A Postcrossing Adventure: Weeks 5 & 6

Week 5

 

 

// outgoing:

 

 

As it seems to be taking a phenomenally long time for most of the postcards I've sent over the past few weeks to get to their destinations, I decided to reduce my outgoing this week to TWO cards.

 

Postcrossing only allows its members to have a certain number of cards "in transit" at any one time. Only when those cards have been registered by the recipient can the sender then send more cards. When it is taking up to a month for a card to reach its destination (or be registered, whichever it happens to be), it begins to impact upon the number of postcards I can send each week.

 

So, this week I sent an Australian dinosaur to Germany (AU-324792), and Alice not to Wonderland, but to Singapore (AU-325105). Both were sent from Sydney.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Week 6

 

 

// outgoing:

 

This week I sent out another TWO cards: A card of Irish humour, together with some tea and coins has gone out The Netherlands (AU-327281), whilst a fun Mail-a-Saurus (which makes me giggle every time I read it) went out to the Ukraine (AU-327285).

 

 

 

I received no Postcrossing cards this fortnight.

 

 

 

Postcrossing postcards sent to date: 16

All time: 72

 

 

Postcrossing postcards received to date: 13

All time: 75

365 Mail Art Project: Weeks 23 & 24

Autumn and Saint Patrick's Day were my inspiration for the last two weeks of mail art; stampers were my craft tool of choice.

 

 

 

#76 of 365:

Autumn leaves for Lina in Lithuania.

 

 

Clover leaf postcards for Saint Patrick's Day (clockwise from top):

#77 of 365 for Alison in Australia;

#78 of 365 for Rin in Australia;

#79 of 365 for Janice Marie in Australia.

 

 

#80 of 365:

Busy fern leaves in what was supposed to be the colours of dusk for Nicola in Australia.

 

 

#81 of 365:

Falling maple leaves for Laura in Australia.

 

 

#82 of 365:

I used stampers and watercolour paints to make matching paper and envelope for Sarah in USA.

 

Kiss Me (I'm Irish)

[Me - a few years younger than what I am now - at Fore Abbey in Ireland]

 

 

Tomorrow is St Patrick's Day. I don't participate in the celebrations but I do find it a good day to reflect on where my family originates and how I came to be a South Australian. Like many Australians I have Irish ancestry; it is something that has always been assumed but in the process of researching my family history I have been able to confirm it with at least one set of great x4 grandparents (Isaac and Catharine) originating from Londonderry in Northern Ireland. They came out to South Australia as free settlers in the mid-1800s, eventually establishing their own farm at Bundaleer. As I continue to research my family tree I've no doubt I'll find further connections to the Emerald Isle (to not would just be odd).

 

Earlier in the week I received an email from Aine Greaney (author of Dance Lessons) advising that in "celebration" of St Patrick's Day (and all things Irish) she is providing access to three of her short stories on the theme Infidelity, Irish style via her website.

 

I wanted to share this information with you earlier but work committments kept me from the blog until now and I missed story #1 (Wednesdays). However, story #2 (La Belle Femme) is currently available for reading, and the third (What the Body Remembers) will be up in time for St Patrick's Day. So, if you are interested in some contemporary Irish fiction then I suggest to head over to Aine's website. Her work is lovely. And it's free.

 

Now, tell me: What is your connection to Ireland?