For many years, my shop followed one simple idea:something for everyone. For almost 14 years, I created postcards in many different styles, moods, and themes. Cute and serious. Colorful and minimal. Illustrated and photographic. The goal was always the same: to make sure anyone, no matter their taste, could find at least one postcard that […]
Category Archives: Behind the Shop
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Dec
Dec
Every year I like to look back and share an honest overview of how my small postcard shop actually performed. This 2025 review is a mix of numbers, observations and lessons learned while running an independent stationery business focused on postcards, Postcrossing, Journaling and snail mail. From total sales and best-selling products to quiet days […]
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Nov
Nov
Discover FavoritePostcard’s October 2025 highlights – new Christmas postcards, limited Advent calendars, cozy stationery, and answers about US shipping and upcoming November releases.
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Oct
Oct
Autumn always feels like the real beginning of the creative year for me. Summer slips away, I finally stop melting over my printer, and the shop becomes a tiny paper storm: new postcards, boxes, stickers, packaging chaos, and a lot of coffee. If you’ve visited the website lately, you may have noticed a lot of […]
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Sep
Sep
Last week I received a special email: a note from Postcrossing congratulating me on my 17th anniversary with the project. Seventeen years! When you think about the fact that Postcrossing itself is celebrating its 20th birthday, it means I’ve been part of this amazing community for most of its life. That’s a long journey of […]
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Sep
Sep
August is usually a quiet month in my shop, and this year it was even stranger than usual. I was away on vacation for two full weeks, so the month ended up being half business, half holiday mode. This is the first time I’ve shared statistics like this. I’ve been thinking: why keep all the […]
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Jul
Jul
(And Why It’s Not the Same as a Vacation) Let me start with this: a workation is not a vacation. If you’re running a small online business like I do – where every task, every idea, and every invoice goes through your own hands, you can’t exactly “switch off.” But you can change your view. […]
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Jul
Jul
This week I launched Slow Summer Dreamer’s Box. Now it is time to tell you the story. I’ve wanted to create a seasonal stationery box for years. Not weeks or months. Literally years. It was one of those ideas that kept floating around in my mind while I packed orders or worked on other things. […]
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Jun
Jun
It’s been a while since I last wrote about my days, hasn’t it? Let’s fix that. In recent weeks, I’ve been busy with a fresh shop update – summer-themed postcards, including a slightly sarcastic new series called Postcrossing Truths. It’s made to poke fun at ourselves a little and to gently highlight just how dramatic […]
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May
May
Mari Kolorowa doesn’t just draw – she builds tiny, whimsical worlds where owls think in symbols and worms curl into question marks. If you’ve ever held one of her postcards, you’ve held a little spark of her imagination. 👉 You can find Mari’s illustrated postcards here on FavoritePostcard.com. Mari postcards have quietly become favorites in […]
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