By Fiep

Fiep Westendorp's cards are one of my favorites to receive from the Netherlands - and lately I have been lucky to find several of them in my mailbox:

Fiep Westendorpin kortit ovat yksiä suosikkejani mitä alankomaalaisiin postikortteihin tulee - ja viime aikoina olen ollut melkoisen onnekas ja saanut niitä useammankin kappaleen:

 

official card from the Netherlands

artwork by Fiep Westendorp

 

official card from the Netherlands

artwork by Fiep Westendorp

 

official card from the Netherlands

artwork by Fiep Westendorp

Stamps and illustrations

I guess I have written this thousand times, but I'll say it once more: Dick Bruna and Fiep Westendorp belong to my all-time favorite illustrators. So, maybe it is no wonder that I found these stamps especially cool...

Olen varmaan kirjoittanut tämän tänne satoja kertoja, mutta menköön nyt vielä kerran: Dick Bruna ja Fiep Westendorp ovat yksiä kaikkien aikojen suosikkikuvittajiani. Ei siis liene ihme, että nämä postimerkit miellyttivät silmääni erityisen paljon...

 

Japan

 

Japan

 

the Netherlands

 

the Netherlands

 

the Netherlands

Official cards: Coincidences, part I

I received all these cards on the same day - they all belong to the same series of cards and they were sent by four individual people. And yet they are all different!

Sain nämä kortit samana päivänä - kaikki kuuluvat samaan korttisarjaan ja ne tulivat neljältä eri ihmiseltä. Siitä huolimatta kaikki ovat keskenään erilaisia!

 

official card from the Netherlands

artwork by Dick Bruna

 

official card from the Netherlands

artwork by Fiep Westendorp

 

official card from the Netherlands

artwork by Fiep Westendorp

 

official card from the Netherlands

artwork by Fiep Westendorp

Mail art from the Netherlands

This funny little envie arrived last week - I love such mail!

Tämä hauska kirjekuori saapui viime viikolla - rakastan tällaista postia!

 

official card from the Netherlands

Incoming mail for 23/4

official card from the Netherlands

artwork by Fiep Westendrop

official card from Indonesia

official card from Taiwan

official card from Australia

official card from the USA

photo by Scott Taylor

Incoming from the Netherlands

swap from the Netherlands

artwork by Fiep Westendorp

swap from the Netherlands

swap from the Netherlands

swap from the Netherlands

swap from the Netherlands

swap from the Netherlands 

swap from the Netherlands

This week's lot

Hello!

It's been a while, but cards have kept pouring into our mailbox anyway. Here are all the great postcards that I have received between Monday and Wednesday this week:

official card from Germany

artwork by Wolfgang Nocke: "Fata Morgana"

swap from Finland

swap from Finland

artwork by Sven Nordqvist

swap from Finland

swap from Finland

artwork by Martta Wendelin

favorite tag from China

official card from China

official card from Belarus

official card from Hungary

official card from Belarus

artwork by Yury Podverbny

official card from Switzerland

photo by R. Gerth

IG swap from the USA

official card from the Netherlands

artwork by Ella Riemersma

official card from Ireland

swap from the UK

swap from Austria

photo by Fred Fogherty

swap from Austria

swap from Austria

swap from Austria

photo by Dietmar Sochor

private from the UK

swap from Norway

swap from Norway

photo by Henrik Montgomery

swap from Norway

artwork by Lali

swap from Norway

artwork by Fiep Westendorp

swap from Japan

official card from Russia

artwork by Jacob Jordaens: "Cleopatra's Feast", 1653

swap from the USA

concept art by Mary Blair

swap from the UK

official card from the Netherlands

concept art by Daniela Strijleva

official card from Ukraine

artwork by Natalia Derevyanko