Rizzopat

Hi!
I'm Romana and I live in a small village near Zürich, Switzerland.
I work as a product design engineer and I like to create and design things in my free time as well.
I like drawing and painting, making pottery, painting the walls in my house, reading (mostly fantasy), watching films, digging holes in my garden, walking barefoot, sewing, petting my cat ... I don't like cleaning the house :-)
I'm not religious and I believe in "live and let live" as long as no one gets harmed.

When sending postcards I love reading the profiles and I try to select the perfect postcard and stamp for that person. I always feel a bit let down when there is no profile.

I like almost all postcard themes and I'm generally open-minded but please, pleeeease don't send me any postcards with sleeping newborn babies (like those from Anne Geddes), they literally give me the creeps (something about them just doesn't seem right...). Nude grown-ups are ok :-)

Postcard themes that catch my attention:
- reflections on glass / water / ...
- clouds / sky / rain / (foggy) landscapes
- colourful (old) houses and rooms
- pictures taken during twilight hour or night
- minimalistic graphic art
- unusual perspectives
- old black-and-white photographs
- anything turquoise
- illustrative art
- details/macro photography of man made things and architecture
- Studio Ghibli creatures

For inspiration, check out my favourites.

Please don't send the postcard in an envelope, I like it when the stamps are on the card itself and the edges of the card a bit frayed. (One of the postcards I received seems to have gone swimming at some point of its journey...). If you really insist on sending the card in an envelope: put the stamp on the card and cut a little window in the envelope! :-)
Also, nice stamps are always appreciated.

Write anything that crosses your mind. A comment about the postcard, how you are feeling, a thought, a quote, a joke... or a drawing. It doesn't have to be in any context or even make sense. You can even write in Morse code, I'll figure it out. And if you write the card in Latin I could even put my big old dictionary to use again... Just write more than "Happy Postcrossing" or "Greetings from ..." because I'd really like to see a glimpse of you in the writing.
If you had your own picture or artwork printed as a postcard write something about it.
Handmade and ad cards are welcome, too. ( But as another postcrosser said: A sticker on a piece of paper is not a postcard)

Please don't send me any coins, tea bags, tourist brochures or other collectibles. All I'm asking for is a postcard.
Oh, and please write your name legibly on the card.

Be happy, have a great time and, most importantly, don't believe everything you think! :-)
Romana