Cookies from Russia

Postcard ID: RU-2436511
Country: Russia

Only yesterday I wrote that no cards came to me this week and today I found even 3 cards! And all 3 are amazing!

This one is from my favourite themes - sweets. Cookies, chocolate and so on.. send me, send me :)

By the way on Valentine's day I made my home cookies with imagine of hearts on them. It was really tasty. I think I should make it more often ;)

Also here is a stamp issued specially for Olympic Games in Sochi!

Klavdiya Sergeyevna Boyarskikh was a Soviet cross country skier who competed in the 1960s. She trained at Trud Voluntary Sports Society.

At the 1964 Winter Olympics, she won all three women's cross-country skiing events in the 5 km, 10 km, and 3x5 km. She also won three times at the Holmenkollen ski festival with two wins in 10 km (1965, 1966) and one win in the 5 km (1967). At the 1966 FIS Nordic World Ski Championships, Boyarskikh won three cross-country medals with golds in the 10 km and the 3x5 km and a silver in 5 km.

Wedding

Postcard ID: RU-2051023
Country: Russia

As there are no new cards this week, I continue make posts with cards from October. This one also has congratulations with our weeding. It's really nice that unknown people from all the world congratulated us!

Also today we received our printed wedding photos. So now I have real photo almost like on this card. Only there is no ocean. And I did not have bridal veil. And my wedding dress was shorter. And I had red shoes with heels. And I have had another bridegroom. Ohh, I had all is not the same like on the card, but this card is amazing anyway! :)

Chocolate Ideal by Alphonse Mucha

Postcard ID: DE-2749656
Country: Germany

This card was sent to me by Roland. I'm a little wonder as its way took 61 days. Usually postcards from Germany to Belarus take about 14 days.

I like chocolate and all related to chocolate and sweets. So thank you :)

Alfons Maria Mucha often known in English and French as Alphonse Mucha, was a Czech Art Nouveau painter and decorative artist, known best for his distinct style. He produced many paintings, illustrations, advertisements, postcards, and designs.

And this is a part of Deutschland on the stamp:

From Children to Children

Postcard ID: NL-2093055
Country: Netherlands

As far as I understand from the backside of card (it's in Dutch), this postcard is made by children.

When I got it I already associated it with fairytale about little flowers with seven petals.

Girl Jenya got a magic flower. Seven of its petals are seven wishes that she can execute. The girl did not understand immediately that she got into her own hands, and the first six of her desires are fool and meaningless. Only the last petal makes a real good action.

However with the second sight I saw that there are only 6 petals :) 

Minimalistic cats

Postcard ID:  CZ-396679
Country: Czech Republic

To be honest I don't know if these are cats or dogs. It looks like dogs at the first sight, however I think that so long mustache is belonged to cats. Of course, I can be wrong :)

Happy Postcrossing!

Today I would like to show special Postcrossing stamps which our belpost released on 2 January this year.

I have seen 2 articles in postcrossing blog regarding this event :)

Also I receive from postcrossing.com the following message with stats:

"Did you know that on January 2nd, Belpochta launched a new Postcrossing themed stamp? Look for it in your nearest post office and start sending your postcards with this special stamp!"

I also have some maxi-cards, like this:

It is really important that our post shows interest to postcrossing. I just want belpost to not raise the prices so often.. However, this is another story.

Love note by E. Gapchinska

Postcard ID: UA-949357
Country: Ukraine

This week I receved some really amazing cards. And this is one from them.

Evgenia Gapchinska is a Ukranian illustrator. I also have some cards painted by her in my collection to send.
As sender wrote on the card "Illustration of Evgenia is already quality assurance". For me this phrase is also valid.

"Ukrposhta" has released a series of 12 stamps 'Zodiac Signs' with Evgenia Gapchinska's illustrations in 2008 year.
However on this card I see another stamps and it's also beautiful:

Tea with jam by Sasha Salmina

Postcard ID: RU-2404051
Country: Russia

I have some cards similar to this one in my favourits. So this card is beautiful and awesome :)

I like cards with jam, with tea, especially during winter time. And I really like painted cards :)

So thanks to Evgenia for my positive emotions!

The backside contains the great quotation "The world is too amazing to sit without work".

Stamps from this card are also amazing:

Rotunda on Levashovskij Boulevard in Petrozavodsk

Postcard ID: RU-2399935
Country: Russia

This is amazing and calm view from Petrozavodsk, Russia. The rotunda is located on the beach of Onega lake.

As far as I understand there was a gazebo (pavilion), the traditional place of citizens, until the ends of 1920th. Then, in 1994 arbour rotunda was rebuilt by architect N. Ovchinnikov. And we can see this place on the card :)

Automate, 1927 by Edward Hopper

Postcard ID: US-2607714
Country: USA

I think I should be ashamed as I haven't known about Edward Hopper before. However here we can see magic influence of postcrossing - it helps to discover the world around us :)

Edward Hopper was a prominent American realist painter and printmaker. While he was most popularly known for his oil paintings, he was equally proficient as a watercolorist and printmaker in etching. Both in his urban and rural scenes, his spare and finely calculated renderings reflected his personal vision of modern American life.

Jihomarovsky region - Blansko, Czech Republic

Postcard ID: CZ-327737
Country: Czech Republic

Here is a nice card came to me from Blansko. Flags from this card are flags of Czech cities.

Blansko is a town in Blansko District in the South Moravian Region of the Czech Republic. Blansko is the biggest town in Blansko District.

Blansko was mentioned first time as a castle in 1136, while a town began to develop near by 1277. After 1766 it belonged to the Salm family, which patronized many artisans and scientists, including Josef Dobrovský.

Blansko today has many factories, including chemical and construction plants. The town is notable for the proximity of the Moravian Karst.

Here are the stamps from card:

Holiday Beach, China

Postcard ID: CN-1071817
Country: China

As a sender did not say anything about postcard, I suppose that this Beach is somewhere in China :)
When I see postcards or photos like this one I think that I don't like city beaches :)  so many people!
I like swimming however I don't like when someone bothers me.

And I think that China has so interesting stamps :)

Stamps - Belarusian cartoons

In addition to my posts about cards received I'd like to save here information about Belarusian stamps which I use.

This year Belpost issued 2 types of stamps which I can use for postcrossing. However in this post I want to show my favourite stamps issued last year:

National Film Studio "Belarusfilm" is one of the leading studios in Eastern Europe with a complete production cycle . It was founded  in 1924 ."Belarusfilm"  is the constant participant of many international film festivals.  

A movie "Pilipko" (1st column, 3rd stamp) by  Tatiana Kublitskaya  was awarded with the highest award of the festival "Golden Slipper" in the nomination "Best Animated Film" at the 53rd International Film Festival of Films for Children and Youth in Zlin (Czech Republic, 2013). 

Elena Pyatkevich with her movie "Snow White and Alotsvetik" (2st column, 3rd stamp) won the Master Award at the XVI International Festival of Animation Films "Animajevka 2013" (Mogilev, Belarus) . 

Glücksburg Castle

Postcard ID: DE-2461474
Country: Germany

Hurray! It's my first maxicard in this blog :)

it was sent to me in October before my wedding, so sender recommended this place for our ceremony :)

I think that this is really beautifule and calm place.

Glücksburg Castle is a castle (Schloss) in the town of Glücksburg, Germany. It is one of the most important Renaissance castles in northern Europe. It is the seat of the House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg and was also used by the Danish kings. Situated on the Flensburg Fjord the castle is now a museum owned by a foundation, and is no longer inhabited by the ducal family. Its board of directors is chaired by Christoph, Prince of Schleswig-Holstein, the current titular duke and head of the House of Glücksburg and House of Oldenburg.

The card was sent to me in envelope, so here is its stamp: