Monthly Archives: February 2013

My Very First Harry Potter Postcard!

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postcards, special postcards, UK

I am such a Harry Potter addict! I read all the books {twice or three times each!} and watched all the movies over and over again, too! That is why it has been a long-time dream to have a few Harry Potter postcards in my collection. I have actually swapped with someone from Australia and the UK for a couple of HP postcards last year. Unfortunately, I was not able to receive the envelopes they sent me which contained 3 to 4 HP cards each. It was really heartbreaking and I am still hoping I will get those envelopes, but it seemed like the chances are getting slimmer as months passed by 🙁

Gilly, bless her generous heart, was more than willing to send me another card when she found out that I was not able to get the ones she previously sent. And what do you know, I got the card a few days ago and I simply love it! It was a 3D Hologram Harry Potter postcard featuring Draco Malfoy, Severus Snape, Hermione Granger and  Bellatrix Lestrange. Hopefully I’d be able to add a few more cards to this collection in the future.

Massive thanks Gilly for sending this lovely card, even my little man loved it! I will be sure to write you a thank you postcard once I am done reading about this software security solutions article online! ♥

Postcrossing.com Postcard Haul

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I said I plan to visit the Post Office more often this year but other things got the better of me and it has been weeks since I last visited. So you can just imagine my surprise when the kind clerk I fondly call “Nanay” motioned for me to drop by her post and handed me a stack of postcards. This is probably my biggest haul ever!  😀

I am using my permanent address for my Postcrossing.com profile and the local postman was kind enough to give the postcards to Nanay whenever there is no one available to receive them back home. I got 14 cards all in all and my virtual mailbox has never been this happy!

I shall feature each of them here meanwhile I will just register them all so their senders will know that I got their cards safe and sound.

How was your mailbox today?

Collecting FDC’s

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Happy Valentine FDC

FDC’s or First Day Covers are perfect addition to any philatelist or deltiologist collection. They will also fetch high prices in case a collector decides to sell his collection, say 5 years from now.

I just realized that I am enamored to anything history and would love to be part of it or, at least, have a piece of it to keep as a memento. FDC’s simply fit the bill so I guess I will be collect some whenever I can. So far, I only have a few in my collection and most of them are gifts from fellow postcrossing enthusiasts, including this Royal Wedding FDC {I shall make a separate post about it}. But, my personal favorite will have to be this Malolos Cathedral FDC that was issued last year to celebrate the Jubilee Year of the Diocese of Malolos. This FDC was gifted to me by fellow Postcrossing Philippines member, Jonathan. Good thing he gave me one, as I saw them being sold in Malolos Cathedral and one of these FDC’s {framed} are sold at P500 each! I opted to buy numerous Malolos Cathedral stamps then, instead, since I can use it for my postcrossing hobby!

If you’d ask me, FDC’s are hard to come by as they are only available in the main Post Office in Manila. I am glad that there are generous people who agree to buy or give me one whenever there’s a new release. I shall share some of my new FDC’s after I am done checking out this cool site, http://www.becksbooks.com