Cabbage Patch Kids - Jacqueline

Milords and Miladies - Jacqueline, the Jingling Jester is at your command! Limited to only 500 - the smallest edition in the Circus Parade Series - this hand-sculpted Cabbage Patch Kid is sure to be a highly collectible work of art.

unused, from 1997

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Cabbage Patch Kids are a doll brand created by Debbie Morehead and Xavier Roberts in 1978. The original dolls were all cloth and sold at local craft shows, then later at Babyland General Hospital in Cleveland, Georgia. The doll brand went on to become one of the most popular toy fads of the eighties and one of the longest-running doll franchises in America.

Pepsi, Shaped postcard from Hungary

alkoss jatssz elj tobbet - Pepsi postcard from Hungary!

LOVE IT!! - this postcard is shaped around the 'bubbles'

postmarked with Magyarorszag (Hungary) 'sofa' stamp in 2007

Coca-Cola in Russia

Coca-Cola advertising postcard from Russia - the sender translates, "All be coca-cola. Be inspired" -

postmarked in 2007 with Russia 7.0c Santa stamp (Made out of felt or a foam like material, very cool!) and a 12p huge Russian stamp with scenes like you would see in a castle tapestry

Mermaid Legend, Huacachina, Peru

Laguna de Huacachina, Ica - Peru

Lake of Huacachina, Ica - Peru

postmarked in 1971 with a Peru Stamp: 1968 National Dignity Day 4.00

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Legend holds that this lagoon was created when a beautiful native princess was apprehended at her bath by a young hunter. She fled, leaving the pool of water she had been bathing in to become the lagoon. The folds of her mantle, streaming behind her as she ran, became the surrounding sand dunes. And the woman herself is rumored to still live in the oasis as a mermaid.

Reality sucks .....

Reality sucks...
Zin in een filmdate?

this is an unused Boomerang postcard from Belgium - from 2008 -

It is an advertisement for Utopolis Cinemas

(Reminds me of the scene from 'Free Willy!)

Jelly Roll Morton

Covering Blues

Jelly Roll Morton 123/24 (MCD-47018-2) - Classic Jazz

Jelly Roll Morton, piano; King Oliver, cornet; Tommy Ladnier, cornet; Roy Palmer, trombone; Wilson Townes, clarinet, alto saxophone; Charles Harris, alto saxophone; Boyd Senter, clarinet; Jasper Taylor, wood block; and others
Recorded 1923 - 1924

unused

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Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton (1880s – July 10, 1941) was an American ragtime and early jazz pianist, bandleader and composer.
Widely recognized as a pivotal figure in early jazz, Morton claimed, in self-promotional hyperbole, to have invented jazz outright in 1902. Morton was the first serious composer of jazz, naming and popularizing the "Spanish tinge" of exotic rhythms and penning such standards as "Wolverine Blues", "Black Bottom Stomp", and "Buddy Bolden's Blues".

The Williamsburg Bridge, New York City

Williamsburg Bridge, New York.

Illustrated Post Card Co, N.Y.

postmarked in 1906 with a 1 cent Franklin stamp

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The Williamsburg Bridge is a suspension bridge in New York City across the East River connecting the Lower East Side of Manhattan with the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn on Long Island.

Construction on the bridge, the second to cross this river, began in 1896, and the bridge opened on December 19, 1903 at a cost of $12,000,000.


The Williamsburg Bridge appears in the following movies:
Once Upon a Time in America, The Lost Weekend (1945), The Naked City (1948), Johnny Suede (1991), Scent of a Woman (1992), American Gangster (2007), Serpico (1973), the 1973 James Bond film Live and Let Die, The French Connection (1971), and The Naked Brothers Band.

The bridge is also mentioned several times in the novel A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1943) by Betty Smith

The AIDS Quilt in Washington D.C.

The AIDS Quilt, Viewed from the Washington Monument - Washington D.C.

postmarked with Liberty Bell 'Forever' stamp in 2007

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Founded in 1987, The AIDS Memorial Quilt is a poignant memorial, a powerful tool for use in preventing new HIV infections, and the largest ongoing community arts project in the world.

Each "block" (or section) of The AIDS Memorial Quilt measures approximately twelve feet square, and a typical block consists of eight individual three foot by six foot panels sewn together. Virtually every one of the more than 40,000 colorful panels that make up the Quilt memorializes the life of a person lost to AIDS.

As the epidemic continues claiming lives around the world and here in the United States, the Quilt continues to grow and to reach more communities with its messages of remembrance, awareness and hope.

Hand Painted Watercolor from Malaysia

Hand painted postcard: 'Somewhere in Malaysia'

This postcard was postmarked in 2009 with a Malaysia bird stamp.

Someone who was on my postcard blog painted this for me on watercolor thick paper and sent it to me as a gift postcard! How amazing is that!

Walt Disney World 'pull tab' postcard

Walt Disney World

The gang's all here!

side 1. Cinderella Castle at the Magic Kindom
side 2. Wishes - Nighttime Spectacular

unused - bought in 2009

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This is a postcard bought at one of the resorts inside Walt Disney World. If you 'pull out gently' the tab, you will see this view .....

Walt Disney World 'pull tab' postcard

Walt Disney World

Princess
Royalty is always in season.

side 1. Jasmine, Cinderella, Snow White
side 2. Aurora, Belle, Ariel

unused - bought in 2009

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This is a postcard bought at one of the resorts inside Walt Disney World. If you 'pull out gently' the tab, you will see this view .....

Chinese Sharpei Dog

Chinese Sharpei

unused, from 2009

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The Shar Pei or Chinese Shar-Pei is a breed of dog known for its distinctive features of deep wrinkles and a blue-black tongue. The breed comes from China.

As puppies, Shar Pei have numerous wrinkles, but as they mature, these wrinkles disappear as they "grow into their skin". Shar Pei were once named as one of the world's rarest dog breeds by Time magazine and the Guinness Book of World Records, and the American Kennel Club did not recognize the breed until 1991.

Triglav Mountain Top in Slovenia, Aljaz Tower

Alazev stopl na Triglauvu, najvisje stopece delo cloviskih rok
(iz knjige Toma Jesenicnika: Slovenija v preseznikih)

postmarked in 2009 with two stamps from Slovenia

The sender writes:

This postcard is from the collection published about Slovenian Superlatives ( Biggest, Highest .. etc.) It shows the top of the Triglav Mountain in Julian Alps. Triglav is our Highest Mountain (2864 m) and its name meand three-headed ( tri- three, glava-head) due to its three peaks. On the top of it is the highest man-made object. In Slovenia - Aljaz Tower. It was designed and erected by the priest Jakob Aljaz at the end of the 19th century. We were under the Austro-Hungarian Empire at that time and Jakob purchased the peak in the hope of increasing the interest of foreigners in the Slovenian Mountains.