Outgoing and incoming Mail :)

Yesterday I received a lovely package from a swap on Swap-Bot.

I already knew the person from the postcrossing forum :)

We have a lot of the same interests besides anime :D

Thank you very much for this great swap Solstice! ^__^

And here are some postcards I mailed out today for private swaps and tags on the postcrossing forum^^

This ATC is the I mentioned some days ago. It is for a Swap on Swap-bot 

(Ice-type Pokemon)

And since I finished preparing all the swaps currently active

I am happy I'm now hosting Dress up Pikachu!ATC #01 - Cosplaying Charizard !

If you like Pikachu and ATCs be sure to not miss this swap :D

Incoming January Mail :)

Happy New Year  :D

The year is already 2 weeks old~ Did you make any new year's resolution? I made the decision to declutter my room from unnecessary stuff and already gave away a lot of things or finally use things I just kept. In that rush I made some Xmas cards :P Obviously the stores are now putting Xmas stuff on sale so I bought some small 3D handmade stickers. But I don't want them to go unused (or lost until the next Xmas), so I just made two Xmas cards yesterday :P also because I guess I will be quite busy next Xmas with my bachelor thesis preparation. But I will be showing them in the next post ^^

Until them I'll show you some of the cards I received in the last two weeks:

The Hello Kitty New Years card I received from my japanese penpal but also 

from the Japan & OC RoundRobin. Both the Pokemon and the Rilakkuma

card are from the Mini Round Robin themed Anime/Cartoon :D It was a very nice surprise

to receive Pokemon New year card on time. ^___^

I received the sleeping fox and the Hobbit fan art card from a RoundRobin and the

Balota card from the official Postcrossing site. The Balota card shows some 

These are cards from Round Robins and one New Year Card from a postcard pal from Japan.

I'm a big fan of Heiji and Sherlock. Wait.. woah! Detective Conan's Heiji is on the same picture as Sherlock Holmes, isn't that great Conan :P? (Though I bet he'd be happier if it was him.. haha xD)

For those who don't know Detective Conan: He's a High School detective who turned into a kid and solves mysteries. And! He's a big big fan of Sherlock Holmes! What a great coincidence ^-^

I'll be quite busy until the end of February, because I need to prepare and 

write two longer essays for classes ;__;

So I guess I will not be sending too many postcards until then, but I'm planning to host an ATC swap on 

swap-bot with the following theme: Dress up Pikachu! ATC- Pikachu cosplaying Charizard

I actually hope to turn it into a series if it is popular enough ^^

It is inspired by the newly opened Pokemon center store in Ikebukuro. On the opening weekend they sold a limited edition Pikachu cosplaying Charizard ^__^ It's sooo cute! But because I don't live there I couldn't get anything with this theme so I thought about hosting this swap^^

I'll be praparing to host this swap when I finished preparing the swap I currently take part in (and also the presentation I'm going to hold at the end of next week >__<).

It will be my first time hosting a swap and hopefully a good time to relax 

during a stressful time of writing ^__^

[Received] and [Sent]

Long time no see ^__^

Just wanted to wish you guys a great switch of years^^

These are the cards I received either November or December but had 

not yet the chance to upload them^^ 

Two of them are from my postcard pal from Japan ^^

The others are from tags or Round Robins from the postcrossing forum.

I also received some great cards from SantaClaus :D

(I've written him a letter and received these cards with his reply ;) )

This is not a postcard but an ATC I received with a swap

on swap-bot :) I'll show the one I made when she received it^^

I received these cards and Pokemon stickers from sylphis :D

Two more cards are hidden on the back of the Snoopy and Hello Kitty card ^^

We send each other Thank you cards, so this is her reply^__^

This is an envelope with a letter I sent to a friend I get to know in Japan but now 

moved back to her hometown^^

Have a great start into the New Year!

.: Mail Art :.

Just wanted to share this video about mail art with you guys:

I think it is a very cool and inspirational video! 

I just love listening to people talking passionately about

things they enjoy doing :) I'm sure I've already watched it a dozen of times 

while doing mail art or cleaning my room^^

It made me instantly do some mail art for friends I haven't met for a while.

I will be posting some of them before the year ends :D

Please visit the site making mail to send them feedback or connect with the artist's in the video^^

[Received] A letter and postcards from swaps, tags, RR

Hi guys :D

It's been a busy month ^__^ I cleaned out two of my closets to look behind them if there's any mold. Luckily there's none. There's a nice side effect to it: I found a lot of stuff I was looking for :P (and sorted out the clothes I don't wear anymore to give away^^)

So here's a new update with some of the recently received postcards and letters:

This card came from a manga/anime fanclub member. Detective Conan is one of my all time favorite anime/manga series, so I was very happy to receive it. She also used a really cool DC stamp: Kaito Kid!

The Pokémon card is from a private swap with a japanese postcrossing member^^ She used really cute stamps and Pokémon washi tape :D Pokémon is another one of my all time favorite anime/game ^o^//

The upper card is from my postcard penpal :) He's from Japan but lives in Germany.

The other card is from a random user from Taiwan received from the official postcrossing page^^

Those are some cards I received from RR I joined/hosted :D

I'm so happy to be able to trade such cool cards ^__^

This is a letter from my penpal from Hokkaido, Japan.

We have been pals for a bit longer than a year :) 

This time she send me some cute note paper, a memo, 

a pen (hidden in the brown envelope :P) and also 

japanese mayonaise to try ^__^

I have received some more postcards, but am a bit lazy to photograph and edit them :P

Next time I'll post the rest I've received in this year :D

[Received] Private Swaps, RR and officials :D

I received wonderful in the last 2 weeks! :D I think I'm in a winter craze for postcards :P

These are cards from the official Postcrossing project:

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This card is from a Portoguese teacher.

Thank you so much for your encouraging words :)

He asked me why I use a Hyena as a profile picture on 

the official site, but I forgot to answer in the Hurray message.

So here's my answer:

I went sightseeing together with a friend in Ôsaka and Kyôto,

and we also found a cute Hyena which I took a photograph of :)

I just think Hyenas are cute animals ^__^ 

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I received this beautiful traditional art card from a chinese member.

Thank you very much!

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This card is from a member from Belarus.

She also sent a ticket from the train :D

Postcards received from private swaps or tags

This is from a postcrosser from New Zealand :) 

Even though I'm not much of a LOTR fan I really like the

Hobbit movie!

Thanks for swapping eevee01!

I received this cute Snoopy card from snow drop through a RR :)

She told me a bit about the character stores in Japan ^__^

I think she used wonderful stamps and well.. stamps :D

I like stamps and stamped images so receiving a card with 

a Snoopy stamp, a Snoopy stamped image and a lovely message

made me really happy ^__^

This is from a Malaysian postcrosser.

I tagged her in the I offer Tag.

I think Malaysia has very beautiful nature ^__^

I'll be showing more cards soon :P

Mail from French Santa :D

Heyho :D
A short while ago I sent an electronic letter to the French Santa through his website:
http://www.laposte.fr/pere-noel/

Today after just a few days have past I already received a letter in my mail box :D

It even has an English translation :D

How about you sent an e-mail too, to Santa^^?