The Little Mole bakes cookies

It's my second postcard from Karolína (Czech Republic), got through FB-swap.
(Received in June, 2012)

Karolína and I, we both don't know which Krtek-episode is showing by this postcard, so if somebody knows, please let me know and send me an e-mail! :)

Little Mole and Christmas

I got today (28.06.2012) this lovely Christmas-Krtek postcard from the Czech Republic, sent by Karolína.

Little Mole and Christmas (Krtek a Vánoce)

Snow lies all around and Christmas is approaching. Everybody in the forest is asleep; only Mole wants to surprise his friends and decorates a lovely Christmas tree. He wraps presents for each animal and sings his carols. But the malevolent Aunt Crow steals the Christmas tree and flies away. How can Little Mole save Christmas?

How The Mole Got His Pants

How The Mole Got His Pants was the first Krtek-cartoon I have ever seen. This postcard shows a scene from it, sent by Lucía (Czech Republic), I got it through FB-swap.
(Received in June, 2012)

Krtek was first to be seen in 1956 in Prague, when Zdeněk Miler wanted to create a children's cartoon about how flax is processed. He wanted a strong Disney-influence to the cartoon by choosing an animal for the leading role, and decided to pick a mole after stumbling over a molehill during a walk. The first film called "Jak krtek ke kalhotkám přišel" ("How the mole got his pants") was released in 1956, and the cute main character won itself an enormous popularity in many Eastern European countries as well as Germany, Austria, India and China. Production for further episodes started in 1963 and since then, around 50 episodes have been created.

Butterfly baby

This Anne Geddes postcard is from Lucía (Czech Republic), through FB-swap.
(Received in June, 2012)

Anne Geddes does not audition babies for use as models because they are "too unpredictable". Instead, she keeps in touch with multiple birth and twin clubs, and has thousands of photographs on file that parents have sent her. Geddes travels to the United States every year in search of black infants to photograph, as New Zealand has a very small black population. A typical sitting takes place in the morning when the babies are well-rested, and lasts about half an hour, otherwise the babies get too bored or fussy. "You have to be really fast," Geddes says about getting good shots. She sets up her studio in advance—props, lighting, cameras and equipment—so that all the baby or babies have to do is sit. Many of her props are custom made, such as over-sized shoes and flowerpots. She keeps the babies' parents nearby for extra assistance with expressions.

The Mole and the Hedgehog

My second Krtek card is from Katerína (Czech Republic), through FB-swap.
(Received in May, 2012)

"It took me a long time to realize it, but when I draw Krtek, I am drawing myself.”

 Zdeněk Miler

Krtek ♥

It's also from Veronika (Czech Republic), from one of my favourite cartoon Krtek.
(Received in May, 2012)

The Mole (in the Czech original called Krtek, or Krteček (little mole); Slovak Krtko; German Der kleine Maulwurf; Hungarian Kisvakond; Polish Krecik; Finnish Myyrä) is an animated character in a series of cartoons, created by Czech animator Zdeněk Miler in 1956. Since its inception, the character won itself an enormous popularity in many Eastern European countries as well as Germany, Austria, India, China and Japan. The first episode of the cartoon was narrated, but Miler wanted the cartoon to be understood in every country of the world, so he decided to use his daughters as voice actors, reducing the speech to short non-figurative exclamations in order to express the mole's feelings and world perception making the cartoon internationally understandable.

Plzeň

This card is from Veronika (Czech Republic), I got it through FB-swap.
(Received in May, 2012)

Plzeň is a city in western Bohemia in the Czech Republic. It is the capital of the Plzeň Region and the fourth most populous city in the Czech Republic. It is located about 90 km west of Prague at the confluence of four rivers—the Radbuza, the Mže, the Úhlava, and the Úslava—which form the Berounka River. The city is known worldwide for Pilsner beer. Plzeň was in September 2010 selected by an official jury to be put forward to join the Belgian city of Mons as the European capital of culture in 2015.