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Colorful new year

Beautiful painted new year wishes from Richard B. This arrived on a grey gloomy day - the perfect thing to find when you get home on a day like that.

Thank you, and best…

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Added by FinnBadger on January 25, 2016 at 12:00am — No Comments

Blessings

Really great mail day earlier this week, and one envelope was from The Blessed Father.

Look art all this fantastic stuff, rubber stamps (my favorite is Sister Mary), artistamps and most useful, a get out of hell free card!

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Added by FinnBadger on January 24, 2016 at 12:00am — 2 Comments

Out of this world mail art from stripygoose

Stripy goose sent me this fantastic piece of mail art.

It was too big to fit through the letter box... and either Royal Mail or USPS has done a great job of keeping the stamps and mail together after they presumably came unstuck.

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Added by FinnBadger on January 23, 2016 at 12:00am — 9 Comments

Insects that flew away

Incoming mail art from MailArtMartha. Including an artistamp of her postman Kevin.

Sadly the bee and flies that were supposed to be there must have flown…

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Added by FinnBadger on January 22, 2016 at 12:30am — 4 Comments

Time for clocklovers

I was a latecomer to the Clocklovers Group NYE midnight exchange, so didn't expect any mail in return. Fortunately the group is awesome...

MomKat's arrived just in time for New Year. Love the Greek letters on the date stamp she uses.

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Added by FinnBadger on January 21, 2016 at 12:00am — No Comments

An Adrienne Mason collage in my mailbox

Always a treat to see a collage from Adrienne appear in my mailbox.

Added by FinnBadger on January 17, 2016 at 12:30am — 5 Comments

This is not the minizine you were looking for.

From MinneapolisGnome

Where the envelope is also the letter (I almost missed this, and only saw the typing when I was putting the minizine back in the envelope). I love how this was done.…

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Added by FinnBadger on January 16, 2016 at 2:11pm — No Comments

Not the average person

Fun envelope from Mail Art Martha

Fun contents…

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Added by FinnBadger on January 4, 2016 at 12:30am — 3 Comments

MomKat Meeting Minutes Minizine

A second day of MomKat mail art from 2015 on the blog.…

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Added by FinnBadger on January 3, 2016 at 12:30am — 2 Comments

Blue Moon from MomKat

Great mail art from MomKat to celebrate the super-blue-moon.…

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Added by FinnBadger on January 2, 2016 at 12:30am — 2 Comments

Celebrating New Year with my new puffin friends from Heleen

This arrived from Heleen with perfect timing, and with two of the amazing Dutch December stamps, including my favorite one in the set, the fox.

There are three ways to look at this.

First, the puffin right side up.

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Added by FinnBadger on January 1, 2016 at 12:00am — 2 Comments

A funeral?

A very entertaining requiem for mail art from Monsenhor enVide neFelibata.…

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Added by FinnBadger on December 31, 2015 at 12:00am — No Comments

Basket case

Fun portrait-oriented envelope from Eric .

Added by FinnBadger on December 30, 2015 at 12:00am — No Comments

Birdblots

They arrived in a cellophane envelope...

...accompanied by a collaged card...…

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Added by FinnBadger on December 29, 2015 at 12:00am — 2 Comments

Provocative

Jason sent this provocative post card.

Added by FinnBadger on December 28, 2015 at 12:00am — No Comments

Carina always send such interesting mail. And since she lives in Finland,it also comes with interesting stamps. Look closely - yes, that oval portrait with the fancy border is a very unusually-shaped stamp!…

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Added by FinnBadger on December 27, 2015 at 12:00am — 3 Comments

Think

Great black and white envelope from Eva, sent this summer. Clever green highlights on the address to match the stamp.

Added by FinnBadger on December 26, 2015 at 12:00am — No Comments

Snow on Mt Olympus

Christmas mail art from Momkat. And a beautiful origami bird on the stamp.

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Added by FinnBadger on December 25, 2015 at 12:00am — 3 Comments

Ponies

Earlier in the year I had admired a stamp Heleen showed on her blog for the Sunday Stamps theme of wild animals.

Imagine my surprise when she sent me mail art using that same stamp - it is a picture of the Konik pony which has been re-introduced into a natural habitat in the Netherlands.

And accompanied by a pony drawn by…

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Added by FinnBadger on December 24, 2015 at 12:00am — No Comments

DeanScape

From the Artist In Seine (who ran the NY marathon in a banana suit!!) here is his latest collage.

Front

and back…

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Added by FinnBadger on December 23, 2015 at 12:00am — 9 Comments

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