Mailing A Smile

Aren't these the most adorable postage stamps ever ??!?

I had to make a stop by the Post Office to

mail out my patriotic cards. 

I didn't really need new stamps just yet, 

but could not resist buying these and using them already =)

I've always tried to buy fun, different postage stamps.

I keep one for myself to add to my "collection",

you never know, they may be worth something someday (right.......).

I used to think it would be neat if I could make money off of them

then use the money to take a trip to visit my pen pal !

I started "collecting" postage stamps when I was in fourth grade

after a presentation from a postal worker/stamp collector.

None of mine are worth anything except

 to look at the little pieces of art that they are.  

There are some I bought through those 

"grab bag" offers you see advertised

that come from all over the world,

but most of my stamps are what came in the mail to me

from a long time pen pal.

I also saved stamps from my parents mail way back when

and remember my grandmother saving some of their stamps for me.

To this day I always save new to me stamps 

and am thrilled to see a different stamp on an envelope.

Sadly, nowadays it it mostly junk mail with those 

presorted stamps or bulk mail images.

When I do get a piece of real mail with a neat stamp,

I immediately cut it off and put it in my little stamp collection drawer.

At the end of the year I empty it, maybe a dozen or so new

 stamps to be put in my old collection box.

Most of them have never been mounted.

Sounds like another good project to add to my to-do list 

of things to stay indoors, keeping cool projects this summer.

Funny, I collected postage stamps

as a child and now as an adult

I have a rubber art stamp collection =)