Bridge, couple, teddy bear

Postcard from postcardlover29 from the USA
Description: Sacramento. Aerial view looking down Capitol Avenue from the Tower Bridge to California's State Capitol.


Postcard from Ludasik from Russia


Postcard from Katuxa994 from Russia

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

Tea, leftovers, puppies and Romanian sites

Postcard from Kamikochi from Japan
Description: Tea shop card


Postcard from lostinindonesia
Description: Handmade care made from leftover postal papers


Postcard from Cok from the Netherlands


Postcard from Zgabel from Romania
Description: Clockwise from upper left: Constanța Casino, Sibiu Central Plaza, Romanian Athenaeum - Bucharest, Putna Monastery and Bran Castle

Candy, angel, beach and Christmas

Postcard from Waldkus from Germany


Postcard from CreatievEsther from the Netherlands
Description: Handmade angel


Postcard from Winni from Germany
Description: Typical roofed wicker chair on beach in Northern Germany


Postcard from evitasr from Lithuania
Description: Christmas time

Wally and Heidi, handicrafts, stamps, light rail and flowers

Postcard from Juuth27 from the Netherlands
We found Wally! There are also nine fishing nets, two seahorses and a catfish and a dogfish hiding. Can you find them?


Postcard from purplemarvis from Switzerland
Description: Heidi!


Postcard from condorow from Germany
Description: Handicrafts exhibition


Postcard from Padrinos
Description: 20th century paintings on German stamps (III)


Postcard from mapcardcollector from the United Kingdom
Description: Light rail in Britain - Tyne & Wear Metro


Postcard from JohnS from the Netherlands

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"

Texas Wildflowers

The postcard blogging is back if nothing else…

Postcard from CarrieJo from the USA.

What’s in a name…

So a million years ago I named my blog scribbles, scratches and scrawls. My blog turned eight last week and I didn’t even notice. And what I also haven’t really noticed was that my blog seems to have ben taken over by postcards…but I’m not going to dwell on that too much…

Today this little package arrived in our mailbox. I knew what was in it…but I was still excited to open it!

Inside the envelope were two little cellophane packets and it seems I have some kind theme going on…two little girls reading…

J helped me arrange them so we could see all of them at once…I think I’ve passed my love of postcards on to her…she couldn’t decide which was her favourite…I think she decided on the owl, the giraffe and the mice mailing postcards!

We’ll see how they stand up through the mail…hopefully they will do well – the card stock is a nice weight so they should be find. I’ve been trying to find a good place to get postcards in Vancouver…non-tourist cards. When I lived in London there were postcards everywhere…you could get them in bookstores, stationery shops, tobacco shops, news agents and of course Paperchase…but the only place I’ve consistently found postcards is at the Postcard Store on Granville Island, but they are so expensive! I do buy cards there sometimes, but not often. These cards are still more expensive than the tourist cards, but they were much less expensive than the Postcard Shop.

Canada Post has kindly raised international postage from $1.85 to $2.50 starting April 1, so I’ve been trying to find inexpensive cards…J and I have amassed quite the collection of prepaid cards (they’re only $1.99, so even at $1.85 they are quite the deal!)

So now, now it’s time to put myself on a postcard diet…

Year of the Horse, Reindeer?, State Hermitage Museum, MoonSelena and a dreaming mouse

Today the mailbox was full…and full of a wide range of postcards plus a bunch of bills…but there were postcards, so it was a good mail day! Mail has been so slow lately…I just looked and it’s been an average of 16 days of travel time for postcards since Christmas…the quickest card arrived in 6 days from New Zealand and the slowest in 66 days from Russia…not sure what’s going on with mail…we sent two parcels, both Air Mail, to Europe. The one to England arrived in less than a week, the one to Germany too an additional 3.5 weeks…and this was AFTER Christmas! And Canada Post wonders why people don’t want to use their services!

Postcard from the United States, from a friend

Postcard from Zabava-zab from Belarus – are those reindeer?

Postcard from Hel from Russia
Description: The Falconet Room with the display of 18th-century French art. My amazing google skillz tell me this room is an exhibit in the State Hermitage Museum in St. Petersburg. It took some googling…this card also came with a ski stamp for Sochi.

Postcard from stefaniafox from Ukraine

Postcard from Juhi from Ukraine

Seeing double Pinocchios

Postcard from BruTuCus from the Netherlands.
Description: Creation of Pinocchio. This postcard has two images on it of Geppetto and Pinocchio dancing. You can see the second image faintly…this was a hard card to scan, but it is one of our favourites because it is so cool!

Theatre and El Toro Loco

Postcard from Nikolay from Ukraine
Description: Theatre of Opera and Ballet – there is no further description, but I used my google skillz and it is apparently one of the best known buildings in Odessa.

Postcard from appiehak from the Netherlands. It also came with Sinterklaas cookie scented stamps. Scratch and sniff, they smell like cinnamon!

Boats and a rocking horse

Postcard from Sinebabe from China

Postcard from Nille from Latvia

A floating camel and an unhappy gardener

Postcard from Liam31 from the United Arab Emirates (our first)

We’re not entirely sure how this got here as it seems to have travelled without a stamp.

This card came from a friend of mine in Germany. She couldn’t send real plants as a housewarming, so she sent us a garden on a card. She says the card asks “Who ripped the gardener’s pants apart?” J found the culprit before I’d even finished reading the question! (maybe she should go on Jeopardy!)