Incoming mail ^__^

The last two weeks were a bit busy with finishing papers and uni starting again^^

Some of the letters/swaps I received: 

I swapped Pokemon ATCs with an indonesion friend from postcrossing forum ^__^

They are sooooo cute <3

The Pikachu on the back is a food package postcard :D

I started collecting food package postcards with cute characters so this one fits right in ^__^

I participated in the Offers&Request RR and received these cool cards from Detective Conan :D

The one on the left is from the Japan - Other countries Tag. The Japanese are usually very 

fast tagged so I am only able to tag once or twice a year. I especially love the soft pastel colors :)

I think it's made with water colors.

The postcard in the middle is from my postcard pal from Japan. Do you recognize Mr. Fuji.

I love calling Mount Fuji Mister Fuji as he's called Fuji-san in Japanese and san could

 also mean  Mister or Miss. :D

The card on the right is from a Lithuanian friend :D The cat is sooo cute, right? Right :D

And here's a letter and postcard from my new penpal from Japan. ^^

She has a german boyfriend so she also learns german and mixes 

some german sentences with english sentences^^

I was looking for one who enjoys art so I was happy to start a new friendship with her.

And I also received a letter from a penpal in Japan I already write to for about a year and a half^^

I was very surprised when I read some German sentences in the beginning :D

And this is a reply from an america penpal I met through the penpal RR ^^

I also send some replies to my penpal pals:

The postcard is from the Manga 31 I Dream by Arina Tanemura, I like the story so far so I wanted to share something about it ^^ I read in her swap-bot profile that she likes Chai teas so I sent one to try. :)

As she likes cats I send her a roller friend. It is something to roll cables on e.g.ear phone cables^^.


I'll be sending my replies very soon :D

Incoming ^o^//

Recently I'm slowing a bit down with swaps and tags from postcrossing 

and swap-bot to focus on my studies but also on my penpal letters and sending some happy mail to my former classmates ^__^ (but I'll still do some swaps & tags from time to time ^__^)

Last Saturday I received a lovely little package from a japanese postcrossing member, who I tagged for letter paper, memo sheets, washi, sticker flakes and Pokemon postcard and joined a RoundRobin group (for another Pokemon postcard^^). 

She used some cool Doraemon stamps ^^

A while ago I hosted a Pokemon ATC swap on swap-bot and received these three lovely Pokemon:

Plusle, Cyndaquil and Cubone

And I also received a very lovely package from my penpal in the U.K.

The envelopes have very fun colors and design and I really enjoyed reading her letter ^__^

You can see her blog here

Outgoing Mail~

While I was going through my swaps I found some plain brown envelopes
I recycled to make Air Mail tags

One of them I used on this postcard for a RoundRobin on Postcrossing ^__^

And here's another one of the snail mail envelopes I made out of the

Manga pamphlet^__^

I also send out some birthday mail a week ago^__^

She is a member of the Anime and Manga club on the postcrossing forum

I found it more and more fun to decorate postcards and envelopes ^^

I wonder.. how do YOU keep track of friends' birthdays^^?

I'm happy one of the forum's members created a thread in which everyone could post their birthdate :D

Outgoing Mail~

Last week while buying a birthday present for my brother I saw a manga preview 

(advertising) pamphlet and I used most of it for decorating my outgoing mail:

I was amazed by the adorable pictures that I didn't get read all the advertisement 

for new manga but.. oh well, I sure had fun doing the envelopes xD

I'll be uploading the other envelopes when I mail them out ^__^

Also I mailed out a swap to a Postcrossing member ^^ 

Gorgeous incoming mail :D

This week's been a very happy mail week ^__^

In the postcrossing anime subforum I won a lottery held by honzuki ^__^

She send me the three cool anime cards on the laft side inside the envelope with very

beautiful year of the goat stamps. Thank you honzuki!! 

The alice card on the right side is from the Offers &Request RR on the same forum. It is designed by the japanese digital artist Shuu ^__^

I also received an introduction letter from a new penpal from the Penpal RR. 

I'll be writing her back soon ^__^

I received this cute letter from a japanese penpal :D

The stickers are from the anime Youkai Watch^__^

And these two postcards are from my postcard pal in Germany :D

A while ago I sent out a greeting card to a japanese postcrossing member who I became friends with^^

She loves the German soccer team Schalke so I send her two postcards of the team members 

along with the greeting card.

And I received a lovely reply from her together with some anime ad cards :D

I especially like the magician on the left and the two girls on the third card^^

 

And look at the lovely decorated back of the envelope <3

Choooo~ kawaiii ^___^ (Very cute!)

Did you have a happy mail week too^^?

Mini Sticker Haul :D

Heyho!

This week I've found some super cute stickers to use 

for my mail and diary ^__^

And I bought a magazine just because I like the stickers :P

What is your favorite way to pretty up your mail/diary^^?

Outgoing mail February and early march ^__^

Hi there ^__^

I recently haven't uploaded any photos of my outgoing mail so here come most of the mail I've sent in February and early March ^__^

This was a private swap with someone from the postcrossing forum ( I received the Pokemon movie postcard and Pokemon by Shinzi Katoh). The Krtek card is a RAS from me ^__^

I hosted a swap on swap-bot and these are the little guys I sent out ^__^

The Murakami card is an extra as I still had some on stock and my swap partner likes Murakami (the same as me ^o^//) 

I made a private swap (Ghibli ABC ATC swap) and sent this out :)

I sent these two swaps out for Pokmon Gijinka swap :D

It was a lot of fun turning the Pokemon human ^__^

Do you do ATCs? What is your favorite way of doing them?

Penpal letters

Heyho

This month I participated in a penpal RR and this is the first letter I sent to my partner ^__^

I'm quite surprised at how fast it arrived ^__^

I already received a lovely reply from her <3 It was very exciting to read ^__^ 

And I've already written a reply to her and sending it on monday^o^//

The dog illustration by artist Makoto Muramatsu is send by another postcrossing member ^__^

I'll be doing a seperate post dedicated to all the outgoing mail mostly with ATC swaps as not all of them arrived yet ^__^ 

surprise mail ♥

Hi there ^__^

Today I received a lovely letter from a friend currently living in Japan :)

It is a very encouraging letter and I'm really thankful to receive it <3

Right now it is difficult for me to motivate myself so this letter came just in time ^__^

To protect privacy I won't be showing the photo or

 name on the back of it (just in case someone reading this knows japanese^^)

I received some other awesome mail from a new penpal and some other swaps. I'll be showing them the next time. Just wanted to share this happy moment with you today ^__^

Received Pokemon Postcards and ATCs :D

This and last month I did some swaps on swap-bot and postcrossing ^__^

I traded some Inkognito cards with magenta from the postcrossing forum. 

In return I received these cool Pokemon postcards :D

Latios and Latias are my absolute favorite legendary Pokemon so I'm really happy to be able to swap for them ^__^ The other Pokemon card is made by Shinzi Katoh.  

He's a japanese artist and I really love his simple style art :)

Here's a bigger picture of the card:

Isn't the female Pikachu carrying his letter, just simply adorable^^?

Looks like a love letter, doesn't it ;)

And I'm hosting a series of wish Pokemon ATCs and these are the little cuties I received.

They are sooooooo cute! I love love love these ^__^

The stamp fits cutely to the Dedenne ATC, don't you think? 

Do you do any ATCs? What is your favorite topic and medium for ATCs?

Incoming Easter Mail :D

It's been a while since I last posted any updates because I was busy writing a 15-page paper for classes >__<  I still have another paper left but it's not as much as this one ^^'

So.. today I received two lovely Easter themed mail :D

I hosted another "Dress up Pikachu!" swap at swap-bot and these 

are the ones I received ^__^

The theme was St. Patricks & Eastern Holidays.

I'm not a Christian but I find St. Patricks Holiday very interesting

and Eastern Holidays has always been a part of my life 

(not the religious side of it, but I was looking for Eastern eggs in my childhood :D)

I sent a selfmade postcard to the EasternBunny and received a reply!

Yay~!

The reply included two postcards and a letter.

Also! Isn't the rabbit stamp a really cute one? :D

It's Felix the Rabbit who sends letters to his family while 

travelling around the world :D

I have received some more letters and will be uploading them soon^^

Happy Mail Day ^__^

I actually wanted to wait till the weekend to post again, but today I was very excited when I opened the mail box to find 5 postcards and a swap from swap-bot :D

These are the cards I received and swap I received today:

Isn't the Pokemon starter and the Dedenne card totally cute^__^?

They are from a private swap I sent the children's book illustration postcards to. ^_^

The New Year's card is from my postcard pal and the Doraemon card is 

from a RR on postcrossing and the one next to it is from the official site from a

member from Netherlands. ^__^

And this was inside the swap envelope:

The Hajimaron is a card protector sleeve in which the ATC was in :D

It's the first card in the series "Dress up Pikachu!" Cosplaying Pickachu which I host on swap-bot.^^

There was actually also an origami samurai hat but I didn't notice it when I took the photo ^^'

Yesterday I also received the swap to the Ghibli ATC swap :D

Art by Kagaya ♥

Today I received two great cards from a RoundRobin from the postcrossing forum. Check them out:

The colors on the postcard are really outrageously stunning in my opinion :D

I went through my received card and found out that I haven't posted these ones:

                        

I received them through RR or tags on the forum :D

I'm really happy about the card of Dr. Watson from the SHERLOCK series^__^

Martin Freeman is definitely one of my favorite actors^__^

And today I sent out 2 postcards for swap and for my postcard pal:

There's still some swaps I'm going to send out this week so stay tuned :D

Sent and Received ♥

Hello my dear readers ^__^ The last two weeks I was quite a bit sick so I wasn't really in the mood to edit photos of the received cards. But now I am getting better ^__^

So I'm gonna show some of the cards I received in the past :)

This is a swap I received from Swap-Bot. It was a Robot ATC swap :)

She used a pretty cool address stamp (around the bird - that's why I had to edit that out ;)  ^__^

Both cards were part of a RR swap on the postcrossing forum (from different members)

Aren't they cute? ^__^

And these are some swaps I sent out :D

The robot ATC I created for the swap on swap-bot :)

And this is for the ABCs of Ghibli - Letter "K" ATC swap.

Because of postage and lack of time I won't be participating for the other letter ATCs

(except a private swap I arranged with someone).

These are some postcards I have sent last week. The lali card with cows is for the Mew card I received and the other card by Helme Heine is for the same person I'm doing a private swap with :)

I'll be posting more stuff soon as I sort through my received mail.^__^