Burning lantern

Postcard ID: RU-3188208
Country: Russia

Now there is no snow in Belarus. But I like snowing winter :)

So this card shows perfect picture of winter still life. Hmm.. it's a god idea to paint this card :)

Happy New Year!

Postcard ID: TR-208220
Country: Turkey

Here is so beautiful winter postcard! This year we don't have so much snow at the current time (that's unusul for Belarus), but I so like when winter looks like on this postcard. It gives us special winter and Happy New Year mood :)

Here is a Turkish stamp:

Happy New year!

Postcard ID: FI-1957714
Country: Finland

Here is one more card about winter and New Year. All these cards bring me happy mood and expectation of something good :)

Wish you all the best in upcoming New Year -2014!

Here is boy with trees from postcrossing stamp:

Children on a sled by Josef Lada

Postcard ID: CZ-364317
Country: Czech Republic

This is one more card with winter theme. It's painted by Czech artist Josef Lada.

Josef Lada was a Czech painter and writer.

He is best known as the illustrator of Jaroslav Hašek's World War One novel The Good Soldier Švejk. He produced nearly 600 cartoons of the Švejk characters, depicting Austria-Hungary officers and civil servants as incompetent, abusive and often drunk. All subsequent editions of Švejk used Lada's illustrations, except for the 2008/2009 Czech edition illustrated by Petr Urban.

Born in the small village of Hrusice in a cobbler's family, he went to Prague at the age of 14 to become an apprentice binder. He loved to draw and paint. Entirely self-taught, he created his own style as a caricaturist for newspapers, and later as an illustrator. He wrote and illustrated the adventures of Mikeš, a little black cat who could talk.

Lada produced landscapes, created frescoes and designed costumes for plays and films. Over the years he created a series of paintings and drawings depicting traditional Czech occupations.

He won the Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis in 1963. The asteroid 17625 Joseflada has been named after Lada.

The Czech stamp is:

Happy New Year!

Postcard ID: RU-2242689
Country: Russia

New Year is coming... And I've started to receive cards with the appropriate themes. This one was paint by soviet artist V.I. Zarubin and was popular in USSR time. I think that I can try to find similar cards in our home. However I'm really glad to receive a part from my childhood :)

The stamp is also nice:

And I would like to show an envelope from these senders (they are Svetlana and Egorm students from St. Petersburg):

The inscription in the bottom says:  "A butterfly, cactus and chocolate.. You are like it =)". Yes, I like it so much :)

Winter Is Coming

Postcard ID: RU-2155633
Country: Russia

Winter is coming to our country. I like this season of a year despite the cold. Of course, a snowman is one from the most known symbols of winter. I like to make snowmen, or build a castle from snow, or playing snowball with friends. Or just ride with ice slide :)

Now I wait for many cards relating to winter or New Year themes.

Here is the Russian stamp: