Jade Hutchinson

There are people who say Unicorns don't exist. Animal lovers know better, and here is the beautiful proof!

Some say the Unicorn is a horse who got his horn from a Narwhal, others say the Narwhal owes his or her unicorn to the Unicorn. Which of these is true, I wouldn't know.
Fact is that this is the very first Unicorn who reached my mailbox (apart from a call for unicorn mail art in the past).

Created and sent by Jade Hutchinson.
Thank you very much, Jade!

Claudia / Creative Shell

On instagram of course I get attracted by Snail pictures, of Mail Snail, common Snails and all kinds of Snails more.
One very interesting snaily account is Snail a Day. I was so lucky to exchange snail mail with the creator, Claudia from Scotland. She drew me this wonderful Snail party. Besides the Snails, you also can see Worms and Bees being happy!

Also the envelope is great:



Inside the envelope, among a kind message and more pictures, Claudia added these wonderful Snail photos:







Thank you very much, Claudia!

Richard Baudet (3)

As you can see, Richard Baudet is famous for his wonderful calligraphy.

I was very happy to receive two returns to my 'what or whom is she staring at?' card, which both had this word 'Postcard' in awesome callighraphy on the back side. He is a great collage maker and designer, too!

On one of the front sides Richard had added this animal.
I don't know if you know the 2007 story of Bokito? Somehow this picture reminds me of that. However I think this lady a bit more wise: always keep your mouth closed when the Silverback is nearby, as the monkey might interprete showing your teeth as a sign of agression.



This and the other returns I hope to post on the what or whom is she staring at?' blog soon.

Merci beaucoup, Richard!

Grethe Bjørnhaug

This beautiful mixed media spring Chicken has been created by Grethe Bjørnhaug from Danmark.



The outside of the envelope appears to be a home to Fish. On the back side a beautiful rubber stamp printed one, and less lucky fish in front, on the postage stamps.



Grethe also added the answer to my question: 'What is she staring at?'.
An elephant, of course!



Thank you very much, mange tak, Grethe!

Tonipoet (2)

This great big-Bear envelope created and sent by Tonipoet!



Inside Toni added some more animals to my add-and-pass: a smaller and a bigger Cat.



Thank you very much, Toni!

Ti Ar Raden (3)

This wonderful Goldfish, designed by Ti Ar Raden, was sent on a special day: 29th of February, also known as Leap Day ('Schrikkeldag' in Dutch). You can see this special date on the postmark, thanks to Ti Ar who went to the post office especially for this!

I am posting this Goldfish on an other special day. Today is the very first day of Spring in the northern hemisphere: the sun crosses the celestial equator and equalizes night and day. This astronomical vernal or northward equinox marks the beginning of spring in our northern hemisphere.
For the ones who wonder what a Goldfish has to do with this: in exact the same time (this year on 20th of March, 4.30 am UTC or 5.30 am European time) Now Ruz starts, the Persian New Year!
Part of the celebrations is keeping or buying a goldfish (see for instance the Iranian movie 'The White Balloon'). The bowl of water with goldfish (Pisces) represents life within life.

Both in front and on the back Ti Ar added great clock stamps. Which makes the circle round: clocks also were exchanged by Ti Ar, me and a few more mail art colleagues: to celebrate New Year's Eve on 31th of December, so for the European New Year!



Thank you very much, trugarez bras, Ti Ar!

Zhu Enyan

Thanks to postcrossing this awesome painting arrived in my mailbox. This beautiful Bird has been created by Zhu Enyan from China.

On the back side she added a cute Panda and bamboo, and beautiful stamps as well.



Thank you very much, 谢谢你。Zhu Enyan!