Swap-bot!

This colorful swap was called 

"A little letter of home" 

We had to send our partner:

a letter with information about our city/area

a postcard about our area

something flat that represents our area

and the smallest (in value) coin from our country

My partner was so kind to include tea as well.   

Won a lottery

The only fun mail I had today... 

Stamps, what else?

USA

top right:

Colorado

75th anniversary of statehood

(1951)

top left:

National capital sesquicentennial

"the White House"

(set of 4, 1950)

centre right:

Issued to honor John Wesley Powell

(1969)

centre left:

Fort Kearny

(1948)

bottom:

Expo 58

"the United States pavilion"

(1958)

Unwanted cards

These were all unwanted cards from a fellow Postcrosser!

I can't say they are all amazing, but I couldn't resist them either.

Some I am going to keep, some I am going to send out,

I just have to find a way to alter them to my liking.

They smell so nice too! Old paper!

Good mail coming in

A Swap-bot swap from Germany with tea!

The sender wrote her message in German, and I understood everything,

so I am pretty pleased. 

A facebook swap, sent from Belgium but a great card from

the Humor Monastery in Romania

on the envelope there was this 

cute stamp from Belgium

Puppies

(set of 5)

This card fell in my mailbox thanks to Swap-bot too.

The sender of this card liked one of my "Chunk O Cardboard" pieces a lot

so I sent him a message, offering to send a similar one. 

I got this card in return, he took the picture himself.  

Great stamps from the US

left:

Chinese Lunar New Year

(set of 12, 2005)

top right:

Year of the Ram

(2015)

bottom right:

Herbs

(set of 5, 2011)

"The flax plant's stems can be transformed into linen, and its seeds into oil"

Chunk O Cardboard incoming and a nice letter

In one of my previous posts I mentioned 

I participated in a "Chunk O Cardboard" swap

and showed you what I sent out (two received so far).

I received two chunks today, so waiting for one more.

I love this, I mean,... cake! 

The sender wrote she made it last weekend

and that it was so good, she's going to make one again.

I love the stamps she used, so colorful!

Would like to know more about the hands one though.

This chunk comes from the US,

The sender writes she loves to collect these figures. 

And last but not least, I got a letter from a pen-friend, 

she used the Year of the Ram stamp on her black(!) envelope

 and such cute washi tape, I am in love! 

Bookmarks and a letter

I participated in a bookmark swap again

and I got these three bookmarks from Spain

At the left you see the Palacio de la Magdalena

The top bookmark shows Sardinero beach

The bottom one shows "Cabo mayor" lighthouse

 A letter from a pen-friend with lots of goodies! 

(and a late birthday card, so cute)

Finally a happy mailbox!

I finally received a Lia Selina postcard!

I love her art work so much.

left:

“Babr, a Siberian tiger with a sable in his mouth"

Irkutsk coat of arms

(set of 2, 2011)

right:

Birds of Prey. Osprey (Pandion haliaetus)

Joint issue of Russia and North Korea

(set of 2, 2014)

The pretty origami paper and the used stamps

came with a sweet letter from a Japanese pen-friend.

The stamps are for another post of course.