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Wonderful surprise mailing from Horst Baur arrived in todays' mail.

Both compositions are entitled "Chinese Economic Poem"

and filled with symbols and images of the East.…

Glowing GOLD with Guido's ink drawing 

and a few "eyes" have it, too!

Guido is doing a fantastic series of "Faces" with black china ink.

Almost calligraphic with his brush strokes. Very dynamic.…

A cool collage from beautiful Hamburg!

And a generous envelope alá Erni. Great Erni Bär Fan Club pic :)…

Sexy Banana Mail from MomKat. She's got that see-through thing happening. Nice stamp too Kat!

Suus…

Was the package marked "rusty iron" that arrived today and appeared to be empty mailed not long ago? Methinks it might have gotten here PRONTO due to its weight--almost lighter than the packaging paper itself, almost lighter than air. But I was fooled:

Not quite yet, though at first after snipping an end off, I found that Erni had apparently enclosed nothing.…

Carina's Godzilla, too good not to show again.

High brow banana art from Dean. And look who is peeking out from under the bar code.…

Whaaaw - Whaaaw....

Nice Claudia *!*

A nice collage and a reindeer in summer time!

Thank you…

Today it is the World Banana Day, which we are celebrating in the group Bananas, here at IUOMA! Check out more at the Bananas page. Here's a hilarious card from Rebecca!

Oh my... Erni's done gone and overdone himself again!  I recently got a great big box from Erni--it was awaiting me on my doorstep when I got home one evening in January.  I opened the door, and then tried to grab it to bring it inside... but it was so heavy that I nearly felled myself over!  With the iconic images and wisdom sayings on the outside package, it couldn't have been from anyone but Erni...…

Leslie often takes a turn of phrase or theme that I've sent her and creates a whole new  art experience with it.  Here are her amazing figure studies done on a doubule-sided folding card:…

You are all going to weep with jealousy when you see the leaves of this sweet, short birthday boekie from pal Vizma...  The cover is even made out of a map in case there was any question of origin:

That's a square cut-out in the front book-face with glassine-pressed flowers!  Awesome...…

Howdy all--

Still having some trouble with my home computer--been researching the best option for the purchase of a new one (oy!).  So I apologize for the delayed posting of your wonderful mail art pieces; I am trying to get them uploaded bit by bit from my work computer as time allows.  And thank you to everyone who has already remembered me in the new year!

Some squirrelly brain power from Arac (Alabama, USA):…

I love the J block...

Getting mail art from Vittore is a bit like having a lesson in the history of mail art, he packs so much in an envelope.  To see all the goodies he sent and find out how I learned about Vittore, visit:…