Incoming postcards

     After InCoWriMo, Lettermo and Write_On, I got a little overwhelmed with my mail pile and let it sit for a while. I'm in a frantic race to reply to all mail by Monday, August 26th when I go back to school. 8 letters to go.  I'm going to do it. It is said "
     In order to get good mail, you need to send good mail." The other day, I was straightening up the desk where my computer is and I saw my pile of postcards to put away. I realized that, compared to the average person, I get a massive amount of personal mail. I send a lot too, but this pile made me happy. I thought I'd share with you some of the great postcards that I've received just this month. For anyone considering Postcrossing, this is where most of these Postcards came from. (I apologize if I posted a few of these before, I didn't want to scroll through all the posts to check since I don't have a lot of time tonight.)  It's so great to connect with people across the globe in a positive way.I've written where each card is from above the cards:

Australia:

Belgium

 

Canada

 

 Remember my vacation from last post? This is the famous "Three Churches" I was talking about. I bought myself this postcard as a souvenir.

 China:

 Czech Republic:

 Finland:

France:

Germany:

 

 

Hong Kong:

Japan

 Khazakhstan:

Luxembourg (And I understood most of the German without needing to look it up!):

Malaysia:

 Russia

 Taiwan

US

 (The Portland card is from a #Write_on  pal.)

 

So, ask you can see, I get a great variety of cards.I have lots of other news to share, some good some not so good. Well, nothing bad,  just a little stressful. I am going to let myself get back to school before writing those posts.

recent postcards

   I know I have not shared my mail lately. I have been slow to log everything. Here are a few cards I have received lately:
From Japan:

 

From the Czech Republic

 

From Australia: (this card changes depending on the angle you're looking at it)

 

From Russia:

 

From Thailand:

 

From Taiwan:

 

From South Korea: 

From China: The card was very shiny so this was the only way I could photograph it without it reflecting too much.

From South Africa:

 

From the US: (Though I think the first one is actually a picture in Belgium?)

   I have a few more that I will photograph and post in another post. I got all almost of these cards through Postcrossing.(The one from Washington DC was given to me by one of my 8th grade students when they traveled there as a class)  If you have not heard of Postcrossing before, I strongly recommend that you check it out here. I have learned so much and gotten so many beautiful cards.

Songlines

  Yesterday I showed you the painted doors of Portugal. Today I discovered Songlines, directed by Rhoda Roberts. I have always found the Sydney Opera House beautiful, but I didn't know that they projected things onto the sails. Check out this video. Can you imagine how cool this would be to see in person?

Cards during vacation

   I received  a lot of nice cards during the time I was on vacation. I plan to blog about my trip next week but I figured I'd do a quick mail catch-up. It was delightful to arrive home to such beautiful cards and kind words. Thank you all! Many of these came from my Penpalling & Letters postcard swap. The others are from family and from Postcrossing.

 P & L from Zsuzsanna in Costa Rica. I also loved the cute post-it notes. I use them a lot. I will probably bring these to school since they are so cute.

 Matt and I just celebrated out 17th wedding anniversary. This was a card our church sent us, which I thought was pretty cool. The text is a Bible verse that says "And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love." 1 Corinthians 13:13

 P&L from Sanja. She is also a teacher. She used an Israel-Deutschland stamp that I have not seen yet.

 An anniversary card from my parents. They also included a postcard and:

 One of my original wedding invitations. Cute touch.

 Check out this cool first day issue from Australia. Thanks Emma. My son David really liked this one too.

 This is from a Postcrosser in Oregon. She was so kind that she sent this card,

 this card and a small envelope of stickers and stamps for the boys. Thanks so much for your generosity.

 Anniversary card from Nana. I totally blame my Nana for my addiction to postal mail.

 P& L card from Fabienne. I love the little sailboats on this card

 From Irek from Poland. I love that I got 2 castle cards with the reflections. Beautiful.

 P&L- From Marie in Canada. This card is so cute.

From  Sam in England.  I wish I lived in a place like this. lol.

From Oksana in Russia. Anyone know what the text says? Cool card, a lot to look at.

Speaking of cool cards, Timmy wanted to send a postcrossing card and the user mentioned that they like strange cards and homemade cards. Timmy decided to make one for her. This is what he came up with. I love it. It is a bird from something Dr. Seuss would've made.

David also got in on the postcard frenzy during vacation. He's writing a friend a postcard- while getting distracted by the television.