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I am currently printing up a series of I Ching Hexagrams and wonder if anyone would like one?

There are 64 different Hexagrams. Here are two of them:

If you would like a personalised 6-line Hexagram (or two)*, you have to follow these steps:

1. Get three identical coins

2. Throw the coins together. Each head counts 3…

Would you like to adopt a Punnekin for 2015? It would get your New Year off to a very good start.

What, you might ask, is a 'Punnekin'?

Answer: the Dutch version of the French 'Tricotaine'?

I'm none the wiser, Val. What's a 'Punnekin' or a 'Tricotaine' or whatever you want to call it?

It's a length of crocheted wool produced by a process that the English call 'French knitting' based on a 'Knitting Dolly'. Suus in Mokkum and…

Go on...guess.. all will be revaled in a few day's time....

The first person who guesses correctly here will win a Wonderful Prize (probably a Punnekin)

Go on....guess...

I received it a few weeks ago, but failed to note who sent me it.

Can anyone help please?

Please consider any Mail Art I send you as a private communication from me to you, and do not blog it here or elsewhere.

if you really must share it with someone, then do so with your husband, wife, partner, boyfriend, girlfriend, children, cats, dogs (including Bassett Hounds), hamsters, and what have you.

If you do blog the Mail Art I send you, then I will never send you anythihg ever again.

"You don't really mean that, do you, Val?"

I most certainly…

........for exactly FIVE YEARS!

  Happy IUOMA Birthday, Val

Most of you have successfully managed to ignore the previous 79 installments to date of my ongoing series "We hold these truths to be self-evident".

But to the few of you who have read and/or commented on my mots justes: thank…

is the title of a not very good, sort of Mail Art article by Harry Wallop in today's, 17 July, (UK) Daily Telegraph -- telegraph.co.uk

It is helpful in explaining how post codes work in the UK, and how the Post Office tries to deliver seemingly undeliverable mail.

However, Wallop and the bloke he is writing about seem to think that they have discovered Mail Art...and puzzles in the post, citing Harriet Russel's 2008 book 'Envelopes'. But, and it's a big 'but', it completely…

Things have never been the same in Sigean -- especially rue de la Vieille Fontaine -- since Dean spent a few days here last month; Apart from (many) other things, all sorts of Geocachers, are invading my Impasse, and terrorising the bird house.

Look what I found at the end of the road this morning:…

...at le Galerie du Chateau in Sigean, France.

In the Exhibition are 45 paintings, 9 boomerangs, Gordon le Gourd, and 20 Morning Star Poles. Aboriginal music was very kindly provided (via CDs) by Rose.

More than 60 people attended the opening of the Exhibition, including the Mayor and the Deputy Mayor -- both of whom made speeches (to which I had to reply).

There have been lots of visitors since, but -- sadly -- not one has taken up my suggestion to be body-painted à…

.... and here are some photos:…

Ever heard of PunnikinBombing? I though not.

Ever heard of a Punnikin? If not, don't worry, I'll (sort of) get round to defining this below

Ever heard of YarnBombing? Perhaps, but if not, this is how Mr Wicked P Dia defines it:

Yarn bombing,…

Here we are again, back on the Polo Mint trail again.

This time at the Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht, the Netherlands, on 24 June, 2014.

Where the Polo Minting had a rather sad ending.

To recap: the idea of this series is to place a Polo Mint on a work of art in a gallery, museum or wherever I happen to find something interesting, take a quick photo, and then move on before I get asked to leave, or thrown out, or followed round by suspicious…

I just arrived home from a joint session with my Psychoanalyst and Sexual Therapist trying, and failing, to explain what it is about somebody who has a desire to show me her breasts, and the devastating effect her obsession has had on my personality, when the PostLady knocked at the door and gave me a little parcel.

I opened it and found these ....BREASTS!…

I originally wrote this a couple of years ago.

It seems very relevant today -- especially given the terrible situtaTion in which Erni has been placed -- and I have no heisttaion in bringing it to your attention again.

Please add your name to this Blog if you support your, Erni's, mine, and all Mail Artists' freedoms.

Thankyou

Val (aka Mail Art Bill)…

I have been 'monitoring' those IUOMA members whose Birthdays have appeared on the 'Birthdays Today' part of this site. I started this, because I did not recognise many of their names, and wondered if they were indeed active members of IUOMA?

This led me to try and define what an 'Active Member' was, and to see how many of those whose birthdays were listed are indeed active.

I found that about 1 in 5 of them…

This morning I received a package from Katerina. 'It rattles', said the PostLady; 'Perhaps it's got broken.' This what the package looked like:

'DO NOT SMASH' it says on the front of the envelope. And what's on the back?

Oh Katerina! (And how did…

The package from His Ernisness looked innocent enough (rather like Erni, you might think):

A bit crazy (rather like Erni, you might think), and so I flipped it over:

And there was Muttri and Flanby, going head to head -- with a Spanish orange, I…

The following article appeared in the UK press last weekend: I know what was in it -- MAIL ART!

“Letter arrives 62 years late, and empty”…