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Date Joined: April 22, 2011
Last Online: December 1, 2023 Country: United States Postcrossing Profile |
Updated 14 November 2023
To open my washi-covered envelopes, tamp the contents to one end of the envelope and, at the other end, snip off a bit of a corner, a little triangle. Insert a letter opener or scissors into the gap; and pull across the edge of the envelope, in the same direction as the washi tape. Here's an album of my washi-covered envelopes and some I received. Scroll slowly so your computer has time to resolve the details in the photos.
In June I went to Israel for ten days, for a friend's wedding, sightseeing, and a side trip to Petra. I recommend Yad Vashem, the Holocaust center in Jerusalem, and the Tel Aviv Museum of Art. I stayed at a friend's apartment in Caesarea that's a nice walk to Roman ruins and the beach.
In April I visited a friend in Las Vegas. The weather was perfect, in the 80s. We went to Joshua Tree National Park (a UNESCO biosphere reserve) and saw the desert in bloom. Many flowers were quite tiny, from long-dormant seeds waiting for the wet winter, and there were desert dandelions, as prolific there as in our lawn.
In February I went to Southern Africa and took a lot of photos — how could I not? It was one of the best trips ever. I'll clean up my photo album and post a link to it.
My kitchen is my craft room because I love cooking and baking. We are vegetarians, doing our bit for climate change. In Italy I tasted several kinds of savory flan, what I call crustless quiche. Now I have lots of new recipes to try. When I find a recipe in Italian, I open the page in Chrome for a pretty good translation. I make challah every Friday for Shabbat.
I'm swapping naked postcards on Postcrossing and blank postcards on Swap-bot. It makes it easy to organize my incoming mail. A couple of exceptions: I'll continue to participate in the series Sender's Choice -----> with a twist! hosted by @susieq11
I send the blank postcards I receive to family and friends and people on Postcrossing. Please send colorful and cheerful postcards that you'd happily send your family and friends. I appreciate quality over quantity.
No, thank you. Sorry, no hearts.
Bent corners, a sure sign the postcard has been through more than a few swaps. Postcards to color, postcards for Christian holidays and legends. Print on demand postcards like Zazzle postcards. Those cheap sepia 32-pcs Vintage Travel Sights Landscape Retro Postcards. Not childish like Distributed by Michael's Inc. designs. Please, no junk.
Omurice is a wonderful quick dinner. I make it with Trader Joe's Japanese Fried Rice and extra frozen vegetables, thin omelettes we lay over the fried rice, and ketchup. And now it's turning up in kawaii like Ojipan and I love them all.
My favorite kawaii has a face. I love food with faces and anchovies with legs and animals in an unlikely milieu like cat servers at faux Starbucks. I enjoy most characters, especially San-X.
About Japanese kawaii brands: See Pattie's exhaustive list on the KSU group page. Counterfeit sticker flakes are turning up everywhere, from Ali Express and some sellers on Etsy. If it's a Sanrio character and doesn't have a copyright date, it's fake. If it's San-X and largish with thick lines, it's not the real thing. If the price is great, it's probably counterfeit.
No, thanks. Poo and bottoms aren't kawaii to me. 3D stickers from sheets and sticker flakes, especially PVC and puffy. Real photos made cute aren't so cute to me. Unicorns are too sweet for me.
And many classics: Anna Karenina, The Call of the Wild, The Grapes of Wrath, Great Expectations, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Lord of the Rings, Middlemarch, Villette, Wide Sargasso Sea
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5.0000 | 2610 | 108 | 116 |
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2227 | 2842 | 0 | 0 |
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14 | 1882 | 331 | 0 |
Comments
Mail from you is a treasure. The beautiful envie with the pretty washitape you use, the awesome postcards, the adorable stickersheet and your lovely note! Thank you for this lovely present. Thank you for this happy mail tag!!
Thank you for the WW Sept beautiful postcard. I have missed most of the fall colors here in Maine, but luckily my husband took some photos for me. Happy swapping
Thank you for the kawaii sticker flakes and the awesome PC's you sent me for my October WW! I'm framing those PC's and hanging them up in my craft room. They are too stinkin' cute! I appreciate you thinking of me.
Thank you for all the cute memo sheets and sticker flakes, for the CPS October wishlist! They're all so cute!
Thank you so much for the washi covered envie! Beautiful! I really appreciate the great stuff you sent to grant my wishes!
Thank you for the wonderful and sparkly owl postcard! I LOVE it. 💕 I watch the Lincoln Lawyer too. I think I need to watch the newest season still. Thank you for the tv ideas! WW OCT
❤️❤️❤️❤️Awesome cards for October WW. I think I have to keep the amusement park card for Coney Island and maybe later give it to the friend who collects those. All super cards all favs and all new to me. Love the Abe Lincoln one! Your mail art is perfect, too! I tried my hand at it again.
Wowee!! Thank you for all the gorgeous Parisian pcs from PC tag in the pfs!! Love them! Lucky you!:) Merci beaucoup!!
❤️❤️❤️ Sept WW - Love all the cards you sent - so very special - the animal one is a hoot. The cards are an awesome addition to my collection. Your outside envie is outstanding. I can never get them straight. ugh!
Your album of washi is MAGNIFICENT! The one below mine is to die for!! Thanks for the link. I'll drool daily, I'm sure.