Psst, Pass it On..It's the Pile Of Postcards Exchange

...prepared to post? Then please pull out your pen!

So hey-ho I have a few more days on crutches yet. I was sitting this morning, trying to come up with a cunning and diverting plan for the next week or so, when a card dropped through my letterbox. A postcard from my blogging friend Miriam! Thank you! I propped it up on the kitchen shelf and starting thinking to myself..it's the Summer holidays here and time was, that meant lots of postcards landing on the doormat. We never ventured very far from home when I was little, but we used to send postcards. And we used to receive lots in return: from my Grandparents at the seaside, from school friends who might have made it as far as Spain, from my aunt, the Geography teacher who travelled the world over. I saved them all in an old style scrapbook (and I wrote about it here for Storytelling Sunday). For years I tried to keep up the habit. But the number of my friends and family who post has dwindled. Have you found the same?

Let's do something about it! Let's send some cards! Maybe it isn't Summer where you are? Postcards are good any time of the year! If you are joining in with Rinda's Summertime Photography Scavenger Hunt, you might have already taken a photo of a rack of postcards..how about running back and picking up a handful? Or keeping your eye out when you're out on a trip this weekend? Oh go on, please say you're in! It's been over a year since we did the Great Big Swap of Very Small Things, let's have another go....

Here's how it will work

If you'd like to take part, please email me before the end of June. Last day to sign up is Monday 30th. If you took part in my previous swap I'll already have your address so you don't need to include it. Newcomers are very, very welcome - if you haven't swapped here before I'd love to have you join us. Please get in touch, though I'd welcome a "like" on Facebook, or you could follow me, just so I know who you are if you'd like to jump in (and please do)! In the first week of July I'll send you the names and addresses of six postcard fanciers for you to mail to. It's an international swap, so you might have to post abroad, but I'll make sure everyone has a fair spread of stamp costs and I'll try to send you a name or place to intrigue you. The rest is up to you! Send cards from your own area, or from somewhere special you've been, write about your plans for the next couple of months, or sketch out a dream holiday, whatever you like. You have all of July to get your cards in the mail. Does that sound like a plan? I do hope so. Summer is always better with postcards (so I'm keeping my fingers crossed)....

Any questions, please just get in touch. 

This swap comes to you with grateful thanks to Miriam, whose card started it all