Finnish Barn

Received November 13, 2010

This card was a surprise "angel card".  I had participated in a Round Robin and one of the people did not send cards so some other users have been sending out cards to those people.  A nice surprise.

Snow scene in Finland

Received October 4, 2010

Official Card from Finland FI-908472

Finland views

Received August 2, 2010

Official: FI-860988

Jyvaskyla, Finland

Received May 17, 2010

Looks like a beautiful area!

Snow in Finland

Received February 22, 2010

Tulips

Received 10-23-09

A beautiful tulip card from Finland!

Thanks PinkCloud :)

France and Finland

Time to play catch up again! I've been MIA for a couple months. I only have about 6 cards to get posted but wanted to get them on before I start receiving some more. I want to start getting a little more active on postcrossing than I have been lately.

The first here is one from Montpellier, France that I received back in September through a private trade.





The second is an official card from Finland (FI-215736)

Finland x 2

I've received a couple Finland cards in the past few weeks. First this offical card from the town of Lahti (FI-202597)


Then this nice map card from a private trade from someone looking for state map cards.

Zoo tag

Got this card from a zoo tag I participated in. It's from an aquarium in Helsinki, Finland.

Finland

An official card from Finland (FI-157628). This is the Turku castle.

Finland

A cute otter in Finland.........

Finland

Another official card from Finland (FI-139793). A nice summer view!

Finland

This is the Petajavesi old church in Finland. Official card (FI-138322). The sender wrote that it is a UNESCO WHS site. I've seen this term before and I know a lot of people collect UNESCO cards but I'm not sure I completely understand what they are. I've done a little searching online. If anyone out there can give me a good site that explains and lists them I'd appreciate it! Thanks :)

It's been awhile!

Wow, it's been almost a month since I've updated. I have a pile of about 15-20 cards sitting here. Luckily I haven't been real active in receiving so it shouldn't take me too long to catch up. We'll see.
This first one is an official card from Finland showing the traditional act of mazing hay in August. (FI-134092):



And this one is from a church tag we did. The card is from Germany and shows the "Rock Church" which is a popular tourist attraction.

Germany and Finland

Ok, I took some German in High School and College so I know a couple words on this card but not the entire thing. Gotta dig out the trusy German/English dictionary and look a few up.
This is an official card (DE-57279) received this past week.


















This one is a Thank you card for one we sent to a fellow postcrosser in Finland.

Hyvinkaa, Finland

This if from a private trade. A multiview of Hyvinkaa, Finland. You can see their marketplace, railway station and library.

3 cards in 3 days

And they are all from Finland! It's nice to get at least one fun thing in the mail each day! Something other than junk mail or bills!

Here's what we got. A couple very nice scenic cards and one frozen one!

Tracks in the snow (FI-114748):

Finland nature (FI-112614):

Frozen (FI-112127):

That puts our official received cards up to eight!
Finland:6
India:1
Ukraine:1

Until next time!

You've got mail!

Well, after a few days with no mail service because of the new year and the post office being closed for a national day of mourning........former president Ford died.......we received 3 cards in yesterday's mail.

The first is an official card from India (IN-1617).
A photo of the backwaters of Kerala:


The sender wrote our names in the native Malayalam script, which was cool to see!

Next was an official card from Finland (FI-111750).
A multiview card of some Finnish landscapes, their flag and a map:

And the third one received was a private card from The Netherlands. We got this one from the woman who turned us on to postcrossing in the first place, a friend from another message board that I belong to that mentioned in to the group one day. Thanks, Sandra!!


Here is that card:




We did also receive on card from the Ukraine today, but I have yet to scan that one. It will be included in the next entry. Waiting to see what the mail man will bring us next time!
We have plans to work on getting some more out in the mail this Saturday afternoon. We have some cards to get out that we promised in return and for trade.

Later :)

Happy New Year

I've decided to start off the new year with a blog showing all the interesting and fun postcards I'm sure we'll receive from postcrossing. My daughter and I just joined at the end of November and are already having fun together. I'm sure I will be just as involved and "addicted" to this (if not more so) than her!!

So far we have sent 10 official cards. Five to Finland, two to Germany, and one each to the UK, the Netherlands and Brazil. We've also sent one each to Germany and the Netherlands for private swaps and are eagerly awaiting the cards from those in return.

So far we have received two official cards in the mail, both from Finland.

The first looks like a replica of a painting.

This is from Rovaniemi, Finland (FI-106876):

The second is an Ilves Felis Lynx, an animal native to Finland (FI-106412):

Hopefully we will have more to share soon!