You Got Any Mail for Me?

«Old ladies standing in halls, up and down the streets, asking the same question as if they were one person with one voice:
'Mailman, you got any mail for me?
And you felt like screaming, 'Lady, how the hell do I know who you are or I am or anybody is?»

Charles Bukowski, Post Office

Squirrelart

From the Autumn series...

Postcard sent to Connie Jean's Squirrel Museum (the USA).

Boy Posting Mail

An absolutely lovely Japanese stamp: Boy posting mail, by Nakamura Senseki. Issued on April 20, 2001,on the occasion of the 2001 Philatelic Week and the 100th Anniversary of Red Cylindrical Letter Boxes.

This is a post for Sunday Stamps - II. Today's themes: Children's Stories.

From the Black & White (& Some Green) Collection

Black and white handmade envelope and old postcard (purchased in 1997!), sent to Phillip (the USA). The envelope was made of a poster. He posted here about this sending.

And here about the following one:

Cows Are Pretty

Big envelope made by Phillip (the USA), of a calendar. This is a famous work by Andy Warhol: Cow (1966). Also published here.

The kaleidoscope stamps match very well!

Happy Autumn - 2

I could not resist to make a second version of the Happy Autumn postcard. This one was sent to Gina (the UK).

I made the back of the postcard (or is it the front?) of Belgian chocolate wrappings in Autumn colours.

And I was delighted to learn that making chocolates it is not so different from making mail art collages...

Happy Autumn - 1

Postcard sent to Sheryl (the USA), as my contribution to the Challenge #33 of the Mail a Smile project. The theme was Autumn Memories.

This month's theme is Rainy Days.

What Is Better Than a Pink Little Letter?

Two, of course!

Sent by Laura (the UK).

Received from Japan.

Mail Films Are Trendy

Two films that you have the chance to be part of, through crowdfunding campaigns:

Who is Eduardo Munez?

Freaks & Errors. A documentary film about stamps collectors

If I Had Only a Brain, I'd Collect Stamps

Envelope with special postmark sent for the Oz Postcard Project, sent by Phillip (the USA).

If you are interested in how Pictorial Postmarks work in the USA, you can read it here. Similar services exist in other countries, but I have never used them. If they are like this illustration... Maybe I should consider it!

Orcas from British Columbia

Postcards sent by Bryon (Canada).

On the back of the extra long first postcard: Travellers to the West Coast of British Columbia are often treated to a glimpse at a pod of Orcas, or Killer Whales.

On the back of the second one: Breaching orca, Clayoquot Sound, near Tofino, B. C.

Mail Art Bocksbeutel

This is my translucent version of the Bocksbeutel, created for this mail art call (so, sent to Germany). I put another bottle on the envelope. I like the pictures that the recipient published here.

Deadline is 31th December 2015, so you can still send yours. On the postmark it says Always on time!

Longing for the Sea

Envelope made of a poster announcing an art exhibition, sent to Ania (Poland). I added a postcard with a picture taken from the same place. I like to think that maybe both picture were taken the same day...

RAS

This postcard was sent by Claudia (Germany) on behalf of Laura.

I read often Laura's blog. One day I saw that she has received this cool stamp of Obelix, and I just commented that I love it. Now I recall that I also said it here... I really didn't expect to receive it, but sometimes snail mail brings big surprises. This beautiful postcard and stamps arrived as a RAS. I immediately found out that RAS stands for 'Random Act of Smileness'. That is a nice idea I had never heard before.

Actually, not random, but all the snail mail is an act of smileness, isn't it?

The postcard had a tough trip...

Sent Letter

Letter sent to Ângela (Portugal).