Gotta love parrots!

I've had a very sad mail week - yesterday I didn't get anything in the mail (I don't know about today as I haven't been to my mailbox), so that makes a total incoming of one letter this week :( 

But I did write some letters today and yesterday.

First,  three more first letters which will be going out on monday.

First letters

stamp which will bring my letter to Sri Lanka.

Stamp which will bring my letter to the Philippines.

Stamp which will bring my letter to Indonesia - I really like this one!

I also decided it was time to send another Wally-Postcard to my goddaughter, so this one will also be going out on monday.

Where's Wally?

Stamp

And finally, my cousin in Argentina is having a tough time at the moment so I thought she needed some colorful mail - what could be better than a bright yellow handbag and lots of colorful parrots?

letter to my cousin.

right, a stamp with colorful birds matching the envelope!

front of the envelope going out to my cousin.

What are your plans for this weekend and for the next week?
I am hoping to receive some mail next week... I miss having something to reply to :)

Alles Liebe,
Caddi

Hello all,
how have you been doing?
I hope everybody is wonderful.
Sadly, I didn't have much mail this week.
On tuesday, I did receive a letter from my very dear friend I know since we both have been to kindergarden together, and from her daughter, who is my goddaughter. I love to hear from them :)

Letter from my goddaugther and her mother

stamps

Of course I replied back as fast as I could :) I want my goddaughter to grow up loving mail, and I think she really is enjoying the letters and postcards I send her - at least she always says so :)

response to my goddaughter and her mother

 I've hadn't had any mail since then, but there are two postcards going out today - yet that we (my boyfriend and I) are not in Berlin to tell our moms how much we love them on Mother's Day, a postcard will do so for us.

Mother's Day cards going out to our mothers

What will your moms get this sunday?

Alles Liebe,
Caddi

First letters

Who of you likes to write first letters? I think it is a pretty hard task - you don't know anything about the other one yet, you don't know if you have common interests, you have to describe yourself.... I cannot say that I like it.

But, what did I do yesterday?

Well, let me see....

I wrote

a first letter to Sri Lanka,

another first letter to Sri Lanka,

a third first letter to Sri Lanka,

a first letter to the Philippines,

another first letter to the Philippines,

a first letter to Turkey,

a first letter to Uganda,

and another first letter to Uganda.

 So, that makes....

a total of 8 first letters in one day. Let's see how many of them will be responded....

Do you guys like first letters?

Alles Liebe,
Caddi

Catch up weekend

So, I did catch up on mail a bit this weekend...

This is what will be going out tomorrow:

Outgoing of tomorrow

First, a second try. Do you remember the great postcard Brittany sent me? Well, I don't know if she ever got my reply so I decided to take another try and made a new postcard to send to her. I hope this time it'll arrive safe!

Postcard to Brittany

Then, there's a letter to my host-sister in the US, with lots of congratulations.

Letter travelling to the US

It may not be for the color - but the stamp does fit to the letter :) Herzlichen Glückwünsch means Congratulations in German

I also finally replied to the letter from Rocio in Argentina. It always is a bit strange to switch from writing letters in English to writing letters in Spanish.

Letter to Rocio

 And the stamp:

Fall-Stamp

I wanted to write to people in other areas than the US and Europe, as I mainly do until now. Don't get me wrong, I really do like all your letters and don't want to miss them, but I thought it might be interesting to write with persons from other continents, too. So I was looking for pen pals from Africa on Letternet and asked some registered girls there for their addresses and two already replied so I also wrote two letters to Kenya. 

The first one is going to N.:

Letter to N. in Kenya

and the second one to B.

Letter to B.

I hope they'll get there safely! I am also wondering how long they'll take to get there....

You may have noticed that I rarely use the priority stamps for letters and postcards inside Europe or to the US - I feel it doesn't really make a difference. However, I hope they'll be of any good on these letters to rather "remote" areas. Do you have any "exotic" pen pals? Or, the other way round, are you an "exotic" pen pal to your pen pals?

The last thing to go out tomorrow is a birthday present for my boyfriends sister. The stamps are not on there yet because even if I am quite sure it'll be 2,20 € my boyfriend wants to check that at the post office tomorrow.

a birthday present

I don't know anything about the weekends mail, as I haven't been to the PO Box, but on friday I got this postcrossing postcard from Belarus. It's pretty good for being a postcrossing card :)

Postcrossing card from Belarus

How was your weekend? Did you have sun? We didn't :(

Alles Liebe,
Caddi