My friend Marie gave me some postcards so I can remove the stamps, there were some french but in this post I will show you the spanish ones (the majority were spanish)
Gracias Marie !!!!!!
Zoom to the stamps:
Franco stamps from 1955, with the value of 3 and 1 peseta each.
Spain Kings stamp. Austrian House. 15 pesetas, november 22th of 1979
King Juan Carlos stamps from 1976 and 1977, 7 and 8 pesetas each.
I will have a hard work getting this stamps out of the postcards… the minimum mistake can ruin these treasures !… I will be very very careful !!!
I am so happy !!!… today I received my first postal from the postcrossing project !!!… here it is the front:
Thanks a lot Ruth 
This postcard came from very near to my homeland… because I am from Baja California in Mexico and this one came from California in the USA… wow
And to add more happiness I will show you the other side:
Lisa and Maggie Simpson
Yeah !!!!… Simpsons stamps This couldn’t be better… I really appreciate it !!! They are so beautiful the three stamps !! Thanks a lot again.
The Simpsons stamps series was released to conmemorate its 20th anniversary. Here there is the complete serie:
Now I have Lisa and Maggie
A voting was made in the USPS page to know what was the favorite stamp and the fans choice was Maggie !…
And the first stamp in the card is the American Clock, (a reissue of 2003)
This definitive stamp, a reissue of the 2003 stamp, features an artistic rendering of the dial, or face, of a banjo clock. Constructed of brass and steel, the banjo clock depicted on the stamp has a painted iron dial and a mahogany case crowned by a brass eagle. This elegant timepiece was made circa 1805 by Simon Willard (1753-1848) of Roxbury, Massachusetts. American Clock is the second stamp in the new American Design series. (Source: https://www.usps.com)
This card traveled 7 days and 9451 kms…
The travel done by the card
Yeah !… I was waiting for it during a week and finally it arrived today!… a card from the Netherlands from my friend Erik (you see the good thing of advise your friends about your hobby). Here it is:
Danku Erik !
The bad thing is they guy of the post office put another thing over the stamp, but I could rescue it with hot water, now I have the stamp all visible and you can even see the mark on the stamp with the name of the city. Here I show a picture of some of the stamps of this serie:
Stamps issued with the new prices on January of 2007, each stamp has a dutch symbol on it. The one I got is the blue one with the skate that in dutch is called "Klapschaats"... I learned a new word cause when I saw this first I tought it was the name of the guy who designed the stamp.
Inside there was also a stamp of the Queen Beatrice with the value of 39 cents, so this ones is before they changed the rates of internal mail to 44 cents.
Netherlands queen Beatrice 39 cents stamp
Agrandir le plan
The card took 9 days to arrive and it travelled 916.75 Kilometers…
Today I present, this 4 new stamps, the italian and greek ones I got them from postcards of some friends. The french one is a mint stamp I bought it today in the poste… it was funny I went today and I saw the guy just had the sheet of stamps and I couldn’t resist and I bought it… normally I prefer to “hunt” the stamps from used mails, etc… but ok I had a luxury today. Here they are:
Four european stamps, the french one is mint... I couldn't resist !
Zoom to some stamps:
Eugene Vaillé was the first curator of the Postal Museum of France, the forerunner of the Museum of The Post, founded in 1946.
Issued on March 20, 2004 with the painting "St. George and the Princess of Trebizond" by Pisanello. The name of this serie of stamps was: "Donna nell'arte" (Women on arts)
Today my husband arrive home with an envelope for me! It was a surprise from a friend of us who gave me this four stamps to grow my album.
Thanks a lot Corinne !!
Lets make zoom to two stamps:
2009 commemorates the six hundredth anniversary of the birth of 1st Rene d'Anjou in Angers. He died in Aix-en-Provence in 1480 but was buried in the cathedral of Angers.
This stamp called my attention because the name of Givenchy was on it. Stamps heart stickers by Givenchy had a cost of 0.86 € and as issued on january 8, 2007... recommended to use for wedding invitations 
Hello ! Yesterday I saw my neighboor and in the conversation we had I spoke about the hobby I started and I show her my album with stamps… she liked a lot the idea and on the next day she borrow me some of her postcards so I can take the stamp for me (thanks to the tip that I found about taking away a stamp from a postcard without making a mess)… here I show what she gave me :
Thanks to Mrs Mazaud for the stamps !!
There are stamps from: Spain, Andorra, Czech Republic, Vatican city, Belgica, Portugal, Egypt, Norway and of course France… in the french ones the most notable is the one of red and blue in the up right corner cause this one has the postmark of 1965 !!
So, friends if you are starting in the hobby like me, I advise you again to prevent all the people around you, they will be happy to help you with your collection
Ehhh I am so happy!, in the beggining of the week I just ordered an album to put my stamps there in THEMATIMBRES and it arrived two days ago. I bought a LEUCHTTURM black pages, with plastic bands to put the stamps and be able to change places easily. And is also beauty on the outside, here I present it:
My new stamps album Leuchtturm
And it came with this nice cover (a surprise I didn’t expect):
Cover from the album
Zoom to some of the stamps in the cover: (So, now I have more stamps to put in my album ^^)
France 1978: Yves Brayer, Camargue Horses
1980 stamp: Louis le Nain
France 1980: Tapestry, Jean Picart le Doux
Normally this is the first question that many people has when starting to collect stamps, because there are many options: to collect from one country, from one specific topic (ducks, presidents, comics, etc), or to complete series or years, or just collect everything.
For me the goal is to collect all I can from all the countries, I really like to see the differences between stamps from one country to another.
Here I go with the real first post, and here I show how do I start my collection:
The stamps I have in the beggining
How did I get these:
- From old letters that my husband and I had
- Contributions from my mother in law (Thanks Nicole!)
And with this first stamps I learned how to get them out of the envelope, I never imagined it was so easy: just to leave it in the water for sometime and then you will see the stamp floating, it doesn’t work like this with all so I gotta help some stamps to separate of the paper.
For the stamps in postcard I had a little problem, because I didn’t want to ruin the postcard, but I find a great tip here in this page: JUNIOR PHILATELISTS ON THE INTERNET, and I cite the paragraph that helped me a lot:
If you wish to soak a stamp off of a postcard or envelope without cutting up the envelope or post card (people will often offer to let you have stamps off of their mail if you don’t destroy the mail), here is how to do it. Cut two pieces of filter paper (from a new coffee filter) that are a little larger than the stamp you wish to remove. Wet these two pieces of filter paper until they are about to drip. Place the filter papers on top of each other and on top of the stamp. Cover with a small inverted plate or a watch glass (you can get these from broken clocks) and leave for about one-half hour (practice will get this down to a science). The purpose of the plate or watch glass is to retard evaporation. The stamp should slip off easily. Place the envelope or card somewhere to dry, and place the stamp face down on a Formica top or a smooth metal surface. The stamp will pop free when dry.
At this moment I am ready to continue growing my collection, another tip that I want to say (even if it has been say by many already) is that you should make all your friends and family know about your new hobby, so they be ready to hunt old or new envelopes for you, so you can have more stamps
Hello everybody !… as many of you know I am starting with the exciting hobby of philately. So I started also this blog, to share with all you my collection, and to thank all those people to helps me with it.
Also I want to share some tips that I have found who had help me a lot in my begginings with this hobby !
Happy lecture to everybody, I hope you enjoy !!
