In love with these postage stamps

Last week S. brought me from his office a big paper envelope full of postage stamps he saved from the mail they receive every day.

He knows how I like postage stamps: they are a tiny work of art with a lovely "jagged" frame.

 

 

I felt in love with a lot of them, but today I want to show you my favourite.

 

The first one is perfect for this month. It has the words "Buon Natale" (= Merry Christmas") and a lovely drawing of a wintery landscape and reindeers' silhouettes contrasting with a dark snowy sky:

 

 

And I'm glad that someone decided to dedicate a stamp to protected species of italian donkeys:

 

 

There's also my favourite: the ragusano donkey!

 

I found two postage stamps about scout movement, too!

 

 

I used to be a very happy scout girl when I was younger and I am always enthusiast about all things scout related!

 

This envelope full of tiny art has been a great gift! Thank you, sweetie :)

Now I'm planning what to do with them.

S. said that his project is to frame the most beautiful together to compose a panel to decorate a wall in our home. Lovely idea, expecially because hiding this beauty in a drawer it's a pity! I want to see them every day :)

But  my mind started to develope other ideas. Hope to have the time to realize some soon (too busy, too busy! Why free time isn't enough???).

Scout movement, the little prince and two stamps

I usually don't write about scout movement in this blog, but it has been an important part of my life for years. As I wrote in Carina's interview, being a scout has been a positive thing for me.

Some years ago I gave up for different reasons, but scout movement is always in my heart. All my best friends had experience with me in my scout group and I'm sure this gave strenght to our friendship.

My brother has been a boy-scout, too, and my dad is a scout now :)

So you can understand that for me the motto "semel scout, semper scout" (= once scout, scout forever) is particularly true for me!

My friend Alice is still a scout. She asked me to have a stamp hand-carved by me to use with her little scout (8-11 years old) during summer camping. And I said "yes!", because I'm happy to help my group and because the subject of the stamp is ... the little prince! Yeeaah, I love this carachter!

In the photo you can see the result!

Uhm, nothing special, I know. They have a lot of imperfections, in the prince's face in particular. It was so difficult for me!

I worked for the first time in my life on an Adigraf sheet and it was easy. I made two stamps, a bit different for dimensions and style, but inspired to the same original drawing by Saint-Exupery. Then I glued them on two wood leftovers I found in our garage.

Probably I'll give them to Alice tomorrow. I don't know if she will be happy about this stamps, but I did my best.