Pink Letter

Letter sent by Laura (the UK).

I am not the only who has been in pink mood lately...

Postchild

Pink letter sent to Heleen (the Netherlands). I don't publish the most of the postcards that I sent. But today let me post this postcard I included in the letter. Don't you think he is lovely? I would like my letters delivered by this little man!

Little Postman, 1910

Post Office Bay

By Movera

Did you know there is a place called Post Office Bay in Floreana Island (Ecuador)?

Since the 19th century whalers kept there a makeshift mail box out of a wooden barrel by a whale hunter named James Colnett. Sailors and whalers drop letters into the barrel, so that mail could be picked up and delivered to their destination by ships on their way home. Cards and letters are still placed in the barrel without any postage by tourists.

Vintage, Fortunately

The theme for Sunday Stamps this week is Old or vintage stamps from your own country. I thought I wasn't able to participate, because I hadn't any old Spanish stamp here. But suddenly I received this old stamp among many others from different countries, as a gift.

I don't know if the sender looked closely at this stamp. It was issued on 24 April 1956, and belongs to the basic series and shows Franco, dictator of Spain from 1939 to 1975. So I am not specially happy with giving it a place among so beautiful and positive snail mail... I remember this stamp was still in use when I was a child, even if dictatorship has finished. I guess there were a transition period also in mail matters.

That lead me to another question. Sometimes foreign people ask me if we have a stamp of famous people like Rafa Nadal. The answer is that Correos (official Spanish post service) don't issue stamps featuring living people. I would like have stamps of some people I admire. But, at the same time, maybe I wouldn't feel comfortable using stamps of certain people I dislike.

This stamp was issued on 15th November 2013. It features Adolfo Suárez, Spain's first democratically elected prime minister after Francoism, in 1976. The stamp, which includes the image of a living person (but Suárez passed away last month), was permitted under the exceptions contemplated in Royal Decree 1637/2011.

Does the postal service in your country issue stamps of living people?

Dirty!

Letter sent by Heleen (the Netherlands).

Dear Postal Worker,

Do you think that if you postmark the letters in such chaotic and untidy way I can really enjoy the stamps that my friends choose carefully with love?
Postally yours,

Eva

Jumping Jack

Create a Jumping jack

Instruction: Download the PDF (Jumping Jack Sample&instructions), the sample Jumping Jack can be printed, glued on solid cardboard, cut out and designed. Or - even better - make an own Jumping Jack! Also postcards with the topic jumping jack may be sent. Please take care during the work on quality, stability and craft!

   Deadline: 31.12.2014

(Please, read here the complete mail art call)

Orange Stamps

From Austria

From France

From Germany

From India

From Japan

From Lithuania

From the Netherlands

From the Netherlands

From the Netherlands

From the Netherlands

From the Netherlands

From New Zealand

From the UK

From the USA

From the USA

Brain Cell Envelope

Mail art sent by Katerina (Greece).

Envelope made of a list of participants in Ryosuke Cohen's project Brain Cell (the longest mail art project ever?). It isn't the first envelopes made in the same way. As Heleen wrote, some of them arrive, and some don't. Honestly, I thought it would be lost in way, as post workers sometimes get confused with this kind of mail...

Macedonia

Postcard sent by Ana (Macedonia).

This is the unique postcard I have received from this country so far. It shows St. John Church in Ohrid. In fact, this city is notable for having 365 churches, one for every day of the year. For that is also know as Jerusalem of the Balkans. Ohrid is one of only 28 sites that are part of UNESCO's World Heritage that are both Cultural and Natural sites.

The postcard arrived with these beautiful stamps:

Nobody to Write a Love Letter To

«Ou, quem sabe, o que me perturba é não ter ninguém a quem escrever uma carta de amor?»

Mia Couto, A Confissão da Leoa

Stamp Houses

This post wasn't intended to participate in Sunday Stamps. But as the theme this week is Anything you wish... Well, I hope you don't mind that I am participating with something different.

Taken from here.

Taken from here (printable and tutorial).

The Blue Beast

1, 2, 3, this is me...
The Blue Beast

First contribution (collage postcard) for the mail art call about: Mermaids in the port, queens of the sea. Well, they aren't exactly "in the port"...

By the way: I took the picture before of sticking the stamp, but of course I did. And I have found in the site of the project that they have published it without the stamp, just as below. So I wonder if it arrived stampfree... I assure you I paid the stamp!

Second contribution to the same project (recycled envelope with stickers):

(This post is also for Paper Saturdays).

Alice

Sent by Stéphanie (France). Illustration by Rébecca Dautremer.

I did not understand Alice in Wonderland as a child. But now is one of my favourite books. However, I have only got a postcard two postcards related to this book so far.

Update: I have forgotten this one!!

Sent by Laura (the UK). "My books", Page from Blackie's Children's Annual, 1919, By Honor Appleton.

Message on Envelopes

Taken from Aya's blog.

Postcard from Guersney

Postcard sent by Monica (Guernsey).

It is my first postcard form Guernsey, and it includes two of my favourite themes: teddy bears and planes. It made my day!