Private Swap - USA
Royal wedding and christening cards! Thank you, Alison!
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Private Swap - USA
A map card from Wyoming! The famous scented stamps! They smell like watermelon and bubble gum! Super cool! I'm sad that USPS had to cancel the stamps so many times and they are covered in a lot of ink. Thank you, Elena!
#337 USA
An official Postcrossing card from the USA featuring am In Our America flag. In response to the 2016 election, a group of Portland, OR women decided to support an era of activism, democracy, and resistance. They are Nasty Women Get Shit Done PDX. Beautiful stamps! Thank you, Sue!
#335 USA
An official Postcrossing card from the USA. Montpelier, home of President James Madison, Father of the Constitution, and his wife, Dolley, is located amid the beauty of Virginia's lush Piedmont. The 2650-acre estate is nestled in the rolling foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, four miles south of Orange, Virginia. Absolutely love the stamp! Thank you, Jeni!
#328 USA
A first official Postcrossing card for my daughter's account! The card came with a beautiful Oscar de la Renta design stamp and also a Wonder Woman one. Thank you Becky!
#322 USA
Have a look at the blog that Grace writes: http://www.lookgrace.blogspot.com.es/ Thank you Grace!
#321 USA
Eva Gonzales (French, 1849-1883). The Peonies and the Beetle , 1871-1872. Oil canvas, 26x35cm. Thank you Andrea!
Private Swap - USA
Queen Silvia of Sweden (1943) is the Queen consort of King Carl XVI Gustaf of Sweden. Styled Her Majesty The Queen , Silvia is the mother of the heir apparent to the throne, Crown Princess Victoria. Before her marriage to the King of Sweden, Silvia Sommerlath worked at the Argentine Consulate in Munich, was an educational host during the 1972 Summer Olympics in Munich, and served as the Deputy Head of Protocol for the Winter Games in Innsbruck in Austria. She also was briefly a flight attendant. She is a trained interpreter and speaks six languages: Swedish, her native languages German and Portuguese, as well as French, Spanish, and English. She has some fluency in Swedish Sign Language, a national sign language used by the deaf community in Sweden. ( source ) Thank you Richard!
Random Act of Smileness
Seems that I have been selected to receive a Random Act of Smileness! The Bingham Canyon Mine is an open-pit mining operation extracting a large porphyry copper deposit southwest of Salt Lake City, Utah, USA, in the Oquirrh Mountains. It is the deepest open-pit mine in the world. The mine has been in production since 1906, and has resulted in the creation of a pit over 1.2 km deep, 4 km wide, and covering 7.7 km². According to Kennecott, it is the world's largest man-made excavation. It was designated a National Historic Landmark in 1966 under the name Bingham Canyon Open Pit Copper Mine. ( source ) Thank you so much Tina (mmtnsage)!
RR #99 USA
The current flag of the U.S. state of Georgia was adopted on May 8, 2003. It has three red and white stripes and the state coat of arms on a blue field in the upper left corner. Thirteen stars surrounding the seal denotes Georgia's position as one of the original thirteen colonies. On the seal three pillars supporting an arch represent the three branches of government; legislative, judicial and executive. A man with sword drawn is defending the Constitution, whose principles are wisdom, justice and moderation. The date 1776 represents the signing of the Declaration of Independence. ( source ) Thank you Naomi!
#290 USA
South Carolina state flag. Crescent portion of the flag was designed by Col. William Moultrie in 1775 to match the emblem worn on the hats of S.C. troops and the color of their uniforms. Palmetto tree added later to represent Moultrie’s heroic defense of the palmetto-log fort on Sullivan’s Island against the attack of the British fleet on June 28, 1776. (from the card) Thank you Carly!