I found more gifts in the mailbox

I got a great gift from one of my best friends earlier this week

If you are familiar with Keri Smith's work, you won't be surprised 

when the postcards contain messages or tasks like these:

I received another surprise, from the Netherlands

More stamps! Love them.

Swap-bot cards

On another blog I read about a swap on Swap-bot called 

"Not my country postcard swap" I liked the idea, but of course

I couldn't find an open swap. I did stumble on a similar one though

so I participated in "I've never been there postcard swap" .

The idea: send a postcard from a place you never visited. 

Today I received the cards from both my partners.

The first card was send from the US and is about the US

The sender lives in Augusta, Georgia and never visited San Francisco

The second card was send from Bulgaria and is about the US

The sender never visited the US. 

I can't find information about this stamp

but it is issued in 2012

Mail of the day

Two surprises in the mail

Second letter from a new pen-friend, 

with pics from her cats and nice gifts

A wonderful teabag bookmark from the UK

I should send one back asap

Opening birthday mail!

Yesterday I was finally allowed to open my birthday mail,

really pretty cards with little gifts! 

I also received this card from Laura

with a great view on the Plaza de Cibeles

Thank you for the birthday wishes!

Series Gastronomía Española (Spanish Gastronomy) 

which is issued through a souvenir sheet, with two stamps which highlight the gastronomic singularities of Cáceres and Vitoria.

(2015)

Mail art and letter sets

I got these letter sets as a birthday gift from my best friend,

aren't they pretty?!

I felt creative today, so I made this...

What do you think? 

Stamps, what else?

I promised to show you some of the stamps I received recently

but because I got so many, it took me a while to figure out which

I wanted to put online first. 

Now that I finally made a selection, here they are!

Italy

Montecatini Terme

The view on the stamp is the Terme Tettuccio

from a series about tourism 

(1975)

Poland 

Flowers on the meadow; protection of the environment

(1973)

Monaco

The stamp on the right shows Princess Grace, 

The series of four stamps was printed to celebrate the birth of 

Princess Caroline

(1957)

 The stamp on the left obviously shows a seahorse

engraved by Albert Decaris

(1960)

Finally mail!

I finally had a happy mailbox again! 

All from the Netherlands

These are stamps for my collection

And this is Birthday mail, meaning I am not allowed

to open this till my birthday (March 12).

I also got a letter from a pen-friend, but my cat

decided to help me taking pics, so I had to save my mail

and put it away. *sigh*

Treated myself on snail mail goodies

Since the last few weeks were slow or no mail at all weeks,

I'll share with you some of the things I recently got.

I am a huge Jane Austen fan, so when I saw this box

I couldn't resist!

And of course, some non tourist cards for Postcrossing

are always welcome too. 

I got four cards, but obviously two have the same design