Thank You - 14 Years

Tomorrow, this blog is 14 years old. Thanks for your visits and comments. And, of course, for the wonderful mail you send!

Mail sent by Laura (the UK), Bryon and Phillip (the USA).

Bloganniversary

Can you believe this blog is 13 years old?!?

Mail sent by Bryon and Phillip (the USA) and Heleen (the Netherlands).

Hope Your Birthday Is a Splash

 Two beautiful birthday cards with mermaids, received the same day (months ago). 

Today's the 12th birthday of Mail Adventures so... Thanks for reading!

 And more birthday cards...

On this occasion I will give you good advice...

Don't worry! (Also meaning: Don't hit yourself!)
Happy Birthday!

Eleven

Tomorrow is the 11th bloganniversary. The blog is getting almost more birthday cards than myself...! 

Well, not! :D

So... What can I say?

And...

Birthday Wishes

Created by Heleen (the Netherlands)

Today is Mail Adventures' 10th anniversary! I hardly can believe it.

I wanted to do something special in order to celebrate the date with you... But it happens that I am especially busy these days. So I just posting some birthday cards and saying you a really, really big THANK YOU.

Let's Celebrate!

Finalist of the "Discover the Magic of the (St. Jame's) Way" contest
organised by organised by Correos and iPeregrinos.
By Esther Mayor

Today is the 9th anniversary of this blog. 

I need to think something to celebrate the 10th... Any ideas?

 

Wonderful design outside...

Real stamps inside!

 

Detail, small Chinese hand-embroidery on silk, 
mid 20th century C., depicting the Chinese mythical tale
 "Carp Leaping over Dragon's Gate" 
symbolising success as a reward for courage and perseverance.
Wow!

Un petit mot...
By Francesca Quatraro

Some postcards and cards I got for my birthday, sent by Laura (Spain), Heleen (the Netherlands), John (the UK), Phillip (the USA) and Fabienne (France).

Happy 8th Bloganniversary, Dear Mail Adventures!

(I received these cards for my birthday. I am just a bit older than the blog.)

The Older the Fiddle...

The older the fiddle, the sweeter the tune is an old Irish proverb used in many parts of Ireland to express how older age brings much greater experience.

I received these postcards for my birthday. I guess it can apply also to the blog anniversary (7th!), can it? So...

Sent by Laura (the UK) and Eva (Germany).

Happy 6th Anniversary, Dear Blog!

Handmade collage sent by Eva (Germany)

Sent by Laura (the UK)

Wine gets better with age, Age gets better with wine
Sent by Heleen (the Netherlands)

(Not sure if the last slogan is appropriate for the Mail Adventures' birthday, but no doubt it was for mine!)

5 Years | How Do You Arrive Here?

During the last five years, a lot of people have visited this blog. I feel grateful to everyone: those who have disappeared, those who still come regularly (or from time to time), and the few who have become my correspondents. I would like to have a list, but of course, that is impossible.

However, sometimes I wonder: how people end up here? I guess the answer has changed throughout all this time. For instance, I was an active postcrosser when I started the blog, and there has been long time since the last time I sent a Postcrossing postcard (mostly because they get lost too often from Morocco!).

I do not use any tracking tool for this site other that blogger itself, so I cannot analyse the data in detail. There are people who arrive from other blogs, or, lately, from Twitter. I know there is also people who arrive here looking for something like air mail stickers or snail mail ideas, or even more exotic things like chinese mailbox.

Some strange searches that have lead someone to the Mail Adventures blog, too. Even if they are not related to mail, in principle, I can understand that you arrive here looking for a day without coffee, diy giraffe projects or drawing of matsu the sea goddess.

But I have collected some really odd words. Here is the top ten:

1. camels Australia 20 march 2013 
2. claudia sofio la vache a violé 
3. experimental jetset
4. make a fuss pics
5. naked portuguese women in the azores
6. rene burri verona
7. serki toponi 
8. show your junk
9. women in the 50's in the kitchen
10. you do not read any French

(Honestly, people ending up here while looking for number 2, 5 or 8 worries me a little...)

5 Years | How to Be British

Postcard sent by Laura (the UK).

How to Be British is a very famous collection of postcards by Martyn Ford and Peter Legon. I have received more postcards like this one, and they always make me laugh (maybe you laugh less if you are British yourself... Or more!).

I published some of them in this post. It has been the most visited post during the five years of life of this blog. I wonder why.

5 Years | Alpino

Postcard sent to Heleen (the Netherlands), made of a box of two-tips felt pens. She published it here, so I could see the cancellation (I was very curious about!):

Five years ago, I uploaded a similar postcard to the blog, also sent to Heleen. It was the third post of Mail Adventures.

I have learnt a lot about mail and mail art since then. At least, I have been upgraded from colour pencils to felt-pens!