Here’s Mud (or Something) in Your Eye: Sent to Finland, South Africa, & the U.S.

I kinda love this entire batch.  Your results may vary (you can let me know).

It’s an all swap-bot entry this time, with 5 cards going out in two different swaps.  The top three, somewhat defaced, cards are off in a trade of “modified postcards.”

That poor kitty is off to a leopard lover in Kloof, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.  As I told her, I don’t believe in dressing up animals, but since it was already sporting the ornate collar, I decided it was just fancy like that.

The kid on the right: what’s that in his face?  According to the postcard’s caption, it’s Nutella, but it doesn’t look like Nutella to me.  To me, it looks like poo, or even worse, caramel.  In any case, the Peanuts gang had better wash up good.  The card will go to a swapper in Park Ridge, Illinois.

Speaking of the Peanuts gang, Hydra Lucy & Victim Schroeder will go to a Peanuts lover in Rovaniemi, Finland.  Hail Lucy!

The other two cards are off in a trade of upcycled postcards.  My toy-pusher in Singapore sent me the gift of very cool Mr. White Cloud & Little Raindrop figures, and ever since, I had been saving the package to send off as postcards.  This is off to the creator of this particular swap, who is in Dalview, Gauteng, South Africa.

I tried a new veggie burger this week, and I liked it!  The Hodo Soy Tofu Veggie Burgers were nice & firm, a far cry from the mushy, mushy Dr. Praeger’s I had previously been eating.  I saved the box for my snail mail habit, and off it goes to Goleta, California.

The backs of the cards are fun, too–at least I think so!

Received from: Canada, Finland & Germany

A nice trio, all from swap-bot trades:

Starting with the upper right card, which I love:

From Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, this correspondent tells me:

“I… laughed when I read about your toys on the beach… I put this dino in my balcony garden (made postcards of the shot) and wrote people about ‘how bad the garden pests were this year.’  Too much fun!”

This card brightened my mailbox so much.  It is, I think, the 2nd user-created toy postcard I’ve received since beginning my Postcrossing/swap-bot adventure, and I hope to see many, many more!

The card with the gorgeous lions comes from Garbsen, Germany, a town in the district of Hanover.  What an amazing shot!   I am long overdue to visit my local zoos–and now, to pick up some postcards while I am there.

The last of the trio comes from Rovaniemi, Finland, where the sender tells me the middle bridge on this card translates as “Lumberjack Candle,” and is her favorite sight to show tourists & visiting friends.

Cool stamps on all 3 cards:

I especially love those li’l foxes!