Personal stamps

Also in Canada you can buy your own personal stamps. Visiting some nice place you can let the world know by a special made stamp. Like to know what the figures are you have to order and what you pay for these stamps. Do you collect them or seel them on Ebay for instance? Let us know.

How to save on postal costs.....

This sheet of stamp I bought to mail a packet to my daughter. She and her husband are expecting a baby next month and my wife did make some things we mailed to them. How does it works ? For one pack you can use a special non stamp thing to pay the cost. You have to pay € 6,25 for postal rate. I did use this Scoutingsheet (5x 2 different stamps) total € 7,20.

Now I alway's get my stamps back from family(so alway's use good stamps....) so these also came back. I put this item on EBAY just to see what happens. After 7 day's it was sold for € 9,00 ........!!??? Very nice for me because free shipment and also a small profit on the stamps...

Stamp clubs

Are you a member of a stampclub? I have a lot of , maybe to many, memberships of stampclubs.

In real life 1(one) and in cyberspace a lot...... one of them is The All Nation Stampclub. If you want to see it click on the logo.

Stampshop

Yesterday I visit the stampshop and bought some nice (empty) stockbooks. When I am at home again I will use them for my Scandinavian stamps ( Sweden and Norway/Finland). They are now in my Denmark stockbook with stamps to trade. The cataloque I did not buy, the "old" one I can still use, better to spend money on stamps.....


On september 20th a new booklet was issued with Jetrix stamps. Today I saw the first one was sold on my old school in Heemstede. Show one of the sheets of the booklet. Maybe you see that our Post use more and more the " personal stamp mode" . You fill in your wish and they, or you can make your own personal stamp. Also an empty example. If you like 10 with your own design, contact me.

Stampshop

To morrow I will visit a stampshop to get some new things. No stamps but stockbook's and maybe a new cataloque from the Netherlands. To make it more difficult for us as collectors they do'nt sell just a cataloque, but also put some extra's in. A " blueprint/blauwdruk" from Michiel de Ruyter, 4 tickets for the great Stamp ting next year and special information in the cataloque.
Will see you later from an other PC than my own.

Bigfoot

This card I received from my friend Larry from California.

Nothing to do with stamps but I like to let you know "He is still out there and be carefull.......

Year of the rooster

Great Mini Sheet.

Easter cards

Just show a new card(for me). Easter greetings. Very nice old card. Thanks to John James.

Like that, so now and them nice cards or stamps in the mail.

To morrow I hope to have some little chickens, a bit late but when the weather stay's this way we won't see a winter here.

to come

Rooster

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rooster

All you alway's want to know about roosters......

Taiwan

Today a nice cover from Taiwan. Republic of China. No stamps on the cover with chickens but on the cover you can see two roosters who live in peace. Thanks to George. who did send me this cover, thanks. Hope that WIPHA will not disturb the life a lot there in Taiwan.

Back

Just back from a long weekend on the camping with friends. Did have very nice weather, 23-24 Celcius, and did some walking in Limburg. Very small nice quit camping (15 places) So no stamps of blogging these day's...

Old postcards

Also collect old postcards from the place I was born and did grow up. Show a nice card from Haarlem to Buenos Aires. The picture is a small road(pad) called Zandvaartpad. At the end you can see the main road. Now its a road, the water is still there. Like to find old cards from Heemstede, even not with a chicken on it. Clear cancellation 24-XII (19)11, to late for Christmas. Maybe start a blog with cards from Heemstede.

Chicken stamp for sale

Do sell my personal logostamp on Ebay

There are 20 pcs ww, and I will keep 10 pcs, so if somebody is interested.....

back

Back at home but the story will come tomorrow....

chickenfood

I am not at our home. Did have a very nice meal in a chickenrestaurant tonight.

Wings and more in different tasts, as much as you can manage....Very nice with all kind of chicken things, but then to eat.

Not able to show you any picture today.

Stamp exchange

You probebly know : The Forever Stamp Exchange.

I did receive a lot in the last years and also mailed the 50 (mostly) stamps to the one who's name was open. Did not get much back really. Today got 50 stamps from an exchanger, nice to see that in the end it works (a bit). Do you have also play this game? and what happens? Please let us know.If you like an exchanger mail me.


ALso got a nice cover from Malaysia today, you can see the picture. Really like the fishstamps. It's a joint issue with Brunei, did never get a cover from Brunei.

new to come

Virtual stampcollection

Did not hear about it before a few minutes, but when you think about it it's easy and logic:

Virtual stampalbums. You collect nice pictures of stamps you like, or first issue's of stamps with special cancellations. An example you can find here. It's in English and a nice example of a virtual album.

Fair for local clubs

What you see is a picture of the cock-crowing contest ,of course for roosters. On August 25th there was a market for all the clubs in our village and also my club was there. We were there with our family and I did with my son-in-law some counting. Each rooster got one counter. Is was an easy job for us, no crowing at all for our roosters(there were two rounds with 12 roosters) The winner did 16 times in 10 minutes. On this picture you can see my wife and son in law. Next to him it's me, to big for the photo..

Our chairman Kees and a lot of locals looking and listen to the roosters.

Like to see more pictures? click here

Welk type kip ben jij.

Vandaag in de AD van zaterdag een verhaaltje gelezen over de indeling van de homosapiens op de werkvloer in een bepaalt kippentype.

Wil je er meer over weten ?Wat voor type ben ik ? klik hier voor de test.

To let my English readers know that it's about an article in a Dutch paper where you can do a test to find out what kind of chickentype you are at work.

Bangladesh

First chickenstamp from Bangladesh. Very nice one, alway's say that about chickenstamps...

The rooster is looking around when the hen is eating. Thats the same as in real chickenlife. This stamp is one of a serie of 4 stamps. All birds, so no more chickens. Real used, no CTO don't you think too?