Outgoing Summer Mail: Paper Fans

Sent to France, the Netherlands and the USA.

Flowers Are for the Spring

Folded card sent by Petra (Croatia)

Envelope with pressed flowers sent by Daria (Russia). First time I get something like that!

Plant

 

This decorated parcel arrived with a letter and a plant inside. It is still alive.

Seasonal Additions

A new menu-letter sent by Bryon (the USA).

Coffee Mail

There is always coffee (or tea!) time and mail time, and... Isn't it wonderful when you can combine both? Like on this postcard sent by Laura (the UK).

But, of course, you can go farther and sent a real cup of coffee, as Heleen (the Netherlands) did. She included the bottom, so I can reassemble it. But if I did and drank my coffee, I would drink her words and the stamps as well (including the cow!).

This postcard made of coffee packaging was my reply to Heleen's cup.

HitM | Smash Mallow

An original house sent by Phillip (the USA) for the Houses in the Mail project. It is a plastic bag, that originally contained smashmallow. I can certify that, because the letter inside smelled of mint and chocolate. Actually, all my mail that arrived together with this green house smelled of mint and chocolate :)

By the way, I think this is the first totally resealable letter I have ever received...

Pizza Menu Letter

 I like the letters that Bryon (USA) writes on menus... Have you ever sent one of these?

HitM | Castles

A new contribution for the Houses of the Mail project: no less than a castle! Heleen's favourite castle, Muiderslot, beautifully painted on the envelope, and on the matching stamp.

Not long ago, I wrote on a post: "Sometimes I imagine the post deliverer bringing me a real house... :)"... Well, not exactly a house, but a castle appeared inside of the envelope! Carefully folded, and ready to be rebuilt. What I did, of course!

Oh, and another castle on the back!

Middachten Castle

Mail Menu

This is another original sending from Bryon (the USA): an airplane menu! No doubt that it is a good souvenir from a trip. And, somehow, he managed to write a whole and fun letter inside: 

Postcoaster

I have received some beer coasters as a postcards. But I had never found a coaster that was especially designed to be used as a postcard. Of course, I had to send it!

(It went to Bryon, in the USA.)

Coffee Mail

Despite the bad quality of my picture (too bright!), this is a rather amazing postcard, bought by Phillip in Puerto Rico and sent from the USA. It is a bag of coffee (Café Fino), real coffee (and not bad, by the way). 

You can see how it looked when full in Phillip's blog. I took the picture after preparing a cup...

A Letter Full of Smurfs!

Sent by Micu (Hungary). The postcard features a church in Třeboň, Czech Republic.

A Letter from India!

From Someone's project of writing a letter a day during 2017.

Tease(l) Post

Spring is coming. And it arrives in the form of mail art, flower fairies, stamps and seeds. Like in this wonderful letter sent by John (the UK).

Analogical Tweet

I read a lot about how we interact more and more the Internet and less and less in the so-called meatspace. (Ironically, I read that often on the web...). But sometimes, I am not sure that there is a barrier between both. For instance, I exchange real (physical) letters with people that I don't know in flesh, and I exchange e-mails with friends, neighbours and relatives. 

Another example of that flow boundaries: I have received an analogical Twitter tool (rubber stamp) by snail mail...

It arrived inside a very small packet. From Heleen (the Netherlands), of course!

I Really Needed an Orange Bath

I am not sure how long this take to arrive... but it amazingly did. This bath sponge was sent by Heleen (the Netherlands), with the purpose of making me laugh and challenge the postal services Well, and I am actually using it... Have you noticed that the label with the address is also a giraffe? )

But, obviously, I also needed the shampoo..

It arrived (well, not really: only a part of the plastic bottle). I wonder if it passed through the postal machines...

Naked mail is justs too funny!

I Was Hoping...

No worries! I thing that would be impossible... Hence some of the latest lighthouses I have got:

Germany

Lindau, 
the southernmost lighthouse in Germany

The Netherlands

Paard van Marken
The stamp belongs to the Postcrosing set

Poland

Postcard sent by Anna (Poland), showing the Polish lighthouses on the Baltic Sea shore. And some amber (It is supposed to be so). It is a curious postcard!

Spain

Harbour light sent by Armin from his holidays on the island of Eivissa.

The UK

Picture taken in 1911, of Leasowe lighthouse (the UK)

I visited this lighthouse in 2012. I mean, its surroundings, because the lighthouse itself was closed. At that moment I wasn't aware of some interesting facts about this building (more here):

• Leasowe Lighthouse was built in 1763, and is the oldest brick-built lighthouse in Britain. 

• According to local tradition its foundations were built on bales of cotton from a nearby shipwreck. 

• The lighthouse was operational until 14 July 1908, with the only known female lighthouse keeper in those days, a Mrs. Williams.

Needles Rocks

The first Eddystone and Bell Rock

On the back of a postcard :)

I added this post to Maria's link Postcards for the weekends. Go there to see more lighthouses on postcards.