Tuesday, April 28, 2020

My LEGO and Minion Wedding Cake for International Postcard Week

Happy International Postcard Week
October 7-13, 2018

To celebrate International Postcard Week this year I am sending a picture of my wedding cake!  I married Jack in April so my name is now Brenda Cole.  We had the funnest wedding anyone has ever had!  (We were married on April 28, 2018.)

Take care,
Mrs. Brenda Cole

The theme of our wedding was Star Wars, Minion, and LEGO!

limited edition of 100

This was postmarked in 2018.
USA stamp 2016
Legends of Hollywood
Shirley Temple 1928 - 2014
Forever first class

Thursday, April 23, 2020

Advertisement for the Auction of The Home of Shakespeare

Shakspeare's (Shakespeare's) House
Stratford-on-Avon
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Mr. Robins
feels highly flattered at having been selected 
by the representatives of the late Mr. Thomas Court, 
to submit to public competition
At the auction mart, London
On Thursday, 19th of September, 1847
at twelve O'clock
The Truly Heart-Stirring Relic
of a most glorious period, and of
England's 
IMMORTAL BARD
The most honored monument of the greatest genus that ever lived.  

The sender writes:
Hi Brenda
We saw 5 plays in London and 5 plays in Stratford, loved most of them.  I could have stayed in Stratford longer.  

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This wood postcard was postmarked in 2019 from England.  It is of a paper advertisement to announce that the house in which Shakespeare was born and brought up in was going up for auction. After Shakespeare owned it, it remained in his family with his sister Joan Hart until is was sold to Thomas Court in 1806. 

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I know there are a lot of Shkespeare fans, however, to call him 'The Greatest Genus That Ever Lived', might be a bit of a stretch.  

Great Britain stamp 2019
Queen Elizabeth II, 1.35 P

Tuesday, April 14, 2020

Peter Capaldi

National Portrait Gallery

Peter Capaldi
Photo by Paul Stuart, June 2014

The purchase of this postcard supports the National Portrait Gallery, London.

This postcard was postcard in 2017 from Finland.

The sender writes:

I saw the episode where Doctor Who lost his sight.  I'm not sure if I want to see the next episode!  I just LOVE Capaldi!

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Peter Dougan Capaldi (born 14 April 1958) is a Scottish actor, writer and director. He portrayed the twelfth incarnation of the Doctor in Doctor Who and Malcolm Tucker the spin doctor in The Thick of It, for which he has received four British Academy Television Award nominations, winning Best Male Comedy Performance in 2010.

Finland stamp 2016
WWF, Endangered Species
Nehalennia speciosa
Damselfly 
1 LK KL  
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Finland stamp 2017
Birds, Arktika
Clangula hyemalis
Long-tailed duck
0,10

Sunday, April 12, 2020

Happy Easter!

"What happened to your hand?"

Greater love hath no man that this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
John 15:13

Artist: Lars Justinen

The sender writes:
Jesus is my Rock in times of trouble.