Mailbox Happiness

Vintage Valentine Postcard Love

2012-01-28T15:16:00.001-06:00

I love Postcards, new or vintage and there's something a little extra special about Holiday cards to me. Since Valentine's Day is the next big "holiday", I thought I'd share a vintage Valentine's Day card or two.

Love Offering To My Valentine
Most of this card is embossed, such lovely detailing.

The back of Love Offering To My Valentine Postcard, see the embossing.
For a Teacher-Dated 1911
Printed in USA

Loves Greetings
Often cards don't make it through 100 or so years without showing signs of wear but it doesn't detract from the beauty to me. I love the letter and heart shaped mailbox.
Blank/Never Used
Printed in Germany

Do you like/have/collect vintage cards too?

A Little of This, A Little of That

2012-01-27T18:48:00.000-06:00

Mail is fantastic when it's full of this and that...art, holiday's, landscapes...a lovely mail day indeed! I hope your mailbox brought you happiness and smiles today too!

A beautiful painting of Fedoskino, Russia.
Arrived from Russia

Russia Stamps

Journeys II-At Midnight by Mila Dolezelova
Arrived from Czech Republic

Czech Republic Christmas Stamps

Happy Valentine's Day!
Arrived from Turkey

Turkey Stamps

Canyonlands National Park, Utah
Arrived from USA

USA Stamp

My Mailman Delivers Happiness!

2012-01-26T08:45:00.000-06:00

Saw my mailman and he told me that he loves bringing mail to my house, it's always different, nice, cool stamps to look at and overall makes him happy to have us on his route. Here's what his dropoff included:

A wonderful letter from my penpal Ana!
Arrived from USA

A wonderful card showing Russians in Traditional Dress from my Postcrossing Favorites.
Arrived from Russia

Russia Stamps

To The One I Love-Happy Valentine's Day
Arrived from Canada

Canada Stamps

Santa Claus riding a Carousel
Arrived from The Netherlands

Netherlands Stamp

Merry Christmas Santa
Arrived from Poland

Poland Stamps

Beautiful Christmas Angels
Arrived from Ukraine

Merry Christmas Card
Arrived from Ukraine

Ukraine Stamps

Mail on the Journey

2012-01-25T08:14:00.000-06:00

Sadly, there was only time to send a few pieces of mail yesterday but a few pieces is better than none right!
On the Journey to:
USA-Including a note to my wonderful penpal Ana!
Singapore
Netherlands

In case you would like to correspond with me, you will find my mailing address to the right.

Mail Call-I Never Know What to Expect

2012-01-24T09:23:00.000-06:00

Look what the Postman brought today: I.am.Lucky!

My first ever Aerogramme, this is such a treasure!
Mark Twain Aerogramme
Arrived from USA

Postcard of Atlanta, Georgia from Ana-one of my wonderful and amazing Penpals. She was out of town working her fingers to the bone and still made time to send a card to me!
Arrived from USA

Russian Monument(do you know the name)
Official Postcrossing Card RU-732772

Russia Stamps

Fantastic Nouvelles Images Valentine Card
Arrived from The Netherlands

Stamps from The Netherlands

Happy Valentine's Day Kiss
Arrived from The Netherlands

Netherlands Stamps

A beautiful Grandfather Frost Card
Arrived from Russia

Russia Christmas Stamp

Mail on the Way Today

2012-01-23T15:09:00.000-06:00

Mail on the way to Germany (including 2 penpal letters), Russia, Netherlands, Portugal, Serbia & the USA

If you would like to exchange mail (either postcards or letters), my address is located in the sidebar.

Mail at the 2809, Outgoing & Incoming

2012-01-22T14:51:00.001-06:00

My outgoing mail for Friday included letters, cards and postcards going to:
USA
Russia
Poland
Belarus
Netherlands
Canada
I'm hoping for safe and speedy travel to their respective destinations.

Onto the mail delivery, one of my favorite times of the day!

My Chain Card #176 arrived home and I love all the stamps!
If you happen to like or love stamps, you can join the Chain Postcard RR over at Postcrossing.

The Spectacles, Arches National Park-Utah
Arrived from Utah

My first card to receive with a Mailer's Postmark Permit.

Wonderful nightview of Toronto, nightviews are a favorite of mine.
Arrived from Canada

Canada Christmas Stamp

I collect mapcards and a friend of mine sent this Vermont card to me.
Arrived from USA

Time for relaxing tea. From my favorites at Postcrossing, so happy to receive it!
Arrived from Finland

Finland Stamp

We don't get much snow here in North Texas so this card was dreamy to me.
Arrived from Germany

Isn't this Germany Christmas Postmark beautiful!

You know I love Christmas so here are the Christmas cards that arrived in the last few days.

Cute little snowman
Arrived from Russia

Stamps from Russia

It's no secret that I've developed a great love for cards from Russia and Santa Claus cards are no exception!
Arrived from Russia

Russia Stamps

Wonderful Santa card!
Arrived from Russia

Stamps from Russia

Adorable Christmas Card
Arrived from Russia

Stamps from Russia

Mail Delivery at the 2809

2012-01-20T08:59:00.000-06:00

Mail Delivery at the 2809=Happiness! Yesterday was no exception, Year of the Dragon, Valentine's Day and Christmas cards were all there just waiting for me to find them!

Fantastic Year of the Dragon Card arrived from China
Official Postcrossing Card CN-513042

China stamps on Year of the Dragon card

Another Pretty Valentine Card arrived from Japan-Holiday RR

Japan stamps on Valentine Card

Lucky for me, Christmas is still making an appearance in my mailbox.
Irina sent me this from my favorites on Postcrossing. I don't know about
you but when I get a card from my favorites, it makes my day!
Arrived from Belarus-Holiday RR

Belarus stamps on bunny card

Irina also sent me this adorable snowman card from a favorite artist of mine, Natasha Chetkova.
Arrived from Belarus-Holiday RR

Stamps on Belarus card

Sending Happiness to other Mailboxes

2012-01-19T16:28:00.000-06:00

Eleven postcards have started their journey across the globe through Postcrossing.

Destinations include-Germany, Finland, Japan, China, Netherlands, USA, Australia, Belarus, Russia, Slovenia, Poland.

A few that were sent:

Vintage Valentine Reprint

Florence by Inez Storer

Harry Potter with Potions

Kliban Cats at the beach

Cowboy Stadium at night

Postcrossing & Postcrossing Forums

2012-01-19T10:51:00.000-06:00

Postcrossing provides an avenue of connecting with others here in the USA and around the world. You can participate on just the official side where you draw addresses, send postcards and wait to receive a postcard back or you can dive into the Postcrossing Forum. There are categories for every type of card you can think of:
Holidays
Art Cards
Animals
Nature
Ad Cards
Photo Cards
and the list goes on. You can join Round Robins, Tags, Travelling Notebooks, Swaps, Penpals, almost anything you can think of. The forum's are fantastic and the opportunity to meet many fascinating people presents itself on a daily basis.

If you like holiday cards, feel free to join the forums and the Holiday Round Robin I host.

Mail, Mail, Mail...I Love Mail

2012-01-18T07:41:00.003-06:00

I love seeing what's in the mailbox and yesterday brought plenty of goodness my way.

You might think it's a little early but I love holiday's and Valentine Cards are already making an appearance in my mailbox.

Arrived from USA

Arrived from USA

Arrived from England

Matilda stamp from England

Rabbits, Bunnies, balls of fluff. I'm in love with Nouvelle Images cards which are so difficult to find here in the USA and impossible in my part of Texas. Arrived from Japan.

Adorable Stamps from Japan

Adorable Illustrated Cat Skiing, from Russia of course, they produce some of the best cards out there in my opinion. Arrived from Russia.

Russia Christmas Ornament Stamp

Yes, I still feel lucky to have Christmas goodness arriving, makes me smile. Arrived from Russia.

Another wonderful Russian Stamp.

A penpal letter from Donavan. Happiness.

Mail Departing Today

2012-01-17T21:28:00.000-06:00

I'm so happy the mail ran today, I had a few letters and a postcard that needed to start their travels.

A postcard headed to Postcrossing friend in Connecticut & Penpal Letter to Germany.

Penpal letters off to New York and Ohio.

Would You Like to Correspond?

2012-01-17T07:20:00.000-06:00

Correspondence through the mail brings about a certain pleasure to me that isn't found in today's super-fast paced electronic world. It's a chance to connect with someone, getting to know them through what they write, how they write, the types of paper, pens or postcards they use.

I've included my address on the sidebar in case you'd like to write me and of course, I'll write you back!

Mail Call

2012-01-15T17:05:00.026-06:00

I received many great postcards this week and I'm lucky enough to still be getting some Christmas joy in my mailbox!

A lovely streetview of Leuven, Belguim

Any postcard that show's up with a heart makes me very, very happy!
This one is new to my collection and was sent from Italy.

Fantastic Heart Card...Love it so much! Sent from Poland~

Cards depicting places of worship or people worshiping are a favorite too!
Sent from Netherlands

Sitting Statue of Maitreya in Lingyin Temple of Hangzhou, China.

One of my favorite Illustrator's Lennart Helje~

Christmas...One of the best times of the year!
Wonderful Snowman card from Russia!

Stamps from Russia, the Father Christmas Stamp is Fantastic!

I've Always Loved Mail...Letters, Postcards & Penpals

2012-01-15T12:42:00.001-06:00

I've always loved receiving mail, there's something special about opening the mailbox and finding a letter or postcard addressed to me, likewise, I enjoy picking out and sending mail to others as well.

Starting a blog to record my "Armchair Travels" is something I've had on my list of things to do for a couple of years now...and as the old saying goes...Make Time for All Things...so here I am, making time in 2012!