Milo

This wonderful card arrived from PostMuse.

I like cat's, so already because of that I was happy to receive this card, but also the story of the cat was so fascinating to get to know! 

Milo is the guardian of O'Hurley's General Store in West Virginia. I googled the store and found their facebook wall http://www.facebook.com/pages/Shepherdstown-WV/OHurleys-General-Store/55899122199?v=wall where also are pictures of Milo.

I would love to meet Milo!

Japanese Proverb to Japan

This card is of a drawing by the very well known Finnish children book illustrator Rudolf Koivu (1880-1946).

I felt the card was very suitable to be sent to Miwa in Japan, because the text on the card says: "No road is long with a friend - Japanese proverb".

English Hare to Hsin Yi

We were in Edinburgh, Scotland in summer, and there I found a nice paper shop Paper Tiger. I liked a lot this hare card, and because I know Hsin Yi likes hares, I bought the card for her. I hope she likes it, too!

As a postage I used one of these vegetable postages, which can be customized with stickers as funny ones. I posted about these earlier http://sfimail.blogspot.com/2010/03/vegetable-stamps.html, and then I didn't like the additional stickers at all, but I started to see them in different way, because of positive comments! :)

When I had my fifty years birthday this August, my daughter had got an idea to get a stamp made for me of one of my painting/drawing which I had made to a Swap-bot envelope http://sfimail.blogspot.com/2010/02/mail-me-decorated-envie-2.html. I like the stamp and I like to use it by adding some color to the stamping afterwards.

Riga View to Ivana

In September we visited Riga, the capital of Latvia, and I bought this card for Ivana from there.

In old town Riga, there is a Cat House with two black cats on the roof, and I sketched a part of that roof to the back side of the card.
Then I was happy when I found such a suitable postage with a picture of a cover of a book by Finnish author Mika Waltari. Also there is a black cat on the roof!

Letter from Patty

This beautiful letter arrived today from Patty.
Thank you very much Patty, this made me happy!

I have been too busy this autumn, and haven't had time for my dear hobby mail art.
I hope I'll get in speed again very soon! :)

Butterflies and Fairies

This beautiful butterfly card is part of my first letter from Peggy in USA.
I really love the card and the fairy and pet theme in the envelope!

Cormorants

Hsin-Yi sent me this card with a very harmonious picture of playing cormorants.

The bird theme continues beautifully also in the stamp.