The Moomins Time Travel

On Thursday I got my stamp order from Finland.

This is one stamp booklet I ordered:

The Moomins Time Travel (issued 24-05-2017)

I also ordered the FDC of the stamps.

Zacharias Topelius

On Thursday I got my stamp order from Finland.

This is one souvenir sheet I ordered:

200th birthday of Zacharias Topelius (issued 24-01-2018)
- Portrait of Topelius
- Illustration of Topelius’ fairytale Adalmina’s Pearl

Snow Queen

On Thursday I got my stamp order from Finland.

This is one stamp I ordered:

Snow Queen (issued 03-11-2017)

Quino and Mafalda

On Thursday I got my stamp order from Spain.

This is one souvenir sheet I ordered:

Graphic Humour - Quino and Mafalda (issued 16-04-2017)

Star Wars Stamps from Spain

On Thursday I got my stamp order from Spain.

This is one souvenir sheet I ordered:

40 years Star Wars (issued 23-05-2017)
The souvenir sheet contains one stamp with Darth Vader and five vignettes with a Stormtrooper, Chewbacca, R2-D2, Yoda and C-3PO. It was printed with a lenticular effect.

ERASMUS Scholarships

On Thursday I got my stamp order from Spain.

This is one stamp I ordered:

30 years ERASMUS Scholarships (issued 16-10-2017)

Spain in EU and UN

On Thursday I got my stamp order from Spain.

This is one stamp set I ordered:

Anniversaries (issued 07-07-2016)
- 30th Anniversary of the Accession of Spain to the European Union
- Spain as non-permanent member of the Security Council of the United Nations

Working Dogs

On Thursday I got a stamp set from Malaysia on a postcard.

This is it:

Year of the Dog - Working Dogs (issued 18-01-2018)
- Border Collie as Search and Rescue Dog
- Golden Retriever as Guide Dog
- Belgian Shepherd as Protection Dog

Thank You very much Matthew!

The Frog King; or, The Iron Heinrich

On Thursday I bought the new German stamps including this year's Welfare stamps with the Grimm Brothers' fairy tale The Frog King (issued 01-02-2018).

Once upon a time there was a Princess who went to the forest to play with her favourite toy, a golden orb. She sat next to a well and throwed it in the air several times, but in one case she was not able to catch it and it fell in the well. Just when she started to cry over the loss of her toy, a Frog appeared from the deeps of the well and offered the princess to get back her golden orb if she accepts him as her friend and shares her plate and bed with him. The Princess agreed, but when she had her toy back, she forgot about the Frog and went home. 

The next day, when the Princess was at table, the Frog came to the Castle, knocked on the door and demanded the keeping of the promise. The Princess refused, but was forced by her father to do so. After they ate together, the Frog wanted to join her in the bed. The Princess refused again, but also this time her father forced her to keep her promise. So she took the Frog and went with him to her room.

In her room the Princess throwed the Frog at the wall, but it was not dead as the Princess expected. Instead the Frog turned into a beautiful young Prince, who joined the Princess in the bed. The next day Heinrich, the servant of the Prince, came to the castle and all three went to the Prince's land. Heinrich was so sad when the prince had been turned into the Frog, that he put three iron straps over his heart. During the journey to the Prince's land the straps bursted with such a noise that the Prince thought that the carriage would break.

Chinese Dogs

On Wednesday I got a stamp set from China on a postcard.

This is it:

Year of the Dog (issued 05-01-2018)

Thank You very much Chen Zhan!