WOYWW # 311 and more Postcards

 Another area of my craft room to view. This one is behind me when I sit at the computer. Above is the before photo of half the table that I needed and was just a dumping area.

The after photo all cleaned up and immediately replaced with stuff. Left top are some wonderful vintage serviettes I will use to make backgrounds on cards. Boxes and baskets of my postcards to be swapped. Tissue boxes-always come in handy.

The three piles in the front left are to go to people. Books of stationery to write in-oppps almost falling off the table there hahaha.

Beautiful sunshine streaming into the craft room, unfortunately at the far end from where I sit.

 These postcards are from private Postcrossing swaps, I like collecting maps of various citys/countries. This one came from Kyoka in California.....and of course the beautiful stamps below

 This postcard came from Shinta in Indonesia, I just love the stamps she has put on. I also love the sticker she has made "Postcrossing Sending Smiles Around the Globe" which is so true. I smile and look forward to looking in my postbox each day to see what surprise is in there and it never fails me.

It's that time of the year here in Australia (at least the Southern States) where we have soup to warm the cockles. I was lucky enough to taste this soup in Sydney MLC Centre when I visited there 2 weeks ago, it was absolutely delicious. OMG did I say it was absolutely delicious!!!, I had to guess what was in it.
I put in some chicken thighs cut into small pieces.
Portugese seasoning
lemon rind of 1 lemon
salt and pepper
Continental Parsley and normal parsley from my garden (a handful of each, chopped up)
mint leaves from my garden (a handful, chopped up)
some chicken seasoning because it tasted bland to me
leek (love leek, use it all the time in winter)
grated carrot
diced celery

and yep it tasted even better than the one I bought tee hee

I added some pasta to bulk it up as hubby does not like watery soup. If you could just lick my screen or smell it and taste it you would know what I mean by it being delicious LOL. That lemon flavour makes a huge difference in taste-so unique. OK I've talked myself into a second bowl now LOL.

I made some up last week and didnt add the continental parsley it made a huge difference to the taste, now I will always add it.

UPDATE: Ms Julia wanted to know the ingredients to the Portugese seasoning so she could make her own so here it is:

5 tbsp paprika
1 tsp pepper
1tsp parsley
1 tsp chilli powder
1 tsp cumin
1/2 tsp oregano
1 tsp lemon zest
1 tsp cinnamon
1/8 tsp clove
1/8 tsp allspice
1/8 tsp nutmeg
1/4 bay leaf (not sure if this is 1/4 tsp or an actual 1/4 of a leaf )

Grind all together

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