Sunday, April 21, 2013

Japan: My first Totoro card!

Yesterday I got my first postcard from Japan and it is a Totoro card! I really love Totoro he is so cute! This card was illustrated by Hayao Miyazaki and is a charity card for Totoro Fund preserving the Sayama Hills (The Homeland of Totoro)!

And a great stamp:
International Polar Year (the Polar bear sparkles) (from set of four) (issued 30-06-2009)
and a beautiful postmark!

Thank You very much Ai for this great postcard!


Hong Kong: Giant Panda

On Tuesday I got a great postcard from Hong Kong! The postcard shows a Giant Panda from the Hong Kong Ocean park! In Hong Kong live 4 Pandas coming as a present from China! I really love Pandas and this postcard is a great start for my Giant Pandas in zoos collection!


 And the stamps are great too:
Definitive shows a Collared Scops Owl (issued 31-12-2006),
150th Anniversary of stamp issuance (issued 08-12-2012)
and a new Year of the Snake stamp for my collection (issued 26-01-2013)

Thank You so much Louise for this great card!

Sunday, April 14, 2013

China: Le Yangyang

On Monday I got two postcards one from China and one from Russia. The card from China shows Le Yangyang one of the mascots of the 16th Asian Games.

It is a prepaid card which was added with some great stamps!

Thank You Dorany!!

Russia: Cars

On Monday I got two cards one from Russia and one from China. The card from Russia shows two crashed cars.

Stamps:
Olympic Winter Games in Sochi-Mascots (issued 27-02-2012)
and 50 years WWF (issued 26-09-2011)


Thank You so much Elena!!




Sunday, April 7, 2013

Singapore: Snake

On Wednesday I got my first card from Singapore! 

With the whole set of the Year of the Snake stamps (issued on 04-01-2013).
                                  
Thank You Ben!!

Monday, April 1, 2013

Indonesia: Bears

 Yesterday I got this sweet postcard from Indonesia!
With cool stamps:
Year of the Snake (two from set of three) (issued 22-01-2013)
the left shows the Javan Spitting Cobra
and the right shows "Dewa Ruci" (a Wayang tale about a fight between Bima and a snake from the ocean)
Thank You so much for this sweet card, Surfia!

Saturday, March 30, 2013

Austria: Kirchberg in Tirol

Today I got another postcard from my mum. The card need more then one week longer than the other card she sent to me. But she say that she sent both cards on the same day in the same city!


with sweet stamps:
the little "Ich bin Ich" (issued 27-03-2012)
and two flower stamps (issued 25-08-2007)!


Thursday, March 28, 2013

Germany: Berlin

 Today I got a beautiful postcard from my mum when she visited Berlin.












With nice stamp:
Janosch (issued 01-03-2013)
I wait so long for this stamp and when it was issued I bought 30 stamps (or maybe more)!

Cover from Kazakhstan

Today I got a cover from Kazakhstan.
The cover was stamped with nice stamps:
Famous people from set of five (issued 2012) and
two Definitives (issued 2011)!
In the cover were many beautiful things from Kazakhstan:
the 1 and 2 Kazakhstani tenge coins,

two stamps:
a used stamp of the Soviet Union (issued 22-04-1989, with first day postmark) and
the Famous people stamp like the one on the cover,

a old postcard (from 1987) of a old Cathedral which is now a Museum of regional studies
and a leaflet of the movie "Red Dawn".



















Thank You Dayana for this many beautiful things!

Saturday, March 23, 2013

Serbia: Belgrade

Yesterday I got this beautiful postcard. On the front are some views of Belgrade, the capital of Serbia, and on the backside are the Serbian stamps celebrating the Year of the Snake. Thank You for this beautiful postcard Jovana!



Thursday, March 21, 2013

Cover from Slovenia


Today I got this beautiful cover from Slovenia! On the Cover is a heartformed stamp (issued 25-01-2013). Thank you Mateja!






Wednesday, March 20, 2013

Austria: St. Johann in Tirol

 Today I got this postcard from Austria. My mum sent it to me when she was there with her boyfriend. I was there too in summer.











Liechtenstein: Year of the Snake

This is a Christmas gift of my mum! Last year she bought some maxicards in the online shop of the post in Liechtenstein! On the front is the Year of the Snake stamp (issued 12-11-2012), the second Lunaryear stamp from Liechtenstein! 
Everything what is green on the stamp is not really there! It is cut out!