Winter Garden Postage Stamps from Zazzle.com, mosaic artwork by Cristina-Mary Buzamet (Romania)

http://www.zazzle.com/winter_garden_postage-172800864997904047?gl=CristinaMaryBuzamet&rf=238693463283865848

Winter Garden Postage Stamps from Zazzle.com

To see more of her cool mosaic artwork ("gestual mosaic"), please visit: http://www.zazzle.com/cristinamarybuzamet

cristinamarybuzamet's Store at Zazzle

Best wishes to you, Cristina-Mary! You found your vocation and your job, all in one! That's very rare! :)

Un An Nou Fericit - 2011! [A Happy New Year - 2011!]

More links:

http://fineartamerica.com/profiles/cristinamary-buzamet.html

Do I wish you a...Happy Face Spider? No, I wish YOU HAVE a Happy Face, because you will have a Happy New Year! :)

Happy New Year 2011!

"Theridion grallator, also known as the "happy face spider," is a member of the Theridiidae family.

The Hawaiian name is nananana makakiʻi (face-patterned spider). The binomial grallator is Latin for "stiltwalker", reference to the species' long spindly legs."

Does YOUR "smile" pattern change according to what YOU eat?

"As the pattern may change according to what food the spider has eaten (Gillespie, 1989) and as T. grallator is very small, hides during the day, and is thus not a significant prey item for any species of predator, it is more likely that the bizarre variety of patterns serves no significant adaptive purpose at all."

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

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Happy PFF (Postcard Friendship Friday)!

Please visit: http://thebestheartsarecrunchy.blogspot.com/

"From Nazareth, with love". From Nazareth "the Arab capital of Israel" ? No, from Nazareth, Kentucky, USA. I created this non-traditional maximum card with a folded card ("Christmas card") received from Romania.

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

Notice that I found an American stamp where Mary has the same color scheme as in the card: red robe with blue mantle.

The pictorial postmark is matching, depicting Baby Jesus.

The reason you can see pretty much the entire postmark on the picture side is because I have used an Avery transparent mailing label, to counteract the glossiness of the card.

http://www.zazzle.com/c_am_sayin_postage-172331084925934503?rf=238693463283865848