PFF - Gathering flowers for Mom

Well, with the theme being mother's day (Happy Mother's Day Moms!!!) I figured that this sweet little thing would be perfect. It looks like she is taking great care in choosing her flowers for the bouquet in her hand - and who would love it more than mom? :) Happy PFF!

Update: The art is called "Shelter for my friend" by Robin Pushe'e (c) 2009. :)

Roses - PFF

Beth has some gorgeous roses up for show today, as well as a bit about, um, going a-mothering. I had never even heard of this till now - we have Mother's Day, in May. And here, it seems more a day to sell cards than to see our moms. Ah well.
I figured I would go with the roses, since I don't have mother's day cards (and I doubt I would find any - holiday of any sort cards are hard to find!). I went through my cards, and said, where are all my roses? I LOVE roses! Why do I have a million crocus cards and no roses? Well, I finally found one, with one of my give-away fairies. I really did think I had rose cards - otherwise I would have looked here earlier. :D
This lovely lady is an Amy Brown creation called "Rose Red"
Happy Postcard Friendship Friday!

Letting the cat out of the bag - PFF

I'm going to let the cat out of the bag, share a secret: Be my valentine? Well, ok, not really because my sweety is already and always my valentine, and we don't really celebrate, but I thought it would be cute to share this with you. :) Anyways, I hope you enjoy this card, it's sparkly and a pain to scan - it kept trying to spin. But still very pretty! :D Happy PFF!

Dreams - PFF

Well, we talk about sleeping, and what do people do when they sleep? They dream. :) And in this Anne Taintor postcard, she dreams of storage space. As do I. Not that I don't have enough (mostly), but there is sooo much misused space in this house that we could gain a considerable amount turning dead space into storage. And then I wouldn't need to see it in my basement. :) How about you?

PFF - Boogie Monsters

Well, I don't have ghosts, but I think that I would be scared if I ran into this guy! It's called jumping into leaves, by Shane Lewis. :D Have a great Friday!

pff - when cats grow horns

When pigs fly is a whimsical way to say never, or at least not very likely. According to Marie, 'When cats grow horns' is the Malay version of flying pigs. Well, I don't have any flying pigs, I do have a cat with horns. Well, chess pawns, but let's not get technical here! From my give-a-way cards Stuff on my Cat. :)

PFF - Eggs :D

Maybe these are from the eggs French Factrice dropped? A cute card that I received blank from an old pen pal "Why do you keep egging me on? Hope I don't have to egg you on to write to me!" I'm not the biggest fan of these kind of cards, but they are cute to look at.

Have a great Friday!

Festival of Postcards - Light

Light - I miss it every winter and rejoice in it every summer. That and the sun. :)
In the winter here, we get short days - it's dark at 5 here and we see the sunrise at 8:30. But that is nothing compared to the arctic regions, where they get 24 hour night. So - have you ever wondered what Inuit used to see, cook, dry there clothes in the winter? Well, they used this, a Kudlik, or Qulliq.
A qulliq is a lamp that is made of soap stone, filled with seal blubber, and uses a wick of moss, or common cotton grass.
It is featured in the Nunavut coat of arms (the small bowl on fire).
More info: Qulliq at wikipedia & Nunavut coat of arms.

PFF

Alrighty, this one got me to do some research. I don't really have any cards that are British, or queen-y, or anything like that. So I started to think about what I did have. And what I have are Sandman cards, and Sandman is the creation of Neil Gaiman.

Neil Gaiman was born in Portchester, England, and spent most of his childhood in West Sussex. He wrote Good Omens with Terry Pratchett (good book). He started doing graphic novels with Marvel, then DC. Sandman was published with DC. I have read his novels Neverwhere, American Gods, and Anansi Boys (and enjoyed them all). His work has been translated into film: Stardust, and Coraline. To see more at his wikipedia page, go here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_gaiman

Now, this isn't Sandman/Dream. This is his sister, Death. And in this image, from A Death Gallery, she has angel wings. Can you figure why I like her? :D She was created by Dave McKean (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Mckean) an artist from Berkshire (it all ties together so nicely!).

PFF - Joyeux Noel!

Since I know French... :) This card is one from my collection - I received it blank, and since I don't keep them, I pass them along to others that will enjoy it as much as I do. :) So here is one that I think is nice and Christmassy for you all to enjoy. :) I don't think that I still have this one, but I have more angels! :)

Festival of Postcards - White

Well, I haven't gotten any new postcards scanned - it's been crazy hectic busy around here. In fact, I should get off my computer and get busy. :D But I haven't posted in a while, and I am TRYING to be a little bit better about that. So, when I saw this festival of postcards at postcardy's site, http://postcardy.blogspot.com/, I thought sure, why not? So here we go!
This is a normal view of Winnipeg in the winter - white sky (that's on the warm days), white smoke from heating our homes, white snow. Even the colours end up seeming muted. Maybe this is why I like Christmas so much?? All the reds and greens? This year has been strange, we have a tiny bit of snow - we can still see grass, easily. There is a high of 0C today - normally it's much colder by now.

This post was written for
A Canadian Family
A Festival of Postcards Blog Carnival
6th Edition, December 2009: White

Thanks for introducing us Postcardy!