With Love !
Moments to Treasure
14th February, globally celebrated as Valentine's day to express Love n Friendship. Some special stamps issued this year by Postal Administrations.
Australia Post issued a beautiful set of stamps symbolizing Moments to Treasure.
Date of Issue : 5 February 2018
Special Valentine's Day stamps from Finland
Date of Issue : 23 January 2019
The designs of this year's special Valentine's Day stamps from Finland feature Valentine’s Day, the baby box and pastimes on freezing cold Finnish winter days.
This sympathetic booklet of stamps has a strong craftwork feel. Pikkujämsä, who is starting his career as a stamp artist, painted the original paintings on paper, wrote the texts by hand and did the perforation freehand.
“When I was creating the stamps, I thought about a dear friend of mine in the north. Doing things together with friends was the starting point for these stamps. I try to make simple paintings that touch people and warm their hearts,” said Pikkujämsä.
The baby box is an innovation that is familiar to all Finnish families. The Baby Box miniature sheet, designed by Dog Design, presents the clothes and care supplies in the box and the box itself, in which a baby can also sleep.
“We illustrated the baby box products on the miniature sheet as a pattern-like surface that is bordered into ensembles by stamps. And a baby is naturally also included,” said AD Petri Salmela from Dog Design.
The Freezing Winter Day stamps feature typical Finnish winter day activities, such as ice fishing and taking a dip in a hole in the ice.
“In the picture of the first stamp, a father and daughter are spending a sunny day ice fishing. The second stamp features an ice swimmer taking a dip in a hole in the ice. You can see how freezing the water is on the face of the swimmer,” said the designer of the stamps AD Paula Salviander.
The ice fishing photo in the stamp portrays her own family and was taken by Jaana Vetikko, who is also the spokesperson for the Finnish Federation for Recreational Fishing. The photo of the swimmer taking a dip in a hole in the ice comes from the Can Stock Photo.
Source : Daily Finland
From Slovenia
Date of Issue : 25 January 2019
Greeting card - gregorjevo
Valentine's (and Gregor's) birds
In the late eighties of the 20th century, we began to introduce the global form and content of Valentine's in Slovenia. Of course, no one was asked at that time whether we have in our cultural heritage any original content that could enrich this celebration and give it a different, especially regional image. In any case, it is different from the global one, which is still valid as a saying that Valentine's Day is a store! In the Slovene cultural heritage, Valentine's Day was considered an early spring holiday. It was also the first day of bird-hunting in the year, since all birds do not marry one day. On this day early spring (February 14th), children walked from house to house, greeted a good harvest and wondered if there was anything left of a bird's wedding. Housewives, of course, bite the birds of prey for a while and stuck them behind branches of trees and shrubs. So the greetings were directed to the gardens, See if there is anything left. Of course, the children picked up all the birds from the branches and took them to their homes where they were dried; so they had some bread on a cup of warm milk each day. So we can talk about the kind of charity that our ancestors developed. To all residents, especially poorer families, they helped to modestly survive the last weeks of the winter and the first weeks of the early spring. Similar habits were also on Gregorjevo (March 12).
At the same time, we can wonder why we did not know how to transfer some of the contents of both holidays to a modern, global consumer celebration, even though Valentine's Day is devoted only to a loving ... So we can talk about the kind of charity that our ancestors developed. To all residents, especially poorer families, they helped to modestly survive the last weeks of the winter and the first weeks of the early spring. Similar habits were also on Gregorjevo (March 12). At the same time, we can wonder why we did not know how to transfer some of the contents of both holidays to a modern, global consumer celebration, even though Valentine's Day is devoted only to a loving ... So we can talk about the kind of charity that our ancestors developed. To all residents, especially poorer families, they helped to modestly survive the last weeks of the winter and the first weeks of the early spring. Similar habits were also on Gregorjevo (March 12). At the same time, we can wonder why we did not know how to transfer some of the contents of both holidays to a modern, global consumer celebration, even though Valentine's Day is devoted only to a loving ...
