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Happy Birthday Trash / Treasure Boekie from PrettyLily!

What a great surprise came in today's mail...an envelope with "Celebrate stamps"

and inside a trash book from prettylily, Sue, that really is full of treasures!

Some of my "Favorite Things" are stamps..old stamps, and Sue added a…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on February 9, 2012 at 7:30pm — 2 Comments

Silver Streak from Vizma in ART-stralia

The photos don't do justice to the flashy rich silver of the envelope and mail art.

Very glowing!

And there is the Cat Man...licking up milk...those old vintage "parlour games", tsk, tsk!

Some fun surprises are also…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on February 9, 2012 at 7:30pm — 9 Comments

Happy Birthday mail art from "Da Guys", too: from Dean Marks!

Does anyone tire of yet another card from Dean Marks? NO!

(ning would not let me continue on one blog...so a new blog, just for Dean ;-)

An ENVELOPE...a card in an envelope...from Dean! Super fun ;-)

Great stamps,…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on February 7, 2012 at 1:00pm — 14 Comments

Happy Birthday mail art from "Da Guys", too: from Valentine

So, does one ever tire of yet another card from Dean Marks...and/or Valentine Mark (Herman).

No Way!Bring on all the mail art cards...hundreds, in or not in envelopes!

Valentine sent La Poste and other lovely mail boxes...er, I…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on February 7, 2012 at 12:30pm — No Comments

Haptic Happy birthday mail art...Erni's CARE PACKAGE arrived 7 Feb! Good Karma!

Been delayed in the unusual European winter weather perhaps,

a package from Erni in Hamburg usually takes only 48 hours to reach Greece, it took 2 weeks...

but it arrived ( er, was "picked up" at the post office,) TODAY...my day!…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on February 7, 2012 at 12:00pm — 9 Comments

More mail art from Nadine! NoHo specials!

Nadine lives in "NoHo"...North Hollywood, California, USA.

And she has been busy sending her mail art treasures around the world.

I am fortunate to receive two excellent painted cards wrapped in a beautiful blue kerchief!

What fun to "unwrap" the art!…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on February 6, 2012 at 10:00pm — 2 Comments

Minimal "55" from Eduardo and many other treasures

Eduardo makes minimal magic with a maximum A4 size paper but a minimal "splash and "55"! Perfect poetry!

Included in the envelope that Eduardo sent, was the tiniest of tiny trashpo boekie, too. Size related to pencil!…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on February 2, 2012 at 4:30pm — 1 Comment

Special portrait from Dewi

Dewi does a beautiful series of portrait drawing that absolutely leave me spellbound!

Below is another one of Dewi's portraits that i am privileged to have:

The person is so alive and expressive, I always must put them in a special…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on February 1, 2012 at 5:30pm — 4 Comments

Three beauties from Lesley Magwood Fraser of SA

A wonderful surprise in my mail box: mail art from Lesley.

Lesley has been away fro the mail art scene for a while,

but so happy to know all is better and see her "making" again!

There were THREE artful pieces in this envelope...…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on January 31, 2012 at 9:19pm — 4 Comments

"VARIATIONS on a Bar Code Op. 015" from the master, Dean Marks in Paris

Obsessive-Bar-Code-Syndrome: OBCS? Or BCD = Bar Code disease? Or, fantastic art!

'Tis a beauty , even though it got a bit chewed up by the postal machine...

...that happens when you don't use an envelope! (Ahem)

Some pieces…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on January 31, 2012 at 7:37pm — 7 Comments

ZUPER ZALOP from Imelda Wubben in the Netherlands

A fun hand-made envelope arrived in Greece today from Imelda.

And it is definitely labeled correctly: ZUPER ZALOP!

There is also an "Admit One" ticket for entrance...and beauties within:…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on January 23, 2012 at 5:00pm — 5 Comments

The Many Faces of Mona! From Cheryl in SA...FAST delivery!

This boekie arrived yesterday, Jan.17 and I think the postmark says Jan. 11. That means a record-breaking mail delivery from Cheryl! Usually we have been waiting two weeks-15 days for mail art to arrive to and from Greece to South Africa. This sets an all-time record.…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on January 18, 2012 at 9:21am — 3 Comments

GOTIJ Mail Art Monday with surprises from Mim and Jon and Niklas and Guido and Erni and Cristian!

Some Mondays are just super wonderful, they are Mail Art Mondays...

a time when my postgal finally decides to bring all the mail that accumulated the week before?

Well, here was that big yellow box from the Haptic Werewolf, Erni in…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on January 16, 2012 at 5:00pm — 8 Comments

Haptic Werewolf Strikes YELLOW! And a box full of great surprises!

Box is, of itself, a fab work-of-art, on all sides it is a yellow smile of Erni and his fan club. Yay!…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on January 16, 2012 at 3:30pm — 10 Comments

Lucky Friday-the-13th! Lots of mail art.

Many wondrous treasures in the mail box today.

Rod Summers sent the New Year greeting with fireworks and shadows...

an optimistic face here, however!…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on January 13, 2012 at 4:32pm — 4 Comments

New Island discovered by TicTac and other wonderful artistamps!

TicTac in Germany has issued beautiful stamps from the newly discovered fantasy island of Quindi.

She has witnessed amazing creatures and studied their beautiful shapes and forms

to make these great artistamps! A bunny…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on January 11, 2012 at 4:00pm — 4 Comments

VISPO and REAL shopping list from J.M.Bennett! GOTIJ!

An envelope full of vispo cards and boekie arrived in Greece today.

These art works by John M. Bennett are fantastic and need much time

to view and appreciate.

One card, already on-the-tree, is a co-op art work with Robert…

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

Sheep and goats today...Sheep Mail Art from Valentine Mark Herman

Little Po Peep and the tales of waiting for Mail art from the MAIL man...or the POSTman if you live in France ;-)

There are these little birdies that so want to see Mail Art in Val's Mail box...

or is it the Post in his Post box…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on January 4, 2012 at 10:00am — No Comments

GOTIJ Thom Courcelle Day. Mail art arrived in Greece, too!

GOTIJ Goat Cheese and other surprises!

Thom has just had a birthday: HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

And all kinds of wondrous mail art is arriving...

This is the second day with Thom's art in my mail box and I am soooo CHUFFED :-)…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on January 4, 2012 at 9:30am — 2 Comments

GOTIJ Rudolf the one eared reindeer?

You know Dasher and Dancer, and Prancer and Vixen,

Coment and Cupid and Doner and Blixen...but do you know Ruud? Oh, I mean, Rudolf?

Here is the "one eared reindeer" as it was a little ornament on the tree that got broken

and now 'tis missing an ear ( 'tis NOT road kill!)

And here is the poem from Thom Courcelle:…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on January 2, 2012 at 1:47pm — No Comments

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