stamps again and again

Stamps comic or pretty, from (top to bottom) Japan, China, Brazil, and Japan.

Birthday Food Greetings

Snackie poos do a tap dance - from Frannie


Tastykake - a Phillies Phan Experience from Jacqueline

Tomorrow is my birthday and greetings have been arriving since last week. Frannie's card is made of balsa wood and Jacqueline's from a box of Tastykakes. I wonder what it means to receive so many food-related cards this year? Does it have something to do with my food blog that I started in January (http://mrpotani.wordpress.com/)?

Good n Plenty

Jacqueline sent this wonderful card with a weird fortune cookie statement pasted on. Looking at the Pennsylvania Dutch spread on this card, I started craving some chowchow and pickled beets.

Malfunction

Picked up this great robot card from artist Eric Joyner's studio at Islais Creek studios. It was an old card from a 2007 show but still wonderful.

Recent Alterations from Postcrossing

This postcrosser from Hong Kong added a bookstore receipt, stickers and punched paper to a fireworks card


This Brazilian postcrosser covered card with Brazilian word stickers



This postcrosser from Belarus drew a hedgehog on a freecard. Sometimes simple is fabu.

crazy sao paulo

A proud, happy resident of Sao Paulo sent this frenetic card of her city. She said it's already altered enough, there's no room for more.

some do it with stickers

These postcrossers, from Germany, Finland, and again Germany, went the sticker route to alter their cards.

stamps again

Finland, Germany, Italy, and South Africa present and accounted for.

natural beauties

A Finnish postcrosser who lives above the Arctic Circle sent the snowdrops at top. A South African postcrosser sent the Namibian card at bottom.

roundabout altereds

A Croatian postcrosser who now lives in Italy sent this card of the Cocos (Keeling) Islands. Though she said she didn't quite get the idea of altered cards or how to make one, she put what looks like torn pieces of a paper napkin to effective use on this one. Good job!

A Finnish postcrosser studying in Germany sent this cool card. She wrote that she went to a card shop for inspiration to make an altered card. She found this newspaper postcard and taped fragments from German newspapers to it. Clever!

These two cards arrived in the same post. A red letter day! I hope the senders enjoyed making them as much I enjoyed getting them.

oh, mama

Two timely cards from a postcrosser in Russia (top) and another in Singapore (bottom). Oh, mama!

stamps

Super Moomin.

From Russia with color.

Love is in the air.

Kitty strikes again.

Love how the postmark pulls it all together.

amusing nestlings

Stork nests always thrill me. One filled with nestlings is only that much better. A Russian postcrosser sent this card.

split

Just because I'm not likely ever to make it to Split. Thanks to the Croatian postcrosser who sent this card.

mountain climbing in estonia

An Estonian postcrosser made this cool card, which incorporates an index of photos of her and her university mates. She wrote that she has to practice rock-climbing on a wall because there are no mountains in Estonia.

first card

This pretty basket of roses is the first card sent by a Finnish postcrosser, a busy working mom.

blueclaws' promotions

The Lakewood BlueClaws sent this colorful card to advertise their many promotions throughout the Single-A season. That Ryan Howard cap looks cute.

printed creatures

These printed creatures are again from Sandra Sapienza. Sent separately, the cards arrived on the same day.

russian berries

A Russian postcrosser sent these black currants and smiles on the first day of real spring weather in Moscow. A friend had earlier left some elderberry vodka in the mailbox. Things come together round the world.

from the dalai lama

A message from the Dalai Lama courtesy of a Finnish doglover: Spend time alone everyday. The card is from the Helsinki Botanical Garden.