Cascadia Artpost

In from Cascadia Artpost.

This mail art mimics those place mats at local diners that are covered in small local ads.

Bananamail

Banana mail from Momkat. Love the colors on this one.

Announced on the envelope.

And an artistamp on the back.

Many faces from William

William sent a packet of interesting items some time ago.

Including these fascinating and somewhat disturbing artistamps.

A lot inside a small envelope

C. Mehrl sent another one of her envelopes full of all sorts of mail art-related things.

Something from the eternal network for me to add to.

A little artistic pamphlet.

Some artistamps.

And a warning.

Ear of the Pig

Fun envelope and drawing from Mail Art Martha

How are your new year resolutions going?

Carroll sent me this great envelope that arrived this week on the first day of the Year of the Boar. Carroll always makes such interesting faux stamps.

With a great house (for smurfs? dwarves?) on the back.

Inside was a nice new year card, complete with suggested resolutions.

The card even has a blank space for you to add your own. I hope Carroll doesn't mind my sharing hers. They seem to be the same as mine :)

And if you want to create your own, here you go:

Did you make any resolutions? How are you doing at keeping them?

Zero

Tony is the king of faux postage, and sent this to me in 2017. 

Hauho

Carina sent this wonderful envelope and bits and pieces including one of her digital art pieces and some interesting artistamps created by Vizma B.

And look at this amazing guy on the stamp. He is a wooden pauper, which is a carved figure attached to a church wall. There is a slot in his chest for donating money to the poor. This one is found in Hauho, Finland. 

Winter is here

Fascinating mail art from Thom C sent in fall last year where he wrote winter is coming. So psychic! And a great artistamp.

The skulls

Keith sent me this stunning print.

And in the same mailing were these incredible artistamps. I'll have to remember I have them for next year's Halloween.

The clowns are here!

I know some people have a dreaded fear of clowns. If that's you I am sure you didn't participate in the clown mail art call. 

This excellent documentation of the Cascadia Clown Parade arrived in time for Halloween in this envelope - I love the artistamps.

And some selected pages

Squirrels and dust bunnies

Squirrel mail for Connie Jean.

Dust bunny mail for Michael.

To Mindaugas

I forgot to scan the pieces I sent to MIndaugas. If he shows them at IUOMA I'll copy them here.

They were sent in this envelope, made from an art gallery flier.

Mail Me Some Art - Found Poetry

I decided to guest host an MMSA exchange with the theme of Found Poetry.

I didn't participate in the exchange myself, however I was fortunate enough to receive bonus cards from Susan

and from Laurie. 

Both arrived on 'Big Mail Monday'. In these great painted and rubber-stamped envelopes.

The added bonus of hosting one of these swaps is the wonderful selection of envelopes swappers send their postcards in. It was also great to see several first-time swappers, including Rachael who takes part in Jean's envelope exchanges.

From Eric:

From Rachael:

From Veebee and from Constance:

From Gail:

From Honi:

From Judith:

From Laima:

From Lynn:

The idea of MMSA is to send postcards through he mail, however Andrea's were sent to her in this envelope with a few added artistamps.