Rocking horse, puppy, sleepy girl, paper doll

Postcard from Dendulinka from the Czech Republic


Postcard from lunastella from Germany


Postcard from BubLik from Russia


Postcard from Miraal from Finland.


We also got some stickers and a fun reflector to wear on your coat.

Mole and snail, Jip and Janneke, angel, Syringa and kisses

Postcard from lily_of_the_valley from Germany


Postcard from SophieR from the Netherlands
Description: Jip and Janneke


Postcard from Ulla_Maijia from Finland


Postcard from i8nutella from the United States
Description: Syringa - The Latin name is Philadelpus Lewisii. The first known recording of its existence was by Meriwether Lewis of the Lewis and Clark expedition. The plant grows as a shrub and thrives in almost any condition. The bloom of this shrub has a very distinct orange-citrusy fragrance.


Postcard from elorah from France

Postcards, postcards, so many postcards!

So, we sent a ton of postcards and then, just as they started rolling in, some super exciting life things happened, so they got put in a pile until I had time to sit down and register them. I remember saying this wasn't going to be a postcard blog, but it's leaning that way...stay tuned for an onslaught of postcard posts!

Postcard from Gaiasduhter from Germany
Description: Greetings from Bahern


Postcard from Tippex from Switzerland
Description: This is an illustration from the Swiss children's book, A Bell for Urshi.


Postcard from Ringa from Finland

Postcard from Standa from the Czech Republic


Postcard from Bombordina from Russia
Description: Russian pickles


Postcard from Inna_G from Ukraine
Description: "The hunger of stars - a keeper of desires"

Finnish, German and Hungarian twos

Postcard from Ansku from Finland

Postcard from mairim from Germany

Postcard from ditk3_ from Hungary

Description: REICH Károly
Tale illustration – aquarelle

Friday Treats

Today there were postcards again…and one of the postcrossers even sent me some local cards from her collection as she is running out of room. They are blank, so she figured I could send them off to someone else…how nice!

Postcard from Thea2 from the Netherlands

Postcard from Edorfer from Austria

Card from Liissa from Finland plus the two bonus cards!

Landmarks, Arctic Circle, Snow White, Berries and UNESCO Roof

Postcard from GOETZMAN from France
Description: Paris By Night
Eclairage de la Tour Eiffel
La Pyramide du Louvre

Postcard from ElaizaLi from Russia

Description: Murmansk, the largest city north of the Arctic Circle

Postcard from Asriyah from Germany

Description: Snow White

Postcard from riituanneli from Finland

Postcard from anne-lies from Spain via the Netherlands

Description: Roof of Casa Batlló - Antoni Gaudí, architect.

Finland - a Postcrossing stamp too

Postcard from Jantsku from Finland
Description: (translation via Jantsku)
”The best in the future is, that it comes day by day”

And the card came with this great Postcrossing stamp too!

Friday = Fabulously Overflowing Mailbox!

I opened the mailbox today and was disappointed because it was STUFFED full of flyers. I pulled them out, leafed through them and tossed them in the recycling. And then, for whatever reason, I glanced back into the box and saw a happy little pile at the bottom…seven postcards! In one day! Amazing!

Postcard from Sarilyn from the USA.

Description: Rabbit, 2000. by © Walter Schels

Postcard from Merlin 3 from Switzerland

Description: GUSTAV KLIMT (1862-1918), »Der Kuss«, Ausschnitt, 1907-08 (Öl auf Leinwand) Österrichische Galerie Belvedere, Wien

Translation (via Google): "The Kiss", clipping, 1907-08 (oil on canvas) Österrichische Galerie Belvedere, Vienna

Postcard from paenq from Finland

Description: This card was painted by paenq’s friend. paenq says it’s a naivistic painting called “Fullmoon".” Her friend told her that all of the people she paints are based one someone she knows and she wonders who is dreaming in this one!

Postcard from carlosilva from Portugal

Description: A painting of a tram used in the old city of Porto, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, for tourists.

Postcard from SeanLanham from the USA.

Description: Mabel Lucie Attwell (1897-1964); “Oh dear! Oh dear! I shall be too late!” From Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland.

Postcard from willemien from the Netherlands

Postcard from malwaczi from Poland

Tuesday means even more mail!

Wow...happy mailbox at our house this week!

Postcard from Renn from Japan

Postcard from von_Beust from Germany

Postcard from hippula from Finland

Postcard from Arjaatje from the Netherlands

Postcard from ikweethetniet from the Netherlands

J and I both get excited when there is this much mail. The even better thing? No bills today!

Finland, Portugal and the USA: Violin, groceries and fires

Postcard from stripecat from Finland

Postcard from carla_pereira from Portugal

Postcard from mattcorey from the USA

Description: Historic Fire Station No.6 · Atlanta, Georgia
Fire station NO. 6 was built in 1894 and served the "Sweet Auburn" community until 1991. It is Atlanta's oldest standing firehouse and is now a museum that tells the story of desegregation in 1963 of the city's fire department. Fire Station No. 6 is part of the Preservation District which helps to maintain the historic integrity of Sweet Auburn. Pictured here is a 1927 American LaFrance fire engine, a type that young Martin would have seen.

[The back of the card doesn't mention that this fire station is next to Martin Luther King Jr's home...but mattcorey told us!]

Finland–Christmas 1937

Postcard from tuusannuuska from Finland

Description:
Rudolf Koivu artwork
Christmas card for the year 1937 (OTAVA)

Rudolf Koivu (1890-1946) the first illustrations were published in children's magazines in the early 1910s. After this, he illustrated countless fairy tale and school books and children's magazines. He developed the most popular children's books kutvittaga Finland. Rudolf Koivu's life's work created the basis for the Finnish fairy tale illustrations.  (via Google Translate)

Finland and Taiwan: Christmas and Trains

Postcards from AiriK from Finland. We got two lovely Christmas postcards plus a bunch of really pretty Christmas stamps.

Postcard from kakoui from Taiwan

Description: Alishan Forest Railway