Katerina Nikoltsou (33)

The New Year 2018 just has started. And in one and half month an other New Year will begin: the Year of the Dog.

The mail art Katerina has sent to me a few weeks ago, matches with both years, as you can see!



The front side of the Dog card shows blue:



And inside the envelope there is an other envelope, a red felt one meant for Santa, so to see. But first we park the Squirrels here!





On the back side of the outer envelope there are Katerina's famous stamp prints:



Thank you very much, Katerina, and happy New Years!

FinnBadger (5)

This year is the Year of the Monkey, and, already at the start of this Chinese New Year, I received this cheerful Monkey from FinnBadger.

On the back there was this perfect matching postmark, along with a postage stamp themed 'Year of the Monkey':



It took me some time to find the Monkey on the stamp, but here she or he is:



The Monkeys came in this larger envelope. I am not sure if FinnBadger has surrounded the Monkeys by this envelope, or that USPS was so kind to protect the Monkey postmark against more ink. Anyway: thank you very much, FinnBadger!

Erni Bär (2)

Another collage created and sent by Erni Bär. You can see Fish, a Lobster, a Human (bear?) being, Musician, and again that strange creature, called Werewolf.
Vielen Dank, Erni!

Carla Cryptic

This special Ice Rabbit was made and sent by Carla Cryptic from the USA. I love the turquoise colours!

Born in the year of the Golden Rabbit, Carla has the Rabbit Year Mail Art Project.

On the back side of this Ice Rabbit I was surprised by a great original Cryptic Post stamp!



Compositions by Carla Cryptic you can find here.
The mentioned (golden) rabbit and (turquoise) dragon you can see here.

Thanks a lot, Carla!