Teapots

Received from Phillip (the USA) and Laura (the UK).

Summer Mail - V | Party

Card sent by Heleen (the Netherlands).

The Caffeinated Octopus

Collage on an envelope sent to Phillip (the USA).

A Favourite Theme: Reading People

Lesen in den Ferien ('Reading during the holidays'), ca. 1900
Carl Larsson (1853-1919)

De pretenliefhebber (Dr. Aegidius Timmerman), 1898-1900
Jan Toorop (1858-1928)

Sent by Eve (Germany), Heleen (the Netherlands) and Bryon (the USA).

Fifteen Years

Can you believe this blog is 15 years old?

Spring & Tea & Letters

Collages of stickers on spring letters sent to Phillip (the USA) and Laura (the UK).

Fancy a Cup of Blue Tea?

Collage on an envelope sent by Laura (the UK).

Mail Made out of Packaging (Outgoing)

Packaging tuned into postcards, sent to Heleen (the Netherlands) and Bryon (the USA).

Cosy Café

Collage on envelope sent by Laura (the UK).

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!

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!

PC Meet-ups

Postcard sent by Jutta (Germany) on World Postcard Day.

I got this postcard from Heleen (the Netherlands), with an identical stamp on the back. Cool!

Same with this one!

This one is from a 2020 meeting, but it was sent and received this month (not by the first time). Snail mail is all about slowness, isn't it?

Reading in Pink

Letter sent by Laura (the UK).

Mail Makes Everything Better

Postcard sent by Bryon from the USA.

Postcards on Postcards

Two postcards sent by Bryon (the USA).

Mail & Relax

Letter sent by Laura (the UK).

Keep Calm and Read Letters

Collage on an envelope sent by Laura (the UK). I like how the stamp seems to be part of the scene.

Truly Dutch

Vase of tulips & Canal Houses

Cheese Board & Tea Service with a Boerenbont motif

Carrier Pigeon with a Letter & Whipped Cream Cake

Lighthouse

A herring

A caravan

Heleen (the Netherlands) has sent this beautiful stamps. Here you can read a bit more about them.

December Stamps (2023)

Each year, PostNL issues new December stamps, (Decemberzegels) which can be used by everyone to send each other Christmas and New Year cards at a reduced rate. The illustrations for the 2023 December stamps were created by illustrator Linde Faas from Tromsø, Norway.

Heleen sent to me the complete series last year, on the back of different postcards --I uploaded to the blog only the first. 

More information about the December set here.