The actual first year post(picture heavy)

Hey, I've got quite a nice bunch mail this month and it's not over yet. Some of them were from last year but I only saw it in this year. Let's look through.

 From Norway, Anette.

 LR, USA.

 This was the first time I was contacted thanks to my adress in FB, it was a nice surprise. From Finland.

 Christmas card from South Korea, Odette.

 She also sent me this necklace.

 From Bree, Malaysia. I opened it it on January 5th only.

 This was inside of gifts. And a letter.

 Two packages I got before Christmas.

One was from Japan.

 The other one is from Germany.

 Christmas ornaments...

 ...and cup with candy from Germany. Such a lovely present.

 Traditional sweets and coffee from Japan.

 Also got a Christmas card from Japan too.

 This is how that coffee looked like. pretty interesting way to put it in the cup and easy to use.

From Shelby, USA.

 From Teja, Slovenia. Along with some pictures she sent me.

 Tanja, Germany.

Curious, Mexico.

 Ana, Croatia. She gave this to my hands when she came over here. My first meeting with a foreign pal :)

And last one came from France, Tari. The lenght of the letter is amazing. 14 pages with these small letters.

Beautiful update

And when I didn't thought I'll receive anything more lately due to my slowness in replying and beung behind mail, I still got spoiled.
These three are from the previous week - Wednesday to Saturday.

 From Ana, Croatia. Her last letter went missing and it's the saddest thing.

 Lots of hugs from Germany came from Tanja.

From Bree, Malaysia.
This week:
Postcard from Estonia, via Sendsomething.

Next was from Alison, Hong Kong...

 And gifts from Japan.

Finally, today I received a card from Egypt and letter from Tari, France.

 The close-up on stamps:

 And here's my reply and envie for Michi. I took long to reply to her and after everything was done I just had to take a picture of it. I hope she'll like it.

Newest mail and books

First let's do a quick look through the last outgoing:
two more letters which I replied on Monday: to Bree in Malaysia.

And to Karolina in Czech republic.

Also, the postcards to Canada, Taiwan and Japan.

My incomming June 18-19th:
Teja, Slovenia.

 Great stamps.

Her letter and a train ticket. I wish I could collect them from various countries. Our tickets seem pretty boring.
From Melissa in USA nad her envelope that was letter itself.

Now I at least have the sakura stamps. So happy to get them.
I got a lotof greek stamps from a swap.

And also, two cards:
From my Finnish pal Tiia, who went to Bulgaria. I just love cards in interesting shapes.

And from a Chinese postcard pal.

 The Pamirs.

Love the stamps, they are new to me.

During this month I bought two more books, which means two more books started to read. I'll get them finished soon :)

Jude Deveraux "Lavender morning" dragged my attention by the cover, then I touched and felt how soft it is, never seen a book like it. The description seemed interesting and that's how I bought it. It hadn't dissapointed me.
And next was one of the books I already wanted - Audrey Niffenegger's "The time traveler's wife". It's a bit complicated to understand everything, but I hope I will.
Those who buy books, do you choose them before going to buy or like to go and search for "the one"? I have tried both ways and only once I was dissapointed by a book that I wanted to buy - that was "The horse whisperer". I didn't like it because I was anticipating for more attention to horses, not love story or maybe I was a bit younger and foolish, yet I gave the book away. I carefully choose books to buy, especially whne I see them for the first time. I like to "feel" which one will be good.

My biggest update

Already half of the month has passed and it's time to go through all the mail I go during my exams before starting my letter replying party.
Prepare for loads of photos.
Two letters date back to the end of May.
One of them is from Karolina, Czech republic.

 Her always cute stationery.

 Stamps. The art one is so interesting.

 Some tea.

 Stamps to my collection.

Another FB.

And a card of Czech rocks. They always pop out in mind thinking about this country.
Next one was from Bree, Malaysia.

 The envie is always decorated nicely. And then there's nature-themed stamps.

Two photos of Malaysian dishes: dumplings and mooncakes.
My Norwegian pal Elisabeth sent me this postcard of the hotel she works in. It's a really gorgeous place.

Next day there were two packages. The first one is from Louise in UK. She added a notebook with her letter.

Another was from Silvia in Belgium.

 Leaflets from her city.

 Letter written in colorful pens and the chocolates she sent me. I loved them.
Letter from Eugenia, Russia:

Letter from Ana, Croatia. With Croatian lesson and tea. Vanilla one was gone at once.

Lily from Finland decided to surprise me with her package. I saw it on blog, but haven't thought it's for me. So the joy of seeing that the one with train stamps was adressed for me was huge.

 So much tea!

 Various postcards.

 small goodies.

And more stamps.

 Not sure how to describe this: you can "dress up" the frog with those clothes and write "from/to" on them. Deffinately cute.

 A ring with three horse heads, though first thing my friend saw was wolf heads...both ways seems fine to interpret. I never wore rings before, but I miss it when I take it off. (Lily, does that mean you proposed to me?:D)

I admit: never had that much nice stationery in my hands. These all pages are doubles too.
Then there's the letter. I love long letters and this one took me long to read. But I re-read it once again later, that's the magic of long letters - they make me want to read them more times.

Next was a letter from Norway, Anette.

 Oh look, a horse sticker <3

Next was a first reply from Caddi, Germany. I like the matching sticker and stamp.

Now it's finally this week and every day, except for Thursday, I got mail.
On Monday it was from USA and Germany.

This cute one from Shelby. Also a FB that has traveled through quite a few of my pals.
And adorable Marie's. Her handwriting is really tiny, I have never seen such before :)

 A stamp with a mailbox. It's adorable.

On Tuesday: from Canada and France.
Nicole's reply with her handmade envie.

 And a closer look to the horse stamps. That is rare.

Another one was from Tari. the letter we thought got lost. But here it is.

Postcard with a French lesson and..tea, of course.
On Wednesday it was from USA and Bulgaria.
This was the first letter from Hristiyana.

 Tha postcard is a map of Bulgaria and it shows the historical cities.

 

My pal Eve opened a shop in USA online and sent me her business card.

 And a loooong reply.

On Friday there was most: two letters and a package.
Letters from: Claudia, Poland. I haven't heard from her since January.

And Cristina, Moldova.

 The interesting envelope and stamp.

The package is from Lizzie who's been spoiling me all the time. All kinds of horse stuff!
A wristband and I would put even more of this stuff, the heavier the better.

 The huge package and two horse magazines already.

 3 more new posters.

Not sure where to use this. So far it's hanging on my bike.

 More adorable envies.

 A photo(?) book for horses. I'm guessing again.

Postcard from the land of candy...sorry that I don't have a Swedish keybord, but the title is on the card. I know that they make awesome candy which only Sweden has.

Talk about candy...~

Double-sided horse cards <3

Horse stickers~

The letter itself.
And lastly, Saturday.
Lily loves to make suprises to me and now I got this card from her. It's amazing, I have never seen anything before. Now I learnt the rules of tea brewing.

And Elisabeth's letter.

 I love it how my adress was sticked from these letters.

Cute cute cute~
stickers :3

This place...can I live there too? It's between the water and mountains, like it was at the edge of the world.
So this is all of my update from the exams and now I'm working on those replies. I'll update my replies here too. It's amazing if you actually survived throught the whole post of photo blabber.