Greatful to..Postcrossing

Its been more than a month since I began Postcrossing and I have to say it's a delight getting to know people in addition to little fun facts about their country and them. The myriad of hand writings, stamps and the love that goes in selecting a postcard for a postcrosser whom you have never met is inexplicable. Of all that I know its a beautiful sweet gesture on one postcrosser's part to make a random postcrosser happy:)

Sharing with you some of my postcards.....
My very first postcard

This postcrosser from Sweden very kindly thought of sending me an Eiffel Tower which
was on my 'wish' list. Yet I think why from Sweden:P

A lovely, chirpy postcrosser from Georgia, USA, Beth. She was
contacted through direct swap and wrote back to me the next day:)

The following ones are some of the postcards received by some special people ( not postcrossers). I deeply cherish these ones:) -

Matterhorn Mountain Peak, Lying at the Swizz-Italy Border,
one of the highest peak in Alps

If this is how beautiful Switzerland is in a postcard,
I imagine how it would be for real:)

I wholeheartedly cherish this one sent to me by my brother
from USHUAIA, World's Southern Most city in Argentina

This was given to me by a sweet junior who went to Paris with her dad

Some of the postcards I sent across:

An Elephant decorated in Jaipur during the Elephant Festival
that is celebrated in the month of March with Holi

                      

Lord Krishna with gopis: Vastrharan

               

This one is a mughal painting which has been re-painted
to its utmost detail

Need I say more, my love for postcrossing? ;)

Happy Weekend
Aakriti

Dreamy Land #1: Venice

Dreamy land #1

Now that I have begun postcrossingJ I’ll be writing about places across the world and in India which are on my wishlist!:) Who doesn’t love travelling?

Courtesy my parents, I have travelled a great deal!

So, the first place I have been dreaming about for long is Venice: The city of Shylock, Portia, Antonio; Gondolas, splendour, sharm, exquisiteness, richness; with romance, architecture and history as it’s treasures. I happened to read VirSanghvi’s luxury post on Venice, in the issue of 15^th April in Brunch MagazineJ

So here is my love to thee :     

Venice

Thy charm breath taking

Lost in your waters; the rich

And the ancient

I know not of you

Yet somehow I do, Venice

May winds bring me there

©© Aakriti 

P.S: Those of you new here, do read about the Postcrossing Project:) It may just excite you! 

        Link given above:) 

The postcard crossing Project

The postcard crossing Project

Dear Lord of Mail Service

I hope my very first postcard reaches the coming week. Trust me it’ll make my day!:)

Love

Aakriti

Haloos Vanilla People!!

I gotta share something really exciting with all of you. Before that, a brief intro: I have always been a person who has loved writing. While learning Calligraphy is still on my list, I would often imagine myself writing letters to people on a beautiful crafted handmade paper with that gorgeous ink pen!

I happened to hop on this ‘postcrossing.com’ last year through an international blogger whose blog I follow. This site is basically a place where you send postcards to random people across the world and receive postcards from random people across the world!

Ofcourse it’s a hobby! I have already sent my first five postcards: one each to Netherlands,  Germany and Russia and two to USA.

The website keeps your address confidential and there is an option of ‘direct’ swapping, wherein once your first postcard gets delivered, people can write to you asking to write them without the website being involved in it. That is why it is called ‘direct’!

The best thing is that to maintain the authenticity of the member, you cannot go ahead sending people messages to ask for their address until and unless your first postcard gets delivered! So, I hope now you understand the reason for my letter above:P

It’s snail mail and one needs to be really patient. Me being a not so patient person is still involved in it, for the mere reason that it brings back the old world charm back to me!

I took my friend along to the Kashmere gate GPO and purchased some gorgeous stamps from the philately department. Stamped it and dropped it in the huge post box. She said “It’s been long since I saw a post box”. Oh yes babeh!;)

For all that I know this is going to be an exciting hobby for me! And yes you have the option to send postcards to people in your own country too. There are people out there who are ready to be your penpals or exchange gifts with you!:)

I’m definitely super excited!:)

Check out this postcard gallery on postcrossing!

What do you think about this idea?

PS: If any of you is willing to get a hand written letter from me, lemme knowJ I love writing and receiving themJ

PPS: I’ll definitely share my first postcard whenever it arrivesJ