Even more cards, going good

What do you think?

New country!

Postcards from Algeria!

The pictures on the cards look sharper here on the

small scan than they do on the actual copies.

Zicht op Oran

View on Oran

Zicht op Skikda

View on Skikda

"Set of Roses"

Rosa Odorata, set of 4

Postcrossing official from Russia 

Schilderij door Ilja Repin

Painting by Ilya Repin

Christmas cards!

I spent the afternoon making Christmas cards. Perfect thing to do on a grey, windy and rainy day.

These are supposed to be Christmas decorations,

but as original card they'll do just as good.

(Sorry for the weird photo)

I love postcards

From the USA

From Spain

View on Mount Txindoki

Collecting Christmas stamps

Finland

2000

This year's Christmas stamps were designed by Ms Katriina Viljamaa-Rissanen. The 2.50 mk stamp, specially denominated for Christmas cards, features "Tiernapojat", the players in a traditional Finnish Christmas tableau.

2007

The stamps featuring mice in red caps were drawn by graphic designer Marjo Nygard-Niemisto. The mice are known to the Finnish public from works including the poetry book Kuono kohti tahtea, the illustrator of which, Marjo Nygard-Niemisto, won the 2005 Finlandia Junior prize. (set of 2)

2008

The 60 cent stamp mainly for Christmas cards shows a big and a small bear wadering through a snowy forest: they are getting their Christmas tree. (Set of 2, self-adhesive)

2009

(set of 3)

Recipe card

From Belarus

It should be some kind of cheesecake recipe. 

Rozites caperatus

commonly known as the gypsy mushroom, is a highly esteemed edible mushroom of the genus Cortinarius found in northern regions of Europe and North America.

Edible mushrooms 

(set of 4)

Collecting Christmas stamps

Finland

1984

The 1984 Christmas postage stamp is interesting mixture of something new and something old. The stamps design continues to seek out new style with a pinch of old. And after four years of double-stamp issues, the Finnish post returned back to give final experiment with single stamp christmas issue

The topic of the stamp is nothing less than Santa bringing gifts. Unlike the American santa who arrives trough the chimney, Finnish Joulupukki walks from the front the door.

1986

In 1986 the Finnish Post issued their first, and so far also the last, se-tenant Christmas postage stamp issue. At the same time Christmas postage stamps returned back to use of two separate face values: discounted rate for early domestic mail and regular rate stamps for normal and international delivery.

1987

1988

The 1988 Christmas postage stamps introduced few more Christmas decorations. These stamps also mark an end of an era – from here on single-design Christmas stamps were no longer issued by Finnish Post.

1989

The 1989 Christmas stamp makes a very clear note on how the Finnish society and christmas traditions have evolved in the past decades. The meaning of countryside and it’s traditions has decreased a lot as more and more people have moved to larger cities.

The discounted christmas rate stamp displays a city Christmas.

Geeky mail and a postcard

Postcrossing postcard from Germany.

As you can see it took some beating.

I am a member of the 

International Geek Girl Pen Pals Club

and I participated in a "get a pen pal" matching.

I got matched with Lauren and this is what she send me!    

A cute knitted Spock (from Star Trek, in case you didn't know)

And she used paper with quotes from the series too!