Clotheslines

Postcard sent to Ambró and Bubi (Hungary), for the Challenge #30 of Mail a Smile project. 

I would like have sent something better (considering it was me who had chosen the topic...! This is a favourite), but I just could not. Anyway, the aim of Mail a Smile is just... what its name means. A simple postcard can make someone's day. Don't you feel like participating the next time? There is a challenge every month! 

Incoming Letter

Incoming letter from Catherine (France).

The Bycicles Arrive

Altered postcard sent to Mim (the USA) for this mail art call about bikes:

Theme: Bicycles (of course)

size: standard postcard (preferred)

No jury, no return, family friendly only

Include your name, e-mail address, website/blog if you have one, so

I can notify you when your piece is posted. 

Deadline: September 1, 2015

send to:

Mim/bicycles

2422 Floyd Ave

Richmond, VA 23220-4410

USA

I have also sent this postcard. It is not mail art (not made by me, I mean). But I could not resist when I saw a square-wheel bike on it...

Also published here and here.

Unexpected from Malaysia

Letter sent by Bree (Malaysia).

These hexagonal stamps, showing gold and silvery coins are just stunning!

See the complete sheet and more details.

Some Stamps

One more picture taken by Ania in the Postal Museum of Budapest. She sent me a couple of these later! 

And Don't You Feel Like Writing Postcards?

Postcard sent by Laura (the UK).

Don't You Feel Like Travelling in the Summer?

Small but long letter sent by Laura (the UK).

Orange Letter

Letter sent by Laura (the UK).

Freda!

Yesterday arrived this small parcel from Micu (Hungary) and... Can you guess what it contained? Freda, one of the smiles senders of the Mail a Smile project:

Thanks to Kakaó, she has come to spend few weeks with me. I hope she is going to enjoy the beach and the hot weather.

I forgot to say... she didn't arrive empty-handed, but with some nice surprises:

Alice (III)

The postcards published yesterday arrived inside this envelope (so sent by John), also decorated with Alice's book.

The stamp of the White Rabbit belongs to the set issued by Royal Mail on 6th January:

More stamps I have received from this set.

Alice (II)

Two more postcards of Alice sent by John (the UK):

"Would you tell me pleas," said Alice,
a little timidly,
"why you are painting those roses?"

The Dodo solemnly presented the thimble,
saying "We beg your acceptance of this
elegant thimble".

And one fmore from Laura (the UK), with a illustration of Margaret Tarrant (1888-1959):

Alice succeeded in getting her flamingo's
 body tucked away, comfortably enough, under
her arm, but generally just as
she had got its neck straightened out
it would twist itself round
and look up into her face.

Alice (I)

Postcard sent by Heleen (the Netherlands). It shows a man reading a Pythonesque (from Monty Python's Flying Circus) version of Alice's Adventures in Wonderland: "Alice stood stunned as Tweedle dum and Tweedle Dee recited 370 slang terms for genitals" (!).

The sender included the most beautiful Dutch Book cover of 2014: another version of Alice, newly illustrated because of the 150th anniversary. 

Tucker Is Having Fun

I found two bodies for Tucker (so far?), and I sent a postcard and and an envelope to Jon Foster (the USA).

You can see more contributions to this inspiring project in Tucker's Fan Page.

The World's Smallest Post Office

Postcard sent by Milli (the USA). If not the world's smallest post office (as it says on the back), this tiny building is the smallest post office in the USA. It is still in operation. The sender told me that she had been there and one can hardly turn around inside.

This Crisps Bag Is an Envelope

Letter sent by Micu (Hungary), inside a bag of  crisps.