Manuela's and Hard Rock Cafe's Birthday

This is the birthday card I sent to my dear friend Manuela, who loves Hard Rock Cafe. Both she and Hard Rock Cafe are celebrating their 40th birthday this year. - To be exact, Manuela was born 6 days after Hard Rock Cafe was founded. :)

My husband and I happened to visit Amsterdam in the beginning of the summer and bought a t-shirt for my son from Hard Rock Cafe there. After coming home and looking at the paper bag I just HAD to make a card of it for Manuela, though it was a bit belated then. 

I succeeded also to buy suitable stamps: they are showing Finnish rock and pop bands from 1980s. They were published already in the beginning of last year, but our post office was luckily still selling them.

I was happy then to hear from Manuela, that she had loved the card! :)   

Letter Booklet to Ilona

This is the letter for Ilona, which I made as a small booklet with a small painting of my garden flower pot.

I made the envelope of a paper bag got from Amsterdam. 

This was the first time I used the stamps which I had ordered of my own pictures of our cat Killi.

Here is the the whole sheet of the stamps:

Mail Connects

We got a new kitten, Sissi, two weeks ago. She and our older cat, Killi, have got along pretty well, but Killi has been a bit reserved. When I now received two packages in mail and gave the empty boxes to the cats, they finally found something to do together!

- Good mail makes everyone happy! :-) 

Purple Coneflower Artistamp

This wonderful card from Elle was waiting for me in our mailbox today! Elle had posted of her Artistamp in her blog earlier http://artofaletter.blogspot.com/2011/06/first-day-of-issue-for-june.html, but luckily I hadn't noticed her posting before receiving the card, so it was such a lovely surprise!

Artistamp is a new kind of mail art for me and I got so happy of receiving the card and additionally learning something new and exciting. 

I also have to try something like this one day! 

Mailbox Surprise

This picture was in our weekend's newspaper: someone had found a bird nest in his mailbox.

- I love to find mail in my mailbox, but I certainly would love to find baby birds there also! 

Marjolein Bastin Letter

Letter together with two beautiful cards by Marjolein Bastin arrived from Elle also a long time ago already.

She apologizes that she hasn't decorated the envelope, but in my eyes she HAS decorated it very beautifully with the lovely stamps and the address label which she had made by using a photo of her favorite rose!

I'm happy she had attached a bunch of these labels so that also I can use them. :-) 

Karel Valter

This card of a painting "Death of a pride" by Karel Valter (Czech 1909-2006) arrived from Ivana.

I'm not happy by myself because of not publishing anything during the whole month, but now I'm happy to be back again. :-)