Wednesday, March 6, 2013

25 year Tree salute from Kat


I sent Kat the letter K in my alphabet of everything.  she sent me this lovely stand of trees in return.  She also wants people to send eggs to Thessaloniki.  To see more visit:http://iuoma-network.ning.com/events/egg-gallery-of-colors-thessaloniki
Thank you Kat and I've already sent one egg!

Michael Leigh bungled celebrity plastics








Delighted to receive my first post from Mike.   The original altered envelope makes me smile and wonder what the celebs would say. A treat to see some of Mike's work on these postcards. Lots of inspiration.  It's funny, having done the banana thing, when I see yellow I immediately think BANANA.  Was chuckling when I found dafoodils and bananas here. Thank you Mike.

Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Lindsay sends very snail mail

Great to finally get this.  As I recall I spotted it on mailart 365 and Lindsay found it somewhere odd.  But I could be making that up. Sometimes mail takes a long time to arrive.... I love this piece, so it was worth waiting for, even if it was more than year and 365 finished ages ago!Also just thinking how Charles Bronson and Peter Falk look similar.

Sunday, March 3, 2013

This is not mailart

Things were going well.  Patrick was finding mail art for himself and the arduous task of forwarding mail to children had become fun. I was happy to share my trash, my glue sticks - even my stamps.  
Meanwhile Figgy lost her provisional license once, and then it was stolen so once more she had to fork out the money for a new card (carry her passport with her, even to clubs, even though she refuses to use a purse) until the new card was processed and eventually arrived. 
I'm not sure I would draw attention to a driving license, but Patrick was confident that afixing outrageous comments and UFOs to Figgy's forwarded license would be fine.  Sadly it was not and the driving license NEVER arrived.
Maybe it's a lull, a nap, a breather from mail art for Patrick, or maybe not.  Whatever, he was clear that this bank statement would not go astray.  Fingers crossed.

Haptic detritus from Pedro in Spain


The texture and subject matter of Pedro's transparent postings are fascinating. This one has great shapes too.  I even got a black hair trapped under the tape with this one. Pedro's mute sound project continues.  It is sheer laziness on my part not to contribute. I will try! Thank you Pedro.

Red letter day from the Sultanate of Oman


Beautiful! Love the gold stamp.  We don't have anything quite like it here in England. Thank you and thank you also for letting me know this one wasn't for opening, a fiery little exotic collage! 

Saturday, March 2, 2013

outgoing for The Encyclopaedia of Everything

Using Cheryl's technique for creating a cover, I have very loosely responded to Cheryl's book call with Tree Time, an altered book poem.