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This fabulous print (deckled edges!)…

I'm sure a few of you are familiar Nick Bantock, the creator of the Griffon & Sabine book series, yes? Today I started to read his book, Urgent: Second Class. In the book, Mr. Bantock gives some insight to his outlook and process in making art.

To anybody interested in making some tom-foolery out of old ephemera — and I suspect that there are one or two of you out there — I highly recommend this book or, at the least, check out Nick's website simply titled…

He promised a music-composition mail art and he did it, with help from the low-tech gadget known as the dart: Second scan above is the back of the composition, with out-y dart holes. I am honored! Holes before music, holes marking the path for music, ending with…

By Meeah Williams: 

This was the first mail art received from Meeah. Is this a concerned pug or what? Yah, it is. Meeah's insight. And remember to Join Now and Join Often. I'm there. Thanks, Meeah . . . (By the way, borderline agoraphobic…

She began at IUOMA by writing a most thoughtful blog post that had me thinking for a while. It struck me as perceptive, questioning, honest. Meeah's mail arts are multi-faceted; in a way they could be like taking a course in one envelope, in the best sense of…

It turned out that the site/blog of CERULEAN was one I'd run across on the Net and bookmarked, and have been looking at for the past 2 years or so. His work has a wide range, some raw + beautiful and some more-structured + beautiful. This, "Balance," arrived a little while ago, and I consider myself lucky. Today his site exhibits recent…

Mail-art by IUOMA member Claudia McGill (Wyncote, Pennsylvania, USA)

November 3, 2013 - Dear friend and ever-faithful correspondent Claudia McGill mailed me this brilliant piece that favors my…

New blog here: www.snailmailsuus.blogspot.com

Help me out here, who could this be from?

Eye just don't know

Thank…

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This arrived yesterday and probably will last post I will receive because of the Postal Strike on 4th November.On the back is address. Nothing I can do until the it finishes I hope for only a day. Thanks for mailart Patrol.

Always happy to receive bar code mailart from the main bar code man. Thank you Dean - got to love those stripes : > )

This card got ripped in half on its way from U.S.A. and arrived in an apologetic envelope. Oh dear! I think the handwriting looks like Thom's - am I right? I don't have the half with the sender's name on it. Anyway, thank you - the half I have is much…

Hi Sarah - thanks for the spots, swirls and Pride and Prejudice which arrived (sorry) last month. Hope all's good for you! : > )

Dimitra - this is gorgeous. Did you use marbling inks for this? I love that figure half visible in the corner. Thank you so much! : > )

I'm a bit worried about her sunburn but this made me smile! Thanks Martha.

Andy as he sees himself - the adventurer. He and Elena are in Vietnam having quit their jobs and decided to travel. Check out their blog at postcardsfromus.com - good luck you two!