¡Viva la Vida!

Envelope made out of a calendar by Fabienne (France), with a Frida-themed matching postcard, to be added to this small collection of postcards...

The stamp enters the 2022 competition of EUROPA stamps. The theme this year is Stories & Myths, and the French stamp features Mélusine, a legendary creature coming from chivalrous stories and medieval tales and depicted as a mermaid, a reptile from the hips down, or a dragon.

You can see here all the 2022 EUROPA stamps.

Frida with Monkeys

Self-Portrait with Monkeys, 1943

Some days after I wrote this post, I got another postcard featuring Frida Kahlo work, sent by María (the USA). With matching stamps:

Día de los Muertos

Frida wearing decorated plaster cast c. 1950-51
Photo (c) Juan Guzmán

The celebrations around All Saints' Day and All Souls' Day are very different in Spain and Mexico. Nothing better than these postcards of Frida* to illustrate it on Mail Adventures. 

Sent by Bryon from the USA, with very colourful and appropriate stamps:

*I have quite a collection!

Everything The Dead Person May Be Wishing for

«On the ofrendas you place everything the dead person may be wishing for. Tobacco, pictures of his family, mangos, lottery tickets, tequila, postcards from Rome.»

Lucia Berlin, A Manual for Cleaning Women