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Lunar New Year and the Year of the Horse from Margurite Keen

A not-so-large envelope arrived "real mail" with washi (yay!) and stampings and stamps from Margurite.

'Liking this very much,

and inside was most wonderful goodies:…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on February 11, 2014 at 4:56pm — No Comments

Beautiful BLUE in the mail from Rose in Oz

Lovely layers of deep blue sea with warm, very warm, weather in Australia?

'Liking the "cool" feeling and the floating clouds.

...a bit torn at the corner from its travels through the post:

Already mentioned how thrilled I am…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on February 11, 2014 at 4:30pm — No Comments

Thank you Claudia! Fantastic print!

Claudia Garcia in Argentina sent a beautiful wood-cut print titled "Movement",

using multi-colored tones to create this wonderful print.

It is in a protective folder with cording...stunning!

And her envelope was…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on February 11, 2014 at 4:30pm — 1 Comment

Stunning stamps on today's mail art arrivals

'Had to make a special blog just for the postage stamps and artistamps

that are on the envelopes of today's mai art. From Candadadumdum:

A small Canadian stamp with wonderfully interesting artistamps by Theo Nelson:…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on February 11, 2014 at 4:23pm — No Comments

Dreamy mail art from Lucky Pierre!

"I had a dream last night"... says Lucky Pierre on the envelope...from Charleston,South Carolina.

"Late Night, full moon...DREAMING"

Just a dreamy card, on dreamy paper, and a wonderful dreamy message, or two:…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on February 10, 2014 at 9:30pm — 6 Comments

Matthew Stolte sends a packet full of goodies!

Just having fun opening and looking at all that Matthew sent! great card for "Oceans", and also this print is excellent:…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on February 9, 2014 at 2:44pm — 3 Comments

From Viet Nam comes a beauty from Andy and Elena

What a wonderful surprise to see mail art from Andy and Elena!

Beautiful Year-of-the-Horse postage stamps on the envelope:

And then even more of a surprise inside: watercolor by Elena!…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on February 9, 2014 at 2:30pm — 2 Comments

Frieder Speck sends Music-to-my-Ears!

This arrived some days ago, but first getting to blog it on this quiet Sunday.

It is an odd-shaped piece, with musical score, cut-out, and painting and it came folded.…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on February 9, 2014 at 2:10pm — 3 Comments

BLUE from Sigean, France..also Music-to-my-Ears!

Always fun to see a mail art card from Val in the mail box

This is an altered card, full of info from the art…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on February 9, 2014 at 2:00pm — No Comments

Twin beauties from Nancy Bell Scott

Sorry, words can't describe these stunning "minimal" works of art by Nancy!

Even Edmund Hippo is at a loss for words!

Photos do not show the subtle deep BLUE of the paper, but the gold glows!…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on February 6, 2014 at 9:30pm — 5 Comments

Innocent Edmund Hippo likes a SECOND collage card from the Haptic Werewolf

Edmund Hippo is happily visiting Greece these days, unaware of the attacks against his person.

He is innocent...he is similar to the Flat Stanley project that sent an image through the mail

to be documented and have an exchange of…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on February 6, 2014 at 5:28pm — 7 Comments

From DK: This is a FAKE...slightly altered too

It arrived a bit torn and worn,( and fuzzy here), Diane, but it arrived...beautifully BLUE!

I found a few "Latin" letters and glued them to the missing areas.

Love the BLUE:…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on February 5, 2014 at 5:00pm — 4 Comments

From Angie Cope: It's not a fake...it's a cut-up!

Beautiful mail art card came from Angie and it is a "part-of-the-whole".

She had a large painting which she cut-up, and this card is 1/6th of it.

I am reminded of the "massacre of the innocent images" by Cheryl Penn,

who also…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on February 5, 2014 at 4:30pm — 5 Comments

Giannis Stamenitis sends a fun critter print

Giannis lives in Liti, up and away on the other far end of Thessaloniki from Harilaou,

so of course, we exchange art in-the-mail ! :-)

His very richly colored lino print arrived today,

and it is an insect critter...not too…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on February 5, 2014 at 4:30pm — 3 Comments

Edmund Hippo likes collage card from the Haptic Werewolf

A collage card from Edmund's home town: Hamburg, arrived today in Greece.

He likes hearing Kurt whistle...('liking good good whistle-blowers :-)…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on February 5, 2014 at 4:08pm — 3 Comments

Washi-washi from Kim in Korea!

We have this washi-holic group over at Vizma's "Artspace" and Kim JungYoun is

so kind to share some of her BLUE washi tapes, which i could not find easily.

Paris! Frenchi-washi :-)

These are great, and will definitely be used on…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on February 5, 2014 at 3:30pm — 3 Comments

Large envelope with Documentation for Cavellini Artistamps from Vittore Baroni

Mail art postcard inside and then sheets of artistamps! Thank you Vittore Baroni!

This is a fantastic series of artistamps made for the Cennential of Cavellini 2014.…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on February 5, 2014 at 3:21pm — 2 Comments

Perforated too, Ray Johnson artistamps from TicTac!

TicTic sent more artistamps from her Ray Johnson series, and they are FAB!

As I keep these "first issues" in my…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on February 5, 2014 at 2:43pm — 4 Comments

WIPE 79: toilet paper boekie from Field Study in Australia

Here is the third boekie I have received, full of unusual art on delicately soft papers ;-)

Not able to show ALL the pages, but here are a few:…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on February 5, 2014 at 2:30pm — 4 Comments

Feb.14-15-16 in SanFran, and "perforated" with John Held Jr

Nice mail art arrived from John Held...Amazingly perforated silky stiff paper

and rubber stamped on the front side.…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on February 5, 2014 at 2:30pm — 1 Comment

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