Or Send Someone a Love Postcard

Postcards & stamps sent by Heleen (the Netherlands).

Postcard and stamps sent by Bryon (the USA). Notice the matching stamps and the pictorial cancellation:

Another one, clearer:

Send Someone a Love Letter

Letter sent by Phillip (the USA).

Letter sent by Bryon (United Nations).

Letter sent by Heleen (the Netherlands).

Thursday Postcard Hunt | Lucca & Lisboa

Lucca (Italy). Postcard sent by Bruno (PC).

Lisbon (Portugal), illustrated by Inna Korneeva. Postcard sent by Pedro (Portugal). 

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Thursday Postcard Hunt
February theme: CITIES

• Week 1 - Asian
• Week 2 - Southern European
• Week 3 - Northern European
• Week 4 - North American

Everyone is welcome to share their postcards!

Little Joys

Mailasmile's newest mail-art challenge. You can find all the details here.

Women on Postcards | C Is for Carnival

The Marlborough House fancy ball, 22 July 1874
Saint James's Palace, London, UK

Sent by Laura (the UK) and Bruno (PC).

[Women on Postcards - 2026]

Winter Collage

Front and back of a collage made by Fabienne (France). Perfect theme for these days!

In case you want to see better the snowy stamps from different countries that she used on the front part:

The snowflakes (all different, of course!);

And the stamps on the back, on the same topic:

Sunday Stamps | B Is for Bikes

It is not the first time that I have used bikes for Sunday Stamps... It seems to be a very common topic on stamps. Did you know that cyclophilatelia is a thing? (See the Bicycle Stamps Club.)

Go to Sunday Stamps to see more B-stamps!

La Lanterna di Genova

The Lanterna di Genova is the main light serving the Port of Genoa. Rebuilt in its current shape in 1543 replacing the former lighthouse, it is the world's fourth oldest lighthouse.

Between 1543 and 1902, it was the tallest lighthouse in the world. It is now the world's fifth tallest lighthouse, the second tallest lighthouse built in traditional masonry after Île Vierge and the tallest lighthouse of the Mediterranean Sea. When measured as a whole with the natural rock on which it stands, as it is commonly perceived and represented, its total height is 112 m, which makes it the second tallest lighthouse in the world, the tallest in Europe, and the tallest in the world when only traditional lighthouses are considered.

This postcard was sent by Stefano (Italy), with a matching stamp on the back.

Last year, I received an illustration of the same lighthouse sent by Ania, whre the rock is better appreciated: (but not the light!):

Five European Lighthouses

Boehler / Westerhever

  

Bout de la jetée à Honfleur, 1886
('Harbour Entrance at Honfleur')
George Seurat (1859-1891)

Nazaré

Farol de Santa Marta, Cascais

Sent by Pedro (Portugal), Kamila & Dawid (Germany) and Heleen & Micu (Netherlands).

Thursday Postcard Hunt | Gamcheon

The Little Prince in Gamcheon Culture Village in Korea, but sent by Micu (Hungary).

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Thursday Postcard Hunt
February theme: CITIES

• Week 1 - Asian
• Week 2 - Southern European
• Week 3 - Northern European
• Week 4 - North American

Everyone is welcome to share their postcards!

Iced Letters

Letters sent by Laura (the UK).

Women on Postcards | K Is for Karabanovo

Peasant Girl, by Filipp Malyavin (Фили́пп Андре́евич Маля́вин), 1910

Postcard sent by Eduard (Russia). As he explains on the back: "Karabanovo is a satellite city of Alexandrov. In the 19th century, it was famous for the cottons fabrics of merchants Baranov."

The stamp of the shawl the girl seems to wear was issued in 2012. The whole sheet is stunning (picture taken from here):

[Women on Postcards - 2026]

Warmest Wishes

Really nice to look at this illustration in the middle of the winter...

Card sent by Phillip (the USA).

Sunday Stamps | A Is for Abstract

France, 1981

Alléluia, by French painter Alfred Manessier (1965). 

Austria, 2023

75th birthday of Hans Kupelwieser

The stamp motif shows an untitled relief made in 2020, anodised aluminium, 170 by 180 by 30 centimetres.

Portugal, 2025

Burning in the Forbidden Sea, by Rui Chafes

USA, 2013

Nude Descending a Staircase, No. 2, by Marcel Duchamp (1912)

A new A-Z starts in Sunday Stamps. Go to see more A related stamps!