прывітанне з Беларусі

I love this postcard from Olga in Belarus. It's a USSR postcard from 1981 showing a traditional embroidery pattern.

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It is a very bright red in person. I really really want to make this!

She says: "прывітанне з Беларусі"
pronounced: "pryvitannie z Bielarusi"
translated: "Greetings from Belarus!"

Stamps!

Last concert: 30 Seconds to Mars (jealous!)

Book(s): Discworld series by Terry Prattchet - I know, I need to read these!

Thank you Olga!

PX sent on vacation

Here's what happened:
Saturday:
10AM - 4PM: LA Times' Festival of Books

5-7PM: Verizon Store. Seriously, 2 hours.
7-10PM: Last minute packing for trip
10PM drive 1 hour to LAX for red-eye to OMA

SUNDAY:
12:30AM: wake up at gate, everyone is gone. Panic.
12:35AM: realize that flight was delayed and moved to another gate. Phew.
7AM(central time now):Land in Houston, have 5 minutes to sprint to adjacent terminal before door closes to board.
9AM: Land in Omaha, pick up family from church. Breakfast. Shopping. Prepare for Mary Kay party at my sister's house. Have a blast, drive Momma home, drive to sister's, pass out.

MONDAY:
6AM: wake up, pack the car, drive to pick up Dad.
7AM: COMMENCE ROAD TRIP. From Monday to Thursday, we drove to Niagara Falls, then New York City, then home. We slept on Tuesday. On the way, we stopped at Notre Dame, the most beautiful campus I've ever seen in my life, and at Orange County Choppers. What an adventure that was!

So, along the way, I picked up postcards. Here's what I sent:

Indiana postcard to Victorian in Ohio

 

Niagara Falls to Angelina in Belarus

 

Niagara Falls to squirrelinmockow in Lebanon (new!)

 

Niagara Falls to Saintex in France

 

Niagara Falls sent to lucky14 in Poland

 



Can you tell I took pictures of these on the go? :-D

 

 

Niasvizh Palace

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The view of the Entrance Gate of the Niasvizh Palace. Painting by Irina Kotova

 

IRL:

 

 

Another post about a postcard of this palace

 

The stamp:

I love it when postcrossers give me their return address! Then I can tagback:

View of Denver. I bought this postcard at the Denver Museum of Nature & Science over 5 years ago

 

 

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A winter scene from Olga in Belarus:

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I just love the back:

Interesting Architecture, eh?

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Book suggestion: Wicked, it's the best!

1921

This is one of my favorite postcards, and I have waited years to send it.

First Grade Class, Lynn Massachusetts, 1921

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Prosper d'Epinay

I received a postcard from Mila in Belarus, via postcrossing:

stamp!

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Mila is a medical student. She was listening to "The Promise - Secret Garden" whilst writing this card. Mila loves October and Autumn (me too!), classical music and 30 Seconds to Mars.

Strusta Lake - according to the map, this is somewhere near Mila :)

Postcrossing today

to Joachim in Germany:

To Lii in China (a new postcrosser!)

Yves Klein "Saut Dans Le Vide, Paris, 1960

To Thea in the Netherlands:

To Alexandra in Belarus:

New York City, 1982

All sent August 16, 2012

Tree Hugger

 Aleksey in Belarus sent me this postcard back in May:

and she asked me what a "tree hugger" is. But she didn't leave her address!

So I messaged her on postcrossing, and now I can respond:

from the Coca Cola postcard collection

George Carlin

to Helen in Belarus
her friend asked me to send her "happy words"
so I sent her a George Carlin quote:
"Here's all you have to know about men and women: Women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid."