Carlos Botana

Not intended as a Real Weird Animal, this beautiful mixed media Serea Carlos Botana sent to me as a 'thank you' for my Mermaid for the Send me a Mermaid project.

Serea... I couldn't find the word in the dictionary. Serea must be 'Mermaid' in Gallego, as there also is a Serea in Vigo, Galicia.
And Sereia is Mermaid in Portuguese. Since the moment I opened the envelope and read the word 'Serea', the words 'Minha Sereia é Rainha do Mar' (a famous Brazilian song) go through my mind continuously.



Also beautiful are the fine Mermaid on the original Carlos Botana stamp, and the butterfly which was issued by the Spanish correos, post.

Muchas gracias, Carlos!

Miguel Jimenez (2)

This curious ¡Indignaos! bull was sent by Miguel Jimenez of El Taller de Zenón.



More bulls you can find on his Bulls in Sevilla mail art website.

Muchas gracias, Miguel!

Nicole Eippers

Real strange to us (though we humans might look weird towards him/her!?) is this Heteronotus delineatus! I'm not sure if this is a Treehopper or a Thorn bug, but anyhow this odd creature belongs to the Membracidae family.
More of his/her cousins you can see on (for example) this blog.

This great collage was made and sent by Nicole Eippers, mail artist and pigs collector (so if ever you have a pig found or created, send it to her!).

More animals to see are, on the stamp, the Red Kite (Milvus milvus) and, on both front and back side of the envelope, of course the pig (I count even four).



Merci beaucoup, Nicole!

Eni Ilis

These bats (or would they be vampires?) were created by Eni Ilis from Brazil.



More work by Eni Ilis you can find by e.g. google.
Thank you very much, Eni!

Erin Fae

Today I was surprised by a Mail Art work from New Zealand (sent from Singapore). This Woodpecker and a very naked human arm were created and sent by Erin Fae.
The card also is part of the Mail Art 365 project.



More about/from Erin you can see on Faerygrrrl.

Thanks a lot, Erin!

Nico van Hoorn

From the Netherlands this friendly Cow was sent, pictured by Nico van Hoorn.
A puzzled, or an anonymous cow?!
(Suddenly I remember Polaroid pictures / Instant film).

Besides the cow, also an other meadow resident adorns the postcard, on a rubber stamp on the back: the Black-tailed Godwit ('Grutto' in Dutch).



See more mail art by Nico van Hoorn on his Mail Art blog.



Hartelijk dank, Nico!

Eva (2)

These butterflies once belonged to a note book cover. Thanks to Eva they turned into mail objects and flew from Spain to this Mail Art project!
Funny that the colours and brightness - which in their note book life always were the same - now can change, according to the background.





And the Spanish Correos supplied an apt stamp.

More of Eva's MailAdventures you can see on MailAdventures.blogspot.com.

Thanks a lot, moltes gràcies, Eva!