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Hello Postcrossers,

I love this idea of exchanging hand-written postcards - so NO TOUCHNOTE, no ad/free cards, hand-made, cut-out/glued pictures please! I would like to get REAL postcards - thanks!
I am looking forward to both getting and sending cards. I always enjoy reading profiles and selecting cards to match profiles wishes and I appreciate when others do the same. If you think my profile is too long, just check my favourites for inspiration :)

I DON'T like receiving boring tourist cards with multiple city/country photos. I get to travel a lot for work (I have been to 60 countries so far - still many more to see :) and I make pictures with my camera so I prefer getting something more interesting from people who live in that country knowing there exist interesting artists and illustrators. There are many people on PC who like that type of cards so you can make another person happy...
Though I do not mind painted views or fun images with famous landmarks, e.g. http://www.postcrossing.com/postcards/RU-1341215 http://www.postcrossing.com/postcards/FR-218633)
or pictorial maps, e.g. https://www.postcrossing.com/postcards/HN-236
NEW collection - painted flight attendants and vintage airline posters, e.g. https://www.postcrossing.com/postcards/BS-2224

I like nice postcards but especially:
- Gorjuss, Mistigri, Limoon and other similar ones, by authors Tanya Mayers, Annie Rodrigue, Jean-Pierre GIBRAT, Caia Koopman, Courtney Brims, Gaëlle Boissonnard, Corinne Regnier, Marie-Anne Foucart, Mila Marquis, Anne Julie Aubry, Anne Cresci, Kirsi Neuvonen (dresses :), Minna Immonen, etc. - you can see if you check my favourites,
- something for my "Women on the move" collection, https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/106226253255542449715/albums/5902414112094171105 ,
- Recipes cards,
- Capricorn (my zodiac sign),
- Vogue, New Yorker, Vanity Fair, other magazine covers, especially painted by André Edouard Marty, George Wolfe Plank, Pierre Brissaud, Helen Dryden,
- Cards with quotes,
- Illustrations by Shu Mizoguchi,
- Photos by Annie Leibovitz,
- Edward Hopper art,
- Maxicards (a postcard with a postage stamp placed on the picture side of the card where the stamp and card match but NOT any big card),
- From Japan - gotochi cards,
- Boo and Stu :)

Postcrossers from RU, UA and BY - if you have cards by these authors, I'd be happy to get them - let me know if you'd like to swap: Константин Разумов, Sasha Salmina, Н.Деревянко, Tania Perova (she is on PC so I hope she gets my address one day :), O.Shuplyak, A.Stolbova, Svetlana Aristova, Carivna, Anna Demina, Ekaterina Shmyrina, L.Afremov, P.Frolov, Annet Loginova, I.Paltser, I.Zeniuk, G.Zinko, Настя Каменцова, Загадочные девушки by E.Chekalina.

Cards I've received:
https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/106226253255542449715/albums

Thanks for a card you'll pick for me!