Stripygoose (10)

Created for the 'What of whom is she staring at?' project by Stripygoose.



More birds on the back.

Thank you very much, StripyGoose!

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An other piece of mail art, sent also for the International Banana Day, has been created by Stripygoose from the UK. I love birds, so I always am pleasantly surprised by Stripygoose's creations. Even though the theme this time was 'Bananas', she added birds on her mail art to me!



Thank you very much, Stripygoose!

Stripygoose

Beautiful water colour painting of the Blue-footed Booby (Sula nebouxii) by Stripygoose!
See the fine drawn blue feet, and the selfconfident gaze. Thank you very much, Stripygoose!!

Stripygoose is doing a project: draw a bird every day during 365 days. And you can join creating birds and send them to Stripygoose! I did, see here.
Today I was the lucky receiver of this Real Stripygoose Art Bird!

On the backside Stripygoose explains where the name 'Blue-footed Booby' comes from. In Dutch, however, this Booby isn't called 'blue-footed fool', but 'blauwvoetgent' (blue-footed gent').
According to the wiki about this Booby's northern cousin, the Dutch word 'gent' seems to originate from the English word 'gander', which later changed into 'gannet', and the Dutch word 'gent', which resembles the Dutch word for 'goose' (namely 'gans').

Mail Art Martha (3)

The Ostrich! Great (and large) weird bird, who flew ran to my mailbox thanks to Mail Art Martha.

Among the Ostrich also these Puffins arrived, by both air and snail mail :-)



(I wonder why this picture suddenly reminds me of the phrase 'There's nuffin like a puffin')

And the envelope brightens my day, too, by these wonderful rubber stamp prints of two other nice weird animals: the Horse, and the Mail Snail!
And of course there's the official stamp of the United Queendom of Retailia.



Thank you very much, Mail Art Martha!

Mail Art Martha (2)

Great Happy Chinese New Year wish from Mail Art Martha.
It's the year of the horse, now. So note the fantastic rubber stamp print, also of the Horse!



Thank you very much, Mail Art Martha!

Valentine Mark Herman

This beautiful Platypus was created by Valentine Mark Herman from France, or from the Aborigine Settlement in Sigean to be more precise.

I love this dotted Platypus and I love the turquoise surroundings. Thank you very much, Val!

Mail Art Martha

Thanks to Snail Mail Snails we are able to exchange Mail Art all-over the world.
So everytime I see a crawling snail, even when he/she is eating my crop instead of delivering mail, a smile arises on my face.
And Mail Art Martha was so kind to send me snails!
Above you can see the Artfull Snail.
Two Heraldic Snails you can see on this map of the United Queendom of Retailia: they are holding the shield (which shows an other animal: the famous Cuckoo).



And on the envelope there's the Snail Mail Snail again working hard to get this mail on its destination.
Thank you very much, to all Mail Snails and to Martha!