I spent a few days in Copenhagen recently–my first time to Denmark. I had heard such nice things about that sweet, bikeable canal city, so I spent some time there before heading to Poland and Germany.

Unfortunately, the only camera I brought was my iPhone, and even more unfortunately, I managed to let my phone get stolen in an airport during a long layover. Within two hours of arriving in Europe, my camera was gone.

Yes, yes, I cried about it, and then eventually got over it, and decided my best option was to collect some postcards to present to you here.

I picked up most of these postcards at the Dansk Design Center, which was one of the greatest places I visited in my short time in Denmark. You might already know that I have kind of a thing for Danish design, and this place–with a cafe, an interactive exhibit about project management, a retrospective of Danish design from the 1940s until the present, and  sweet gift shop–was pretty much made for me.

The “Copenhagen” postcard you see here caught my eye right away, but I didn’t notice until I was scanning it weeks later that it’s made by one of my favorite design firms, Ferm Living. Brilliant.

These two postcards, as you can probably see, are designed to be cut out and glued together to create mini paper versions of classic designs–in this case, Arne Jacobsen’s Ant chair and Alfonso Bialetti’s Caffettiera coffee maker (I have one of these and love it, by the way; perfect espresso).

These remind me of the gorgeous, impeccable mini furniture that one of my favorite bloggers, Morgan at the Brick House, has been creating as part of the dollhouse challenge.

If I ever bring myself to cut these out and fold them up, I’ll be sure to post pictures.

A few other favorites:

To be sure, it was very disappointing not to have the chance to photograph some of the great little scenes I saw around Copenhagen–Occupy Copenhagen and the “free state” of Christiania come to mind–but I’m at least glad that I had something beautiful to bring home and share with you.

Since it’s almost Thanksgiving, I’ll just say it: I’m thankful for postcards.