What If You Do Not Have Any Tape or Envelopes...

... but you desperately need to send a letter from a small island?

Outgoing Summer Mail: Paper Fans

Sent to France, the Netherlands and the USA.

Summer Mail - X

Front and back of a refreshing letter sent by Fabienne (France), made out of a page of a magazine.

Summer Mail - VII

Letter sent by Rosemary (Canada).

It seems you can get different flavours of this stamp!

(I got the rose & green stamp in 2023!)

Creating Light

Postcard made by Fabienne (France), out of a reused piece of packaging.

Envelope made by Heleen (the Netherlands), out of a page of a magazine.

Postcard made by Bryon (the USA), from reused packaging. It was sent after a big blackout in the area I live in.

Summer Mail - III

Sent by Fabienne (France).

Is There Anything More French?

I had seen this stamp online, and Fabienne was thoughtful enough to send it to me. Plus, on a hand-made envelope that perfectly match with the theme.

Outside France, the baguette is often considered a symbol of French culture. It is curious to know that there are some myths associated to its origin. 

Travel the World Through Postcards!

Sent by Bryon (the USA) and Fabienne (France).

Lighthouses from France

Sent by Catherine and Fabienne (France).

And this postcard, featuring some places I visited long ago, in Brittany (France), made me think of this other card sent by Fabienne...

C'est à moi ? Ça!... (='Is this mine? This!')

Sunday Stamps | Random Women

AL 288-1, commonly known as Lucy is a collection of several hundred pieces of fossilized bone comprising 40 percent of the skeleton of a female of the hominin species Australopithecus afarensis. It was discovered in 1974 in Ethiopia. Lucy was named after the 1967 song Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds by the Beatles.

Julie-Victorie Daubié (1824 – 1874) was a French journalist. She was the first woman to have graduated from a French university in 1871.

Françoise Sagan (1935 – 2004) was a French writer. Her best-known novel was her first, Bonjour Tristesse (1954). On the selvedge, however, you see the title of another of her works: Des bleus à l'âme (1972).

I have chosen these stamps for the theme Women of Sunday Stamps because they were all issued in 2024 and arrived together on this envelope made by Fabienne (France).

A Colourful City

Front and back of an envelope sent by Phillip (the USA). The more you look at the illustration, the more you like it. 

Lighthouses on Postcards

Lanterna di Genova
(Italy)

Bodie Island Lighthouse, Outer Banks, North Carolina
(the USA)

An Rinn
(Ireland)

Fécamp
(France)

Postcards sent by Ania (Italy), Ilyse (USA), Pammie (Ireland) and Fabienne (France).

Virginias

 

This is a (sort of) postcard made out of chocolates packaging. It was sent to Bryon (the USA) as a reply to yesterday's and this postcard.

Books & Roses Day

23 April is Sant Jordi (='Saint George’s Day'), and also the UNESCO World Book and Copyright Day, when love and literature are celebrated massively throughout the Catalan countries and, more and more, in many other places around the world. The exchange of books and roses (#BooksAndRoses) is turning into a worldwide phenomenon.

I love this day, and I love when snail mail is full of...

Roses

Frist Art Museum
Nashville, Tennessee (USA)

... and Books

The Book Loft
Columbus, Ohio (the USA)

Persuasion, Jane Austen

Emma, Jane Austen

Mail sent by Fabienne (France), Catherine (France), Laura (the UK), Imma (PC) and Phillip (the USA).

American Hotels

The famed Lake Yellowstone Hotel dining room was added to the 1891 structure around 1929. Today, the dinning room looks much as it did when it was built.
Sent by Kevin (the USA).

Colonnaded walkways on Windward Avenue frame several of Venice's historic buildings built between 1905 and 1911. Shops, coffee houses and the Venice Beach Hostel occupy two structures at the corner of the Pacific Ave.

Sent by Stephan (the USA).

And remember, if you travel and there is not a postcard available... This is a solution!

Door tag send by Bryon (the USA).

Year of the Snake (IV)

Envelope sent by Phillip (the USA), made of a menu. Very appropriate to celebrate the Year of the Snake!

And with Chinese New Year stamps from previous years:

Year of the Snake (III)

Postcard made with reused materials sent by Fabienne (France). I like that the well-designed selvedge of the stamp is included!