Playing With Postcards

It's a toss-up, do I write some postcards to my postcard collecting friends, or do I play with fabric.  Obviously I picked neither since I am here writing to all of you!  And thank you for taking the time to read - is this one of your 30 minute sessions?

Since I was a young girl I have loved postcards.  Usually getting them in the mail is best method of collection, but there are a couple of other ways to build up a stack of these long used pictorial memory keepers.  I like to buy them on vacation.  Often the pictures on postcards are much better than anything I would be able to take and usually at an angle that I would never be able to accomplish.  Many times friends have also given a postcard or two to me from a trip they took.  This is a neat way to gain a few for the pile since usually the giver will tell you all about their trip and what the postcards are about.

For many years I stopped collecting because I didn't have anyone to send them to me or bring them home from their various vacations.  I continued to buy my own on vacations, but my mailbox was sadly missing something.  More recently my passion for postcards (and mail) was revived when I was introduced to a postcard sharing website - Postcrossing.  All I can say is WOW!  What a fabulous interface the Internet has brought us travel dreamers!  If you are a postcard lover, you'd better check Postcrossing out for yourself!

In an effort to keep my mailbox happy, and settle the travel bug within me, I would like to propose a postcard exchange right here.  If you would like to share a postcard with me from your local region/city/country, I would love to hear from you!  If you include a return address, I would be happy to send a postcard in return.  Please email me (through my Blogger profile or by looking for my email address beneath the caricatures of Chloe our pooch and I in the right column) or leave a comment here and I will send you my mailing address.  If you leave a comment to send/receive a postcard, make sure there is a way to contact you in return by providing your email address or ensuring your Blogger profile settings have the "sharing" turned on!

Also, please take a moment to check out the new postcard page I have added to my blog by clicking on the link at the top of the page under the header image.  Now, do I go and fondle more fabric, or play with postcards?  Hmmm, maybe the dishes are calling me instead.  Oh well, play time will come later I guess!