Hello? It's for you...

Some banana mail I sent to katerina, accompanied by some yellow stamps.

Orange and scaly paint job

Very cool tactile effect on this Halloween envelope from Kathy. Love the splash of purple and yellow on the Batman stamp.

20th century inventions for Sunday Stamps

Pick up trucks, born in 1931. This stamp shows the 1938 International Harvester D-2.

The electric guitar, courtesy of Jimi Hendrix's stamp. Weirdly, as far as I can find, the first one was designed in 1931.

And Batman, first appearing in comics in 1939.

For more 20th century inventions on stamps, check out the links here.

Eric Mondays part 21 - celebrate!

I did send Eric a commercial birthday card as a bonus, and I decided it couldn't go through the mail without a little bit of decoration.

Wipe 98

I sent some ink blots in for Wipe 98.

Mailed to Australia.

I know that this issue has been mailed out, however mine is yet to arrive.

Eric Mondays part 15

The caped crusader celebrates Eric's fiftieth birthday.  I should have made the 5 a little bit bigger...

To Jon

An envelope containing an add + pass to Jon.

Banana Day

Another Banana Day occurred April 20.

This is what I sent out.

And this is what came in.

First, minions from MomKat.

The next day, this much-delayed banana from MomKat showed up.

stripygoose's banana mail showed up next, forsooth! Even the stamp is banana colored.

The next three arrived on the eve of banana day.

From Dean, a little crumpled.

Here's the smoothed out version.

And the front.

A Browning banana from Linda.

And a yellow banana from Toni.

Perfect timing from TicTac, this one arrived on the big day itself with fantastic faux stamps.

A red banana from Carina showed up a few days later.

Sent in this great envelope - with fun (as always) Finnish postage.

And this last one was posted on April 20 in Brazil, arriving 3 weeks later. Thanks for my first Brazilian mail art, Intransferival!

Spring Scuba

Bonus spring mail art from MomKat, and a brightly colored little zine. All wrapped up in a classic Greek airmail envelope.

My response was sent in this envelope. I created a blue 'airmail' border (does anyone know if it has a real name? airmail chevrons?) using blues that I have sent to Kat, and blues she has sent to me. Some of the lighter shades may not have scanned so well.

Caution

Here's one of the things I did with MG's caution tape.

Who is Eduardo Munez part 8

I thought my spiral metro envelope was going to be the last one, but I was inspired at the last minute to send two more.

I don't know why I didn't think of this earlier, but here's a letter box/mail slot selfie a la Eduardo (although I realized it is from the opposite side of the door).

Minimalist and more from Keith

Keith from IUOMA sent me this spontaneous and minimalist mail art.

Security envelope handmade envelope.

Inside was a single sheet of paper...

...and the other side.

My response:

And sent back in envelope 557.

__________________________

With the arrival of this next amazing envelope arrived it seems like his signature is turning security envelopes inside out.  And in this case, he created the most incredible underwater encounter. These images are precisely cut out and securely adhered - I would never have the patience or the skill.

And inside was the sheet, which is stitched back together, with Keith's new additions. The spider is outstanding.

The blog is so far ahead of real time now, that I can bring you the third installment.

This is what I did to the sheet.

And the envelope Keith sent is one of the most creative things I've received this year, so I was trying to come up with something a little extra special, when i noticed he had commented on the mail art book I sent to Erni. So two selected pages from Keith's trashpo book...

The dimensional picture.

And the random selection of stamps I used to cover the postage.