Special Occasions - Part I (19 July 2010)

Australia Post has regularly released its popular Special Occasions stamp series, the purpose of which is to provide postage stamps for mail relating to specific events and celebrations.

There are 10 stamps featured in this edition but I chose to realise maximum cards using only 7. 

The first 4 has a more romantic theme: wedding rings, champagne glasses, roses and tulips. The denomination of the wedding ring stamp is $1.20, twice as much as the other stamps.

Wedding rings

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Champagne glasses

  

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Roses & Tulips

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Special Occasions - Part II (19 July 2010)

These three stamps features a teddy bear, used for birth of babies; the Australian national flower, wattle and balloons for most general occasions.

The Baby stamp 

  

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The wattle is Australia's national flower, and 1st September is celebrated Australia's Wattle Day.

 Wattle Stamp

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Balloons, usually used in joyous occasions such as parties, baby showers and weddings.

Balloon stamp

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Emergency Services (13.07.2010)

Emergency numbers all my life have always been '999', and on American shows, it was '911'. I always think that emergency numbers always will begin with a '9', lol, but in Australia, it's '000'. I remember a safety talk the police gave in the University when I first started classes, they mentioned that due to a large number of people dialing '911' in emergencies, or people who are not educated of Australia's emergency numbers, calls to 911 in Australia will be rerouted to '000' anyway. Have no idea if this is 100% true, haha.

More coming soon :)