New Stamps

The Post has released some new stamps and I bought theseones today:

Pictures are from Posti's website.

"The official stamp of the ice hockey world championship 2012 tournament to be organized in Helsinki will portray the widely noted mascot HockeyBird. The stamp is designed by Lead Artist Toni Kysenius of Rovio Entertainment, who has now fulfilled his long-time dream of designing a stamp.
"HockeyBird's job is to bring high-voltage bird energy to the great sporting event and to barge into anything and everything, so it is only natural that he will also take over the stamp," Toni Kysenius says.
Finland and Sweden share the hosting of the ice hockey world championship tournament in 2012 and 2013. Kysenius has taken note of this on his design."  (www.posti.fi)

This hockey-themed  birdstamp will be released at 21.3.2012

Owls

Today I got this postcard from Belarus. The animal is Aegolius funereus also known as Boreal Owl. In finnish name is helmipöllö. The other for the owl are Richardson's Owl, Funeral Owl, Sparrow Owl and Pearl Owl. Helmi means pearl and pöllö is owl. Boreal owl is the most common owl in Finland. It's quite small, only 20–30 centimetres.

Tänään tupsahti kortti Valko-Venäjältä. Kortissa komeilee kaikille tuttu helmipöllö. Myös muita nimiä löytyy, onhan se Suomen yleisin pöllökin. Melkoisen pieni otus on kyseessä, pituutta vain 20-30 cm.

What is this next owl? It doesn't really look like Bubo bubo aka The Eurasian Eagle-Owl. Or is it? I though that maybe it's young one...

Mikäs tämä pöllö on? Huuhkaja? Hmm..Kertokkee jos tietoa löytyy!

The card has sent from Lithuania. Here's the stamp:

Kortti oli Liettuasta. Alla postimerkki:

It's Galileo Galilei! :)

ADS!

I got this great ad-card from my own country, Finland. It's an ad for Coca-Cola, bottles are designed by Karl Lagerfeld. The sender says that she has bought the card from Denmark. Never been there, but maybe some day... really cool bottles though!

Tämän tyylikkään kortin sain Suomesta! Cokiksen mainos kyseessä, suunnitellut Karl Lagerfeld. Kortin lähettäjä kertoo kortin olevan peräisin Tanskanmaalta. Enpä ole koskaan Tanskassakaan käynyt, mutta ehkä joku päivä.. Hieno on kortti kuiteski!

This next postcard are from Germany and it has sent 26 Dec 2011. It's an ad for paint, I think? I put the text from the cover to the translate and it says: use the night... I like the colours and the idea of the card. 

Lisää tykkäämiä mainoskortteja :) Tämä on Saksasta, lähetetty joulukuun 26. 2011. Näyttää olevan maali-mainos. Ihanat on värit kortissa!

And here's the stamp:

Ja postimerkkejä:

I have said  this before, but really.. I do love the ads! When I'am old I can watch these kind of cards and remember the time of those. Hope you get my point :)

Have a great night people! And sent lots of postcards, especially ad-cards :D

Oon mainostanu tätä ennenki, mutta totta se on.. Mainoskortit on ihania! Vanhana voin sitten kiikkustuolissa ihastella mainoskortteja ja muistella menneitä aikoja. Hyvää yötä mussukat! Ja lähetelkää paljon kortteja, erityisesti mainoskortteja! 

Panda Life***

New year has come and I've been at work all the time so the blog has been in quiet life.. But I still love postcards! Here in Finland are now about -23 degrees so it's quite freezy in outside. But in Kuusamo has been -40 degrees!! Kuusamo located in the Oulu province and is part of the Northern Ostrobothnia region.

This postcard I got from Japan. Tomoe has sent the card at 20th January. She lives in Nara, the city of old shrines and temples. Tomoe told that in the city are lot of deers too. I wrote on the Google "Nara Japan" and almost in every picture of the city shows deers! :)

photo by Ayumi Ohnishi http://panda-life.net/

 And finally: the beautiful stamps. I love the colours which are in the bee stamp and the dove stamp are really romantic, I think :)

Mount Shasta

This postcard is from family which lives in California. In the cover of card you can see Mount Shasta and lenticular cloud. Mount Shasta (or White Mountain) located in northern California and rises to 4322 metres high. 

Naturalist and author John Muir said of Mount Shasta:

"When I first caught sight of it over the braided folds of the Sacramento Valley, I was fifty miles away and afoot, alone and weary. Yet all my blood turned to wine, and I have not been weary since."

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year 2012!

 

I sent this postcard to England and it says: Christmasgreetings from Helsinki. 

My apologize for that I don't have had no time to write on my blog. :( But next year I'll do it more often!

I want to wish Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 2012 to everybody!

Marilyn and the others

Hello again! No, I'am not dead even the eternity has passed since the last time. I have had so much schoolwork. And now I'am actually sick :( Only flu...

So, the Christmas is coming :) But here in Finland aren't snow. How Santa can come if there's no snow?? Okay, I stop. Here's the postcard:

The postcard is from Saskia (thank you!) and on the cover you can see Marilyn Monroe, Pippi Longstocking (Peppi Pitkätossu in finnish), Superman, Cleopatra (but who is the actress?), Michael Jackson and Mona Lisa. I have to admit that I adore Marilyn Monroe. She was so beautiful!