March 26, 2008
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postcards….
hello, my name is Elizabeth and I send postcards! There I admitted it….
It all started when I was a kid, my mom bought postcards everywhere she went because the pictures were/are almost always better than what she could take. She has masses of them stored in shoeboxes. I love the pictures too but I like to mail them, in fact if your a long time subscriber of mine you have probably gotten one from me. so when the xanga team asked for postcards to decorate the walls of their office I immediately started looking for a good one to send. I finally found it a couple of weeks ago in Frankfurt. Here’s the link…. link to some of their recent arrivals. They have an photo album of all their postcards too. I sent one from Frankfurt because they already have one from Berlin so I thought it would be a good way to represent the east and West of Germany. I will probably send them one from Ireland when we go over for Allison and Brian’s wedding.
Speaking of AllieMcNally she left yesterday. I didn’t even cry. Of course I boo-hooed before she left so maybe I got it out of my system then.
The apartment seems pretty quiet though and its odd not being able to talk to someone anytime I like 24/7.Okay, back to the postcards. I like getting postcards too. I got one from Brazil with a picture of Christ the Redeemer from a friend I met on ringo. And a postcard from Singapore from a friend I met on KoL, his has a pair of steps in the shape of a heart. But I admit that all the rest of the postcards hanging on my fridge are from me. Mailed to me and my husband or me to just my husband. Postcards from Ireland, Italy, Czech, France and even from Germany. I even sent postcards from Austria and Switzerland and I was only in those places for one day! Yup I am addicted to snail mail. There is nothing like getting a postcard a week or so after you get home to bring a smile of remembrance of good times. And the cool stamp and postmark is just a bonus.
If you want a postcard and I don’t have your address shoot me an email and I will send you one of somewhere I have been. Or if I haven’t sent you a card in forever and you want back on the list. Sometimes it will have a American stamp and postmark because it’s cheaper to mail them from the Army post, but the ones I mail when I’m not home will have that countries stamp and postmark. Ireland is our next destination…you’ve been alerted.
After that it will be Holland and the Keukenhof Gardens for the Tulips. Happy Hump Day everyone!
(All links are in color)
Comments (11)
Have you heard of Postcrossing.com? I signed up there recently…sounds like fun. Although I must confess, I haven’t actually SENT any cards yet. But I will!
YEA! I will send you one if you send me one… you know I am a mail addict!. lol
I still haven’t sent Xanga a post card thouh… I keep looking.
@Kallikrates - I will definitely check it out. It was probably made for crazies like me.
@angi1972 - email me your address. I will most assuredly send you a postcard.
I believe American people love send post cards . I am amazed . Imagine , Elizaberth we don’ t send Christmas cards here in France . All the cards we send is for St Nicholas and Ste Catherine for little boys and girls . At New Year the custom was to send a small card or a letter and now it ‘ s often a simple e.mail .
So since I am on xanga I reply to Christmas cards and also I send a post card from our vacation place to those whom I know the address ( when we sart to vacation : once a year )
i watched the Allie ‘ s site . She looks happy of course !!
Love
Michel
Congrats on being put on the xanga team page mom! I think that’s really cool. I should send them one of my extra Aran Island postcards. I have about a billion left.
Hmmm…I wonder if there is a 12 step program for that?
I love postcards, especially if they have foreign stamps and postmarks.
I will be happy to exchange postcards with you!
Thank you so much for the comment on my anniversary.
You sound so interesting…going so many different places.
cuute page hun
Thank you Elizabeth to keep my family in your prayers and thoughts .
Love
Michel
Dear Elizabeth,
Thank you for visiting my blog, and for leaving a comment, stars, and a recommend. I’m sure you helped. I was in the top spot for a day and so far have two comments short of 250.
You’ve given me an idea for another blogpost, and I might even do it instead of doing the next PhotoPost I planned. (It’s threatening rain anyway) I’m a “collector” and my first collection was old postcards. I have many hand painted cards from the 30s and some from the 20s. I used to have relative send them to me from all over when I was a kid too. I looked at your Franfurt card on the Xanga Team site.
Postcards are neat. They don’t seem to be dying either, even in the internet age!
Michael F. Nyiri, poet, philosopher, fool
Michael F. Nyiri, poet, philosopher, fool