I would have loved to show two stamps about cavias (guinea pigs), because we had two cavias at home. Alas I must say 'had', because one of our dear house members, cavia Cato, sadly has passed away last Friday. Thus widowing her companion Senior.
As far as I know I've seen only two cavia stamps. Due to some suboptimal functioning desktop/scanner I cannot scan them for this Sunday's post. But fortunately there also are links to them:
- One cavia stamp is part of a recently issued USPS stamp sheet. Fortunately FinnBadger has showed this beautiful stamp on his website, click here to find it.
- The other is a personalized stamp, I made via PostNL 'personal stamps' website of our very first, also late, cavia Snuitje. You can find the stamp sheet on bottom of a previous post about pets in 2014 (click here).
Meanwhile I had the following 'chaincards' already scanned. The theme of this chaincard project also was 'pets', and the cards traveled via Netherlands, Taiwan, Azerbeidjzan, Singapore, Russia. It gives a nice insight in which animals are considered pets worldwide: especially the Singaporese and Taiwanese stamps surprised me, as most Dutch have cats, dogs, rodents and goldfish or guppys as pets. About the horse stamps was some discussion, whether they are pets or not, but because we liked the images too, they also were approved to use for the ones who wanted them.
The card shown above is from the Russian member, and returned home after I had added my stamps.
This card was mine, arriving home after having been traveling through all mentioned countries.
And the following card - from the Singaporese member - took a lot of extra travel time. The rubberstamp print tells us all about the adventurous reason why:
See more great pet stamps at this Sunday's Sunday Stamps site and follow the links mentioned there.
The stamps you have shown are amazing in their color and variety.
BeantwoordenVerwijderenAnd I am so sorry to read about Cato - I know you gave her an amazing home.
Thank you for your kind and consoling words, FinnBadger <3
VerwijderenIt's always sad to lose a pet, especially when they leave a companion behind - look after Senior, please.
BeantwoordenVerwijderenYour chain postcards are remarkable for the stamps they collect on their journeys.
Thank you, Bob! Yes, we should take good care of Senior. It must be hard for him. Cavias are very communicative animals, usually producing a large variety of sounds. And I haven't seen him so silent before. I just petted him while sitting on my lap, and he started to make talkative sounds again, however the two of us don't really understand each other's language..
VerwijderenSorry for Cato :|
BeantwoordenVerwijderenYour chain postcards are always the best.
Thank you, Eva!
VerwijderenI like the Singapore pet stamps and the unexpected journey your postcard took. Sorry about the loss of your little Cato, cavias are such social animals.
BeantwoordenVerwijderenSure cavias are. Thank you for your kind words, Joy!
BeantwoordenVerwijderenConcerning the missent postcard, it was the card of the member (of this peticular chaincard group I was in) from Singapore. So I only had this card in hands temporarily, and forwarded it to have it continue its journey, finally back to Singapore. My own card traveled directly to the right countries. It is the second one shown :-)
I'm sorry about the loss of one of your pets, Heleen ... I wish I have more time to read the blogs I follow to keep myself up to speed with all that's happening in the life of my blogging friends like you.
BeantwoordenVerwijderenThank you for your kind words, Maria!
VerwijderenAnd no worries, the lack-of-time issue also is (too) well-known to me. I wished I had more time to post for Postcards for the Weekend - I missed several, while today I posted one for the previous Weekend :-)