New mailbox, new adventures

Hurray! We've got a new mailbox! Not yet "working", but still a new mailbox. A few days ago I mentioned that our new house is being built, and of course buying a new mailbox was a must. Unfortunately there are not many options out there (at least not here) so we had to decide between one of the plain black boring and dull options, or something more elaborate with a bit more design. There were no doubts on this point.

So here it is, our brand new mailbox. The design itself is not that special at all (you can see them regularly on the streets of Buenos Aires), and we were hoping to find something similar... but unique. Anyway, after several visits to the store, we are now totally pleased and happy with our purchase and I think it will look perfect. To be honest, I had always dreamed about having a beautiful big mailbox with a pigeon on it. For my non Spanish speaking readers, the words on the front mean "letters" (cartas) and "mail" (correo).

It will probably be put in it's place this week, but I still need to wait until early 2015 (hopefully) for us to move and start receiving my mail in this beautiful aluminum alloy piece of art.

Were you able to choose your mailbox? Are you happy with the one you have?

Bookworm

marja2006 | Finland | Jul. 2008

Wow... time has really passed since the last time I've been around. Again, I'm sorry but I've been busy. Really busy. My daughter was born (happiest day ever!) and although we really had it easy with her, being new parents is not easy. Besides, I really wanted to seize the moments I could spend with her before having to get back to work (which happened around two weeks ago). On top of that... our new house was being built, and that definitely brought us a LOT of work to do. And if I think about it, that was really the most stressful part of all these past months. 

Of course I'm still a mom, and my house is still being built (it seems this will take forever), but now I'm motivated enough to keep on writing. I don't know if I have already said this, but I love literature. I also find books to be really beautiful objects, and that's why I'm very keen on book-showing postcards like this one. Can you read the name of Jules Verne on these books? Don't you love that?

I've been thinking about a literature blog for quite a while. But it was always "what if...", "what about...". So now it's time to put all those second thoughts aside and give it a try. If you are interested and willing to share your thoughts on my new project, please visit www.comasycomillas.com (written in Spanish).

Do you have your own blog or website where you share you postcard passion?

Baby on board

monnakikku | Estonia | Apr. 2010

I'm sorry for being away these past months, but I had a good reason and I'm coming back with great news: we are having a baby girl! There are no words to express how happy and excited I am. As you can imagine, we've been very busy, although we still have a long way to go (baby is expected to be born the first week of December). Now that I'm pregnant everything looks cute to me, all movies make me cry, and I can't help smiling even on rainy days. This is by far the best experience of my life. And I guess this is just the beginning!

Anne Geddes' cards have never been among my favorites, but I still wanted to have at least one of them. So this is that one in my collection, and it was the perfect moment to share it with you.

What do you think about these cards? Do you have some of them in your collection?

Hello world... once again

Wow... it's been over a year since my first and last post here. That wasn't what I had in mind for this space, but life got in the middle and kept me too busy to start sharing all the great cards I have received. If you are wondering why I'm back, that's just because a good friend of mine has recently spent his holidays in Europe and decided to bring me a lovely pile of postcards! I was so thrilled that my postcrossing love arose once again together with my will to share my collection in this blog. As a sign of goodwill, and just to get started, here's one of my official sent cards, which seems to be very popular among other postcrossers around the world.

Did anyone ever get this card?

Hello world!

So, here it is: my own postcrossing blog. A project I've been wanting to work on for a very long time now, but that I've been delaying for several reasons. First of all, I didn't have much free time. In fact, I still don't have much free time, so that shouldn't actually count as a valid excuse, but I just felt that this was the right moment to start working on this blog. Funny thing? I haven't been postcrossing lately: not because of lack of interest, but of lack of budget (sadly, postcrossing isn't as cheap as I would like it to be). So maybe this is just a way of replacing my empty mailbox with memories of the great cards I received over the last 3 years.

The second reason for this project to be delayed was the little confidence I had in my English skills (I'm not a native speaker and I never considered writing this blog in Spanish). Again... this fact hasn't changed. What's different now? I convinced myself that I had to give it a try. I'm sure there may be times when I won't be able to say exactly what I want to, or that grammar or spelling mistakes may appear. I'm a Spanish proofreader, so I know how annoying this might be: my apologies for that. Feel free to let me know if any mistakes show up and I'll be happy to correct them.

Welcome and thanks a lot for joining the postcrossing adventure!