Postcards and Letters

vrijdag 14 maart 2014

Pretty homemade gift and some arts & crafts

I got this great letter with pretty homemade brooch

from Kasia, Belgium

Thank you!

I made some cute cards

And mail art

woensdag 12 maart 2014

Birthday mail!

I got lots of birthday mail!

Belgium

Japan

The Netherlands

(not just birthday mail but also a nice letter

thanks Tessa)

Non-birthday mail

from the Netherlands

thank you, Suzanne

and from Poland

thank you, Zuzanna

dinsdag 4 maart 2014

Stamps! What else?

Trying to take stamps from the USA off envelopes is a pain

I leave them on the paper these days and just cut around them

Top right:

The United States Post Office honoured ten poets

with their very own postage stamps

(set of 10, 2012)

Top left:

In honor of the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, the U.S. Postal Service issued a limited-edition commemorative stamp, August 23 2013

Bottom:

On March 24 2012, the U.S. Postal Service marked the 100th anniversary of a gift of 3,000 flowering cherry trees from Japan by issuing two commemorative postage stamps that together create a panoramic view of the iconic trees in full flower around Washington’s Tidal Basin.

The cherry trees were a gift from Tokyo Mayor Yukio Ozaki to President William Howard Taft in 1912. First lady Helen Herron Taft and Viscountess Chinda, wife of the Japanese ambassador, planted the first two trees on the north bank of the Tidal Basin on March 27 of that year.