A funny card from Christmas Island

This awesome postcard was send by Amanda from Christmas Island

It's my first card from there, so it's very special to me :)

On the card we see a bunch of 'Gecarcoidea natalis', also known as Red crabs

These sort of crabs live only on Christmas Island

An interesting fact about them: they have such a hard skeleton that they can even

break a car's tire! That's why rangers on Christmas Island build fences along heavily 

traveled roads to prevent people from driving over a red crab

Even the postmark shows a crab! :)

Do you have a special animal that only lives at your place?
In Belgium, we have some special breeds of cows, chickens, horses and dogs
But my favourite? It's the 'Flemish Giant-rabbit' :)

Thank you Amanda for this colourfull postcard! I just love it! :)

3 postcards from Italy

My aunt and uncle visited Rome, Italy last month

and brought me 3 colourfull postcards :)

 

About 5 years ago, I visited Rome too and I loved it very much (especially the ice cream! ^^ )

Who else has been there already? :) What did you like the most about Italy?

What to do on a lazy Sunday... :)

 Yay, it's Sunday!

Time to sent out some postcards to people all over the world :)

Here's my pink 'bag of Happiness', because whenever I open it, 

I know I'm gonna do fun stuff :)

So what's in it?

First of all, of course, my collection of postcards

I go shopping for cards every 2-3 months, because it's a good excuse

to visit a big city or have lunch with a friend :)

I usually buy my cards in a small souvenir shop in Antwerpen, which is close to my hometown

The man who sells cards already knows me... A while ago he brought a box of old postcards for me,

that I could have for free! 

He's such a nice man and I can't even think about buying my cards elsewhere :p

I know that Belgian postcards are not really 'special', because it's not a so-called rare country

But... we do have attractive things! ^^

Last year I took these free entrance tickets for the Atomium and Mini Europe (great 

touristic places in Brussels, capital city of Belgium) and I like to add them to the cards that I send

Another thing that I like to add are small chocolates, wrapped with paintings of old Belgian houses

Yummy! ^^

Finally, I use stickers and pencils to decorate my cards

Last weekend I've bought some washi-tape too, the first tape shows paintings of camera's

and the other tape says: 'Enjoy the blue skies'

Colourfull stickers, flowers & cats & stars

My washi-tape! ^^

Now I can't wait to go back to my postcards again :)

How do you decorate your cards? How much time do you spent on it?

How important do you find it to receive decorated cards?

Have a nice Sunday! :)