A Few More Postcards, A Few More Smiles

On the 7th of August, I received RU-3845829, it was a super cute one too. It totally surprised me, because I sort of forgot about Postcrossing when most of my cards that I sent expired... I wasn't aware that Postcrossing let you get more postcards to make up for the lost ones. Not too much of a fan of that though, because when the cards that I send get registered, I won't get one back until I send enough to balance it... 

From a user in Sverdlovsk, Russia. (No idea where that is!)

I then discovered the forum - well, I knew about it for a long time. The reason I didn't sign up until 2 months later is because... (brace yourself, I'm going to sound like a huge idiot) I thought you were supposed to use the same login credentials from the website on the forum!!! I tried logging in so many times with my username and password from the website until I realized you had to make a new, separate account! 

Anyway, I discovered all the goodness and joys of the forum, but was a total newbie at this whole thing, and I'm not the type of person to read the manual that comes with a box, so you can imagine how clueless I was. The first thing that I discovered was the Travelling Notebooks, and I was soooo fascinated by how it works, so I started one myself. However, it got lost. Here's the cover of that notebook:

I made it myself! Pretty sad that it's gone, but hey, at least I got a good pic of the cover!

I also discovered tags, and found the Canada-to-Canada tag! I was so very happy, because the postal rates here are not so nice... I don't believe I have a picture of any of the postcards I sent, but I do have a scan of the first postcard I received from that tag.  

From a very nice user in Ottawa!

Can we take a moment to appreciate these stamps??

I also swapped with a member from China and Canada! 

A photo she took herself! 

A very pretty postcard from China.

The last postcard that was sent and received was to Germany, CA-555082! It's a prepaid postcard of the CN Tower. She even added a description, which is quite rare, because most people don't add a description (like me).

Her description was: The CN Tower looms over the Rogers Centre and the rest of Toronto.

And that was how my summer of 2015 was spent! 

-Evelyn