Postcards

I've been doing a really great job of sending postcards to friends and family on my travels, better than I have ever done before, but I had this wonderful idea just now of sending my own photos out! It gets expensive constantly buying cards and stamps around Europe, plus it takes up time searching for the perfect postcards at a reasonable price, writing meaningful (or as meaningful as I can get in a few minutes time) and sometimes witty notes, addressing and stamping all of them, and finding a box to put them in. Don't get me wrong, I LOVE writing postcards. It's a new found joy of mine. And then there's the anticipation as I wait for people to tell me they received them and how awesome I am for sending them one. Heh heh...

I 'll admit though, it's getting a bit tiring. In Morocco I wanted to send EVERYONE a camel postcard bragging about what I had done, but I only ended up sending out a few. In Italy I decided to make up for it by sending out as many cards as I could, but I still didn't send one to everyone I wanted. Then on the last day after I bought my 12 stamps to put on my 12 postcards to send out to various friends and a couple family members (I try to send a postcard to everyone in my family from everywhere I go, but I have a BIG fambam and I didn't have enough cards or motivation in Italy) I discovered the HUGE stamps didn't have glue on them! Thus began the massive search for scotch tape at the Venice train station, where I found enough to send out two of my cards. I ended up having to wait until we got to our Milan hotel for our last night in Italy. There, I asked at the front desk if they had any tape, and proceeded to explain what it was because they barely spoke English (I don't blame them, they're Chinese immigrants living in Italy running the "American Hotel"). The guy first tried to give me a giant roll of packing tape until I told him I needed something smaller, like scotch tape. So, I apologize if you receive a rather messy looking postcard, but there is a funny story behind it.

Back to the point of this post:
After getting my awesome idea I googled to see if it was allowed to send photos as postcards, and found this site:        http://content.photojojo.com/diy/postcards-from-your-photos/

If you read Method 1 and 2, you'll see it's kinda risky to do this overseas because of potential damage, so I'm wondering if someone could maybe possibly send me one (or a pack) of those handy dandy postcard backings. I'll return the favor by sending you a photo-card from wherever I go next. My address is:

Qiana Wylie
c/o Aymeric Guibert (you can get away with leaving that out)
47 Rue des Douves
33800 Bordeaux, France

Merci beaucoup!


P.S. I could also use a few paper clips.