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Been delayed in the unusual European winter weather perhaps,

a package from Erni in Hamburg usually takes only 48 hours to reach Greece, it took 2 weeks...

but it arrived ( er, was "picked up" at the post office,) TODAY...my day!…

The coded cookie reads; "Hi Dean, Anything else would be too normal".  Well Erni has surpassed himself again, and pulled it off with only a little help from der Deutche Post.  The Pfefferkuchen, (but my German grandmother called them cookies because she wanted to sound American), arrived in a plastic bag.  It seems that the Deutche Post was so amazed by this creation, that they forgot to cancel the stamps!  Thank you Erni, the Haptic Werewolf has surely gone where no Werewolf has gone…

Nadine lives in "NoHo"...North Hollywood, California, USA.

And she has been busy sending her mail art treasures around the world.

I am fortunate to receive two excellent painted cards  wrapped in a beautiful blue kerchief!

What fun to "unwrap" the art!…

"She did the best she could" - as you can see in this picture, Nadine sent to me. I think it's part of her series about worn out people. Love it, Nadine!!

I have to apologize for the photos, there's not enough daylight... Kokabella sent this great postcards. I love the mixture of different papes, warnings, pictures!

An eye for an eye (with wonderful warm colours, - and no eyes at all):…

a tiny bit of mail

mail received from Silvano Pertone, Angie, Billie Jo Speece, Jason Delgado, Joanna Carabante, Connie Jean, Simon Warren, Saleh Sharay, Nicole Landingin

TAKE 1- CINEMA & MAIL ART PROJECT

Free medium.

Maximum size is Postcard

Deadline is 25 May 2012

Mail to:
Helder Coelho Dias

Rua Felicidade Páscoa, nº 48

2100-519 Fajarda (Coruche)

PORTUGAL

Doc on site:

http://colectivomailart.blogspot.com/

No need to look any further to find a way to stretch your dollars, shred them and pass them around to the boys.  When Erni & I get together we will have a buck!  Thank you Katerina, It has everything a man could want, and bar codes to boot. …

http://amorecrea.com Love Creates, Art that honors the Creator. Amorecrea supports the arts and education. Amorecrea represents emerging artists of all ages and is commission free for local youth. A portion of the proceeds goes to support education. These prints are done using archival media and ink with a 200 year fade…

I have received this wonderful piece by Nancy a few weeks back. Life hasn't been a long quiet river for her recently, and I know that this work was her first attempt at getting back to art, at finding her feet in the studio again, so I'm really touched and honored that she thought about me. 

Nancy is making great use of what I call her "islands", and to me…

Nancy Bell Scott sent me these wonderful special inchies, I love those kind of painting by you, Nancy, what a great idea to make these tiny ones!!

And absolute fantastic is the home they were traveling in, what a great kind of…

Frieder sent me this wonderful art. A few weeks ago I've sent him an old photo with the question, "where are the promises that were written on my forehead during my early years" (Sorry, that sentence sounds really poetic in German, "Wo bleiben die Versprechungen meiner frühen Jahre, die einst auf meiner Stirn geschrieben waren", it's my bad translation.). Now,…

Katerina Nikoltsou sent me this wonderful little trash book, very special, thanks a lot!!

(I won't say anything about this golden stuff...)

Sweets and treats for me:…

Yes, a B side of Erni ready for the battle of the Bar codes.  What I really like the most about this piece is that the support is made from beer packaging with an original bar code.  A sign of the times for his Fan Club.  Thank you for the support you have given me.…

When I lived in Germany, Frau Weleda was my landlady and would give me brandy & coke every month when I came to pay my rent.  Little did I know at the time that later in life, I would be recieving Mail Art from her Grandson or that George Clooney would be runing for president of the Erni Fan club.  Amazing how life gives us so many wonderful things.  Thank you very much Erni for this piece, but wait!  There's a B side as well…

So I made a deal with Bear trading mail-a-day-for-a-week for an original stamp carved and designed by him to be some kind of representation of me...he couldn't have done any better! My family is hysterical because I am notorious for never posting pictures of myself and always trying to stay out of photographs...in a million years I would have never had a stamp made in my likeness but I LOVE it and will proudly stamp it onto things I mail out into the world.  An amazing likeness I might add…

Behold the latest hoard of magnificence!

From Angie, a sympathetic bow to the season:

Fortunately, Angie, the snow level has abated.  Still cold, but sunny--you can see the Olympic Mountains across from Elliott Bay today:…