Snail Mail Forever!

Summer Mail XI | Warm Hugs

Mini-letter and envelope illustrated by Erica Fustero. It might be that I buy her postcards and zines to receive them inside one of her illustrated envelopes... (Like this one and this one).

Too Many Letters Waiting to be Answered...

Etc.

(You know who you are.)

Ciclocorreio

Pedro (Portugal) sent a sort of second part of this envelope. This time, it took eight days to arrive.

Summer Mail - VII | Three Octopuses

One octopus, two octopuses, three octopuses...

Letter sent by Phillip (the USA).

Year of the Fire Horse [V]

Back of a big envelope sent by Imma (PC). 

The front is equally nice, drawn by the sender:

Come on, Postal Services

People make efforts to send nice envelopes: drawings, stickers... Then the postals services add these wonderful oversized white labels!

From Catherine (France) and Erica Fustero.

Thursday Postcard Hunt | Young Animal

Thursday Postcard Hunt
March theme: ANIMALS

• Week 1 - In the Wild
• Week 2 - On the Farm
• Week 3 - Pets
• Week 4 - Young

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Eduard (Russia) sent it by mail, but this is not a conventional postcard, and I am not even sure Чебурашка is a conventional animal (A bear cub? A hare with large ears? A monkey?). It was created by writer Eduard Uspensky in 1966 (I hope it does not mean he is not young any more!) as one of the main characters in the book Gena the Crocodile and His Friends and its sequels.

There are two versions: on the stamp, as he appeared in the cartoon Crocodile Gena in 1969, created with the direct participation of the film's production designer, Leonid Shvartsman. On the cardboard, as it was reimagined for the 2023 film.

It is Raining Outside

Envelope sent by Pedro (Portugal). I like how the stamp gets a new meaning on the envelope design. Does not it makes you smile?

It belongs (like this one) to the series Arte Contemporânea Portuguesa - 2.ª Série. The artwork reproduced on the stamp is Rugby (Green), by Ângela Ferreira, 2020.

Let It Snow

Collage on an envelope sent to Imma (PC).

Handmade Christmas

I do not receive that many hand made Christmas cards. But they are so nice!

This one was sent by Imma (PC).

When You Get an Envelope from an Illustrator

From Erica Fustero (PC).

Thursday Postcard Hunt | Halloween

Two postcards from last Halloween sent by Heleen (the Netherlands) .

With a terrific hand-drawn stamp!

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Thursday Postcard Hunt
October theme: COLOURS OF AUTUMN

• Week 1 - Orange
• Week 2 - Yellow
• Week 3 - Red
• Week 4 - Brown
• Week 5 - Halloween or Black

Everyone is welcome to share their postcards!

Thursday Postcard Hunt | NYC

I received this postcard through the Postcrossing site. On it, a wonderful little artist tells her story. She drew the whole family and the house they live in. I absolutely love the taxi!

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Thursday Postcard Hunt
September theme: LEARNING

• Week 1 - Legends, Children's Stories
• Week 2 - Famous People
• Week 3 - National Parks
• Week 4 - History (Could Be Historical Buildings)

Everyone is welcome to share their postcards!

Том Сойер Фест

The Tom Sawyer Fest is a summer festival of restoration of the historical heritage by volunteers and sponsors. They focus their efforts particularly on the wooden houses in the city center. Most of the festival's objects are buildings represent no value in the eyes of local authorities, as they are not listed as historical or architectural monuments.

The festival was born in Samara in 2015, and its name honours the character in Mark Twain's novels, who was punished by painting a wooden fence.

Before

The postcard has a clever design: you have to paint the house! It features "Svirelin's House" (Moskovskaya St,. 28, in Pereslavl-Zalessky) named after priest Alexander Ivanovich Svirelin, caretaker of the Pereslavl Theological School, writer, local historian and historian. It has been transformed thanks to 250 adult volunteers (and a lot of children!) during twenty days.

After

See more pictures here or in the official website.

(The mail adventure here is that, believe it or not, the postcard arrived when I was re-reading The Adventures of Tom Sawyer...!)

Current Mode: Reading Letters

Letter sent by Imma (PC), with a drawing on the envelope.

Letter sent by Rosemary (Canada).

Bye, Year of the Dragon!

Canada

France

Germany

Japan

Netherlands

United Kingdom

United Nations

United States of America