... And that's who I am

 

 

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Writing my way around the globe on Facebook!

You can now follow this blog on Facebook as well - just click here: 

https://www.facebook.com/writeglobe

"like" and you are part of the team!

I'll probably add some tinier pieces of post-related news etc. to the Facebook site only.

Voit nyt seurata tätä blogia myös Facebookissa - klikkaa vain tästä:

https://www.facebook.com/writeglobe

"tykkää" ja olet osa tiimiä!

Tulen todennäköisesti käyttämään Facebook-sivua pienempien "postiuutisten" jakamiseen.

The wonderful Etsy

Like I wrote some weeks ago, I ended up ordering some neat stationery at Etsy.com at the end of September. The first order from CuteThingsFromJapan was a success! I have used those tapes almost to every second postcard/envelope I have written since the day I got them.

My second order was placed at pikobeagle2000 - I ordered two tapes (surprise, surprise...) and some super cute Care Bears stickers. The envelope arrived within two weeks, and I was quite satisfied with these, too. The only "but" was, that the seller sent a wrong tape at first, but I immediately contacted her, and she promised to send the right one and told me to keep this wrong one as a gift. Well that's some excellent customer service, don't you think?

The stickers, I must say, were a lot better than what I expected - they are of very good quality and it's very smooth to use them on envelopes and cards. And when it comes to tapes... Well, if it has Moomins on it, it's usually neat enough:

The tape that I originally ordered arrived yesterday:

Etsy adventures and about the commenting

I used to visit Etsy.com quite often when it opened for the first time - I never bought anything (I was a minor back then), but enjoyed seeing all the neat photos and things people posted and sold there.

Some weeks ago I somehow ended up in Etsy again, after all these years, and I found out it had changed quite a bit - surprisingly (maybe not?!) the site had become much bigger than what it was, and there were - and are - all kind of things available. It did not take me long before I had found all the cute stationary people (mostly Japanese) were selling, and I simply could not resist.

So I placed, not one but two orders - here's the first of them! I decided to order mostly washitapes as they are a bit hard-to-get here. I simply adore these three tapes I got from Ayako, they're so neat! She very kindly included some extra stickers and washi samples, too. I'll reorder at her store for sure.

The one and only sad thing about this are the customs and the taxes one need to pay for goods bought outside the EU, in case the order is worth more than 22 euros. This means that it's no use placing very big orders as the supplemental expenses would increase quite rapidly.

What kind of experiences do you have with Etsy or maybe you have considered purchasing there? Please share in the comment section!

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P.S. I enabled the anonymous commenting - now anyone reading this blog may leave a comment. I hope it helps as I think there are quite many of you who don't have Google accounts etc. Hope to hear from you!

In Finnish: Mahdollistin nyt myös anonyymin kommentoinnin, eli kuka tahansa tätä blogia lukeva voi nyt jättää kommentin ilman rekisteröitymistä Googleen tai vastaaviin tahoihin. Toivottavasti tämä helpottaa keskusteluun osallistumista - nähdään kommenttipuolella!

Writing my way around the globe... at Instagram!

Hello folks!

Just a quick notice for you who are using Instagram as well: I have a profile there now as well, so you can follow me via that site, too:

http://instagram.com/animismi

I'm a newbie on this, but I THINK I will post at least partly different photos as in the blog itself as I'm taking my phone pretty much whenever I go, so... This expands possibilities for sure. And I KNOW that not everyone can install the application (I belonged to that group of people until now, so I fee you...), but luckily you can see all the photos via that link given even though you can not "follow" follow the updates.

See you there - and here as well! I love the very idea of just "blogs" so much that I am not abandoning this site. I just hope I can complete this hobby with the help of Instagram.

Let me know what you think!