Monday 31 December 2012

Happy New Year!


This extremely beautiful card arrived today from Lieselotte. 


Stamping is also beautiful, 


as well as the backside of the envelope.



Sunday 30 December 2012

Merry "Killi Cat" Christmas to PostMuse


This card I painted to PostMuse bys using our dear cat Killi as inspiration.


Thursday 27 December 2012

Christmas Cards on the Wall


I've used the lovely fasteners masking tape from Teippitarha to fasten the received Christmas cards on our kitchen wall. - This tape is definitely my favourite at the moment!

Wednesday 26 December 2012

Solstice Card from Gillian


Gillian sent me this beautiful card made of a picture of her painting.


This lovely English Christmas postage was used on the envelope, and post office had forgotten to stamp it. :)

By the way, Bree has made a nice posting of different Christmas postage in different countries.
Take a look here



This again is the card I had sent to her earlier.
I used a peony as an inspiration to paint this.


I decorated the envelope with a clipping of my Mary Engelbreit page a day calendar.



Tuesday 25 December 2012

Merry Christmas from Ivana


This lovely self made Christmas card arrived from Ivana.


Beautiful stamps again on her envelope!

Monday 24 December 2012

Merry Christmas!


Our dear cat Sissi in a Christmas card I've made

Sunday 2 December 2012

Happy Advent Sunday!


Gracie in blog gracie bella butterfly arranged a Christmas card swap and this is what I made to my swap partner Claudia.
I painted the card according to my old favourite Christmas card which I received when I was six years old year 1966.  


I used Christmas stamps from earlier years. 


Sunday 25 November 2012

Vintage Paper Letter



This beautiful letter arrived from PostMuse.


She had used lovely vintage paper to make the envelope.


Sunday 7 October 2012

Chicken Card to Ivana



I sent this old-fashioned looking chicken card to Ivana.


I added a small decoration with pen and watercolor.
You can decide by yourself whether the decoration is a variation of the flower in the stamp or chicken footsteps. :)

Monday 24 September 2012

Water Colour Flowers to PostMuse


This is what I painted as a card to PostMuse.


I used a picture in a magazine to decorate the envelope.



Saturday 15 September 2012

Name Day Card from Ivana


This beautiful art card arrived from Ivana in Czech.
She is really amazing: she is very interested in Finland and Finnish language and she even new it is Sirpa's day  today in the Finnish calendar!


Lovely stamps.


This is the card I had earlier sent to her: a Moomin card with an attached Moomin reflector.



I decorated the envelope with a marker and added Moomin stickers. 

Wednesday 12 September 2012

Moomin Letter from Bree


This lovely Moomin letter arrived from Bree in Malaysia.


She had decorated it so beautifully all by herself.



Also the envelope has Moomin figures drawn by her.



She had also attached this beautiful first day card.


Monday 3 September 2012

Bougainvillea to Bree


This is my latest letter to Bree. I used a bougainvillea photo taken in the beginning of this summer in Split, Croatia, and added some water color.


In Bree's blog you can see how beautifully Finnish post had stamped the postages I used on the envelope.

Sunday 2 September 2012

Finnish Card from Ivana


This is a very special card, my Czech friend Ivana sent it to me from Finland when she was visiting her friend here in Oulu!


Sunday 26 August 2012

Mailbox in Fiskars


This slope installed mailbox was found in Fiskars village.
In Fiskars situates also one of my favorite cafes, Petris Chocolate Room.
There is a picture of a small detail of the cafe in the post http://pictopical.blogspot.fi/2012/08/in-cafe.html in my photo blog.

Monday 20 August 2012

Snail Mail


This is a snail in our garden, which unfortunately didn't have any mail for me. :)
Instead it is here to tell about my new photo blog where also it shows up.

Welcome, take a look at http://pictopical.blogspot.fi/

Every new visitor is a big gift 
and a new follower even a bigger one. :) 

Sunday 19 August 2012

Birdhouse Card


This card I made of a color handled photo taken by me of a birdhouse on a beautifully flowering tree.


To the envelope I used water color and air mail stamping.

Wednesday 15 August 2012

Birthday Card


My birthday is today and this is the beautiful cross stich birthday card Ivana sent to me.
Thank you so much Ivana! 


The stamps are great, also the valueless ones, especially the peacock feather!


Saturday 11 August 2012

Stonehenge


These are the beautiful paintings by Gillian which I received in a letter from her.
Thank you so much Gillian!




I love these English queen stamps.

Wednesday 25 July 2012

Photo Card and Photographing


This is my latest card to Gillian.
I had taken a lovely photo of our dear cat Sissi wondering the classical Finnish Aalto glass vase and made a card of the photo.

I have always loved photos and photographing and finally started now a photo blog.
Please take a look at Picture of the Day here http://pictopical.blogspot.fi/


Wednesday 18 July 2012

Stamp Letter from Bree


This wonderful letter arrived from Bree in Malaysia.


She had used Malaysian stamps and added a compatible drawing.


What a lovely idea and result!




She had attached this beautiful Malaysian first day card.

Thank you very much Bree! :)