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Great shoes, the Walrus has!
The Carpenter is on the other ATC. The characters are of the wellknown book about Alice.
By the way, at IUOMA there's a group on Alice's 'Through the Looking Glass'.

Both ATC's have been created by ToniPoet and arrived in this envelope:



On the envelope Toni added a great stamp of someone reading mail.

And on the back there is this tiny lovely Horse:



Thank you very much, Toni!

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Pictures (mail art, stamps, anything) showing Echidna or Platypus make me extremely happy.

This way Tonipoet succeeded to bring a broad smile on my face and a ton full of energy to my body on a tiring day, by adding this original Echidna stamp to her collage.
The art work is #533 and named "Prehistoric Australia". Although Echidna and other monotremes seem - and are! - prehistoric, fortunately they also live in present Australia.

The Echidna arrived, accompanied by two Easter Bunnies and a Cat, who so to see got lost in Paris but soon will find her way again thanks to the map.



Both cards came in a beautiful Wolf envelope,



Of which the back side is a piece of abstract art in itself:



Thank you very much, Toni!

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A Bug, Monkey and that poor* Sloth united in this beautiful collage by ToniPoet from the USA.

(* had to walk all by him-/herself, while that other sloth was more fortunate)

On the envelope more animals show up, so to see the Snake and Lizard hardly escaped from the USPS inking seasonal machines!



And a leaded / stained glass like image (Marc Chagall's?),


and on the back side of this paper some other (human) animals: soccer players:


Dancers / twisters:



Last but not least Toni added some money: fluxus bucks!
Great to see how this bank note traveled via several mail artists.




Thank you very much, Toni!

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The Komodo Varanus (or Komodo Dragon) always has fascinated me, and I am happy to receive this (presently largest) lizard, created by Tonipoet.

She created a pretty envelope around it, too. I am fond of cartoons and animation movies, so always happy to receive envelopes like this. It is from a movie which I didn't see though (I only saw part 1), 'How to train your Dragon 2'.



Thank you very much, Toni!

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"Startled Armadillo" is the title of this fascinating piece of mail art, created and sent by Toni Hanner. I love Armadillos (named 'Gordeldier' in Dutch, which literally means 'belt animal'). And I hope this fellow doesn't have to be in fear for a too long time..

The Armadillo came in this cool (or hot) envelope:



Thank you very much, Toni!

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Parts of this mail art from Tonipoet I already posted on Leap Day (yes, 2016 is not only the Year of the Monkey but also a Leap Year!). Then I realized I never had posted the main image in this blog: the Chicken. Here she is!



Who knows what animals (Owls, Crows, Bats, Sparrows) are living in this old church tower (included in the great envelope):



We had hoped that USPS would cancel the stamp and provde it with the rare date '29 Feb 2016',



But instead they postmarked the 'do not open til leap day' message!



Detail:



Thank you very much, Toni!

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These gracious flying Swallows have been created by Tonipoet. Also (to be) published at the 'Whom or what is she staring at?' blog.

Thank you very much, Toni!

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This great big-Bear envelope created and sent by Tonipoet!



Inside Toni added some more animals to my add-and-pass: a smaller and a bigger Cat.



Thank you very much, Toni!

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Crows are clever birds. I love to see them, so I am happy to welcome Tonipoet's collage, which shows a crow (and a human being, clearly a mammal).



Both on the outside and the inside of the envelope Toni added matching and funny stamps.



And on the outside of the envelope the Postal company had added some address label, as if it was an attempt to shut the imaged lady's mouth!



Thank you very much, Toni!