Postcards: 4/9 - 4/12

Neat flags of Europe card from Fabienne in Spain
Ket from Ukraine sent the pretty Cinderella card


Nenad sent this photo of a city in Croatia

Barbel sent this full world map from Britain

Kerstin from Germany sent me a requested Van Gogh

My postcard pal Mona sent this beautiful card from China

Ana from Serbia sent this card of a few churches in her city.

Postcards: 3/30 - 4/7: Part Two

The second part to my 3/30-4/7 post. You can see the first part directly below this one.


Malaysia

Matthew sent me these in a private swap. Isn't the orangutan adorable?!



Romania

Daniela sent me these cards. I love astronomy, so I had to have the Galileo card. I chose the photo of Queen Elizabeth because royalty interests me and because I think her outfit (circa 1885) is pretty neat!



Taiwan

Jennifer sent the beautiful architecture card. How fitting that she says she's an architectural student!
Yi-Ju sent this card through the North America -> World RR. It shows the city of Kaohsiung.



Ukraine

Masha sent the flag card. She says the colors represent the colors of the sky and golden fields. The emblem in the center is a trident that's thought to represent the division of the world into three spheres: the Earthly, the celestial, and the spiritual, as well as the union of air, water, and Earth. Pretty neat!
Iana sent the beautiful autumn card. My favorite season!



France/Saudi Arabia

I had participated in Stephanie's recipe notebook and she sent the coffee card as a thank you.
Gosia in Italy sent me this rare Saudi Arabia card



China/Russia

I got the cute cat card from China
Boris from Russia sent the card of astronaut Fyodor Yurchikhin



Belgium/Belarus

Helen sent me this beautiful unicorn card. My first one!
Lera from Belarus sent me this card of her town.



Wales/Japan

Lorna from England says she spends lots of time in Wales, so that's where she got this card.
Kotona in Japan sent this card for the Weird/Odd/Strange RR. I think it's pretty funny!



South Africa/Slovenia

Reinette sent this beautiful card from South Africa
Another beautiful view card! Kristijan sent this one from Slovenia.



Norway/Indonesia

Valentina from Italy spends a lot of time in Norway and sent me this beautiful Norwegian card for my collection.
Novia is an Indonesian living in Germany. She says the photo on the card is of women performing a rain dance during dry season.



Estonia

Maili sent me this card... the cat looks almost exactly like mine! Minus the white stomach and paws. She says the words on the front mean "by sweet and all by okay".

Switzerland

Occasionally I sign up for lotteries on the Postcrossing forum, hoping to win free postcards from generous members. Elisabeth, who I've previously swapped with, had a lottery offering a card signed by all members who attended the Swiss meet-up. I unfortunately didn't win, but Elisabeth decided to send me a signed card anyway since I had helped her with her Civil War collection. Thank you Elisabeth!

Postcards: 3/15

From Marta in Portugal in a private swap. It's a gothic temple built around 600 years ago. Pretty neat!

From New Zealander Adrienne in the NZ/Australia -> USA tag. This will be on my "must see" list if I ever make it down south!

Courtesy of Veronique in France. I love the old architecture.

I requested some royal postcards from my British pen pal Holly and she sent these!

Postcards: 3/2 & Oldies but goodies

I got this cool Niagara Falls card today:

Now the oldies but goodies! I received these back in my early days of Postcrossing, but never got around to scanning them. So now I'm posting them.

USA

South Dakota

Georgia/South Carolina coastline

Virginia

Utah

Alabama

England

Germany

Poland

Postcards: 2/13 & 2/14

One of my main goals is to get at least one postcard from as many different countries and states as possible. Unfortunately Postcrossing seems to have a ton of members from a handful of countries. There are certain "rare" countries that it's pretty hard to get cards from. I would like to thank Elisabeth at -[Swiss Cowgirl]- for giving me pointers on how to get postcards from places that I lack. Thanks to her, I've gotten the courage to contact Postcrossing forum users directly about private swaps. I've been afraid that everybody would say no, but so far I've received nothing but positive responses. I'm expecting the arrival of several cards from "rare" countries in the following weeks. And more thanks to Elisabeth for helping me out, since Switzerland, the country where she lives, is one of the semi-rare countries. The first two cards are from her.


February 13

From Dan Chen in China:

Courtesy of Jennifer from Scotland. She says that besides the traders and clothes, the street in the photo looks exactly the same.

From Lena in Belarus, courtesy of the Eyes Closed tag. My first owl postcard!

From a fellow Kristen, who lives in Florida. We did a private swap and she sent me this incredible shuttle card. Such a shame that we'll never see another shuttle launch!

February 14

Vicki from Puerto Rico sent me this photo of Old San Juan in a private swap.