Love without rules

Postcard ID: UA-1393619
Country: Ukraine

Here is quite cute card, it's like an illustration to Madagascar movie :)

Also is discovered a new artist's name for me - Natalia Maroz.

Here is a quote from her website:

Reading and drawing have always been my passions and my particular love for poetry had a great impression on my work. I treat a line in a linocut as a line in a verse - both should be sharp and precise. Like a short piece of poetry can say more with less words than a long novel, a graphic image, laconic and powerful, can convey much "on a limited budget". Uniting strong concepts and expressive graphics, I create visual metaphors with multiple layers of meaning

Architectural ensemble of Mykhailivskyy gold-topped cathedral

Postcard ID: UA-583299
Country: Ukraine

This is a beautiful postcard from Kyiv, Ukraine. This card shows architectural ensemble of Mykhailivskyy gold-topped cathedral. It is one from the most interesting landmarks of Kyiv.

Unfortunately, ancient cathedral was not saved, so cathedral from the postcard was rebuilt and opened in 1999. It was originally built in the Middle Ages by Sviatopolk II Iziaslavych.

 I saw this Cathedral when I visited Kyiv in 2008. It's a really nice place with unique atmosphere. Recommend to visit :)

Here are stamps from different series (Definitive Issue 2007 and 2009, Flora 2012):

Come over!

Postcard ID: UA-955902
Country: Ukraine

Oh, I have a story regarding this postcard. Some months ago I received a postcard without Postcard Id, but with name Nastya and with user name. I used Postcrossing search to find Id for the card that was sent to me by Nastya from Kyiv. Id was found, I registered a postcard and found out that user name is another than on the card.
So the I found a user by user name, sent a message to her. And found that this girl sent me this card not through postcrossing, I gave her my address on another resource! But postcard was already registered...

Some weeks after that I received postcard from this post. Again without Postcard Id. And again from Nastya from Kyiv. So I decided that this is right card. Postcrossing Search could not help me to find the correct Postcard Id due to lack of the info..

Domestic cats

Postcard ID: UA-1213281
Country: Ukraine

I like cats and after receiving this card I want to have one, especially black cat :)

Here is some official info:

The domestic cat is a small, usually furry, domesticated, and carnivorous mammal. They are often called a housecat when kept as an indoor pet, or simply a cat when there is no need to distinguish them from other felids and felines. Cats are often valued by humans for companionship, and their ability to hunt vermin and household pests.

I think that everyone know who is a cat :)

Here is a Ukrainian stamp:

Roman Zozulya, a Ukrainian football striker

Postcard ID: UA-1200514
Country: Ukraine

Finally, we received a postcard for my husband! Thank you, Volodymyr! :)

Roman Zozulya is a Ukrainian football striker, currently playing for Ukrainian Premier League club Dnipro Dnipropetrovsk and Ukrainian national team.

Also this postcard contains amazing stamps with birds:

Blue and Yellow

Postcard ID: UA-1195936
Country: Ukraine

This postcard was sent to me by Tanya from Ukraine. It shows a girl in national costume. Just look at her nails - it has colours of the national flag of Ukraine!

I'm a big fan of nail polish, so like-like this card! :)

Here is a stamp from the backside:

A monument to Bohdan Khmelnytsky in Kiev, Ukraine

Postcard ID: UA-1175383
Country: Ukraine

When I was in Kiev. I saw this monument with my own eyes. Hmm.. maybe, it's a sign that I need to visit this city again :) will think about it tomorrow :)

Bohdan Zynoviy Mykhailovych Khmelnytsky was the Hetman of the Zaporozhian Host of the Crown of the Kingdom of Poland in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth (now part of Ukraine). He led an uprising against the Commonwealth and its magnates (1648–1654) which resulted in the creation of a Cossack state. In 1654, he concluded the Treaty of Pereyaslav with the Tsardom of Russia.

Here is one more Ukrainian stamp with leaf:

Happy colours of Ukraine

Postcard ID: UA-1168745
Country: Ukraine

Here is a traditional greetings card from Ukraine. It seems that after looking on it I should go to Ukraine as soon as possible :) but actually I want to visit Belarus's neighbour.

I like this country, its colours and patterns.

Also I see here a new Ukrainian stamp! It's quite big, beautiful and interesting:

Life is beautiful

Postcard ID: UA-590303
Country: Ukraine

 I like reading. And the sender also likes reading. So she sent me this wonderful card!

If you’re quite attentive person you can see that the author of the books on postcard is Cecelia Ahern. To be honest I’ve not read any book of this author, however I have at least 3 books in my wishlist for reading :)

 Life is beautiful!

Butterfly on the hand

Postcard ID: UA-1133732
Country: Ukraine

Here is a great postcard where I see sense of the future. The butterfly sits on the robot's hand. It's like peaceful coexistence of nature, humanity with technique, robots.

By the way, butterfly has great colours! ;)

Summertime from Ukraine!

Postcard ID: UA-625024
Country: Ukraine

If you don;t have ability to go to the sea right now, you cann look on this card and imagine that you are on the beah, collect starfish and hear sound of these. I do it from time to time :)

Pictures like that are great helper ;)

Also back side contains amazing stamps:

Alice in Wonderland by Sir John Tenniel

Postcard ID: UA-1139852
Country: Ukraine

Here is an illustration to one from the famous fairytales! I saw some version of film adaptation, but these illustration haven't seen before. I think that everyone knows about Alice, so put here information about Sir John Tenniel.

Sir John Tenniel was a British illustrator, graphic humourist and political cartoonist whose work was prominent during the second half of the 19th century. Tenniel is considered important to the study of that period’s social, literary, and art histories. Tenniel was knighted by Victoria for his artistic achievements in 1893.

Tenniel is most noted for two major accomplishments: he was the principal political cartoonist for Britain’s Punch magazine for over 50 years, and he was the artist who illustrated Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass.

Swallow Nest, Crimea, Ukraine

Postcard ID: UA-623230
Country: Ukraine

I was in Crimea in 2003. I lived in 2 km from Swallow's nest, so walked to it from time to time :)

The Swallow's Nest is a decorative castle located at Gaspra, a small spa town between Yalta and Alupka, on the Crimean Peninsula. It was built between 1911 and 1912, on top of the 40-metre high Aurora Cliff, in a Neo-Gothic design by the Russian architect Leonid Sherwood for the Baltic German oil millionaire Baron von Steingel.

The castle overlooks the Cape of Ai-Todor on the Black Sea coast and is located near the remains of the Roman castrum of Charax. The Swallow's Nest is one of the most popular visitor attractions in Crimea, having become the symbol of Crimea's southern coastline.

Bijou

Postcard ID: UA-640670
Country: Ukraine

This is absolutely summer time postcard. I like all these beads and bracelets. I'm a fan of bracelets, like to receive is as a gift and to buy in different countries as a souvenir. Bracelets are better than magnets! :)

I don't know why this card doesn't have any likes yet. If I saw this card at gallery of another person I'd like it to add it to favourites :)

Also this card contains beautiful unusual stamps:

Horsewoman by Igor Filippov

Postcard ID: UA-1068198
Country: Russia, Ukraine

It was really surprise to find this card in an envelope with beautiful stickers.

I am not a fan of contemporary art. For me this card would be better without horsewoman, but with Eiffel tower :)

Igor Filippov is Russian artist, who was born in 1961 in Sevastopol. He graduated from Sevastopol children's art school and later studied at St. Petersburg on the art-graphic faculty of Pedagogical University.

He has lived and worked abroad, primarily in Scandinavia. In 2008 he showed interesting exhibition by Scandinavian, Russian legends and myths of the Soviet era at the Ukrainian/Russian gallery "Green Pyramid".

Each of  paintings "Trip to Paris" is a small story about Paris, the city of love and dreams, a city familiar and unexpected. Each person has his own Paris. This card shows Paris of Igor Filippov.

Ukrainian national embroidery

Postcard ID: UA-640058
Country: Ukraine

This postcard came to me from Yuliia. She like to embroider so decided to share with me an element of Ukrainian national embroidery. By the way I also like cross stitch :)

As I said before, Ukrainian and Belarusian national patterns are similar, for example, colours, forms, motives. Slavic cultures, yeah :)

Traditional Ukrainian card

Postcard ID: UA-671378
Country: Ukraine

One from my preferences is National clothes? but I receive such cards quite rarely. This one is sent to me from Ukraine. Ukrainian and Belarusian style are Slavic and similar to each other. I especially like female flower wreath with ribbons.

Chocolate with nuts

Postcard ID: UA-1033479
Country: Ukraine

This card came to me from Ukraine and I'd like to say that I like Ukrainian chocolate. The most of all I like just milk chocolate (yes, I know that black chocolate is better). However, I also like white chocolate. Or with nuts. Or almonds, or marzipan, or rum... Yes, I'm a fan of chocolate of any kind :)

Also I noticed here a stamp with letter denomination. I thought that only Belarus has it :)

Potemkin Stairs, Odessa, Ukraine

Postcard ID: UA-755296
Country: Ukraine

It's always wonderful to receive a postcard with place where you were!

The Potemkin Stairs is a giant stairway in Odessa, Ukraine. The stairs are considered a formal entrance into the city from the direction of the sea and are the best known symbol of Odessa. The stairs were originally known as the Boulevard steps, the Giant Staircase, or the Richelieu steps. The top step is 12.5 meters wide, and the lowest step is 21.7 meters wide. The staircase extends for 142 meters, but it gives the illusion of greater length. The stairs were so precisely constructed as to create an optical illusion. A person looking down the stairs sees only the landings, and the steps are invisible, but a person looking up sees only steps, and the landings are invisible. 

Here is Ukrainian stamp:

Ternopil, Ukraine

Postcard ID: UA-765931
Country: Ukraine

Cities in the night look so great! I so like different colour lights on the buildings.

Ternopil is a city in western Ukraine, located on the banks of the Seret River. Ternopil is one of the major cities of Western Ukraine and the historical region of Galicia. It is served by Ternopil Airport.

The city was founded in 1540 by Jan Amor Tarnowski as a military stronghold and a castle. 

After World War II Ternopil was rebuilt in typically Soviet style. Only a few buildings were reconstructed.

Since 1991 Ternopil has been a part of independent Ukraine, along with other cities of western Ukraine. Ternopil has became an important center of Ukrainian national revival

Here is one more Ukrainian stamp: