Mel Anie's Blog (63)

Enchanting, colourful, inspiring first post from Amanda, thank you!

It's finally arrived from the USA! 'Coming back to life', a colourful collaged postcard from Amanda. And a whole envelope full of wonderful collage pieces. A lovely stamped envelope too, Amanda, and such lovely postage. The 'Hello my name is' label caught my eye immediately…

My linoprint came back to me - and Richard has enhanced it with some collaging.

I think this is a mail art first for me! It came with one of Richard's calligraphic envelopes, a dear note,…

Thank you, Sabrina for the sleepy bird all puffed up, a wonderful letter and MONOPRINT experiments!

A left hand and right hand, one with a bud and one with a mug. Surrounded by letters and ensconced under the enveloped wings of a sleepy, fluffy (very much healthy looking) monoprinted bird. Sabrina, I'm delighted you have sent me the start of a…

Thank you, Lone Ant, for this beautiful New Year's Greetings package. 3 ATCs block printed & an ecoprint.

I am very pleased to have received one of Marni's Daruma dolls. Do I set a goal, fill the eye in when I'm done, and burn it? I doubt it but...Happy New Year back to you, Marni.

And the eco print is mesmerising. There's a shifting…

A typewritten photo

This wonderful, inspiring typewritten quote was accompanied by a long letter (yes!!!) and a yellow (yess!!!) daffodil print. Thank you very much, Jennifer.

New Year's greetings from the Greek doggy in the window!

Thank you, Katerina for the potatoes with sprinkles on the…

A cheery new year's greeting in a paint-and-collage card. 

Thank you, Katerina, and how much is that doggy in the window?

A beautiful calligraphic envelope art from Richard, France.

Also with a dear little note, a name label for me (!!) and some statements. Also, I'm so pleased to see that the European post is moving islandwards again.  Thank you, Richard, something for you was already on its…

Collage, botanical ink prints (because we both like making these!!) & a peacock hat. Thanks!!

The year of the Mask, solid and enormous, warns of eye irritation.…

'Fly Away', a sunny ATC and a welcome from Judy Staroscik. Thank you.

I received a lovely package from Melanie Reed with surreal collages, 'Camouflage', 'Prepared', 'Morning' and 'The Protest'. 

Also, an envelope of Dada poetry cards. I'm playing dada matching pairs with this post: match the collage titles to the collages in my photo. Thank you, Melanie, I love this mail art package. I have already sent…

This is a snip from the Royal Mail website today. The envelopes above are waiting to be put into a postbox - once international deliveries from the UK resume!

It is a flurry. Today's my last flurry day and then I will pause, pause, pause, breathe and see what happens.

Thank you, Mikel from Euskadi, for sending me my first IUOMA mail!!! And, my first ATC as well. There's also a postcard, an ATC envelope, and New Year wishes too. Mikel, I will return something to you.