So I've joined this postcard exchange club-of-sorts called POSTCROSSING. The goal of the Postcrossing project is to allow people to receive postcards from all over the world. The main idea is that:
if you send a postcard, you will receive at least one back from a random Postcrosser from somewhere in the world. Why? Because there are lots of people (like me) who like to receive real mail. Most people write a profile of what they like and it's fun to try and find a special card that you know they will like, based on their preferences.
My user ID is
chandlerguera. Actually I have a second account for my niece, so she can receive postcards, too (ID is
Emmalani). Here are a few more of my favorite postcards; some I've sent, some I've received and some I just saw on the website.
Here are a couple of postcards that I made! One for someone in Finland who loves frogs and the other for a gal in Brazil that likes jokers.
I've also sent pictures that I've taken, as a postcard. You can put a special sticker on the back so you can write on it, fill out the address and postage, etc. I sent some cemetary postcards to a girl in Puerto Rico who has an interest in that. These pictures were taken in Hawaii.
I also sent a picture of Ernesto and I on his motorcycle to a Finnish Postcrosser, since motorcycle postcards are hard to find!
"Gemelas" by artist PeachyCreek:
I'm starting to have a lot of postcards on hand to send and it's been great shopping fun to find new and unique postcards, including art cards, Dia de Los Muertos, Black & White, celebrity, and I found vintage motorcycle photo postcards at the Harley Davidson store in San Francisco! This is an interesting and inexpensive hobby and it's nice to get something in the post.
Look at the Mail Art! Octo-Queen Mum on the left, a 3-D envelope from England, and an original art postcard with Queen Elizabeth!
My postcrossing account says that I would love to receive purple or lavender postcards. Ask and ye shall receive!
Here are stamps from Japan (note that some are purple!) and a Hello Kitty!
Beautiful stamps from Russia:
Always awesome stamps from Finland. The middle stamp is a "Moomin," a very popular cartoon art character.
I took a picture of (and then somehow lost) my outgoing mail pile, which was a book, a small parcel to Japan, thank you card for a work colleague, numerous postcrossing postcards, letter to my Great Aunt and letter to my friends in Colorado. It was quite a huge pile of outgoing. Check your mailbox because something may be coming your way!
