Coming from Europe, there are 5 pieces,

from the Netherlands, France, and the UK, and x2 from Portugal,

and another 5 from the USA,

with their nice flower circle postage…

By the unsurpassed hand of Kathy Barnett:

thank you very much!

Helen has titled this postcard "contentment drawing" (or perhaps that is a methodology/technique?). anyhow, it's working, as gazing upon this piece soothes my soul (a not-so-secret side effect of some Mail Art).

thanks Helen and see you in the mailbox ... soon? Australia is far away so i'm not sure how long the mail takes to get there from…

from Japan, peaceful doves deliver Mail Art amidst a field of flowers

a second card with faux-postage (faux-stage?) features more cute hand-carved stamps -

the official postage stamps are also pretty…

this naive drawing looks like something you'd find on a classroom blackboard, but my mind distorts the pastoral scene, anxious about those clouds in the sky, the chimney smoke, the sunbeams and pond ripples. kind of like those duck/rabbit or old/young woman ambiguities - is this a picture of peacetime or wartime? 

thanks Lubomyr for this mail…

1Japanese paper pattern with metallic gold

2 mixed media, wire, metallic sheets, and paint…

Back home, I found  

-- a wonderful postage stamp mail art card from Ilya: Zegening van Albert de Grote, that is, Blessing by Albertus Magnus  

-- a beautiful and funny embroidered card from Carien  

(see photos below)

like gifts under the tree, ATCs come in all shapes and sizes - a lovely assortment as usual

complete with cat, of course (and that's quite a dress!) ]:-) 

gracias mi…

today, these paintings evoke for me the film adaptation of Jeff VanderMeer's "Annihilation", the dream of escaping to some mysterious other world indicated by an unusual and awesome distortion of the landscape.…

Julie's not here on IUOMA, but we have a mutual friend who suggested she send me something; i am not disappointed!

a great message for us all as we undergo the throes of late capitalism.

Julie also included some ephemera, like aromatic wisps wafting out of her workspace:…

Just received this works from Mizael in Mexico, grateful for this creative exchange!

Clouds

Thank you Michael Ley in Germany,

and thanks to Mindaugas and Zygimantas in…

Carmela Rizzuto sent mellow-yellow from California,

and Matthew Stolte sent from…

For the new "happyness"-themed zine I would like to know from you:

what makes YOU happy? Just send me a direct message or comment below. Thank you so much! :)