Bananamail

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

Announced on the envelope.

And an artistamp on the back.

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.

Inverse snowflakes

In from MomKat.

This was part of her New Year mail art. Love that Greece rubber stamp.

ATCs from William

William sent me these great artist trading cards in his familiar blue and red colored rubber-stamped images.

They came in this nice envelope - check out the fun space-themed wash tape.

And he also added some bonus back-of-the-envelope art.

Art in a Box part 11

Another art in a box piece today. Rubber stamping from William.

Copy

In from William

Happy Wedding Day, Jon Foster

Jon is getting married today.

He sent out an add and pass for the special occasion.

This is what I added.

Springy mail from Martha

Great stamped envelope from Martha. I like the color of the new 1.17 stamp, even though the price hike from Royal Mail is a bit steep (11.4%).

And a bonus banana article from Private Eye.

To and from Thom

Out to Thom

In from Thom

Found Poetry (and Fauxhio)

Found poetry is exactly that - finding poetry in words that were not originally intended to be poems.

There are several definitions, including the most restrictive, which is to find poetry without removing any text. A good example might be William Shatner reading Sarah Palin's tweets.

I prefer finding poems by deleting text. I have a blog devoted to a project where I have people send back poetry found in the pages of Treasures of Morrow, a young adult novel by H. M. Hoover.

Here are some found poems I have been sending out occasionally with my mail art. They all come from a desktop page-a-day calendar.

Have you created any found poems before?

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F is also for Fauxhio is the fictional place where the artistamps (also known as faux postage or cinderella stamps) I print are issued.

I use the first two stamps quite a bit, usually on envelopes, occasionally on mail art itself. The second two are ones I ordered that are impossible (small brown) or finicky (purple) to use. 

Occasionally, I'll create a special first day of issue postmark. I adapted an old scifi TV channel logo. And sorry about the cut off scan - back from my days of ineptitude with the scanner.

And here's one where I didn't have such good control of the postmark stamper.

Where would you want to post your own stamps from? A real place? Somewhere fictional?

Banana from Dorothea

This unexpected banana arrived from Dorothea.

Inside this fun envelope.

Would you think it was strange if you received banana art in the mail?

Artistamps from TicTac

Well, Eva suggested that I take part in the Blogging from A to Z April challenge. I decided I wasn't going to at first, however the upcoming posts weren't too hard to organize alphabetically. There is an A-Z post every day except Sundays, except Z on Sunday the 30th. So here we go...

Ptrzia always sends such amazing things. This beautifully packaged set of artistamps (also called faux postage, or cinderella stamps) celebrating Georgia O'Keefe was in response to my banana postcard! Great fish rubber stamp, too.

Do you like artistamps?

Have you ever made any yourself?

Three collaborations part 3 - Brain Cell 969

Three collaborations arrived on the same day. One of them was Brain Cell 969.

See if you can spot my contribution.

Three collaborations part 2 - Wipe 102

Three collaborations arrived on the same day. One of them was the latest issue of Wipe.

More fantastic lightweight art.

Three collaborations part 1 - Squirrel Museum

Three collaborations arrived on the same day.

Connie sent a monkey in, so I sent her some squirrels for her squirrel museum.

My sending ended up in Scurry no. 19. There are also a couple of fantastic triangular artistamps.

V@dka to Gü

The envelope...

...the vodka.