Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat)'s Blog Posts Tagged 'Valentine' (73)

What a joy to receive art from Sigean! Always!

Thank you, my dear…

Thank you, Val, for always lighting up my day

with the fun collages you send in the mail :-)

I am lovin' it!…

Fun collage card from Val...always interesting ! :-)

Classic?...in September.

It is from  Mark and Mark

(MARK Rothko...

and MARK Herman...who lives in Sigean, France).

Thank you muchly, my dear Valentine !…

Fun card in the mailbox, along with tax bills...

Mail Art makes bill paying fun :-)

Is that a pic of Val as Jim Morrison??? "Classic"!

Thank you, my dear…

See? on the vintage envelope...there is a stamp

a very OLD stamp (but a facsimile, of course)

It's called a Penny Red.

oh, NOT a Penny Black?…

Half a ying-yang from Val? Very thick and painterly print

...in BLUE French envelope :-)

many thanks! xxx

And Mim sent in a "key" envelope…

Mail pick up: 4! 1 from Sigean + 1 from Paris =2

and then + 2 from Hamburg = 4 !

See? French stamps and German postage stamps...nice!

#1. From my dear Valentine:

an envelope from Barcelona and Moreno? no...from…

Went into the city for some business and to pick up the mail. YAY!

Haptic Werewolf came in a perfect size card, 20 x 13 cm, " Against all odds".…

Yep, this is the second time a La Rotonde packet arrived in Greece and it was unharmed this time!

Valentine Mark Herman in Sigean, France, knows how to "stuff" a narrow package.

"The cards are right"! Lots of fun cards and a super…

The French Post takes special care to deliver odd mail art...

in nice yellow sealed plastic, so Val's mail art could arrive safely in Greece.

Care was also taken to open the plastic bag, as Val's 

envelope had been…

Full mail box this sunshine Monday.

Val sent , well a "resend" ...a "Blue 4 U" card

and the postage has fallen off the slippery card, but arrived. Yay!

Nadine also sent "Blue" with the "Pines of Loctudy" by Maurice…

There was mail delivery today! Yay! Lots of holiday mail art, fun!

Even though most of the Greek shops are closed today,

it is good to see my post gal was working :-)

Theo sent one of his great snow-fields-and-sky plus poem on flip side:…

'Just gone for a few days, and returned today to find wonderful Mail Art.

Some on my "prayer carpet" at the studio.

From Banana Day, Nov.18, BLUE Dolphins of Crete with

banana stickers from Valentine Mark Herman.,,simba,…

The "Gallery of Colors" art exhibit with mail art archives had its opening reception last night, Nov.18..

at the Cultural Center "Melina Mercouri", the Arts Cafe, in Ilion, Athens, Greece.…

Mail art was waiting for me as I arrived in southern France, back on Oct. 15.

Val carefully laid out all these goodies, on the vintage light blue chenille bedspread

and it was a nice surprise...and Val saved postage :-)…

It is always a treat to see a mail art envelope from South Africa! And when it is from Lesley Magwood Fraser,

you just know that it contains a rare and beautiful drawing. Yes!

And this time there is elegant color…

I had to buy a new, larger mail box to place under my little box by the stairs of the apartment building. This is half A4 size, so it can handle mail art bigger than post card size. And it will store many days of mail while i am at the seaside shack for days/ weeks on end :-)…

There he is...in a package from Positively Postal, Scott Thomson in the UK

And fantastic A-Z postage stamps. These are amazing:

Also interesting stamps from UK and Scott on package:…

Red Bag from Vizma starts this blog....just enjoy the view of ALL the art that arrived in Greece:

From Vizma in Australia:

From BIFIDUS! Wow! Soooo good to see ya in the mail xxx…

Green and tiny blue flowers, walk-in-the-park, and mail art received.

On the upper left is a great card from Neil Gordon.Fun 72% choco glam and a message

that reads: If I keel over in WalMart drag my body to Neiman's! Great! And on…