And she's back!!

Hello Hello!!  It's a bit after 3:00 in the morning here and I have spent my entire Friday night taking pictures and uploading dozens of my received postcards via postcrossing.com. I found one random one to Germany that I never registered.  I have already contacted her with an apology and asked to send her a make up card.  :)  I am sharing a few of my favorite cards here tonight but should you need a bigger fix you can checkout my received postcards directly at http://www.postcrossing.com/user/postcrosseratx/gallery. 

 Please forgive the poor quality of photos on these.  It was my first time taking pics with my iphone and I think I'll stick with scanning from here on out.  

A glittery Hello Kitty postcard from Japan!  When I saw it I thought it would be difficult to top, then I turned it over and it actually had a Hello Kitty stamp!  I love the polka-dotted washi tape at the bottom as a background to the stickers too!  

This postcard is from Finland.  It is a photo from the 1900's taken in front of Stockmann department store.  I just love the entire shot from the vintage color, to the clothing, and the action of the women crossing the street. What a historical treat!

This Albanian postcard is so special to me because it is such a rare country to receive a card from via postcrossing.  This is only the 124th card to ever be sent from the country via postcrossing.  When you realize the thousands of cards that travel in a day via there site you realize what gem this one is!    As of today, there are only 6 members of postcrossing in the entire country of Albania!  There are 39,236members here in the US alone!

 

This postcard came from the next state over but is one of my top 10.  I love the women of the World War II era and this photo of a reenactment is awesome. The hair and makeup of that time was impeccable.  This museum is in New Orleans, Louisiana.   I would love to visit it one day on a vacation.

And so it begins....

This week I joined the wonderful world of  postcrossing.com For years I have collected postcards from my vacations, bookstores, gift shops, as well as my family, friends, and acquaintances.  If I hear of someone vacation my ears perk up and I have no mercy asking pretty much Anyone for a postcard.  It's a fix that a collector can only understand.  That being said, I found the mother load at   thanks to a friend posting a link on her Facebook page.  Thank you, Lauren!  I set up my account and immediately dove in to send as many postcards as possible. Fortunately, they limit you to only five to start. I have the postcards, do I have the postcards, however I do not have the postage just yet.  Tomorrow I will head to the USPS and stock up.  These are the six I started with... Yes, six.   

Wonder Woman was my first card to send to The Netherlands.  I then realized that each of my new contacts have a profile describing what type of postcards they enjoy.  Since I had completed the WW card already I decided to just send it as an extra surprise.  

I read that Jessica's birthday is in February and she loves birds and I had the perfect gift.

My next contact, picked at random would be a member from Singapore who has sent SO many postcards in the last two years.  I figured she gets tons of postcards, so I would send her one of my favorites, a Blythe Doll.  Which also happens to be a current obsession of mine.  I must say, I was a bit sad to see that she had sent so many of the same post cards from her country but then again maybe she got a deal in bulk for the hundreds that go out from her alone! If you want to get lost in postcards, check out the pages of them she has received through the years.   Ashlyn_Lee gallery.  I visited for quite a while and from what I could tell, this will be her first Blythe postcard.  

Next my postcard will travel nearly 6,000 miles to Russia!  This might Alena1972's lucky day.  She like Harry Potter and Hello Kitty.  I have been collecting Hello Kitty for over a decade now.  I made sure to add Hello Kitty stickers to the back of  her Harry Potter postcard.  I just visited his Florida over the holidays. Lucky for her I visited his Wizarding World in Orlando, FL.

My last two are both Vegas postcards, purchased a couple years back when I was there for my birthday.  The card that is on it's way to Portugal is going to a man who likes buildings and architecture.  I came across this post card and thought he might like it if he doesn't have a Las Vegas card already.  I mean seriously, one of the building has a roller coaster! 

My final post card this week goes to Natalia over in Poland .  She happens to like night scenes and well, Vegas certainly has that down!  

After seeing the random nations I was given to send my postcards to, I cannot even guess where mine will come from.  I look forward to sharing as they come in!  

FYI - Click on any of the places and see a map to there from Austin.