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.

Books, Books!

Zug, by Quint Buchholz

Persephone Books, Bath (the UK)

Mail sent by Heleen (the Netherlands), Laura (the UK) and Rosemary (Canada).

It Is Cold Outside

Collage on a letter sent by Laura (the UK).

Thursday Postcard Hunt | The Book Loft

Different views of a bookstore in Columbus (Ohio, the USA), sent by Phillip.

 It seems like the paradise of books: 32 rooms!

I believe their slogans are true:

• A Bookstore Unlike Any You Have Ever Seen!
• Not just a bookstore, a destination

Do you think is is possible to walk this street and not to enter the bookstore?

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Thursday Postcard Hunt
November theme: URBAN

• Week 1 - Aerial views
• Week 2 - Street views
• Week 3 - Harbours, port views
• Week 4 - Multiviews

Everyone is welcome to share their postcards!

Never Too Busy

 Collage on envelope sent by Laura (the UK).

Thursday Postcard Hunt | Send Yourself on a Postcard

This is a postcard sent by postcrosser Lara (Germany). It is her own design. She depicted herself doing what she love most: reading books in cafés.

How would you like to appear on a postcard?

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Thursday Postcard Hunt
October theme: FOOD/DRINKS

• Week 1 - Fruits, vegetables
• Week 2 - Sweets, desserts
• Week 3 - Markets, cafés
• Week 4 - Multiples, multiviews
• Week 5 - Wine, beer, tea, coffee

Everyone is welcome to share their postcards!

Thursday Postcard Hunt | Café Neon

Sometimes, the humblest sign is a piece of art.

Sent by Bryon (the USA).

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Thursday Postcard Hunt
August theme: ART

• Week 1 - Statues, monuments
• Week 2 - Paintings, watercolours
• Week 3 - Public art, murals
• Week 4 - Sculptures
• Week 5 - Crafts, fabric art, textiles

Everyone is welcome to share their postcards!

Send More Packaging Postcards!

From rice to shoe boxes or coffee packaging... You can make postcards out of almost everything!

Sent from and to Bryon (the USA).

Calendars | The Fortune Teller

I have been making some envelopes out of calendars this year. Here you can see the front and back of one of them, sent to Fabienne (France). I was not sure that it would arrive writing the address this way, but eventually it reached its recipient in no time.

Front

Back

Dearest Friend

A couple of things I love on this card sent by Laura (the UK)...

Calendars | Alice

Front and back of some envelopes made out reused calendars with illustrations of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. Sent to the United Kingdom, France and the Netherlands.

Tea with Paddington Bear

Sent by Laura (the UK). It has been a while since the last time a teddy bear arrived by mail...

Pink Spring Letters

Collages on envelopes sent by Laura (the UK).

Reading People

Slapende reiziger, by Charles Burki (1909-1994)

Solitude, 1815-1820
Mary S. Chapin

Postcards sent by Bryon (USA).

Made of Packaging

Envelope sent to Fabienne (France) made out of the wrapping of a coffee packet.

Finestres  - Llibreria per llegir
'Windows - Bookshop to reading'

Postcard (sort of) made out of packaging from a bookshop. Sent to Bryon (the USA).