Monday's Mail

How have you been doing? I hope everything is great.

Let me show you the mail of the last days....

Firstly, I sent a reply to LR, with an envelope made out of super cute owl paper. It's actually wrapping paper. (Confession time: I have too many wrapping paper rolls... There are even a few which I haven't even opened yet. I'm such a hoarder when it comes to paper. Are you the same? The thing is, only two designs are for Christmas - which is when I wrap more gifts than any of the other months. Would you be confused if you'd get sunflowers under the Christmas tree?)

A postcard-reply to a postcard I got from Lisa via sendsomething.

And here's the accumulated outgoing of today - plus a package to my brother, which is not pictured here. The letter in the back is for Dil in Sri Lanka and the one on the far left is for my host-mother in the USA. It has been ages since I've been there (8 years actually), but we are still in contact, so I thought I'd send her a card to let her know how life has been for me. The cards (and envelopes) are extremely pretty! There even is a picture of a butterfly on the inside of the flap, so I had a hard time sealing the envelope - thinking she might not see that.

I also received some mail today! A cute Valentine's card from Laura, the text says "Love at it's height.". Ain't that sweet?

Also, another envelope from Sendsomething! This time from Erin. The envelope looks great, the paper is gorgeous!

The envelope was filled with a short letter and lots of paper goodies! I'll send something back in the next weeks :)

How was your weekend?

Alles Liebe,
Caddi

Incoming - postcards

I had thought about posting all of the incoming mail in one big post - but then I figured that that might be slightly too much :) 

So, I will split it up and show you the postcards I received while being away in North America first.

My dear brother happened to spend a few days in Florida with some friends as well - and knows his sister good enough to send her  a postcard :)

Surprisingly enough, a postcrossing card! The user wrote "I'm so sorry that I send this card so late" on the back of it, and apparently she drew my address back in March - but oh well, at least she sent it, right?

This is a picture sent by my cousin, showing Plaza Francia in Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Incredible enough, I heard back from Ivo. He is a postcrossing contact from months back and spent five weeks in Tenerife.

One of my dearest penpals sent me this postcard she bought back in Rome from Heathrow Airport in London

My grandma and my godmother spent a week at the North Sea (in Germany, we have access to two seas) and they sent me this  card :)

A sendsomething card from Estonia

A lovely card from Steph who traveled France this summer! Merci beaucoup!

Of course I haven't been a lazy postcardwriter either - even though all of you will receive your postcards with a letter (ahem...) I made sure to send some back to family and also plenty to my boyfriend from almost everywhere I went. Oh, and also three postcards from Paris last week.

How have you been doing? And do you also have such a pretty september like we do?

Alles Liebe, 
Caddi

Incomings

Hello guys,
Just two more exams to go! One is tomorrow, one is on friday and then from next week on I'll be back to writing letters. Finally!

Here's a quick post on the incoming mail of the last days!

Abbye / Northern Ireland

Jen / UK

Megi / Indonesia

Indonesian stamp

S. / Germany

Such a creative way to send a letter without an envelope!

Anne / USA

K. / Philippines

Has anyone of you ever visited New York or the Niagara Falls and do you have any tips (or do you want to come along (Aug. 29 - Sept. 10)?) or dos and don'ts? I'd really appreciate it!

Also, I'm still looking for people to write a guest post, so if you're interested leave a comment and I'll get to you with the information.

That's all for now, I have to study some more... Just three more days and then on friday afternoon the semester will be OVER! :)

Alles Liebe,
Caddi

Awesomeness in the mailbox!

Dear Readers,

how are you all doing? Well, I can tell you, I already finished 40 % of my exams and I admit to feel a bit exhausted – so that’s why I’m doing this blog post as a “pause” before continuing to study. Luckily the exams of next week won’t be as hard as the ones from this week (this wendesday was Law of Europe where you basically had to know all the cases of the last years – ugh, I truly don’t like law in that way! I like code law waaaay better than case law!) 

Well, now let's get to the mail :)

First, the outgoing:

Outgoing letters on monday: to my godmother and to F2 in Uganda

Outgoing letters yesterday: to Anna and N in Kenya

 Incoming Mail :)

Letter from my dear pal F. in Italy - sent with some stamps :)

A long chatty letter from Stephanie in the USA - also sent with extra (animal!) stamps for me! Thank you!

A postcard from Nia in Indonesia via sendsomething

I won a giveaway over at Jens blog!

I got some pretty stationery :)

And a big surprise - an envelope from Malaysia! Aida, who had won my giveaway sent me a surprise thank you package! Thank you so much! Included:

Hello Kitty Stickers

Airmail stickers. That bird is so cute!

A notebook which I might use as stationery :)

Some memo papers with winnie the pooh.

Stamps! Wow, I'm really spoiled with stamps lately :) Also included were three postcards, but they're not pictured here as I already put them on the fridge and didn't want to take them off again...

Well,
I now really have to get back to study. 

Please do email me if you want to post a guest post :) It would be great!

Alles Liebe,
Caddi

Who could resist?

How have you been?
This week my mail days have been better than the last week :)
You already saw the mail I received on Monday, and the replies to the two letters from Abbye and Jennifer have been sent out on wednesday in the evening - amazingly, the letter to Jennifer already arrived in the UK! 

Letters to Jennifer and Abbye

Well, here you'll have to imagine a letter from Laura in the US, which I got on wednesday and I didn't take a picture of (and just realized now and now I'm too lazy), as well as my reply to her and two postcards I sent out for two guys at sendsomething. Imagined everything? Great :)

Here's my incoming mail of today!

A letter from F. in Italy

As you can see above, F. didn't use a real stamp this time.... but the post got confused with her address label on the back! As you can see, they thought it to be a stamp :)

Cute owl with a stamp cancellation

I also received a letter from Lucas from the US. Thank you!

Letter from Lucas

In order to send the letters and postcards of today, I had to buy new stamps. So, I bought these.

Sorry for the blurry picture...

And then the clerk (at the philatelic counter, of course...) offered me this stamp - now seriously, how could I resist? It shows the Sistine Madonna to celebrate the 500 years of existance. That stamp is HUGE! I don't know if I can bear to send it to someone... Well, I'll have to see.

In comparison to the other stamps... I don't know how you're supposed to get that huge paper on an envelope, yet that the stamp already is envelope-sized...

How have your mail days been? And would you also have bought the stamp?

Alles Liebe,
Caddi

Paris envelopes!

Hello all,
before I start showing you the mail I received yesterday, I will show you two more postcards that went out yesterday together with the other bunch I already showed you.

a postcard to my dad

a happy-birthday postcard

Such a cute stamp! I really like train stamps, and this one is awesome in my opinion :)

On to the incoming mail!
One postcard from the US, which was sent to me via sendsomething. I really do like it and it has a nice message on the back, too!

New York postcard via sendsomething

An incoming letter from Jennifer in the UK. The stationery is really cute! And I like the airmail stickers :) The two on the right are both German ones, but sadly they don't produce the blue and red one which says Luftpost any longer, just the priority one. I liked the older one more.

Letter from Jennifer

The next letter waiting for me was sent from Northern Ireland, from Abbye. She has such a pretty handwriting! And for some reason, this is the second letter I got from her and none of the stamps she used has been cancelled until now... Hm... I already have been thinking of sending the envelope back to that person if something like that happens so that they can use them again, but then on the other hand, I like to keep the envelopes with the corresponding letters :) What do you think?

Letter from Abbye

I also got a big envelope from Aya over at Travel by postcards and letters! She had offered to send envelopes and I saw that she had some Paris envelopes so I said YEEESSSS!!!! I have some pen pals who happen to love Paris, and so do I. 

So, I got this wonderful package yesterday!

Package from Japan

Exitement!

She also enclosed a lovely note, some stickers and a neat postcard! I really do like the colors of the postcard and don't you think the note paper she used is awesome?

Extras

Aaaaaand.... here they are! I got a total of 40 envelopes! Can you believe it? I was so happy glaring at all of them, and to be honest, I don't know if I can send all of them out... I think I'll have to keep some for myself for a bit more time. They are just so pretty :) I'll show you some of my favourites beneath.

envelopes!

Isn't this one great?

lovely!

very very cute!

I really really like this one!

But I did wonder why this statement was on there....

this one is awesome, too!

I love all the things that you can see on the envelopes

This one is very simple but yet so cute!

They somehow make me want to travel somewhere and creating an awesome photo-book afterwards!

Just like this one.

And this one has German writing!

Well, I'm sorry for the picture overload... but I was so exited :) I hope you don't mind ;)

Oh by the way, I was just checking my calendar and realized I don't really have a clue of your birthdays (well, I know some, but not all...). So if you want to be kind, please leave a comment with your date of birth so I can make sure to send you my congratulations via mail :)

Take care!!

Alles Liebe,
Caddi