Canadian first nations.

This Canadian postcard was sent to by Jana, a lady who lives in Edmonton (Alberta).

She said that she likes to travel, and that she lives in a cattle farm. In the postcard you can see a picture of a native from the Canadian “First Nations” paople, the true founders of the country.

Why so many Russian postcards?

This postcard is so colorful!! :)

It was sent from Russia, by Tanya via Postcrossing.

Sadly all the back description of the postcard is in Russian, so I can’t share with you the name of the image, or the author.

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Reading my blog you will realize later on that there will be a lot of postcards from Russia, and that is because the population of Russian postcrossers is really large!

There are over 51,000 Russian postcrossers!! They have sent over 2,00,000 postcards, and currently they are the 4th country which sends more postcards!!


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If you want to know more about which countries are participating in Postcrossing, just click here!!

Essen means "to eat"

This kind of postcard is what we call “multiview” because it shows several scenarios/images. It was sent by Heike from Germany, who said that Essen means “to eat”. Via Postcrossing.

Grotto of the Annunciation.

This is so far the only postcard I have from Israel, it shows the Grotto of the Annunciation in Nazareth. It was sent by Yuval, who said that she always wanted to live in other countries, and that she works in art projects. Via Postcrossing.

Mickey Mouse.

This time, there is a special mention. This postcard is self explanatory, it came from Minnesota (United States), it was sent by Elizabeth via Postcrossing and it included amazing stamps that you can see on the right side of the image, they belong to vintage movies, one of them is with Boris Karloff as “The Mummy” and the other one with Lon Chaney as “The Phantom of the Opera”.

Emu family.

This postcard traveled all the way from Australia, it is a reproduction of the artwork called “Emu family”, and it does not include the name of the author. It was sent by Jamie, who said “Whatever you give you get back three times, so treat everyone with love and respect”, and I couldn’t agree more. Got it via Postcrossing.

Ukranian village.

This postcard was sent from Ukraine, and it portrays their old traditional houses that they used to have in their villages. It was sent by Kate, via Postcrossing.

Naivismin nimeen

Everybody that claims to know me well, knows that I love rabbits, bunnies and hares, and well… this postcard contains some of that :D It was sent from Finland by the adorable Emilia, when she was 12 years old! The artwork is called “Naivismin nimeen” and it was made by Petra Heikkilä in 2005. I got this postcard via Postcrossing.

Salzburg, Estonia.

This is what appears to be my only postcard sent from Estonia, and it is not even from that country! So, if you are from Estonia, and you want to contribute, do not hesitate and contact me!! :D This postcard portrays the Austrian city of Salzburg, the old town and the Fortress of Hohensalzburg. Was received via Postcrossing.

Ehrenburg castle.

This postcard shows the castle Ehrenburg, and it was sent from Coburg (Germany) by Tanja, who said that Charles Edward, Duke of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha used to live in the castle in former times. This postcard was acquired via Postcrossing.

The Little Prince

I love to collect all kinds of postcards, but there are some specific themes that I enjoy more than the others, one of them is “The Little Prince”, I am slowly acquiring a small collection of postcards related with this book. Here is one of them, the art work is wonderful and it was made by Julie Poddubnova. In the back, they included one of the quotes from the book: “Tu deviens responsable pour toujours de ce que tu as apprivoisé.” (You become responsible for what you have tamed.) I received this postcard from Belarus, and it was sent to me by Inna.

Swans by M. C. Escher

This postcard was received via the official Postcrossing website. The postcard shows one of the works of the fabulous M. C. Escher, and it is called “Swans”, this art work was made in 1956, and it is a wood-engraving that measures 20x32 cm This postcard was sent to me by Stephanie, a lovely girl from Maryland, USA. who told me that she enjoys the art of Mucha.

Moomins & first day cover

I decided to start with this set because it is really especial for me. It was sent by my good Finnish friend Heidi, from the meeting of Postcrossing that they had in Jyväskylä, Finland. In the picture you can see the envelope were the things came in and then, the interesting stuff: The blue envelope is the First Day Cover, it was issued with the postcards and the stamps in May 2013. You can see that the stamp/cancellation is special too. Illustration was made by the awesome Tove Jansson (as we know, the creator of the Moomins), and the design of the FDC and the postcard was made by Satu Lusa.

Postcrossing & how it all started.

Hello everybody! And welcome to my blog.

I started to blog in another platform called Tumblr, I really liked it, I think it is a really easy and friendly, but the main problem is that most of my friends have blogspot and I was not able to follow them, so I decided to create a blog here, in order to be conected.

This blog is basically about my postcard collection and the experiences I have had in the process of collecting them; my main goal is to share with you my love for postcards and to be able to ignite the creativity and curiosity in new collectors.

* Let's start explaining how I became a postcard collector:

Since I was a child I have been collecting scraps from magazines, pictures and postcards, I always thought that it was a wonderful way of travel around the world, and learn more about the diverse cultures and history, most of the time it was not that easy to find postcards from all over the world, but with the years I realized that there was a better form to do it, and that was using the Internet!!

That is how I started making research about postals collections and buying them on-line, on garage sales, and diverse places I was visiting until I met a really good friend when I started my Master degree, and we found out that we had the collection of postcards as a common ground, then she talked to me about a website called Postcrossing and that basically changed the way I see the process of collecting postcards.

* What is Postcrossing?

Their motto is: “Send a postcard and receive a postcard back from a random person in the world!”
And it is self-explanatory, with an account in Postcrossing you can build up a collection of postcards, but also a collection of stories, and writings from wonderful people from around the world.

I have been member of Postcrossing since August 2011, and I have been also collecting postcards outside the website.
I have received over 160 postcards from the official site so far, and my distance of sent postcards is 604,066 km.

Through the official Postcrossing forum I have participated in the 1st Meeting in Ålesund, Norway in 2013, and also I have been part of Traveling Notebooks, which allow me to have a lot of fun and share so many experiences and creativity!

And well, this is just a brief introduction, I hope you enjoy my blog!!


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