Squares

Envelope 350 to Brooke C, who spontaneously sent me mail art.

Envelope 700 to Terrie (spelled her name correctly this time!).

Envelope 709 to Nancy.

Tucker is... going shopping

If it's Tuesday, it must be Tucker.

Turned into an envelope.

Mail art books

I sent a series of trashpo mail art books for some IUOMA people - MomKat, Linda F, De Villo Sloan, DKULT, Mail Art Martha, PetrolPetal. Erni has since left the IUOMA platform, he was also sent one. I included many pieces from these correspondents in the books, so they are all collaborations to some extent.

This is just a random selection of pages from all of them.

Bonus picture that Erni took of the book I sent him:

I wish I had taken photos like this to show, as Erni described it, the 3-D nature of the books.

Spring... and a book of Erniness

This arrived on a very cold day at the end of March when we had freezing temperatures and snow flurries. Thankfully, Katerina's mail brightened my day with a message of spring.

And inside was a great surprise - some faux stamps of Kat in her favorite blue, and my first mail art book - sent on vintage computer paper based largely on papers sent to Thessaloniki by none other than the Haptic Werewolf himself.

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Bonus link

I don't have anything for Sunday Stamps, but you may be interested in reading about the Win the War stamp issued in 1942 over at USPS Stamps.

Triple the Erniness

Erni always sends the most amazing packages.

A very sturdy cardboard mailer, replete with stickers and stamps.

The back...

The grand opening... a pile of stuff...

Including a squashed can!

And a three piece collage. Clutch those stalks of corn, woman! Fend off the thorax!

Thanks, Dharmadada!

Bonus update - Google doodle's the 175th anniversary of the penny black

From the UK google site, quite an abstract doodle.

This event is also being celebrated by Royal Mail, which is issuing penny black and twopenny blue first class stamps.

Double the Oz

I sent two envelopes to Eva for her Wizard of Oz mail art project.

If you're  regular reader you may want to sit down first, because I hand colored this first one. It was a commercial card, and the yellow made me think of drawing the yellow brick road with Oz shining in the distance. I just noticed that I could have placed the Ocean Temperatures Global stamp upside down for a more accurate rainbow. I think the sky appeared a bit bluer on the real envelope compared to the scan.

The second is another tornado image. I liked the tones in the Hudson River School of Art stamps.