Letter (Smurf inside!) wrapped in a flour packaging sent by Micu (Hungary). You can use almost everything as an envelope, can't you?
16 January 2015
Floury Letter
Letter (Smurf inside!) wrapped in a flour packaging sent by Micu (Hungary). You can use almost everything as an envelope, can't you?
15 January 2015
Teddy Bears
I must confess I prefer teddy bears on postcards and stamps to the real ones... The following ones were sent by Laura (the UK), the stamp with Rupert was sent by John (the UK),
14 January 2015
13 January 2015
12 January 2015
Received Lighthouses
Archived in
collages,
envelopes,
Germany,
INcoming,
lighthouses,
Netherlands,
red,
stamps,
tape
11 January 2015
Black Heritage on Stamps
I am finally able to join the second edition of Sunday Stamps, now on the blog See it on a Postcard by VioletSky. The theme for this week is Famous People, Portraits.
One thing I love about Sunday Stamps is that I need to look closely to the stamps I receive. Sometimes is easy to find information on the net, sometimes is quite challenging. But the result is that I learn a lot!
I decided to post today about a theme rather unknown for me: black heritage in North-America.
These stamps were issued by Canada Post on February 2, 2009. They featured portraits of two African-Canadian pioneers: Abraham Doras Shadd (1801-1882), who devoted his life to the abolitionist movement and was the first Afro-Canadian to hold public office; and Rosemary Brown (1930-2003), the first black woman to run for the leadership of a Canadian federal party (and just the second woman).
You can find more information about the stamps here.
I am sure I have received more stamps dedicated to Afro-American whose lives changed history, but they are probably in Spain. This one is the latest I have got. It was issued by the USPS on 31 January 2014 and dedicated to Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm (1924-2005). She was an advocate for minority rights and became the first black woman elected to Congress, in 1969.
(And if you allow me to participate twice, I would like to add this old post to today's Sunday Stamps.)
One thing I love about Sunday Stamps is that I need to look closely to the stamps I receive. Sometimes is easy to find information on the net, sometimes is quite challenging. But the result is that I learn a lot!
I decided to post today about a theme rather unknown for me: black heritage in North-America.
These stamps were issued by Canada Post on February 2, 2009. They featured portraits of two African-Canadian pioneers: Abraham Doras Shadd (1801-1882), who devoted his life to the abolitionist movement and was the first Afro-Canadian to hold public office; and Rosemary Brown (1930-2003), the first black woman to run for the leadership of a Canadian federal party (and just the second woman).
You can find more information about the stamps here.
I am sure I have received more stamps dedicated to Afro-American whose lives changed history, but they are probably in Spain. This one is the latest I have got. It was issued by the USPS on 31 January 2014 and dedicated to Shirley Anita St. Hill Chisholm (1924-2005). She was an advocate for minority rights and became the first black woman elected to Congress, in 1969.
(And if you allow me to participate twice, I would like to add this old post to today's Sunday Stamps.)
10 January 2015
The Wishes Wheel
What do you do when you want to send good wishes to someone but you have so many wishes...? It is what happened to me when making this card for Micu (Hungary). So finally I decided to put all the wishes and let her (or the luck) the choice!
09 January 2015
Reading Women
Some of the latest reading women I have received. Very different ages and styles!
Folded postcard sent by Heleen (the Netherlands). Lettre d'Amour, by Arthur Th. Dick.
Also sent by Heleen. La Sieste, by Paul Almany (1972)
Postcard sent by John (the UK). The Reader, by Alfred Emile Stevens (c. 1860).
Stamp from Austria.
Archived in
Austria,
black & white,
folded cards,
INcoming,
Netherlands,
postcards,
reading,
UK
08 January 2015
07 January 2015
06 January 2015
Every Island in the World
Ania's project, Every Island in the World is one of the coolest postcard projects I have ever seen. However, it is so simple:
My big dream is to collect postcards sent from every island in the world (at least those that have a postbox). If you would like to help me, please contact me at letters.from.islandsOr maybe is that I am another islands lover (especially islands with lighthouses!).@gmail.com
05 January 2015
04 January 2015
02 January 2015
Letter
Dear _______,
[...] In general, I like people who offer things for free. Sending snail mail is one of those little things we can do for (humbly) improving the world. Well, in fact, it isn't exactly for free. Sometimes we get an answer, unexpected or not. Sometimes we learn about history, geography, sociology, art, languages… We mostly learn about ourselves. And in addition we obtain a lot of fun by making and sending mail.
I have been penpalling since I was 11 years old. My very first pen pal is still one of my best friends. We met by the first time when we both were at University. We have moved away more than ten times, even to different countries. And we still write each other once or twice a week by snail mail. I like to tell this story because, when I think it over, I find it extraordinary. There is something special, even magical, in coming across a well-known handwriting in the mail box.
But also it is when I receive a letter or a postcard from a less close friend or relative, or from an unknown person. From time to time it occurs to me that writing to strangers is somehow weird. But life is about weirdness, isn't it? When I'm writing or making mail art, I imagine a smile on the recipient's face. My experience says that everybody smile when they run into a personal piece of mail in the mail box. At least, they forget their problems for a minute while trying to figure out who sent that letter and/or why. Then they open it and start to read, so they are allowed instants of calm.
I try to make every letter special. I don't consider myself an artist, and at times I'm not proud of the result. But the recipient will smile anyway. Because human beings just love stories, and every little piece of mail, every stamp, every postmark… tells us a story. [...]
Postally yours,
E.
01 January 2015
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