Stamps And Letters: Daily Delivery

Daily Delivery

Postal Pieces(21st) - before I went to Paris last week this fantastic postcard arrived through Postcrossing from Silvia in Stuttgart who took a photo of this historical postbox on a recent trip to Dresden so vielen Dank to Silvia.

Artistamp for today(21st) should encourage you into the kitchen (or the nearest supermarket!) to make/buy pancakes and serve with lots of maple syrup!

Back from Paris and today's(21st) mailart was made over there as you can sort of deduce from the map - a full report on this adventure later in the week!

Positively Postal is away in Paris for a few days so will be back with more daily stamp and mailart deliveries next week plus more on my travels to France! In the meantime here's a little French tower that you may well recognise! À bientôt!

Postal Pieces(16th) - Some more fantastic mailart from Katerina in Greece this time using an old CD.

Artistamp for today (16th) celebrates Random Acts of Kindness day though why just stop at today!?

Mailart for Thursday (16th) has a rather French flavour to it as a group of us mailartists is off to Paris to meet up this weekend!

Postal Pieces(15th) - I received this Valentines themed card from Katerina in Greece today which is lovely so thanks Katerina for that and here's hoping you make it to Paris for the grand mailart gathering this coming weekend, more on that later in the week!

Artistamp for today(15th) gives you a reason to chew a gumdrop or two (as if you really needed a reason!) since it is Gumdrop day.

Image attributed to Steve from Washington, DC, USA.

Mailart for Wednesday (15th) has given these two something to talk about!

Postal Pieces(14th) - I recently asked on Postcrossing for any Valentine's Day themed postcards, some of which I have used in this year's Valentine's Day slideshow and here are three of them in more detail:

This rather unusual but seemingly friendly chap turned up from Finland, sent in by Pirjo who explains that in Finland they send cards to their friends and loved ones since as it is the middle of winter it cheers people up when it's cold and dark!

This card showing two hearts drawn in the sand came from Karen in Germany.

Finally the Be my Valentine cherub on this lovely card was sent in by Inna from Belarus.

Many thanks for Pirjo, Karen and Inna for these great postcards and see if you can spot them in the slideshow!

Today's artistamp wishes you a Happy Valentines Day - did I mention that it was Valentine's Day at all!?

Mailart for today(14th) carries on the St Valentine's Day theme (there wasn't really much choice!) with this stamp shaped heart!

Postal Pieces (13th) has this rather spectacular and informative postcard, sent in by Jordi, from Barcelona showing La Sagrada Familia by Antoni Gaudi, through Postcrossing.

Artistamp for today (13th) marks this day in 1542 when Catherine Howard, the fifth wife of Henry VIII of England, is executed for adultery.

Mailart for Monday(13th) contains some commercial stamp Munchiez...

Postal Pieces (11th) has this amazing circular postcard sent in through Postcrossing by Gaby from Buenos Aires in Argentina showing what is apparently the widest avenue in the world, the "9 de julio" Avenue and the Obelisc, a symbol of the city. Many thanks Gaby for sending this great and unusally shaped card in.

Artistamp for today(11th) marks the death on this day back in 1650 of the French philosopher, mathematician and writer René Descartes.

Mailart for Saturday (11th) needs to move fast and catch him if you can...

Postal Pieces(10th) received this postcard yesterday upon my return from Scotland. It was made and sent in by Eugene from Belarus through Postcrossing and definitely brightened up the day and the Positively Postal letterbox so many thanks Eugene for taking the time to make and send it in!

Artistamp for today(10th) marks umbrella day which you might still need even while it snows!

Mailart for Friday(10th) paints a warm picture of Mailart 365 by Hannah (my eldest daughter) using some oil pastels I'd bought a while ago but which we only recently got round to opening when it was too cold to go outside!

Postal Pieces (9th) - another A-Z of the U.K. piece from Dewi in Canada (he's done the whole alphabet for Positively Postal which is brilliant, can anybody else rise to that challenge!), this time showing "D" for Dundee cake which is all rather appropriate as I have just been in Dundee for the last two days and it's where I grew up!

Today's(9th) artistamp encourages you to get reading in the bath-tub, now what a good idea but just don't drop the book or that glass of wine...!

Today's (9th) mailart shows Amelia's boat, a piece of mailart drawn by my youngest daughter a few days ago when it was too cold and snowy to go outside!

Postal Pieces (8th) has another A-Z of the U.K. piece from Dewi in Canada showing "U" for (London) Underground!

Today's(8th) artistamp marks flying a kite day so if it's windy enough why not get one and go fly a kite!

Mailart for today (Wednesday) has an apparently sleeping polar bear which would definitely wake up your bedroom.

Postal pieces (7th) has this great card sent in by Lois through Postcrossing from New Zealand showing an Anglers Paradise.

Today's(7th) artistamp marks 200 years to the day when Charles Dickens was born.

Mailart for Tuesday (7th) is what happens when you get a boiler repair bill.....

Postal Pieces(6th) has Jason Chan's mailart offering for Positively Postal's A-Z of the U.K. mailart project showing Big Ben.

Artistamp for the beginning of the week (6th) marks The Chinese Lantern Festival which is on the 15th day of the first lunar month in the Chinese calendar and that is today! The Lantern Festival is the last day of Chinese New Year festival.

Mailart for Monday (6th) is where the shape can be contemporary...

SUNDAY

Postal Pieces(5th) - Another A-Z of the U.K. piece, this time showing Tower Bridge by Josiah Chan, many thanks Josiah for sending this in.

Today's(5th) artistamp has a lovely snowflake on it (courtesy of the snowflake website SnowCrystals.com) seeing as it has snowed for the first time in the U.K. this winter!

Mailart for today (5th) shows a new design for 2012.

Postal Pieces(4th) - I received this striking contribution to Positively Postal's A-Z of the U.K. mailart project from Vienca Chan showing The Tate Modern. There were two other pieces showing different places in the same envelope which were by Josiah and Jason (Chan) and I think they may be Vienca's brothers(?) so I will feature their cards over the next two days - thanks to all of you for sending them in and I will be putting all submissions together in a special gallery over the next few weeks.

Heading up to Edinburgh in a few days so have made today's(4th) artistamp out of a photo of a postbox I took the last time I was up there.

Mailart for Saturday(4th) is blue, is red, is green, I've called it mailart and I am going to send it to somebody but is it art sweetie?

Postal Pieces - Following on from The Age of The Windsors and Saxe-Coburg Gotha miniature sheet yesterday, today we have the set of five accompanying stamps, also issued yesterday, featuring The Kings and Queen of The House of Windsor and Saxe-Coburg-Gotha which brings this complete series of Kings and Queens stamps, started in 2008, to an end.

Artistamp for today(3rd) shows February's birthstone which is amethyst.

Mailart for Friday (3rd) is a solar powered best seller, take a closer look!

Postal Pieces has the new Age of The Windsors and Saxe-Coburg-Gotha Miniature Sheet to show you, issued today.

Artistamp for today(2nd) marks Crepes day and this one looks particularly tasty so help yourself!

Mailart for Thursday (2nd) is a complete beauty extravaganza!

Postal Pieces received this lovely Happy Postcrossing card from Lubov in Ukraine and it really did bring a smile to my face today after feeling particularly unwell yesterday so thanks Lubov for making me feel better!

Artistamp for the first day of February shows the flower for the month, the violet.

Mailart for Wednesday wants to take a photo but not having felt the best yesterday I'd just say no!

Postal Pieces(31st) received this lovely card through Postcrossing from Lizzie in Memphis, Tennessee, USA and advises that if I am ever at the Peabody Hotel to go and see the ducks...! Thank you Lizzie for sending this card and for that bit of local information.

Artistamp for Tuesday 31st is not sure which way to head....but it is backwards day after all!

Mailart for today is taking a bit of a backward look at things!

Postal Pieces (30th) - I received this very seasonal postcard through Postcrossing from Silke in Bremen, Germany the other day showing scenes of the city in winter. Silke says the photos must have been taken last year as this year there has not (yet!) been a single snowflake there - many thanks Silke for sending in this wonderful wintery card!

Artistamp for today (30th) marks this day back in 1826 when the Menai Suspension Bridge designed by Thomas Telford was opened and became the first modern suspension bridge in the world.

Mailart for Monday 30th January 2012 is entitled Legacy, made from the remnants of a William Morris stamp Prestige book.

Postal Pieces received this lovely card from Alissa (age 7) in Venice, Italy.

Artistamp for today(28th) marks the publication on this day back in 1813 of Jane Austen's Pride & Prejudice.

Mailart for Saturday (28th) is all about the best of British eggs, hope they really aren't that price!

Artistamp for today speaks for itself.

Mailart for today (27th) depicts a rather poignant representation of a tale from The Holocaust.

I was looking at how I could mark Holocaust Memorial Day (not the easiest of themes) in mailart, when I read on a blog about the Holocaust Memorial in Boston, USA which is made up of 6 square glass towers. There are apparently personal inscriptions on each panel and the one I read about and which inspired this reads as follows:

ILSE, A CHILDHOOD FRIEND of mine,
once found a raspberry in the camp
and carried it in her pocket all day
to present to me that night on a leaf

IMAGINE A WORLD in which
your entire possession is
one raspberry and
you gave it to your friend.

Postal Pieces for Friday(27th) features a lovely postcard received through Postcrossing from the beautiful town of Hameenlinna in Finland, sent in by Kari so thank you for this.

Postal Pieces - Positively Postal has gone all down under to mark Australia Day and so to kick off with, here are a set of recent Australian moments stamps.

followed by a little look at some previous Postal Pieces with an Australian connection:

Artistamp for today(26th) wishes you a Happy Australia Day.

while Mailart for Thursday 26th also marks Australia Day, the official national day of Australia.

Postal Pieces(25th) - The cats and dragons all made their appearance earlier in the week (see below) and so today it is now the turn of Robert Burns in light of the fact that today is Burns Night. Here we see The Bard on a special stamp Miniature Sheet issued in 2009 to mark the 250th anniversary of his birth.

Artistamp for Wednesday(25th) features Scotland's national poet Mr Rabbie Burns.

Mailart for Wednesday 25th January 2012 is dedicated "Tae a Moose", a poem I can remember reciting many a time while at primary school and for those not familiar with the whole thing, here it is below.

Wee, sleekit, cowrin, tim’rous beastie,
O, what a panic’s in thy breastie!
Thou need na start awa sae hasty,
Wi’ bickering brattle!
I wad be laith to rin an’ chase thee
Wi’ murd’ring pattle!

I’m truly sorry man’s dominion,
Has broken nature’s social union,
An’ justifies that ill opinion,
What makes thee startle
At me, thy poor, earth-born companion,
An’ fellow-mortal!

I doubt na, whiles, but thou may thieve;
What then? poor beastie, thou maun live!
A daimen icker in a thrave
’S a sma’ request;
I’ll get a blessin wi’ the lave,
An’ never miss’t!

Thy wee bit housie, too, in ruin!
It’s silly wa’s the win’s are strewin!
An’ naething, now, to big a new ane,
O’ foggage green!
An’ bleak December’s winds ensuin,
Baith snell an’ keen!

Thou saw the fields laid bare an’ waste,
An’ weary winter comin fast,
An’ cozie here, beneath the blast,
Thou thought to dwell -
Till crash! the cruel coulter past
Out thro’ thy cell.

That wee bit heap o’ leaves an’ stibble,
Has cost thee mony a weary nibble!
Now thou’s turn’d out, for a’ thy trouble,
But house or hald,
To thole the winter’s sleety dribble,
An’ cranreuch cauld!

But Mousie, thou art no thy lane,
In proving foresight may be vain;
The best-laid schemes o’ mice an’ men
Gang aft agley,
An’ lea’e us nought but grief an’ pain,
For promis’d joy!

Still thou art blest, compar’d wi’ me;
The present only toucheth thee:
But och! I backward cast my e’e,
On prospects dreaer!
An’ forward, tho’ I canna see,
I guess an’ fear!

Rabbie Burns

Postal Pieces (24th) - I have been steadily receiving more submissions for Positively Postal's A-Z of the U.K. mailart project,(still time to enter) all of which will soon be featured in their own gallery but in the meantime here is another piece I recently received from mailartist Dewi in Canada, many thanks Dewi and I look forward to showing the rest of your submissions here shortly, Dewi has in fact covered the entire alphabet from A-Z! Here 's his "T" for The Tower of London.

Artistamp for today(24th) marks Compliment Day so here's one to get you started!

Mailart for Tuesday(24th), like today's artistamp, marks Compliment Day and so here is the full compliment...

Postal Pieces (23rd) - yesterday was the turn of the cats and so today it's the turn of the dragons since it is The Chinese New Year of the Dragon. Here's a Royal Mail Smilers sheet to mark the event.

Positively Postal's own artistamp uses the mailart below and also marks The Chinese New Year of the Dragon which officially starts today. This is the first (January's) of Positively Postal's artistamps to highlight an event in each month of the year and will be available to buy in the shop as an actual "stamp" very soon.

Mailart for today(23rd) is the basis of the artistamp above and keeps the dragon theme going.

Postal Pieces (22nd) - Following on from the hugging cats we had yesterday, here today we have a totally feline affair with these British stamps from 1995 showing cats and see today's artistamp and mailart offerings for further kitty goings on!

Artistamp for Sunday marks Answer Your Cat's Questions Day - no, I didn't know it was today and I'm not sure our friend below really knew either!

Mailart for Sunday(22nd), like today's artistamp, is to mark Answer Your Cat's Questions Day and as I have no cat myself, I made this one and it does seem to have rather a lot of questions, hope it doesn't get too curious....!

Postal Pieces(21st) - Another A-Z of the U.K piece from mailartist Rebecca, which will soon appear fully in the new A-Z of the U.K. gallery of submissions. This time "B" is for Bamburgh!

Artistamp for Saturday (21st) marks hugging day and what could be more cute than these two cats hugging each other - altogether now, awww!

Saturday's(21st) mailart has a lovely latte and is taking a step in the right direction!

Postal Pieces(20th) - As it's gone a bit quiet on the receiving end of post here - I've got quite a few cards winging their way out through the postal system at the moment so waiting for some replies back - here is a card from 1983 advertising the National Postal Museum which sadly has not been around for a long time.

Artistamp for Friday(20th) marks Disc Jockey Day and we all know a good DJ can either make or break a night out so here's to all Superstar DJs out there!

Mailart for Friday(20th) has some of Chef's Special Dishes, only hope that octopus isn't in one of them....!

Postal Pieces today(19th) has a stamp from New Zealand marking the Chinese Year of the Dragon, used by my Auntie to send youngest daughter's birthday card and it so happens to be her birthday today!

Today's artistamp marks the birth on this day in 1736 of James Watt who was a very influential Scottish inventor and mechanical engineer.

Mailart for Thursday(19th) encourages you to Go Bananas!

Postal Pieces(18th) was very happy to see this on the doorstep, a most postal of postcards sent in via Postcrossing by Margrit in Switzerland who also used all Swiss stamps witha postal theme to send it in. Many thanks Margrit, a definite favourite!

Artistamp takes to the skies for today and shows an Airbus 380, the world's largest commercial jet which was unveiled at a ceremony in Toulouse, France on this day in 2005.

Mailart for Wednesday (18th) has everything at £1!!!

Postal Pieces (17th) is going back to the Post Boxes Smilers sheet previously featured and today shows an 1896 Lamp Letter Box formerly on the Fosse Way near Radford Semelle, Warwickshire.

Artistamp for today(17th) marks Ditch New Year's Resolutions Day as today is apparently the day when most people give up on any resolutions they made two weeks ago but we say don't give up, at least not just yet!

Mailart for Tuesday (17th) asks if you're scared of heights and says you should be...!

Postal Pieces(16th) was thrilled to receive this submission from fellow Mailart365 artist Rebecca relating to her visit to Scotland. This will be featured fully very shortly in Positively Postal's ongoing A-Z of the U.K. mailart project so check back to find out more and thank you to Rebecca for sending this in along with your other great pieces.

Artistamp for today (16th) is to mark Appreciate a Dragon day which encourages you to explore the cultural significance of the dragon in your society and history and we'll be revisiting dragons later on this month when the Chinese Year of the Dragon starts.

Mailart for Monday(16th) finds this poorly teddy bear saying it only hurts when I laugh.....hope the orange juice and biscuits make him feel better soon!

Postal Pieces (15th) - This mailart is a piece I sent to Mim in America at the end of last year and then she has added a few bits of her own and sent it back to me thereby taking on a new and different dimension!

Artistamp for today marks hat day so get out the fruit bowl and see if you can make one of these!

Mailart for Sunday (15th) says I've been invited to the Oscars but it's not me so who is going out of this lot!

Postal Pieces (14th) show a Victorian postbox as photogrpahed by my friend Bob at Stowmarket station.

If you have a photo of a postbox or of more than one, either local or international which you would like featured here then please do send it in by post (P.O. Box 477, Hounslow, U.K. TW3 9HD) or you can e-mail it to me or tweet it @positivelypost

Artistamp for today(14th) shows Edmond Halley, the English astronomer, geophysicist, mathematician, meteorologist, and physicist who is best known for computing the orbit of the eponymous Halley's Comet and who died on this day back in 1742.

Mailart for Saturday (14th) is entitled Time and we may have gone back in it as there are some mince pies and an exploding watch....!

Postal Pieces - I was really pleased to receive this self-produced card from Nina in Porvoo, Finland featuring all her own photographs, sent through Postcrossing so a big thank you to Nina. is it really -(minus) 17 degrees over there? Stamp is a holographic ski stamp though you can't unfortunately tell that from the image below.

In case you didn't know, and I didn't until I was doing this,apart from being Friday the 13th (cue scarey music!) today is Rubber Duck Day and like the chocolate swirls in today's mailart, the rubber ducks on today's artistamp don't seem at all bothered by it, so let's just keep it quiet!

Mailart for Friday 13th is avoiding any unlucky references and sticking with this Special Delivery of Swirly Chocolate Sundae which sounds so much more appealing!

Postal Pieces received this snowy scene postcard via Postcrossing from Oksana in Moscow where she says it is very cold, there is snow and a strong wind blowing - many thanks Oksana for sending it in.

Artistamp today marks the founding on this day back in 1895 of The National Trust and shows the National Trust property, Hughenden Manor which is the former home of Benjamin Disraeli, the famous politician in the time of Queen Victoria who went on to become prime minister. Disraeli and his wife came to live at Hughenden Manor in 1848 and he continued to live there until his death in 1881.

Mailart for Thursday(12th) is all about the January sales and somebody seems happy with them!

Postal Pieces(11th) received this rather unusual but most welcome piece of mailart from Connie Jean in the US the other day so thank you Connie and a piece of Positively Postal mailart back in the post to you today!

Artistamp for today should actually have been Step in a Puddle And Splash Your Friends Day but I got it a little bit wrong and did it a day early (see 10th below). So today's artistamp sidesteps the puddles and marks the death on this day of the English novelist and poet, Thomas Hardy in 1928.

Mailart for Wednesday (11th) says it's 2012 and we're flying high but on closer inspection it seems we are actually drying high.....!

Postal Pieces(10th) - This snowman card was sent in via Postcrossing just before Christmas by Cinnamon in the USA and arrived yesterday(9th) - thank you for sending it in!

Artistamp for today marks one of those more unusual days in the calendar and in case you didn't know, it's Step in a Puddle And Splash Your Friends Day!

Mailart for Tuesday (10th) is a nearly perfect Colour Match.

Postal Pieces (9th) has this wonderful postcard from Celia in Taiwan showing the Taiwanese flag and a very striking stamp marking The Year of the Dragon - many thanks to Celia who sent it in through Postcrossing.

Artistamp for Monday marks Clean Your Desk Day and while my desk is not quite as bad as this, it is definitely time to give it a clean!

It may well be Monday again(!) but mailart for today (9th) says The Time is Now.....

Postal Pieces (7th January) - I know I am pushing my luck here and this really is the very last wisp of Christmas 2011 but as these are both lovely hand-made items I definitely wanted to include them here so the first one is a card sent in from Iris in Belgium who wishes us all a belated Merry Christmas!

and the second item arrived just before Christmas and I then got caught up in all the celebrations so wasn't able to feature it here until now, it's a papier mache heart covered in some recent GB Christmas stamps, sent in byJulia Elmore who also recently contributed to Positively Postal's ongoing A-Z of the U.K. mailart project. So many thanks to both Iris and Julia and that really does draw a line under Christmas 2011!

Artistamp for today(7th) marks The Festival of Seven Herbs, or Nanakusa no sekku (七草の節句) which is the long-standing Japanese custom of eating seven-herb rice porridge (nanakusa-gayu) on January 7 (Jinjitsu).

If anybody in Japan or elsewhere has any other information or a postcard/stamp relating to this festival then please do send it in and I will feature it on the Positively Postal website or on the blog.

The nanakusa are seven edible wild herbs of spring. Traditionally, they are :

Water dropwort (芹 : せり seri)

Shepherd's Purse (薺 : なずな nazuna)

Cudweed (御形 : ごぎょう gogyō)

Chickweed (繁縷 : はこべら hakobera)

Nipplewort (仏の座 : ほとけのざ hotokenoza)

Turnip (菘 : すずな suzuna)

Radish (蘿蔔 : すずしろ suzushiro)

There is considerable variation in the precise ingredients, with common local herbs often being substituted.

On the morning of January 7, or the night before, people place the nanakusa, rice scoop, and/or wooden pestle on the cutting board and, facing the good-luck direction, chant "Before the birds of the continent (China) fly to Japan, let's get nanakusa" while cutting the herbs into pieces. The chant may vary.

The seventh of the first month has been an important Japanese festival since ancient times. The custom of eating nanakusa-gayu on this day, to bring longevity and health, developed in Japan from a similar ancient Chinese custom, intended to ward off evil. Since there is little green at that time of the year, the young green herbs bring color to the table and eating them suits the spirit of the New Year.

The spring-time nanakusa are mirrored by the "seven flowers of autumn", which are bush clover (hagi), miscanthus (obana, Miscanthus sinensis), kudzu, large pink (nadeshiko, Dianthus superbus), yellow flowered valerian (ominaeshi, Patrinia scabiosaefolia), boneset (fujibakama, Eupatorium fortunei), and Chinese bellflower (kikyō). These seven autumn flowers provide visual enjoyment. Their simplicity was very much admired: they are small and dainty yet beautifully colored. They are named as typical autumn flowers in a verse from the Man'yōshū anthology.

Cautionary note

The Japanese parsley (Oenanthe javanica) is one of the few non-toxic species of the Oenanthe (water dropworts) genus, which are otherwise extremely toxic. As this species is not found outside of Asia unless specifically cultivated, one should always consider wild-growing varieties of water dropworts to be lethal, even in small amounts.

Source : Wikipedia

The weekend is here at last and for today's(7th) mailart you've got to hand it to him!

Postal Pieces, 6th January means business and is a card wth words of encouragement from Darja in Latvia, sent through Postcrossing, many thanks!

Artistamp for Friday(6th) marks Three Kings Day and sadly the end of the Christmas season - I really must get the tree down today!

Mailart for Friday(6th) is keeping it all clean & serene.

Postal Pieces(5th) - Happy New Year from Belarus! Just enough time to squeeze it in before Christmas really is officially over (it combines Christmas and New Year), this card arrived at Postal Towers yesterday from Katerina in Belarus through Postcrossing - Happy New Year to you too Katerina and thanks for this great card!

Artistamp for today (5th) marks Bird day which aims to raise awareness of the plights faced by common and rare birds, from disease and environmental factors to illegal trade and welfare in captivity.

Mailart for Thursday 5th - Ones to Watch!

Postal Pieces(4th) has a card I received just yesterday through Postcrossing from Kailun in China entitled "From Time to Time Image China" and a rather splendid image it is too, many thanks Kailun.

Wednesday's(4th) artistamp marks the birth on this day (if you go by the Gregorian Calendar and as that is what dictates today is January 4th 2012, we'll go along with it for the purposes of this post!) of Sir Isaac Newton, an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, natural philosopher, alchemist, and theologian.

Mailart for Wednesday 4th January is walking tall with this giraffe post!

Postal Pieces 3rd January 2012 - I was delighted to receive this wonderful hand-made card and postcard in the week between Christmas and New Year from Sander in The Netherlands through Postcrossing, thank you Sander.

Tuesday's(3rd) artistamp marks this day in 1870 when construction started on The Brooklyn Bridge which is one of the oldest suspension bridges in the United States.

Photo acknowledgement : Martin St-Amant - Wikipedia - CC-BY-SA-3.0

Mailart for Tuesday(3rd) is entitled "Wrappings & Trappings" with a little bit of everything for everybody!

Postal Pieces for today (2nd) features a rather startled looking goldfish which is on one of the many postcards I received as postal entries for the Advent Calendar competitions run in December 2011 - the winners to be announced soon...!

Today's (2nd) artistamp shows a carnation which is January's flower of the month, a bright start to 2012!

Mailart for Monday 2nd, like the Carnation artistamp above is bold, bright and colourful, it's "Fluorescent Mailart".

New Year's Day 2012 and a rather late delivery as not been doing very much today!

Postal Pieces (1st January) - Between Christmas and New Year I got quite a few postcards and new pieces of mailart sent in which I will be sharing here in the next few days and as this one has a Christmas theme to it I am going to show it first before Christmas becomes even more of a distant memory! Dasha from Belarus sent in this card (many thanks Dasha) through Postcrossing and it features children holding a symbol of the sun and singing carols to celebrate Kalyady, a traditional Belarusian holiday which resembles Christmas.

Artistamp for today is another one to mark the New Year!

First Mailart piece for 2012 is made up with a selection of bits and pieces which have been sitting on my desk for some time now. I've entitled it "Jubilee Redirections From" in light of 2012 being The Queen's Diamond Jubilee year.

New Year's Eve 2011 - So here is the last delivery of 2011 - Happy New Year and I'll be back with the regular daily delivery as of tomorrow plus keep an eye on the site for some exciting news concerning the Positively Postal shop Trading Post and more.....watch this space!

Postal Pieces (31st) - Here is a piece sent in by one of my favourite and most organised mailartists, Katerina from Greece who sent this New Year's Eve piece back on December 2nd - there's a New Year's Resolution of mine, to get more organised! so Happy New Year to and from Katerina, many thanks.

Artistamp for New Year's Eve is going to go off with a big bang - Happy New Year!

Mailart to be sent still has a little whiff of Christmas about it so enjoy this Exclusive Ho Ho Ho Holiday!