Sunday, January 25, 2015

Erni Bär & Bläck Friday



Over at IUOMA, Erni Bär had favorited one of my triangles, so I sent him one - my first mail art to Germany.

He sent me a package, which looked like this:




And contained this framed collage, or gluepic as he calls them. It was wrapped in a poster he had altered - I'll blog that one over at IUOMA.
I can't believe he was so generous!!



I had been shopping at a well-known US store the day after Thanksgiving (I have only ever ventured out twice on that evil day) and the bag made me think of him, so I sent him a piece I call Bläck Friday. I hope he likes it.





Update: I think this one went missing in the mail, sadly.

Update 2: the circular Global Forever stamps fit the theme of Sunday Stamps this week.

13 comments:

  1. I have a wreath from the Forever stamps but different to the one you've shown us.

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    1. The one you have is the 2013 holiday wreath, the one with the green background is the issue for 2014. I like the circular Global Forever stamps, however I hope they do something other than just wreaths every year. I think this design could lend itself to stars, snowflakes, ornaments... only 9 months to go until the 2015 holiday stamps are announced.

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  2. Too bad the envie went missing. I like your clever use of the wreath stamps as the umlaut in Ern's name

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    1. Thanks! I'm sad about the envelope, but that's one of the aspects of mail art that you learn to live with. At least there's the internet to record it all.

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    2. Don't give up on it. Last year, I ordered something from the UK. After a month, it still hadn't arrived. They sent a new one to arrive in 10 days time. A few days later, the first package arrived! And the 2nd showed up on time!

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    3. You're right, it still might turn up. The UK has a surface mail option (cheaper) that takes about 4 weeks for mail to get to the US. If postage is insufficient for airmail, it will probably go by boat. Of course it could also have just gone on a random journey - like stamps I ordered from USPS that come from Kansas City - they went to Pittsburgh then somewhere in New Jersey before making it to Ohio.

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    4. I meant to add, I don't know if the USPS has this option.

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  3. This is the first time we meet at Sunday Stamps, isn't it?

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    1. Yes, in fact your post today made me think of the round global US stamps, so I edited my post this morning. You are definitely help to feed my mail art addiction.

      The different interpretations from the participants are fascinating - all sorts of really cool stamps.

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  4. Welcome to Sunday Stamps!
    I like these wreath stamps, but you're right - a bit more imagination for Christmas could easily fit into the round design.

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    1. Thanks for the welcome. At leafs this year's stamp had an unusual green background.

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  5. I like the idea of the holiday wreath but you are right one wouldn't want too many of them, just think of the infinite possibility of snowflakes. I hate it when things go missing but guess that is the nature of post although the marvel is that most of it arrives OK.

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    1. Unfortunately there have been snowflake stamps for domestic mail recently. so I doubt they'd go with that any time soon.

      Oh, yes, it is all part of the game that is ail art.

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