New Flat

I've recently moved and consequently changed my address in postcrossing for the second time. Now my husband and I rent flat in the center of Saratov. It's more convenient than to live in the suburbs of the satellite town (Engels-8, to say exactly). There are a lot of things that I do love here - walking all day, 10-minutes walk from work, visiting friends, cable TV and fast Internet. Besides I like the speed of the post. It's really much more quick! I suppose Russian post is one of the slowest in the world but here it's almost OK. My cards reach their destination in 2 weeks. And I get cards in the same period. So here are two cards I've received in my new flat.
The first one from Germany . Amazing card with wonderful message from the Weber family.

The second one from Finland . It's one of my best loved cards. I adore Disney card!!! So cute, so sweet, so girlish!

Back Again

Probably it's hard to believe but I'm still alive and back again. And again writing about cards from all over the world.
Actually I hate this my trait of character when I stop doing everything on-line for the long period and then unexpectedly return. I'm trying to change.
Just some of my last received cards.
TW-355454 very beautiful card reminding about spring.

 CN-433403 Wonderful Chinese embroidery. Don't know how to place it better (where is the top and the bottom). Yige Jin, hope you don't mind seeing your card from such angle

Winter cards

Wow, I have not been writing here for more than 2 weeks!!! Luckily in reality I got a lot of amazing cards and had a lot of pleasing news. So today and perhaps tomorrow I'll write about everything.
It's very cold in Saratov (about -20 C), so children don't go to school and stay at home. But adults go to work as low temperatures is a good reason to have some rest only for children. But the streets look beautiful now: it's sunny and there are a lot of white snow. I was pleased to get 2 winter cards :)
Here they are:
PL-170093 Thanks for a nice view. Btw, in Saratov region  there is a nice winter resort for snowboarding and downhill skiing, it is called Khvalynsk. I've never been there 'cause I'm not very interested in these sports. (it's too cold for me:)

LV-25299 Наталья, спасибо за чудесную открытку!!! It's a funny cute card! I love these monkeys. I have an aroma lamp with them at home :)

And the last for this post but not the least.  DE-814691 Kissing squirrels!!! SO CUTE!!!
 Thank you Dragun for such a wonderful card one again! How  lovely to get cards from people with same interests that you have (I mean besides postcrossing)!

5 cards!!!

On Friday I got 5 nice and a bit unexpected cards. It's so nice to get surprises. Actually my memory isn't good when it concerns cards or small things like that. I can easily forget if I've sent a card or not, where I took part in the lottery. So I was a small shock for me to gat a card from Chelyabinsk from LJ user Inffi. It turned out that I signed in her post to gat an old card :) Have a look! It's very nice. And reminds Saratov a lot. We have a square like that too: with Lenin and local government.

Another nice card that I've got is from Wemmie - my penpal with whome I exchange cards. It's an amazing reprint of an old photo taken in 1935. I love the boarders of the card because they remind me of the greatgrandma photos.

And I've got 3 official cards. Some words about each of them:
1.A Hot Postcard From Texas. It's cold and snowy in Saratov. And Belinda and her card remind me about summer and hot days. I want it so much to come sooner. In such moments I want to live in the place where the card is from ;) 
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2. A Squirrel from Finland. Susanna, thank you very much! It's a nice addition to my collection. If you don't know, my husband calls me Belka (Squirrel in Russian). And I collect squirrels. I'm not crazy about it: I have 6 toys, some small souvenirs, a pendant which I never take off and now 17 card with squirrels!!! FI-994947

   

3. Winnie-the-Pooh card from Serbia!!! I love cartoons!!! I love Disney cartoons! And I'm a fan of children book characters. I wasn't read Winnie-the-Pooh in childhood (alhough love cartoons greatly), so I read it only 3 years ago. It's one of my favourite fairy tales. Жанна, спасибо большое за такую потрясающую открытку!!! RS-8110

  

Just to remind about me

Shame on me, I wasn't writting for so long. But now I'm gonna be a good girl and do my best.
First of all many thanks to girls who came to the first Saratov meeting of postcrossers. I was very pleased to get acquainted with you. Here are some photos from the meeting. We've signed about 40 cards! We are monsters ;)
I've got 2 official cards. And I'm in love with both.
1. A view card from Turkey! It's my first official from this country. I love the way Aynur signed the card and very nice description on the front. TR-51067

2. Christmas card!!! It came on February,2 when people in China celebrate New Year. A nice gift for this holiday although I'm not Chenese ;)  NL-518270 It's one of my favourites. I love New Year greetings!

 

My husband

As it simply to guess from the title I would like to tell you about my amazing husband and his attitude to postcrossing. At first some facts from my biography for you just to have a general view. We've been living together since autumn 2007. We like to spend time together and tell each other interesting things. Luckily we have one mutual hobby - LARP and several separate ones. So he tells me news from the Internet, historical facts and show cute pics. In my turn I tell him about my nice postcards. He loves watching cards I receive. Sometimes he helps me to find a better card to send. He loves postcards but he'll never start sending them himself 'cause his too lazy for it and don't have a hunger for communication. But he often brings my cards to the post office to send  as it's more convenient for him them for me. He feels nervous when I don't get mail for a long time and upsets when my cards become expired. He checks my postbox when I'm not at home.  And it's such a wonderful feeling when after a hard working day he meets you in the railroad station and gives you a card!!! And in one second all your hunger and tiredness come away when you see your beloved with such a great surprise for you. And half of your way home you speak about the card...
On Friday my husband brought me a nice card from Taiwan. It's a card of a very first port of Taiwan. It's great 'cause we both like maps. Thank you Lucy!
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I check my postbox  several times a day luckily I even needn't to leave my flat to do it. So I was very happy to get 2 cards yestaerday.
I got an amazing card from marina-khv with red-haired lady. I'm in love with red-haired ladies!!! Marina brought that card from here journey to Japan. Hope to have more cards with red-haired girls in my collection.
So I'll send Saratov view card to Habarovsk today. Unfortunatelly it's not so nice but somehow it's from my hometown.

The other card is a black and white card "Senior and Teen" from Germany. Hannah thank you! DE-791062

4 cards in an envelope

I'm feeling a little ill now. Nothing serious just can't do things for a long time, so writting cards takes time. I need to sign the card, have some rest, then return, put the stams, have rest and so on... But sending and receiving cards is more important when you're ill. Probably because it's one of a few things which make you happy without leaving your home?!  So some words about the cards:
Now I'm going to send 4 private swap cards to Ivette_kd from China. She promised to send me cards with Chinese ink wash drawing. If I understand what it is correctly it'll be great. I adore such kind drawing.
My cards to send are: reprint of old Moscow view, a view of soviet Saratov (1990) and 2 rare art cards. Hope she'll like them: 

Present

I feel so happy today because I've receive a chocolate letter M from my penpal Wemmie ! It's so pleasant. I love presents!!!
This is an amazing card with Sinterklaas and Zwarte Piet (Black Pete) and the сhocolate wrapper (its taste is great!!!).

I also get a nice official card from China. Probably we'll exchange some swaps with Ivette. Anyway the card is good, the stamps are colourful!

I've sent two postcards in an envelope today: "thank you" card to Brazil and official card to the Netherlands. Hope girls will love them and the small stuff I've sent.

Wohooo!!!

I've received my first cards in 2011!
I've receive a nice greeting card from Ivona - my penpal from Česká republika. I'll download it to the post with Xmas cards (I'm sure I'll write it)
Officials: US-943478 It' s a very nice sea otter from Pittsburgh. Rather funny as I have one more card with this cute animal.

And the second official card is from Clarissa. It's her first sent card so for sure she'll receive a "thank you" card from me as greeting.  BR-131973 Brazil stamps are so colourful and bright! I'm in love with them!!!

 

As I don't have any received cards yet this year I'm going to tell some words about cards I've sent or going to send.
Luckily my cards travel rather fast perhaps because they were sent to Belarus and the Ukraine. 
RU-282019 A very nice card as far as I can judge.

2 cards will start their journey today: to Belarus (again) - a card which I brought from Egypt but hope boys will like it; to the USA - to a lady who is a member for 5 years (!!!) so it's a great honor for me. Let's hope for the best, and these card soon will reach their destination and you'll see them in this blog. 

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This is the 1st registered card in a New Year. I sent it to RoseD in the USA. Feel happy that she found in facebook. My new card will go to France to a lady who teaches English for children.

Hello!!!

This is my 1st post here - just to check how it works.