A great surprise in the mail!

I am back! Took some time off but now I am ready for 2015!

The first mail I received this year was a total surprise.

Not the best quality pic, but I had to be fast. Why? 

Well, the cat paw gives you a clue...

I got this great package from Nancy in Switzerland!

She hit the random button on Sendsomething and got my address,

lucky me! 

I got lots of chocolate, cute magnets, tea, 

a nice coin purse, a short story, a pretty pic

and a sweet Christmas card and letter.

The stamps are amazing too, but more about those in a different post.

Christmas mail with tea

Some of the Christmas mail I was so lucky to receive already!

My mom was really happy with the tea too.

From the Netherlands

From Korea

Native American Heritage

November is Native American Heritage month. 

In honor of that month Native American Postcards blog

did a give away to all people who sent a request.

This card shows two girls from

Ganado, Navajo Reservation, Arizona

On the back were these amazing stamps

Crazy Horse

The most famous war leader of the Lakota, he became feared by other tribes in the early 1850s for his skill in battle and continued fighting against U.S. expansion until his death. From a young age, he reportedly had trance visions of himself as a great warrior. He became an expert at luring cocky U.S. battalions into ambushes by pretending to be an injured, vulnerable target. Most famously, he led his tribe into the Battle of Little Bighorn, which left 268 soldiers dead including George Custer and two of his brothers.

Chief Joseph

(1994?)

Assiniboine

Indian headdresses

American folk art

(1990)

Stamps, what else?

Received on cover from India

top right:

in honour of great Indian Musicians 

(set of 8, 2014)

top middle:

commemorative stamp of Unit Trust of India

top left:

On Buddha Purnima Day (14th May 2014), the Government of India - Department of Posts released a commemorative stamp on the Drukpa Lineage in New Delhi, the capital of India.

right middle:

15 years of Liver transplantation in India

right bottom:

Centenary Of National Council of Churches in India

All stamps are issued in 2014

Collecting Christmas stamps

I received these two stamps on cover today

from Italy

I couldn't find any information about them, so all

help is welcome. 

(set of 2, 2002)

Letter from the UK

This was my last piece of received mail this week,

a nice letter from the UK

The tea is long gone already, haha

Collecting Christmas stamps

Singapore

right top:

"Festivals"

(set of 8, 2012)

middle top:

(set of 12, 2008)

left top:

(set of 8, 2010)

right bottom:

1st local

(2006)

left bottom:

For local addresses only

(?)

Switzerland

from right to left:

Advent wreath, Santa, Crib

(set of 4, 2014)

Good mail

Another postcrossing card today! I sent four out, with three

still on the way but already got four more received than sent.

This card comes from Canada

Mahone Bay, Nova Scotia

right:

Superman

(set of 5, 2013)

middle:

K.D Lang

and

left:

Tommy Hunter

"Canadian legends of country music"

(set of 5, 2014)

And this is a letter I received for a swap-bot swap.

Pretty paper and a very nice magnet from Australia! 

I loved what I read, so I am definately going to write back.

right:

"Wilderness Australia".

Alpine National Park

The pictures above and below shows the Mt. Feathertop and the Razerback Spur.

(set of 3, 2014)

left:

"Love" stamp for Valentine's day

(set of 2, 2011)