The Basilisk...

... once spread fear in a small town. Luckily Peter, the apprentice baker, could defeat him, so that now the history of the Basilisk, brave Peter and pretty Leni can travel the world.

In other news I have written quite a few letters but haven't gotten around to take photos of them before sending them off.

I hope you are all doing good!

Alles Liebe,
Caddi

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

A few unique and different envelopes

Hello fellow snail mailers!
How are you doing? I am good, I have three letters to send today!
But let me first show you the incoming mail of yesterday....

A letter from my host sister from the US who is graduating from University! I'm so proud :)

 and today:

A letter from Shelby in the US, who found me on sendsomething. She just started a blog, so check it out. I hope I'll see my letter there soon :)

Look at the stamps she used! By the way, I have a question: What's the difference between freedom and liberty? To me they seem very similar!

Coming to the outgoing mail....
This is a letter I already sent out yesterday, but didn't show: The answer to the letter Abbye sent me.

Letter travelling to Abbye.

Now on to the envelopes I made yesterday and today....
This one will be on its way to Jennifer in the UK very soon.

Letter to Jen

Letter to Jen

As always, I tried to match the colors of the stamp to that of the letter...

Next, I thought I'd use part of this map for the reply to Shelby.

Map of Europe

Front of the letter travelling to Shelby

Spring!

I have been looking forward to making envelopes with this paper! It shows colors dancing to music, you can see more pictures here. The colors on this envelope are dancing to the music of Charlie Parker, a song called Ornithology.

Letter to Steph.

Front of the letter to Steph.

Europa-stamp.

So, here you can see the three envelopes together - I really do like them and I hope they'll brighten your mailbox (even if the envelope going to Jennifer is not really bright and colorful...)

Envelopes

What do you think?

Alles Liebe,
Caddi

I need to put my brain back to working...

 ... because it seems I am forgetting everything.

First, I forgot to send the letter to F. last week. Next, I finished two replies and one extra letter last week and forgot to take them with me on friday. I sent two postcards and forgot to take pictures of them before putting them in the mailbox. (Well, at least I did that, right?) And I forgot my cellphone in Berlin. I just hope I am able to get through the next week without lots of chaos :)

Anyways, here are the pictures!

Letters I forgot to send (one is a reply to my grandma, a letter I forgot to take a photo of... (and now I am way to lazy :))

Another letter I forgot to send

Letter to M. which I luckily didn't finish until in Berlin, so I did send it on the weekend.

Letter to M.

I am trying to match the color of the stamps to those of the envelopes... works more or less :)

On Friday, before heading to Berlin, I got two letters! 
One was from Jennifer in the UK,

Letter from Jennifer in the UK

 and one from Stephanie in the USA.

Letter from Stephanie. Do you notice the GREAT stamps?

 And today, when I came back from Berlin, I had a very nice letter waiting for me! Judging from the stamp, I though the letter was from England - but the letter is from Abbye in Northern Ireland. 

Letter from Abbye

I am already looking forward to replying to all those letters! I already started :)

Alles Liebe,
Caddi

(Do you have plans for tomorrow? Respectively, is the first of May a holiday in where you live?)

Mail update!

Hello dear fellow snail mail lovers!
So, how did you like the video? I thought it to be great :)
Well, here's the latest mail! 
This is a letter I got on tuesday from my only German pen pal, L. It was nice hearing from her again!

Letter from L.

I like the stamps which are dedicated to something - like this one, which says "Für uns Kinder". It's a stamp series which exists since 1993, you can see all the stamps so far on Wikipedia. What do you think about them? BTW, they are always for one letter, so you can see that since 1993, the price for sending one letter has increased 4 cents. Not that much.

German Stamp

I finished the letter for F. in Italy, but didn't think of taking a photo before sealing the envelope. I used some of the stickers I got from fellow snail mail lovers :)

Letter to F.

 And here's another German stamp.

The Bavarian Forest, south-eastern Germany

Yesterday I had some incoming mail! Yay!
First, there was this card I got from Laura. I immediatly wanted to have some... tea you think? No, not quite right. Hot milk with honey. :) hehe. That's the drink which puts me to sleep :)

Letter from Laura

And I also got mail from the Netherlands! M. sent me a lovely letter and some postcards.

Letter from M.

 Look at the details! Isn't it pretty?

Letter from M.

Has spring arrived to where you live? 

Take care!
Alles Liebe,
Caddi

Of King Mensah and tape.

I'm back with more mail! 

First, I received two letters yesterday - one is from a new pen pal in Togo. That letter took more than two weeks to reach me! What do you guys know about Togo? (Without cheating, don't use Wikipedia for your answer...) I'm just wondering as I was surprised by some things. 

Letter coming all the way from Togo

Stamp from Togo.

The guy on that stamp is "King Mensah", one of the most popular musical acts from Togo. Wikipedia says about him: "Though based in Lomé, he regularly records and promotes his albums in Paris, and has embarked on several world tours since 2005. Singing in Mina, Ewe, and French, King Mensah's sound fuses elements of traditional Ewe music (Agbadza and Akpessé), and Kabye dance-drum music, with funk, reggae and West African Afropop. King Mensah's lyrical themes are steeped in religion and hopeful encouragement for the orphaned, oppressed and downtrodden."

The other letter I received didn't travel two weeks, but two days! Letters from Jennifer in the UK always arrive so fast, it's amazing. 

Letter from Jennifer

I also managed to get some mail ready yesterday, which I will be dropping in the mailbox in two hours. The letter in the middle is the reply to Jennifer, I used the same paper as yesterday for the envelope. I bought some tape yesterday which is all hearts and stuff like that, I hope you don't mind me using them - I was so exited to finally being able to buy some tape like that that I didn't realize the motive until at home.  Apart from the letter for Jennifer, there also is a reply to the postcard I got from I., a postcard for my goddaughter, a happy-birthday-postcard and a long due thank-you-postcard. 

Outgoing of today

Lovethemed tape - well. I can't write thousands of letters to my boyfriend, so you guys will also get some love :)

A thank-you-postcard that should have been written earlier already...

I like to use stamps which remind me of spring these days, because I want it to be sunny and warm all the time. Sadly it's not. But at least on my stamps there are flowers and bees and lighthouses on sunny days. :)

Stamps

What are your plans for the weekend? Do you have nice weather?

Alles Liebe,
Caddi

The first mail of the day

I didn't have much time the last days, so I only finished one reply I'll be mailing off this morning. But I plan to write more once on the train :) And hopefully I'll have some mail waiting in my P.O. Box for me!
So, here's only one quick picture of the letter going out in an hour to Olivia. My boyfriend brought me flowers yesterday and I decided to reuse the flower-paper. I think I'll be using that paper for mor envelopes :)

Letter to Olivia

I hope you are all having a good time!
Take care and
alles Liebe,
Caddi

A very quick update...

So, before heading back to the library I thought I could give you a short update on my four last sent letters - I had sent a few more, but don't have pictures of thos.


Anyways, here's one letter I sent to M. in the Netherlands,

Letter to M. in the Netherlands

and three more letters, going to the Czech Republic, Italy and the UK. So, no mail crossing the big blue ocean from me this week (until now).

Letters to the Czech Republic, Italy and the UK

Someone said to love flower stamps....

What are your plans for the weekend?


I hope you are all doing well!


Take care and
alles Liebe,
Caddi