Christmas- & Old&New-card #9 to Ka van Haasteren - Den Haag, Netherlands

In reaction to Ka's RED mail-art 
http://www.blogger.com/blogger.gblogID=7079222293473904018#editor/target=post;postID=6066713598934722815 
this card from the Dutch C and O&N series!

Christmas- & Old&New-card #6 sent to Lisa & Sebas - Harlingen, Netherlands

Christmas- & Old&New-card #5 sent to Janneke - Limmen, Netherlands

Christmas- & Old&New-card #4 sent to Ans & Hans - Groningen, Netherlands

Christmas- & Old&New-card #3 sent to Mimi & Edwin - Groningen, Netherlands

Another card in the series started with the one sent to Froukje, using a leaflet from the 1950ies with Sinterklaas- and Christmasrecipes and -ideas for ornementation (in Dutch).

Sent to Dean Marks - Paris, France (4/12/12)

In reaction to his crazy sending for my Pink-Red-Orange-Yellow call http://wimpletproy.blogspot.de/2012/12/proy24-received-from-dean-mark-paris.html, I sent this card to Dean. I was not yet in my Christmas- & Old&New-cards mood, so Dean received a collage of several photos in a green atmosphere, a mixture of in- and outside.

Today —12/12/12— Dean notices on the IUOMA-website that he received my card http://iuoma-network.ning.com/profiles/blogs/willemien-visser-mobilin-die-kinderseiten-in-zusain. However, he cheats: on the photo that he makes visible to all IUOMA-members (see below), Dean has ADDED an element: a leg with a tattoo that Dean may wish to wash in one of the sinks, but I'm offended! that such a picture can be attributed to me! In addition, Dean has turned the image so that the underlying text is nearly readable: I'm really ashamed!

Christmas- & Old&New-card #2 sent to my "concierge(s)"

Before I go back to Paris again, next Monday, I wanted to send a card to the couple who is working as the "concierge(s)" of the building I'm living in and who distributes the mail in the mailboxes of the building occupants. This time, for the time I am in Oldenburg, I asked them to send me my mail — esp. the mail-art I receive in Paris. As they see arrive a lot of beautiful, crazy, intriguing envelopes and cards, I wanted to send them also a card I made myself. In December, it had to be something related to Christmas!

Received from Ruud Janssen - Breda, Netherlands

Ruud, in his wonderfully and richly rubber-stamped sending, asks for my rubber stamps: as he writes, "everybody who sends out mail-art uses various kinds of rubber stamps". Since 1983 (N.B.!), Ruud keeps an archive of these stamps. So, he asks mail-arters to send him their "funniest or whatever" stamps on a sheet he joins in his envelop (he even joins three sheets...). I have been using many stamps in my life, but NOT IN MY MAIL-ART (until now -I coudl take Ruud's request as an invitation to use my stamps —or new ones!— in my mail-art). 

I think that the postage stamp on Ruud's envelop —celebrating the 25 years of the IUOMA— is a self-made one...

Received from Carolyn Oord "Kerosene" - Verdun, QC, Canada

Carolyn sent this card-on-board WEEKS AGO —BUT with the wrong street number... So it went back to Canada, she put it in a new envelop and sent it again...

Carolyn has several diverse blogs: 

• flypaper & kerosene
• forest & kerosene
• kerosene & gypsies
• kerosene & things

Christmas- & Old&New-card #1 sent to Froukje

Taking advantage of a leaflet from the 1950ies with Sinterklaas- and Christmasrecipes and -ideas for ornementation (in Dutch), I made a series of December mail-art cards ("Season's greetings"). For several reasons, Froukje is the first friend to receive one.

Received from Atelier Stiliadus - Windhaxen, Germany - 29 nov 2012

I suppose that this mail art is not in reply to my call for Pink-Red-Orange-Yellow.