Ruud Janssen's Blog Posts Tagged 'IUOMA' (45)

Received this wonderful object from Suus:

thank you Suus! Will look for a nice place to hang…

with the mail today a special parcel..... What could it be?

It reads "t.a.v. Findings dpt.", and on the backside it indicates that it is a Ruud finding:

So guess what Heleen de Vaan has found for me and sent by traditional…

love this one. Follow the link to http://dodeca-art.com to find out who made it!

Because I got the question I had to do some digging in the archive, As it turns out I found the starting month back in one of my own publications that I wrote in 1990:

This booklet was published in 1990 to document my first 10 years in Mail-Art. I still have the originals here. In it I wrote about the start of the IUOMA. It turns out to be AUGUST 1988. Later in…

Last weekend we had a lovely visit from Jack Latteman and Marnie who were in Europe and visited us in Breda too. besides the visit also…

After returning from Germany I found this E in the P.O. Box. A surprise and gift from E in France. It is now part of the TAM-Archive. Thanks so much E!…

Today I received a wonderful gift from Heleen de Vaan (Netherlands). She used the IUOMA design to order a special sheets of original dutch Postage Stamps. The sheets itself is just beautiful. I will send a photo to the designers of the logo too so they know what is happening with their design.…

Well, exactly 50 grams went into this painted envelope for lancillotto. He returned some of the stampsheets and since he produces a lot os stmps he got this envelope filled with new sheets, some cards and a little surprise...

Two studenst (Hakim and Tim) from GAAV|Design designed these three concepts. What do you things of these. Give feedback on which you like most and what alterations you would like?

CONCEPT A

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Since Val measure the weight of his collection and threatens to exhibit it I dared to send him yet another painted envelope after he filled my archive also with this card: What he has to deal with is this envelope. No, the content I won't reveil....…

Nancy Bell Scott (USA) sent me this wonderful envelope with beautiful IUOMA stickers on and in it. I will use them on the outgoing mail-art for sure. ALready sent her back an answer. I am a bit behind in answering my mail-art. Actually I can't even answer all the mail I get in. Not with the time and money that is available...... …

Today some cards are sent out the traditional way. Making the IUOMA visible to others as well.

This week the folowing original Foam Rubber arrived by mail without any problem:

thats…

As you can see, this last week "E" send me a really impressive load of mail-art. All kind of envelopes, stampsheets, even original rubber to use, and you name it.  Thanks for this privat exhibition "E" !…

For celebrating the 3rd year on NING for IUOMA the next card is being printed right now and will start to go out next week when we are 3 years on NING.

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Nancy Bell Scott (USA) sent me 2 of these lovely bumperstickers she designed. They are now part of the growing collection of IUOMA PR-materials. One of these days they will form a beautiful exhibition. When I have things digitized I also publish it on the IUOMA logo overview!

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