in "The Ineffable Treasures of MinXus" Exhibition.

August 20, 2012 - As part of Solar Festival 2012, MinXus-Lynxus USA…

And there I was thinking that Val was lost for good to Arty Slides.  What a surprise to see the ole Val back on the beer mat track.  OK so we can't read what it says, but it's a great start.  Are there any non-blondes out there who can read Swedish?

And Val is coming back with a THUD…

Frieder Speck sent this great drawing on a sandwich bag. Some of you might remember that I wondered what Frieder drawed when I received his last mail. Not this time! It's totally clear - clear as Kloßbrühe! It's awfully, unbelievable hot here in Germany and Frieder is cooling down his feet! Love it!!…

My first ever mail art from Jim Sant Amour.  These are his own photographs he took in New York in the MOMA garden.  Now that's a great way to get around the copy rights question.  Thank you Jim, great work, you have inspired me.

What a wonderful name; "Sant Amour".  I wonder how the Americans pronounce…

Beautiful pieces arrived from Greece, USA and France. You can read the blog here ->…

What a bewitching surprise to put this one out of the mailbox.  Now this is the way to do it.  An envelope without being an envelope.  I must tell Katerina.

To me these look like milk tabs in a clear plastic envelope, but would you open it?

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Magnificent ink drawing from Suus.  I can't stop from gazing into it.  It's hypnotique !

Suus tells me that it takes her about an hour to complete one of these little babies.  It is part of her meditation of the day.  What a great…