JJV

About JJ...

I signed up because my parents (retired and 70) are huuuuge stamp-collectors.. and i (41) like to surprise them now and than.
So my main intrest is to 'the STAMPS'

I like to share some memorable annecdotes:
- a lady who didn t have cards like my favlist or profile suggested.. so she had her 5 yr old kid draw me something.
- a lady who explained she buys random cards at fleemarkets and from that stack pulled&sent one again at random.
- several postcrossers told me they actually followed my 'instructions'and send me a piece of cardboard, with some stamps on it. Some even glued just a lot of used stamps on the front.. or pasted so many stamps on the adress site that only code and adress were readable.
- what about a card made of (branded)wood.. a see trough.. and a few that were bound with actuall rope?
- and offcourse the guy who explained "what is postcrossing without a giraffe wearing a bikini" .. and sent me that image.

I'd like to make people like these (and the senders of nice cards i'm shamefully forgetting to mention) my new personal heroes.

Or like one of my own sent cards says: it's all about spreading kindness by random acts of beauty. (NL-1089334 and NL-588055)

In short: i like, funny, wacky, strange, bizar, personell.. cards... and above all, i like the reason why someone thinks this card is the card i should 'get'.
;) and again. As long i like the stamps, i will be happy with it anyway.

last and sadly:

expired:
NL-255525 Gluodena Lithuania
NL-377592 KIORU China
NL-421919 oliviapear USA
NL-431310 banana1990 Thailand
NL-484683 heather_lorrain U.S.A.
NL-493467 kyujue Taiwan

(deleted the rest for space reasons and, well, the list got too long and made me sad. let these first few represent the loving memory i put in all cards i sent but that never reached the level of 'registration')