Eva (36) Reading bird

Where would we be without books? This great bird totally agrees with the importance of reading books (and her book has a cover of my favourite colour :-) .
So I am happy to receive a picture of the reading bird, created by Eva. Thank you very much!

Stripygoose (15)

Already received in December 2023, accompanied with festive greetings,
finally posted here, this elegant Thimble Bird!

Created and sent by Stripygoose. thank you very much!

Eva (35) - Happy New Year of the Dragon!

The lunar Year of the Dragon is soon to come, but dragons-in-mail-art are welcomed here every time of the year!
Eva made me happy by sending this friendly Dragon, which was so large that it filled both the front and back side of the envelope:

And I learned that Dragons can fly kites, too (even better than I can :-) )

Thank you very much, Eva!
And to all who celebrate: Happy New Year of the Dragon!

Eva (34)

The headline says 'Eva (34)' but it could have been (50) or more, because I've received a lot more beautiful mail art envelopes! Great cool chameleon / calmeleon was made and sent by Eva. And see the matching stamp! Thank you very much, moltes gràcies, Eva!

Katerina Nikoltsou (35)

In the title I counted nr 35, although that is incorrect: Katerina has made and send me much more great and very much appreciated mail art. Only lack of time made me publish just a few pieces of mail art in the past years.

This Whale in Space is one of the examples of Katerina's wonderful mail art works, mixed media (acryl paint, collage) and caused a big smile on my face, as big as the whale's smile. Thank you very much, Katerina!

Eva (33)

After the Turtle, cousin Crocodile arrived! (Via water or via air?!) Thank you very much, moltes gràcies, Eva!

Eva (32)

Who would ever have thought that turtles can be puzzled by lighthouses?
Wonderful drawing by Eva, and look how the colourpencil colours match with the stamps!
Thank you very much, Eva, moltes gràcies!

Eva (31)

Tucan, defending its right to a shaded corner - something we all need in the heat. Great drawing made and sent by Eva, thank you so very much!

Eva (30)

It has been one year and one-day-and-half since I posted my most recent blog post here at 'Real Weird Animals'... Meanwhile I have received so many beautiful matching mail art!
I apologize for being this late, and I guess my huge backlog (in sharing my received mail with you) will keep on being huge.
Hopefully, and step by step I'll show you the gems. To start with this Squirrel, named Francis, which I received today:

I wish the squirrel would have been baking pancakes for me, but fact is, he is baking for his BF, Peris Little-Dormouse :-) Made and sent (and accompanied by a matching story) by Eva. Thank you very much!

Robin

So much to see and discover on this beautiful collage by Robin from the Netherlands!


Thank you very much, hartelijk dank, Robin!

Nicole Eippers (29)

Wonderful envelope from Nicole Eippers, tmo the Queen of Collage mail art!
The mail arrived despite of the location of the postmark :-)



Enclosed this great Mole shown above, and ATC's: of a Tardigrade, Chameleon, Lyrebird and a Sea Slug. And of course Nicole's famous Flying Piggy.

Mail Monster!

One and half year ago I promised to reply to Eva's mail. But it appeared that the to-reply-to mail had disappeared.

Thanks to Eva's new mail I now know why!



See more Mail Monsters on Eva's Mail Monsters Postal Project website!



On the backside of the card there is this beautiful bridge stamp... Without bridge! Another Mail Monster's act?

Ruud Janssen (9)

Sent by Ruud Janssen from the Netherlands, this awesome artistamp. The artistamp is showing Ruud himself and has been designed by Domenico Ferrara Foria, in honour of the 35th anniversary of the International Union of Mail Artists (IUOMA), which takes place this year! Ruud is the founder of this great network.

The artistamp arrived in this envelope, which is an alibi to post the mail art here: there are animals on it!



Funny detail might be the fact that the snail mail snail and Year of the Dog stamp have been designed by me :-) Always nice to see them travel.
I've sent the original stamps to Ruud Janssen, because he also is curating the TAM rubberstamp archive.


Also in this envelope this bright work of art arrived:



Created by Ruud Janssen. I guess it is named bits and bytes, or some other name?!?

Thank you very much, hartelijk dank, Ruud!

Jimmy Connors (9)

Rabbit, Lion, Human being, Birds.
Thank you very much, Jimmy COnnors!

Katerina Nikoltsou (34)

February is a month full of reasons to send mail. And Katerina did send mail for these!



~ 14 February: Valentine's Day ~



~ 16 February 2018: start of the Lunar new year, the Year of the Dog ~



~ 21 February: Banana Day! ~



Featuring artistamps by Anna Banana, accompanied by the 'What or whom is she staring at?' lady.



Thank you very much, Katerina!

K Rolina Artist

I was surprised by K Rolina, who sent me a pretty envelope, with inside a beautiful booklet containing eight collages.
Above you see two of them, below the front side of the booklet:



And the back side of the colourful envelope:



Thank you very much, K Rolina!

Jimmy Connors (8)

Lovely Birds and a nice word play by Jimmy Connors. 'Gans' (in both German and Dutch) means 'Goose'. So it is clear the animals above are HooliGans!



Inside the decorated envelope some goodies arrived, like this matchbox named 'Vögel und Fische', which means 'Birds and Fish':



And look at this Mail Pigeon on a mail certificate (of which I have to find out how it works to send mail - and in what locations, a mystery since the last Dutch post offices has disappeared in 2010) (I think I'll keep this UPU paper as it is, because it is beautiful!



Thank you very much, vielen Dank, Jimmy!

Mail Art Martha (11)

Two wonderful episodes of Mail Art Martha's Cattitudes.



Brought to me via Owl & Snail Mail.

As is this contribution to my 'What or whom is she staring at?' mail art project.
'She's looking in the mirror and wondering who she is':



Thank you very much, Mail Art Martha!

Antonia Mayol (7)

Dog stamp, for a happy 2018 and a happy Year of the Dog!

Created and sent from Spain by Antonia Mayol.



Thank you very much, muchas gracias, Antonia!

Tonipoet (9)

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!