19

Jun

2010

In to the mailbox!

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A few of my sent from the past couple of days, all for Postcrossing.

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Heading off to Finland for someone who wants sunset postcards is this view of the Melbourne skyline. It’s my own photo, and I’m quietly proud of it.

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Someone in Germany likes city views, so this night shot of Melbourne will hopefully please them. To be 100% honest I have literally NO idea where these lights are, I assume Southbank, but I might be wrong.

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A Beatles fan in New Zealand lamented that Beatles cards were hard to find. I decided to cheer her up with this reproduction of the first Beatles publicity postcard. Because I’m lovely.

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An art student in Malta asked for art cards or “anything spiffy looking”. I hope she enjoys Rex Ray!

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A postcrosser from Singapore enjoys cityviews to study the buildings, so I picked the card with the most amount of city in it!

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This is heading to Canada, for a user without any preferences for cards, but who enjoys travel. I thought she might like some train waiting rooms from Budapest, because who wouldn’t?

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And finally, this Red Tailed Black Cockatoo is off to the USA for a wild life lover.

Now that I have 15 travelling cards on Postcrossing, I sure am giving the stash a kicking! What have YOU sent recently?

16

Jun

2010

A little of this, a little of that

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It’s been a while since I posted any incoming cards, smacked legs for me. Here’s my most recent postcrossing cards!

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This one is from Sophie in the UK and I love love love love love it. This style of fashion illustration is one of my absolute favourites, and i love how dramatic she is on her black background.

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From Eveline in Poland – how gorgeous is this? What a view those buildings must have (unless of course it’s an industrial park over the canal…)

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From Vicky in Taiwan this colourful illustration of children playing. They’re catching bugs, I love the little girl on the left showing off her loot!

Now we move on to frog cards, my most best favourites (to channel Charlie and Lola for a moment there).

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Piyo from Finland sent me these lovely pudgy froggies with a Finnish and a Polish stamp. Too cool (Finnish stamps, for the record, are amazing – I’ll scan some).

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This one is from Tanja in Austria. It’s a duplicate, I’ve had it before, but I think this one must be the original kind, as on the back is a scratch off panel to reveal the Prince.

Since I’ve had a mouse plague, I had to take all my first batch of Postcrossing cards out of their album as the nasty little mice had eaten the edges of the album, then crapped all over it. I’m just saying, coz I know you’re interested. Anyways, I might shuffle through and get some Finnish Stamps scanned for you. Because I care.

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May

2010

*cough cough sneeze*

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I’ve been laid up with a nasty cold (I’ll pause here for your unprompted sympathy) and therefore haven’t visited a mailbox in a few days. Today I managed to not only dress myself like a proper adult, but to leave the house and so I mailed the following cards.

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This one went off to the USA for a homeschooling family who wanted to see some culture. I love sharing our native art with the world, I think it’s spectacular and I was more than happy to send this platypus over to show off a little of our culture.

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The phrase “I would like to see native animals” in a postcrossing profile always enhappies me, mostly because I buy so damn many native animal cards (I’m a sucker for the cutes). This one is off to the Ukraine.

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This one is off to Thailand, with the usual information that these gorgeous beaches can’t be used for swimming. For 6 months out of the year, there’s too many jellyfish and for 12 months a year there’s too many crocodiles. There’s actually a lake set up in Darwin which uses filtered seawater for people to swim in. The filters prevent jellyfish, and it’s too far inland for the crocs to want to play in it. I’m nothing if not long windedly educational.

Also going out today were 4 RAK cards, which I’ll post when they arrive to their various peoples.

I’ll catch you up on the incoming tomorrow, I am fading. FADING. Send soup!

25

May

2010

Oh hullo

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I’ve been lazy, I do so apologise. Where am I at? Well, I’m about 7 cards off having my Postcrossing sending limit increased (WHOOT) and I’ve had some gems incoming over the past couple of days.

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From Thailand this card shows the Royal Barge Ceremony, an event that’s been happening for more than 700 years!

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From Brazil. Now, this one got wet in transit, but I like when things happen to cards as they travel (I don’t know why). Check out the buildings! Are they not gorgeous? I shall tell you, they are.

I’ve sent a fair few over the past little while, so I won’t post them all, but I wanted to show you this one:

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It’s from the Elliot Erwitt set I reviewed earlier and is off to Belarus for a couple who want romantic cards. Did I do good or did I do good? (I did good).

If you’d like to see the others I sent and received you can poke your face at my Flickr set.

21

May

2010

Antebellum

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When you think about your friends, it’s easy to remember the easy times, the fun times. Thinking of the late nights watching horror movies and talking until the sun came up, or spending all day playing cards and watching the same 6 episodes of Transformers over and over again. However, you friends, your true friends are there for the good and the bad.

When I think of my friends, I think of long nights at the hospital with my mom. I think of sobbing in bed at night and the only people that could help me feel normal again being thousands of miles away. When I think of my friends, I think of how much love they have give to me… and how much I don’t deserve it.

I’m not the nicest person, or the most generous, and definitely not the most eco-friendly… but these people love me no matter what. When I am sad, they cheer me up. When I am angry, they calm me down. And when I try and leave the house without pants on, they stop me. Well, they would if we all lived in the same house, anyway.

This past week and a half has been a roller coaster of emotions. My husband’s car is a total waste of machinery, so we had to buy a new one. Goodbye, money. The summer semester started, and the work load is almost too much. My best friend gave birth to one of the most beautiful babies I have ever seen… and all I want to do is pick up the phone and gush to my mom how gorgeous he is. But I can’t, and it makes me sad.

My friends know this, and somewhere deep down I know that Matt knew this, too. He might have sent these 2 post cards quite some time ago, but they came at just the right time. Opening my mailbox to find a super adorable polar bear one day, then the BEST pun of all time (the back says “let’s cuddlefish!”) the next brought a smile to my face that hasn’t been there for awhile.

And that’s what friends are for. To further your addictions, and make you smile when nothing else can.

18

May

2010

Review: Andy and Elliott

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I like to buy postcard books and packs, simply because they tend to be pretty good value, and they add a nice variety to my stash. So I figured, why not talk about those? So I am. Let’s start with Andy.

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Title: Andy Warhol: Men.
Price: US$9.99
ISBN: 978-0-8118-4377-5
What you get: 30 standard sized postcards, no image repeats, with a matt finish in a cardboard sleeve.
It has to be said, I’m not really much of a Warhol fan. I tend to think his “best” and most applauded works are a bit over-rated. Having said that, the art works in this pack are pretty interesting, and I hadn’t seen most of them before. As the title suggests, all 30 cards are of men – either drawn, painted or photographed. Out of the 30, 9 include explicit nudity and three are borderline. So for postcrossing, perhaps not the best pack to get as there’s not often an excuse to send a penis to someone.

My favourite cards in this set are the drag queen ones, I think they’re really well photographed. The drawings I could take or leave, but again that’s probably just because I don’t adore Warhol like I probably should.

Overall: Considering that one third are “unsendable” (though of course it depends on what you personally want postcards for, you saucy minx), I would skip this pack. I wouldn’t have bought it if I’d known better what was inside, not because I’m a prude but because of the ones that will sit in my stash for ever.

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Title: 50 Postcards – Pictures by Elliott Erwitt
Price: $22.95 RR (got mine half price)

What You Get: 50 A5 sized postcards, 25 different black and white images with a low gloss finish in a flip lid box.

I love these photos very much indeed. From the bizarre to the cheeky, they each have a little shine of fun. The cards are huge, which might be a problem for who you send it to if they store in albums, but they’re gorgeous. Two of each photo means you can keep one and send one (which I’m doing for some of these) and they’re large enough to frame and display if you want to. Beautifully captured moments of life.
Overall: Buy this box. Especially if you’re tired of sending tourist postcards, or if you just enjoy photography. Sadly the image on the top of the box (the little boy on the back of the bike) isn’t actually in the cards but nevermind, these are gorgeous through out and make a unique addition to your stash. Go buy this box!

14

May

2010

One in all in.

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I haven’t SENT a postcard in ages, I’m beginning to wonder if I’ll remember how. However, I hit the mother lode today with incomings!

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From China, a hand drawn card in response to the drought over there.

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From Lithuania, I think it’s an ad card actually but am not sure.

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From Finland. I’m still amazed at how popular Postcrossing is in Finland. I know some people complain about getting “too many” Finnish cards, but I love them, it’s a beautiful country.

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And from Spain, this festival photocard, which is lovely to bits.

Swap Bot Haul today was just the one, but it’s a fantastic shot.

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From Doskie, thank you m’dear. One day I hope to be as much a great photographer as the person who took that shot, who is not named.

Everyone cross your fingers that some of my Postcrossing sent cards arrive soon so I can send some more!

11

May

2010

Artist Profile: Stephanie Izzo

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While vacationing in New York City, I saw wondrous things! It really is a magical place, full of people and hopes and dreams. It’s also full of bums, trash and hipsters… but that’s not the point.

As my husband and I waited in the airport for our flight to board, we meandered through a few of the shops. In one of the book stores, the first thing that caught my eye was a big, gorgeous 6.5″ by 4″ post card of this photo:

Words cannot describe how I felt. It was simply, gorgeous. The card was big, the picture beautiful… I had to have it.

I also had to have one each of the other 20-ish cards. Upon my return home, I searched for the artist. Her name is Stephanie Izzo and she is amazing! Here are some of the other cards I brought home.

Her photography captures the real essence of the city. The colors, the richness, the glow. Honestly, there’s nowhere like it- and Stephanie knows that.

Check her out at: http://www.stephanieizzo.com

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May

2010

Catchup!

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Since neither Angela or I wanted to bump the contest post off the top of the page, we refrained from blogging for a bit. This means there’s a TON of backlog for me to post.  The most best fun part of this week was Friday when Papa checked the mail for the first time in about 4 days. I was showered – showered – with mail and it was awesome.

Since there’s so many cards from the past couple of days, I’m just going to lump them all in 2 blocks, so you can see them. As always, close up scans are viewable at my flickr stream. I was going to say “More information available…” but.. there isn’t. I hardly post any info with my cards. Lazy or minimalistic? You decide!

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There was also a repeat of the Barron Falls card from earlier, which you remember because you come here every single day right? Right??

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And that’s that! I suspect Angie shall have a thing or two to share with you, and unless I have another postcrossing card to send tomorrow, there will be a new vintage card up for your greedy little eyeballs to feast on.

In other news, where the hell did all my stamps go? I just bought some! Sheesh.

02

May

2010

Outgoing Quickie

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No incomings on a Sunday, but a couple of outgoings. The first is for Swap-Bot for the Blind Postcard Swap. The idea for this one is to reach into your postcards randomly and pick out a card with your eyes closed. So I did, and this is what I pulled out:

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It’s from the Acme Climate Change Action Kit, hence the message. It’s off to Evieroz in the US.

Second outgoing today is for Postcrossing and is off to George in China. He likes coastal or beach scenes, so I hope he’ll like this one from Queensland.

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If you peer closely, you might see someone on the beach. Squinting: it’s fun!

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