Love Is in the Air

Sent by Phillip (the USA).

Sunday Stamps | X Is for +

The stamp on the left was issued in 2021, and bears the title Герои нашего времени ('Heros of Our Times'). The stamp on the right is a 2015 one dedicated to Служба крови ('Blood Service'), the State Program of Voluntary Donation.

A Red Cross stamps from France, from 1973 (Mary Magdalene).

These are the X post for A-Z Sunday Stamps.

Are They Nearly Here Yet?

After Christmas and the New Year... We are waiting for the Magi!

Card sent by Phillip (the USA).

Incoming Festive Envelopes

Envelopes made by Micu (Hungary), Fabienne (France), Laura (UK) and Rosemary (Canada).

Thursday Postcard Hunt | Traditional Christmas

The Virgin and the Child
Duccio

Christmas miniature
Missal of Abbot Diethelm Blarer von Wartensee
1555, Codex 357

I guess this one can be also be considered "traditional":

Postcards sent by Laura (the UK), Nina (the USA) and Bryon (idem).

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Thursday Postcard Hunt
December theme: CHRISTMAS

• Week 1 - Children (with or without toys)
• Week 2 - Christmas trees
• Week 3 - Tree ornaments
• Week 4 - Christmas

Everyone is welcome to share their postcards!

Christmas stamps

Christmas stamps I received along 2025*:

Canada

1984. Snow in Bethlehem, by David Milne

1985. Santa Claus Parade

2023. Designed by Jocelyne Saulnier

Czech Republic

2020. Illustration by Josep Lada

Denmark

This stamp features Christiansfeld and belongs to the series about UNESCO WHS in Denmark (2020). But any stamp become a Christmas stamp when you apply a festive postmark on it, doesn't it?

France

1966. Georges de La Tour (1593-1652), Le nouveau-né (='The new born').

(Not issued, but sent, as Christmas stamps)

2013. Les Petits Bonheurs: Bienveillance (='Little Joys: Kindness')

2021. Ensemble, fêtons un Noël qui fait du bien

(='Let's celebrate a feel-good Christmas together)

Spain

2024. Tradition of cans dragging by children, Algeciras

United Kingdom

2001. Christmas Skating on Bird Bath (Designed by A. Robins and H. Brown)

2020. Window of St Andrew’s Church, Coln Rogers, Gloucestershire

United States of America

1967. (First stamp issued by USPS to feature the Madonna and Child)

2014. Christmas Magi

2020. Our Lady of Guapulo, 18th century. The Metropolitan Museum of Art

2024. Label

2014. Christmas Magi

2016. Nativity Scene

2020. Our Lady of Guapulo, 18th century. The Metropolitan Museum of Art

2018. Global: Poinsettia

2022. Snowy Beauty: Winterberry

2023. Snow Globes

2024. Holiday Joy

2024. Madonna and Child by Sassoferrato

2024. Holiday Joy

2024. Winter Whimsy

2025. Holiday Cheer

(Faint, but I got one of the new Christmas tree pictorial postmarks!)

*Some of them are the same than in previous years. But I keep going these again and again and, certainly... I do not mind!

Thursday Postcard Hunt | All I Want for Christmas...

... is free postcards! Or any kind of postcards, for that matter.

Actually, this one was supposed to be sent to another person:

But I was the happy recipient instead!

Sent by Phillip (the USA).

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Thursday Postcard Hunt
December theme: CHRISTMAS

• Week 1 - Children (with or without toys)
• Week 2 - Christmas trees
• Week 3 - Tree ornaments
• Week 4 - Christmas

Everyone is welcome to share their postcards!

Goodnight Christmas

I had received some stationery and stamps dedicated to Goodnight Moon (also here)... and now the rest have landed, along with a first day postmark on one of the favourites. Both the colours and the themes look a lot like Christmas!

Thursday Postcard Hunt | Hyvää Joulua

 

Postcard sent by Micu (Hungary). It is written in Finnish, though!

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Thursday Postcard Hunt
December theme: CHRISTMAS

• Week 1 - Children (with or without toys)
• Week 2 - Christmas trees
• Week 3 - Tree ornaments
• Week 4 - Christmas

Everyone is welcome to share their postcards!

Sinterklaas

I hope that, if you live in the Netherlands, Sinterklaas brings you presents and joy. 

The illustrator of this postcards is Julia Swan; it was sent by Heleen (the Netherlands).

Thursday Postcard Hunt | Wij sturen jullie...

Bears & red post boxes seem to be a classic combination! It is very difficult to take pictures of lenticular objects, so I am afraid you cannot appreciate how nice this postcard is. It was sent by Heleen (the Netherlands).

I am afraid this is not "children with(out) toys" but "toys without children"!

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Thursday Postcard Hunt
December theme: CHRISTMAS

• Week 1 - Children (with or without toys)
• Week 2 - Christmas trees
• Week 3 - Tree ornaments
• Week 4 - Christmas

Everyone is welcome to share their postcards!