Saturday, April 30, 2011

Available Piggies - Texas Tiny Pigs. Also, an educational postcard about pigs, "the most intelligent farm animals"[?]

Please visit and enjoy teacup-size, live piglets! Available Piggies - Texas Tiny Pigs

Here's a postcard with normal piglets, that may be almost as big as the adult tiny pigs (10 pounds) from that Texas farm.
I superimposed a Romanian stamp, just to see how it would be if I were to make a wildcard...non-traditional maximum card, with a domestic pig old stamp (not valid for postage anymore).

The back of this rare, educational card says that pigs are the most intelligent farm animals!
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PINK PIGS! :)
Happy Pink Saturday! (still open on Sunday!)

Please visit "Pretty in pink"/ "Show us your pink" [objects, that is :)] meme here:

Friday, April 29, 2011

September 11, 2001: "Thank you for your heroic efforts! To all firefighters, police officers, medical personnel, etc." personalized postage stamp / personalised postage stamp / customized postage / P-stamp that I designed at Zazzle.com


"Thank you for your heroic efforts! To all firefighters,

 police officers, medical personnel, etc."

 Public Domain photo from http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:September_15_2001.jpg 
New York, N.Y. (Sept. 15, 2001) .
 A tired search dog finds time to rest as rescue efforts at the World Trade Center in New York City continue just a few feet away. 
U.S. Navy photo by Journalist 1st Class Preston Keres.

Personalized postage stamp / personalised postage stamp / customized postage / P-stamp that I designed at Zazzle.com.

See links to stamps from around the world that celebrate the Royal Wedding of HRH Prince William of Wales and Miss Catherine Middleton. Also, I show you a very nice maximum card with a ROE-yal "wedding" from the Animal Kingdom, within the United Kingdom: The Roe Deer (Capreolus capreolus)

Best wishes to the newly-married couple! :)
I like them, and I hope they'll have a great marriage!

See: http://www.royalmail.com/portal/stamps/content1?catId=32200669&mediaId=136900792
I LIKE Royal Mail, inclusively at its Facebook page. :)

Please read this interesting website, which I follow in my blogroll: Stamp News | Philately News | Postage Stamp | philately
See more stamps with Will & Kate from other countries.

"Prince William, Duke of Cambridge KG FRS (born William Arthur Philip Louis on 21 June 1982) is the elder son of Charles, Prince of Wales, and Diana, Princess of Wales, and third eldest grandchild of Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
Consequently, he is also second in line, again behind his father, to the position of Head of the Commonwealth (figurehead of the 54-member Commonwealth of Nations) and Supreme Governor of the Church of England."


"Catherine Elizabeth Mountbatten-Windsor, Duchess of Cambridge (usually known as Kate, born Catherine Elizabeth Middleton on 9 January 1982) is the wife of Prince William, Duke of Cambridge
Their wedding took place on 29 April 2011. 
Catherine grew up in Chapel Row atBucklebury, a village near Newbury, Berkshire,[2] and studied in Scotland at the University of St Andrews, where she met Prince William in 2001. 
They started a romantic relationship that continued until a break-up lasting for several months in 2007. 
However, they continued to be friends and rekindled their relationship later that year."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catherine,_Duchess_of_Cambridge
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My stamp design, at zazzle:
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Bridal tiara and veil

The veil is held in place by a Cartier Scroll Tiara, made in 1936 and lent to Miss Middleton by the Queen. 
It was purchased by the Queen's father, the Duke of York (subsequently King George VI) for his Duchess (later Queen Elizabeth and the Queen Mother) three weeks before succeeding his brother Edward VIII (Duke of Windsor) as King. 
Princess Elizabeth (now the Queen) received the tiara from her mother on her 18th birthday.
Designed by Shane Connolly, the bride's shield-shaped wired bouquet contained myrtleLily of the ValleySweet William and hyacinth.[80]

Groom's uniform

Although William is a serving Royal Air Force flight lieutenant and also holds the equivalent Royal Navy rank of lieutenant and Army rank of captain, he chose instead to wear the full dress uniform of the Irish Guards displaying the rank of colonel
William has been entitled to wear this uniform since 10 February 2011 when he was appointed the honorary colonel of the Irish Guards.[81] 
Additionally he wore the peaked hat of the Irish Guards, rather than the bearskin
As a Knight of the Order of the Garter, he wore the order's blue riband, to which was affixed hisRAF wings and Golden Jubilee Medal.[82] 
The uniform was made by the Savile Row tailors Gieves & Hawkes
William did not wear a sword as he was entering a church."


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Also, I show you a very nice maximum card with a ROE-yal "wedding" from the Animal Kingdom, within the United Kingdom: The Roedeer (Capreolus capreolus)

"The European Roe Deer (Capreolus capreolus), also known as the Western Roe Deer or chevreuil, is an Eurasian species of deer. It is relatively small, reddish and grey-brown, and well-adapted to cold environments. Roe Deer are widespread inWestern Europe, from the Mediterranean to Scandinavia, and from the British Isles to the Caucasus. It is distinct from the somewhat larger Siberian Roe Deer."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roe_Deer


In the Animal Kingdom, "wedding" is very simple, although courtship can be quite extensive.
They don't need any priest - their wilderness is PRIEST-ine enough...

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Happy PFF (Postcard Friendship Friday)!

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