Under a starry Arctic sky the northern lights
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2008: Merry Christmas (Design - Linda Riber Sørensen; Typography - Dorit Olsen)
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swirl over a cluster of houses. The artist Linda Riber says she "pictured a small village where the heat from the small windows of wooden houses stream out into the freezing snow and a public Christmas tree is outside. Everybody is inside, the food will be served any minute.
Two reindeer wander close by the village. I imagine that these are some of Santa Claus's reindeer". |
2020:Europa -Ancient Postal Routes (Design - Klaus Welp)
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Santa Claus has hitched up his reindeer and is circling the globe with his parcels.
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2019: Winter Wonder (Design - Virpi Pekkala)
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The northern lights swirl over the pole and a snowman and arctic hares.
Two elves, a dog and cat sing outside
Meanwhile an elf family stride across the snow in their bathrobes going to the sauna across a twilit snowy landscape, the father with a lantern and mother with a towel while an elf boy holds a birch whisk.The
Christmas sauna is a Finnish tradition.
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1997: Christmas Crackers (Design - John Gorham)
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Time to pull a Christmas cracker.
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2019: Snowflake (Design Paula Salviander)
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Sunday Stamps II theme this week is - Secular Christmas - light up the dark days at See It On A Postcard.
I was disappointed to not see any Northern Lights this past week (we even had a brilliantly clear night)
ReplyDeleteI wonder what tale the snowman is telling those attentive hares?
Those Christmas stamps are very nice. I don't know why Christmas stamps always cheer me up; even this year, when most Christmas celebrations have been cancelled!
ReplyDeleteI like Santa in his sleigh and the last stamp with the snowflakes.
ReplyDeleteThe Finnish stamps would cheer anyone up.
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