Not one of the envelopes - the dogcat, and 'All Around Columbus Town'

There are some envelopes that are better when they are not cut to the rigid templates of my numbered envelopes.

Here's one withe address side:

And the back:

Only a cat would do something like this!

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And on the topic of cats, this next 'not one of the envelopes' was sent to Cara and Taco.

Bonus postcards

A Christmas collage from NancyLee, an MMSA swapper.

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A card from the esteemed Taco, via his human, Cara.

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I had admired Linda F's series on the 'Theory of Buttons' over at IUOMA. She spontaneously, surprisingly sent me this one "Electrical, solar". Very cool in person, and delivered in great condition despite all the little pieces.

I like the little half circles on the edges - makes me think of buttons that have spun out of their orbits and gone on their own fantastic adventure beyond the solar system, beyond the electrical grid.

The address side is also beautiful.

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Kathie M made me laugh when I saw that she had titled this one 'Hot mess - mudslide or brown avalanche?' I think, in this portrait orientation, that it looks like a mountainscape.

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Bonus link: Royal Mail has opened an online exhibit to celebrate 50 years of commemorative stamp issues. Browse the exhibit here. 

Envelope 415

More cartoon drawings for Cara.

And one of the cool Pixar stamps to accompany it.

I had a hard time deciding where to put the address. Maybe it should have been handwritten on the comic book.

And the back.

Bonus link

Do yourself a favor, and go and check out another amazing piece of mail art for Cara's anthropomorphic mail project.

You are almost as awesome as this bear

A great postcard from Cara.

29 faces in september part IV: envelopes 213, 193 & 251

10/29: #213 to Cara

I thought Cara would like this crazy self-styled super hero.

And I just happened to have some of the super hero stamps.

The scanner took this crazy image, which I really like - it may have to make its way onto a postcard.

Farewell, super person.

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11/29: #193 to Eric

I told you there'd be a lot of Johnny Cash. And another hand written address, this time in silver. Stop the madness.

Bon voyage.

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12/29: #251 to Smash.

Stone eyes on stone eyes.

Tails.

Guess the stamp game - the final answer. (And bonus links)

The answer to last week's envelope in question is...

... Joseph Stella's 'Brooklyn Bridge' from the Modern Art in America 1913-1931 stamp sheet.

Thanks so much to Hester and Jean for playing along, it was a lot of fun to see what guesses you would make. All the ones from last week would have been fun - I didn't even consider any of those as options.

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Bonus links today. If you haven't checked out some of Cara G's blog posts lately, you're really missing out.

She runs an anthropomorphic mail art project that is a lot of fun, and recently has had some incredible mail art from Philippe Charron.

The anthropomorphic mail art project

One of the most creative pieces of mail art I've seen - giraffe by Philippe Charron.

His home improvement monkey.

A cooking dog, with an amazing use of a postage stamp.

And his fantastic bears, made all the more beautiful by the cool French bear stamps.

There's also a jaguar general.

You can see all the entries for Cara's project by clicking here.

Easter Bunny nightmare

Cara G sent this postcard...

...I'm guessing delivery of Easter Eggs didn't go so smoothly for this guy.

(And if you're reading this, Hester, looks like I'm not the only one who can send dark materials through the post!)

Bonus Mail

The people I've exchanged mail art postcards with via MMSA can be so generous, sending mail outside the swaps.

Here's a great postcard from Terrie, and a very nicely stamped & addressed envelope from Cara.

And a bonus cat on the back.

A giraffe for Cara

Cara G has a cool Anthropomorphic Mail Art project. She sends you an image of an animal head (you can also request a human), you do something with it and send it back. You can see the results here. The added captions are hilarious.

Here's my contribution:

Chewy Tulip

I received a postcard from Cara G in the MMSA postcard exchange. She has a fun blog which also features her cat, Taco (the Great). I sent her and Taco postcards recently, and she and Taco sent a couple in return.