Snail Mail Snails - 2015

Today is 21-12, which means the last '21st' of this year. Time flies...
Also 21-12 usually means the shortest day and longest night of any year.

About one year ago I sent Mail Snails to several mail art friends to wish them a Happy 2015.
I've sent these on postcards, to keep it that way or to colour, and to keep or to send it to whoever they wanted to send it to.

To my surprise I received some of them in return, via snail mail or email, and I love the way all artists added their 'handwriting' to the Snail Mail Snails!
Also a few mail artists, who hadn't received an original card, printed the snail and coloured and sent them.
Thank you very much, all of you!

The one above not only was coloured by FinnBadger, but also has been turned into an envelope. Which I think so suitable: FinnBadger has a mail art blog on Envelopes!

Here some other great contributions:


From Bruno Chiarlone


From Suus in Mokum


From Ana Marta Austin


From Dean (here in process)


From Katerina Nikoltsou


From Richard C.

Thank you very much!

P.S. I've received a few more coloured Mail Snails, but in the past year some of them crawled away to some hidden place. I'll post them as soon as I'll have found them back...

Borderline Grafix (2), Samantha Althoff (1), Jan Hodgman (2)

Some months ago I sent out a Soccer Field Aad-And-Pass to Samantha Althoff in the USA. To my surprise not only she, but also Jan Hodgman and Borderline Grafix have added to it, before returning it to me (which was a surprise to me also, as returning to me wasn't 'obligatory').

Above you see the wonderful result. No soccer players, but amazing Animals and other beautiful additions.



The AAP came in an envelope, with the Mink (Minxus) stamp you see above, and with an interesting photo from Borderline Grafix.



Thank you very much, Samantha, Jan and Borderline G.!

Collaborating mail artists in London

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Twee zondagen geleden ontmoetten de postkunstenaars Katerina Nikoltsou , Mail Art Martha, Scott 'Postively Postal' en StripyGoose elkaar in Londen.
Ik was ook uitgenodigd en had er graag bij willen zijn, maar helaas weerhielden andere verplichtingen me ervan de (onderzeese) trein naar Londen te nemen.
Gelukkig ben ik er toch een beetje bij geweest: in gedachten, en toen het illustere viertal mail art maakte, ook voor mij!
Dankzij de Vis, Vogel, Konijn en Kat hoort hun mail art ook op dit blog thuis:



Two Sundays ago mail artists Katerina Nikoltsou, Mail Art Martha, Scott 'Positively Postal' and StipyGoose had a meet-up in London. Also I was invited, but alas some other obligations made me not take the underseas train to London.
Fortunately I have been there a little bit, too, in a way: in thoughts, and when this special gang of four created mail art, also for me!
Thanks to the Fish, Bird, Rabbit and Cat I found a good reason to post this mail art here.



Thank you very much, StripyGoose, Scott, Martha and Katerina!

Katerina, Angie and Matthew

Katerina from Greece met Angie and Matthew in the USA, and this collage is one of the results of their mail art collaboration. I am happy to have received it! And added it to this Real Weird Animals site, because there are several interesting animals in their mail art. Like this sea water horse above.



And an Octopus. In Dutch we call the Octopus 'Inktvis', which means 'Ink fish' (maybe this word exists in English, too?).
So I think it a nice coincidence that this amazing eight-legged animal has been printed thanks to an eraser stamp and... ink!



Katerina added stamp stickers of a wellknown character and her new friends: Alice, in Wonderland. Here meeting one of my other favourite animals, this time an alas extinct one: the Dodo.



Thank you very much, Angie, Matthew and Katerina!