When Hubby went away for work, I decided I wanted to get myself a few penpals to help kill the time over the next few months. In doing that I stumbled across this site called Postcrossing! Its where you send and receive postcards from all over the world.
So I sent out my first 5 postcards straight away. Then waited patiently. I think it took about 3 weeks for my first one to register as received. Once mine started to register as being received I then would get some posted to me. So then I waited patiently again.
Yaaaaahooo I finally received my first postcard! From Belgium, and not long after I got one from Finland. How exciting.
This got me wondering, how I was going to store them all. Throw them in a shoe box? Scrapbook, ohh I have no idea.
It was about anther week or 2 before number 3 turned up. Boy oh boy was it a disappointment. Really turned me off. I spend all this money on beautiful quality cards.... and BAM I get a piece of shitty cardboard. Yep that's right. a shitty bit of cardboard. I get it some people don't have much money and that's fine, but send me a piece of cardboard with a nice picture on it. Maybe even draw me a nice picture. I won't lie. I was pretty sour about it for a couple days. It came from the USA.
So then not knowing if I wanted to continue this Postcrossing thing, incase I received more crap.... a blessing happened. I received a beautiful postcard from Moscow, Russia of, I am assuming the Northern Lights?
As you can imagine, this card got me all excited again. Which is great because the today I received from 2 different people. An arrangement of card from Adelaide, in Australia.
I think I will be doing regular swaps with this lady =)
Then I also got this cute card from Germany!
So I guess the odds arn't to bad then. One bad card in 11 is ok.
I defiantly can't wait to receive more from around the world =)
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Until tomorrow
Beck xx
