heidiblooms

Since October 1 is World Postcard Day, my goal for the month of October is to mail 100 postcards! Please send me a message with your address if you would like to receive a postcard or do a private swap for one! I will be mailing all 100 postcards at once on October 29

Currently on postcard 76 of 100 (14 Oct)

Hello! My name is Heidi and I am a 22-year-old college student living in the Lone Star state of Texas! 🤠I'll be graduating in December 2021 with my BA.

I live a zero waste / eco minimalist lifestyle. If possible, please reuse some scrap paper for letters or to be upcycled into an envelope- thank you!

♻️Read more about the zero waste lifestyle here
♻️Click here to see how easy it is to reduce your consumption and plastic use!

I LOVE the color pink💖 (it's my favorite color), hot air balloons 🎈, rainbows🌈, and strawberries🍓! If you send me anything with those on it I will love it!

I'm the founder of the International Stamp Collectors group, check it out and join in if you enjoy postage stamps!

If you're sending a postcard, I tend to like these themes! (Size 4"x6" and I prefer PCs being sent naked unless the swap says otherwise! Written on and no envelope, I think a blank postcard is a sad one)...
If you could send a touristy postcard from the place that you live, those are my absolute favorites! I also love....
🐵Animals
🐝Bees
🐤Birds
🦋Butterflies
⛪️Chapels / churches / monasteries (photos, paintings, drawings, all types)
🌸Flowers
❤️Hearts
🎈Hot air balloons
🐞Insects
💌Postcrossing (meetups, Postcrossing themed, etc.)
🐰Rabbits
🌈Rainbows or rainbow colored things
🎆Stained glass
✨Special postcards (cork, wood, lenticular, shaped, seed packet, things like that)

For postage stamps, my current goal is to have one from every country, but if you want ideas for themes I like: (used/mint, on/off paper, any country)
My boyfriend Nick also collects postage stamps and participates in stamp swaps with me :)
🏛Architecture
🐤Birds
☀️Bright colors
🦋Butterflies
💯Commemoratives
🏁Flags
🌸Flowers
🍏Fruits and vegetables
❤️Hearts
🎈Hot air balloons
🚢Ocean liners
🌈Rainbows
🐰Rabbits
✨Special stamps (lenticular, clear, shiny, gold foiling, etc.)

-Click here for a list of countries I have and don't have-
-Click here for images of my collection-

A: Animals, art museums, adult coloring pages (I like the simple ones more as they can be finished in one sitting)
B: Bunnies, books, Bible verses, balloons, bees, butterflies, birds, bird houses, bright colors, baking, board games, Boggle
C: Cross stitching, cycling, cardinals, clouds
D: Decorated envelopes, dot-to-dot, Christian devotionals, doodles, Dali, deltiology (postcard collecting), Disneyland rides
E: Envelopes
F: Flowers, fauna, friendship bracelets, fruits
G: Games, gardening, Gustav Klimt
H: Hamsters, Harry Potter, hiking, handmade things, hearts, hot cocoa, hummingbirds, hot air balloons, Hokusai, hazelnut, Hogwarts
I: Ice cream, ivy
J: Jellyfish, Jesus, jigsaw puzzles, journaling
K: Kaleidoscope patterns, kittens, koi fish
L: Luna Lovegood, letters, lilacs, lavender, landscapes, ladybugs, lenticular things
M: Maps, Minecraft, mushrooms (red+white), magazine cutouts
N: Needlework, nature walks, national parks, natural history museums
O: Operation Christmas Child, orchestra, origami, outer space, outdoor running, oranges
P: Pink, plantable paper / postcards, penpals, plants, pomeranians, paper (scrapbooking, etc), pop-up cards, Peter Pan, painting, playing piano, pressed flora, peaches, postcards, philately (stamp collecting)
Q: Quidditch, quotes
R: Ravenclaw, running, rainbows, reading, rings, rock painting
S: Strawberries, stickers, stationery, stamps, Stardew Valley, sunshine, smiley faces, scripture, sustainable living, squirrels, snails, Scattergories
T: Thrifting, tap dancing, tea (fruity is my fav), tie dye
U: Upcycling, ukulele
V: Violin, vintage botanical art
W: Working out, whales, watercolor, wax seals, word games
Y: Yoga, YouTube
Z: Zentangle, zero waste

I always send my swaps out either by the due date or right after partners are assigned! If you live in the US, please let me know if you haven't received my swap 2 weeks after the deadline. If you are international, feel free to send me a message if it's been a while and you haven't received anything. I know with the pandemic there's a lot going on with the postal service in everyone's countries! :)

Feel free to send me a message if you're a newbie and would like to do a private swap with me, I know it can be hard to get ratings under your belt when you first join.

Just a few special things I've been looking for!

• "Please deliver to" labels for writing addresses
• Handwritten Bible verses
• Any magazine cutouts / magazine pages
• Strawberry, blueberry, or orange flavored teas
• Postcard books or box sets
• Paw Patrol or Winnie The Pooh stickers / stationery to send to my 3-year-old niece :)

Anything witchy (besides Harry Potter) / pagan / wiccan, as I am a Christian and just not into those things. I am okay with confetti as long as it isn't teeny tiny, but please do not send me loose glitter as my pet rabbit and hamsters could get into it.

Other than that, I'm not picky at all! Send me whatever makes you smile, it'll probably make me smile, too!

Letter updates for pen pals! Don't hesitate to send me a message if you would like to start a pen pal friendship with me 😊

🇧🇷Ana Paula dSA: Sent 10 Apr 21
🇧🇪Andy V: Sent 4 Oct 21
🇺🇸Autumn L: Sent 15 Apr 21
🇺🇸Barbara B: Sent 4 Oct 21
🇧🇪Bea DK: Sent 8 Oct 21
🇺🇸Brooke M: Sent 15 Oct 21
🇺🇸Carol S: Sent 28 Sep 21
🇳🇱Heidi vR: Sent 17 Oct 21
🇺🇸Jennifer dC: Sent 4 Oct 21
🇮🇳Karthik A: Sent 5 Oct 21
🇮🇹Laura M: Sent 15 Oct 21
🇺🇸Lynn O: Sent 14 Oct 21
🇺🇸Stephy M: Sent 25 Sep 21
🇳🇱Valery C: Sent 1 Oct 21
🇺🇸Victoria S: Sent 25 Sep 21