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Chaina, Italy
  • country Italy
  • Member since Joined 13th Feb., 2009
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About Ilaria...

♥ ♥ ♥ Ciao!!! My name is Ilaria and I'm a 42-year-old English teacher. I love being with children all the time!
I adore BAKING, especially cakes and biscuits. In fact my favourite cards are the ones related to baking/making cakes or recipe cards for cakes/pies/cookies.
I also love:
♥ red polka dots and red and white gingham check...any dots!!!
♥ nests, birds' houses, robins, sparrows and small birdies
♥ wild strawberries, raspberries, jam, honey, cupcakes
♥ tea,teapots and cups
♥ rabbits, squirrels, hamsters, hares, foxes
♥ sweet violets, lavender and pansies, beautiful gardens, gardening
♥ illustrations of picnics, flowers in boots or shoes, colourful mailboxes, sweet things
♥ children's books illustrations
♥ I LOooOOooVE Atelier Nouvelles Images postcards :o)
♥ I ADORE the French postcards from Cartes d'Art (the artists Corinne Bittler and Louise Deletang are my faves) and Editions de Mai (Anne Laval & Amandine Piu!)
♥ I love cute or matching stamps!

P.S.: I'm not into cityviews and landscapes but I appreciate breathtaking scenery or photos of colourful & flowery doors or windows or beautiful gardens...but PLEASE if you can, do NOT send me multiview cards!!!

Have a look at my favourites on my postcard wall to get an idea of the postcards I love: http://www.postcrossing.com/user/Chaina/gallery/favourites :-)

I'd like to swap crafty things or goodies from other countries like tea, recipes of cakes or homemade things. I collect handmade brooches and earrings,cookie cutters, cupcake liners/baking cups, hearts, nests, birds' houses, handmade wreaths, handmade rubber stamps, cute stickers...

For GERMAN postcrossers: I love the cards from "Rosalie liebt Truffel" :-)and Wolf Erlbruch's animal kisses postcards and Józef Wilkon's "Leopanther". I also love Edition Gollong cards.

For SWEDISH postcrossers: I adore Lena Anderson's illustrations (Stormstina, Kaniu Saga and Lilla Kotten) I love Astrid Lindgren's Pippi Långstrump. I really like Charlotte Ramel's illustrations and Björn Berg's Emil! I like Elsa Beskow and Molly the mouse :o)

For FINNISH postcrossers: I'm SO IN LOVE with Virpi Pekkala and Minna Immonen's cards! And Inge Löök's, too! I love Heli Pukki's cards with the brown bear and the red fox..I love Raija Nokkala and Kirsi Neuvonen.

For DUTCH postcrossers: I really like Marjolein Bastin's art.
I love Fiep Westendorp and Annie M.G. Schmidt's Jip&Yanneke and Pim&Pom books :o)

For BRITISH postcrossers: I love Anita Jeram cards published by "Two Bad Mice". I also like illustrations or photos showing high tea/tea parties :-)) I love Jill Barklem's "Brambly Hedge"! I love cards published by "the art group" and Belle & Boo cards.

For JAPANESE postcrossers: I'm so in love with so many cake related cards I've seen sent from Japan and many more...sigh!! I also adore Ryo Sakamoto's illustrations! ♥Coco-Chan♥

I'm happy with trading used postcards :o)

Thank you EVERYONE!! ilaria ♥

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