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VISPO and Virgo in Russia

This card announcing a VISPO publication came in the mail recently,

looks like it is dedicated to the 20 years, 1998-2008, of Visual Poetry making. Very fine!

From Russia-with-love comes a fine "mosaic" collage,

full of tiny…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on November 7, 2012 at 6:00am — 1 Comment

Whole Holism and MinXus fabric art from Marie in Japan

The envelope always announces another beauty from Marie Wintzer.

On the high seas...(or what my river boat looked like with the Mistral blowing in France :-)

Flip side of envelope:

and carefully opened...the full beautiful…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on November 6, 2012 at 11:30am — 24 Comments

From John Held, Jr...treasured mail art

"John Held, Jr, who wonders what its all about"

Mail Art from the master, perforated images and stamps of all sorts!

Homage to GUTAI with angels and "holism":…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on November 6, 2012 at 8:30am — 4 Comments

Documentation from Rosa Gravino in Argentina

Rosa sent a FluXus Fish card with all the names of participants

from a mail art project she had some time ago....hunt up and find your name:…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on November 6, 2012 at 8:20am — No Comments

Aurora Borealis from Rod Summers

This is a BEAUTY!

It must be fantastic to be in Iceland and to see this.

Thank you, Rod!

Definitely put a SMILE on my face...xxx

(and another beautiful postage stamp! "ISLAND")…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on November 6, 2012 at 8:00am — No Comments

Double Mail Art from Erni in Paris!

Yep, I arrived in Paris to find a large A4 packet from the Haptic Werewolf, dear Erni, on Oct.15th,

and another packet...Lucky Strike No.2 on Oct. 17th!!!

Erni was not in Paris, he is in Hamburg, Germany, but the Haptic Werewolf came to Paris :-)…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on November 5, 2012 at 12:38pm — 2 Comments

Upon return...a few to not overload mailbox, but was a tight fit :-)

Crushed package from TicTac...

but no damage to contents! Thank you, Patrizia...'love the game/slide and eye-card!…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on November 1, 2012 at 5:30pm — 8 Comments

#366 / 366 Dean Marks Day on-the-blogs :-)

Here it is folks (applause):

the last of Dean's "366", get-on-the-bus!...she is a sweetie, yes?

This is a very special card, and I am honored to receive #366/366!

Dean asks "Now what?" Mim and I know: Go for #1000...or…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on October 8, 2012 at 2:00pm — 2 Comments

Out of the BLUE creatures from ARAC!!!

Check out this cheeky octopus (Vizma see this???)

What a beauty!

And on the flip side of the card is this happy fella, duh:

'Love it, Cara, thanks so…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on October 4, 2012 at 9:24pm — 5 Comments

DKult arrives in Greece...Das ist gut!

Diane in Elgin sent a nice German language lesson....Danke!

She must know that I am flying to Munich soon...in need of such phrases :-)

Well,from the famous Elgin, absolutely trashpo and then some...

many pics and pieces,…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on October 4, 2012 at 9:00pm — 1 Comment

Rod Summers..Iced from Iceland and not :-)

It is a mighty COOL scene that Rod sends from Iceland,

good for cooling off in this Greek heat!

Many fun cards from Rod:…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on October 3, 2012 at 3:00pm — 3 Comments

John M. Bennett...special delivery always :-)

It begins with his writings on the envelope...EAR? hear...

then the joy of discovering the many treasures that are inside:…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on October 3, 2012 at 2:30pm — 5 Comments

GOTIJ mail art arriving before my trip! From Niklas and "E" and Stripygoose and Eduardo and John Bennett

From Niklas Heed...(with Apple brod!)

Very "polite" mail delivery with La Poste:

From "E" in Utopia...who…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on October 3, 2012 at 2:00pm — 2 Comments

The Haptic Werewolf 's (LUCKY) strike again :-)

Just the smallest of packages, has the BIGGEST of wonders!

Of course, one must find a way to open it

without destroying the OH,ERNI gang:

Very nice!!!

Inside...a box, red and white...…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on September 28, 2012 at 1:30pm — 1 Comment

PEACE and plenty from Stephen Walker

PEACE!

An amazing card from Stephen arrived in Greece and it is a joy to behold:

And greeting in Greek!…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on September 27, 2012 at 11:00pm — 2 Comments

BLUE recycled from Samuel Montalvetti in Argentina

BLUE...what a revelation! I never realized that the INSIDE

of the blue/white Greek envelopes that i send out ....are colored BLUE?

But Samuel knows and turned my envelope inside-out

and returned it...full of his wonderful…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on September 27, 2012 at 11:00pm — 1 Comment

"Feed Art to the World" arrives from the Haptic Werewolf

Package had to be picked up at the Greek post office,

but so worth the trip! The postal clerk says "Hi, Erni"...

or did she say "Oh, Erni!" ?

Oh, Erni! You had her standing on her head!!!…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on September 24, 2012 at 1:59pm — 6 Comments

Women in the Artistamp Spotlight from Ginny Lloyd

Ginny has organized a new edition of Women in the Artistamp Spotlight

and here are the 30 artistamp self-portraits of us'ins :-)

You can see the issue as an eBook, or order

a hard copy here:

.…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on September 24, 2012 at 9:30am — 6 Comments

Last of the red-white-n-BLUE from Suus in Mokum? Nope, some from HeeBee JeeBee Land and more!

Beautiful BLUE painted card arrived in GreeceI 'Love it and all its undulations!(some nice pink and violet , too)

Suus in Mokum sent it in an envelope that she fears is one of the last of the red-white-blue trimmed ones. They are no longer…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on September 21, 2012 at 4:00pm — 3 Comments

Mail Box eats up Haptic Werewolf! AGAIN!

Another super package in (almost in) my mail box today!

The gals are here...

"Oh, Erni!" they both agree it seems :-)…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on September 20, 2012 at 2:41pm — 2 Comments

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