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First Bananas arrived from Mathom-House in Italy, and Rebecca in the UK, by Feb. 21 :-)

Mathom-House sent very nice Banana Art for Banana Day!

Cheese and fruits go with bananas, oh, yes!

And there were instructions a la MomKat on the envelope:…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on February 25, 2014 at 7:00pm — 2 Comments

Banana TIME from In-Seine

Oh, yes...TIME is special to In Seine, too.

(Above : my TIME flies and bananas....)

But In Seine created a great fun card with the "smiling" watch and bananas!

The flip side of the card is very nice, ...actually it is…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on February 25, 2014 at 5:54pm — 3 Comments

Going Bananas for Feb. 21 from Jen and from Heleen

World Banana Day was Feb. 21, and the Banana Band had a great mail art exchange.

Some "Bananas" arriving in Greece today:

From Jen, who organized this year's mailing.

Nice "PRIDE" rainbow for the bananas of all…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on February 25, 2014 at 5:30pm — No Comments

Adanaland sends from the "Land of Unnecessary Stickers"!

Discussing recently the fact that post offices need not give "air mail" stickers anymore,

because all out-of-country / overseas mail goes air mail.

However, it sure is nice to use them on mail art envelopes. …

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on February 21, 2014 at 4:30pm — No Comments

Annie sends lovely "mail art omens" from the UK

A very delicately designed envelope was in my mailbox today.

It has an embossed golden bird design and many stamps, too. Subtle green

and earth tones , also on the flip side of the envelope (with washi tape pieces, yay!):…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on February 21, 2014 at 4:15pm — 2 Comments

Cat-mail and washi from Kim in Korea

Edmund Hippo was very happy with all the mail art that arrived today in Greece.

But especially thrilled to see this "Cat" and the contents from Kim Jung Youn.…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on February 20, 2014 at 11:08pm — 2 Comments

Beautifully painted mail art from Margitta (Itta) from Germany

Stunning "Landscape" with acrylic and inkpen arrived in Greece today from Itta.

Beautiful flow of colors

and nice stamping of her initials, too.…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on February 20, 2014 at 10:04pm — No Comments

Sub-Real Alchemy (David Aponte) sent a mail art card with map...

Oh, yes, this is an interesting beauty of a mail art card.

David Aponte created a very minimal piece actually,

but by adding the map fragment, got my curiosity up as to its location:

"Lottsville"...and "Bear Lake" , that's PA…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on February 20, 2014 at 10:00pm — 5 Comments

Mail art from Lynne arrived today!

Lovely cat-card from Lynne Gurnee in EUREKA (that;s Greek), California.

Nice "MomKat" and looks like a gentle stray.

Many stray cat and kits under my balcony here in Thess, Lynne.…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on February 20, 2014 at 9:52pm — 4 Comments

"Insufficient address" ? or....Roland Halbritter playing with the German Post?

A "return to sender" mail arrived back in Thessaloniki...with that horrid "pink" sticker:

Mail art that I had sent Roland Halbritter looked like it had been tampered with,

someone defaced the name and address, etc. If this was the…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on February 20, 2014 at 8:16pm — 1 Comment

Wrong postal code means delay for Grigori's GREEN stickers!

But they did arrive today, perhaps, even with the wrong code, he added big letters: GREECE!

Edmund Hippo was very happy to see "Kate the Kat" finally receive these Cavellini and genii stickers!

And there is still a problem,…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on February 20, 2014 at 7:30pm — 2 Comments

A paper bag..beautiful envelope from TiAr

It was wrapped with a rubber-band around Artist-in-Seine's mail art...

but it arrived without a tear or hardly a wrinkle!

Wonderful "envelope" from TiAr, made from a paper bag,…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on February 19, 2014 at 2:44pm — No Comments

Artist in seine #2 also arrived, this wrapped in paper bag?

The postal clerk "assumed" that the paper bag being from France,

must be wrapped with the other item from France...and rubber-band fastened, too.

However, while one might expect a paper bag from In Seine, it was indeed from TiAr…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on February 19, 2014 at 2:05pm — 13 Comments

Artist in Seine sends good reading material

Well, the book-"ends", at least :-)

...and Happy birthday greeting for my Feb birthday.

And "books" that are meant to be mail art!

I am amazed how he constructed this "postcard" and even more

amazed how safely it…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on February 19, 2014 at 1:52pm — 1 Comment

MORE in the package from Hamburg, Blog #2

Well this shows the "art" in the mail art package from Off Scene Akademie Hamburg.

Collage cards of course! Full of great images and bar codes and bits and pieces recycled. Yes!…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on February 19, 2014 at 1:28pm — 2 Comments

Long awaited package from Hamburg arrives...yay!

Usually, it takes about 36 hours for something in-the-mail from Germany to Greece.

But this package, Edmund finally received today, mailed Feb 5???? Wow!

Taking it home, passing by the periptero (corner kiosk):…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on February 19, 2014 at 1:10pm — 5 Comments

The Art of Lino Prints from Atelier of Giannis Stamenitis

Exchanging mail art with Giannis is fantastic.He sends some wonderful lino prints.

His technique is detailed and amazing!

And he also included a series of small "animal creatures"prints :…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on February 18, 2014 at 3:26pm — 3 Comments

From Russia with Love: stamps, stamps, stamps!

Natalya Korolkova sends fantastic mail art card made with 28 Russian postage stamps!

and wonderful Sochi Olympics stamp, too.

Wonderful surprise, Natalya, see you in the mail soon,

and thank you very much…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on February 18, 2014 at 3:03pm — No Comments

Lion roars from Josh Ronsen

Another surprise card was in the mailbox: RED from Josh Ronsen.

Good to see this LION!

Thanks Josh,

see you in the mail soon!…

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on February 18, 2014 at 3:00pm — No Comments

Waiting for the Haptic Werewolf

Usually mail art from Germany arrives quickly to Greece

Today a notice arrived and Edmund Hippo will have to wait until tomorrow,

February 19, to pick it up at the Greek post office. …

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Added by Katerina Nikoltsou (MomKat) on February 18, 2014 at 2:54pm — 5 Comments

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