5/17/2012

I sent postcards of 4-legged animals to 3 different Swap Bot people, wrote a business letter of sorts, and sent a note to a nice person who had contacted me, out of the blue, from my address on this sitw.

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Here are the things that have come through the mail lately...with my apologies for not answering a lot of them yet...

 These postcards are all from a Swap Bot "National Postcard Week" swap, a new postcard every day from the same person.  I love the variety!

 

This is a Postcrossing card, a letter from the Netherlands, a mother's day card from Canada, a change of address ostcard, and 5 postcards from a SwapBot swap.

 

Two Postcrossing cards, one SwapBot card, an enclosure card from a Swap Bot "exchange something interesting" and two pen pal letters (one was sent twice!)

My Mother's Day cards--from 8 month old Lacie, from 4 year old Brianna, and from 46 year old Jeri!

 

 I think the card are all Postcrossing, there were Compassion letters (4 of them all together), and a couple of pen pal letters

 

These are all Postcrossing cards.

Day #309

I sent so many things out today, it takes 3 photos...

These were orphaned postcards I was sent, 2 from Russia and one from Yosemite Park.  I wrote a message on them and sent them back.

These were two post-crossing cards and a card sent to our granddaughter.

I actually wrote 3 letters and the cowboy postcard was another one for Post-Crossing.

Incoming was gratifying too.

A post crossing card from Belarus, a lovely letter from a sponsored child in Kenya, and 3 postcards enclosed in that West End Review card, a Swap-Bot exchange.

Day #305

A good friend of ours died this morning.  I just couldn't find the desire to write a chatty pen pal latter.  But this was the incoming mail.

Loved the two letters from compassion kids--both were long, chatty letters.  The other envelope came from a Swap-Bot person.

Day #295

I was catching up on stuff that had been recorded on our DVR while we were at Easter dinner last night, so I only got a postcard and a letter ready to go out this morning.

The postcard went to a school which joined post-crossing to get a view of the world.  I thought that this old schoolhouse in Old Sacramento would be interesting for them.

I also wrote a letter to my sponsored child in the Philippines, but that gets sent by e-mail through Compassion, Int'l.

There was a great bunch of incoming mail.

Two great post-crossing cards, from Spain and Finland (including one of the great Inge Look cards) and a wonderful Swap-Bot card from Perth (Western Australia).  Then there were three penpal letters, and one Swap Bot letter from someone with whom, I think it's fair to say, I have absolutely nothing in common.  But that's the breaks when you enter into a random swap.  Sometimes you win, sometimes you don't.

Day #292

I was not home before the mail was picked up, so there was no outgoing mail, but I did have these for incoming

 

I was thrilled to find not one but three Compassion letters, but all three were from Fred....which is nice, but it would have been nice to hear from one of the other children.

It was unusual that both of the PostCrossing cards were from the United States!

Day #286

One post-crossing card to someone in California (such a long way to travel!) and a pen pal letter all going out this morning.

All I had in incoming was a letter from one of my sponsored children, Shallon in Uganda...but what a wonderful letter it was, and best of all, it came with a picture!

I also immediately wrote a response to Shallon, but I used Compassion's on-line option, so it was not an on-paper letter.

Day #284

This morning I sent out another one of those fun Isabel Samaras postcards and a new one I just found of the Davis Arboretum.  I also made a special envelope for the letter I wrote--and I won't give away to whom it is going!

 

I got a new picture of  my Compassion child, Emmanuella (in Ghana) today, but I had already received the picture as a .jpg, so it was not anything I had not seen before.  And I received a letter from a pen pal in the SF Bay Area.

Day #283

Today I sent a letter to a Compassion child in the Dominican Republic, and two postcards (I just love these pieces by Isabel Samaras).  I also got a flat rate box to mail the package above to my Compassion child in the Philippines.  We can only send things made of paper, but someone is going to the Philippines and offered to take a package.  I was able to fit in 2 t-shirts and a bunch of toys and games, as well as a little candy.  I hope it all makes it all right!

 When Walt picked up the mail today he said there was an offer of a free cremation addressed to him and the rest of the mail was addressed to me.

 

There was a postcrossing card from the Netherlands, of the sender's 4 year old grandchild's drawing.  I love that idea.  There were also cards from two pen pals who haven't written in awhile and a letter from a 23 year old girl in Italy who stumbled across this web site and sent a very sweet letter, which I have already answered!

Day #269

Yesterday I received a note from a good friend that I hadn't heard from in literally years.  I was so pleased to hear from her that I ended up writing a 7 page letter, the kinds of letters we used to exchange all the time.  I also sent her a cat post card.  I also answered a pen pal letter and send a "nudge" note to someone, wondering why I had not received a response from the letter I wrote in November.

Compassion seems to have kicked in finally, with two more letters arriving today, from Fred in the Philippines and Murugi in Kenya.  There were also two post-crossing cards, both from the United States.

Day #268

I sent out one post-crossing card, one friend card, and one pen pal letter.

Received a letter from a friend I haven't heard from in a couple of years, a letter from 4 year old Theresa in Ghana, and a post-crossing card from Australia.

Day #267

I had 3 postcrossing cards to send today, one to the U.S., one to Latvia and one to the Netherlands.  I also answered a penpal letter.

The mail brought letters from Anjali in India and Theresa in Ghana and also a pen pal letter from Lynn in Berkeley (who always has such cool stamps!)

Day #259

I suppose continuing to name these "Day #xxx" is kind of silly, but it gives a consistency to the names, I guess.

I wrote a lot today. This first picture is all Post-crossing cards I sent out (with that damn $1.05 postage!). These went to Canada, Germany, Poland, and Belarus. The S. Carolina card had been sent to me by a pen pal, but this Post-crossing person was keeping track of all the places from where she had received cards and S. Carolina was one of the very few US States that she was missing...so I hope I can be forgiven for passing it along!

and these are the letters that went out.

Here is what came in -- a pen pal valentine, a post-crossing card, a birthday card from Southwest Airlines, and ...be still my heart!... not one but two letters from Compassion kids!

Playing Catch-up

I've been so bad the last few days about photographing and posting letters, so I'm just going to throw up what I have and then start fresh tomorrow.

Here are recent things I've sent out:

Postcards going to Australia, South Korea, The Netherlands, and Latvia

I honestly don't remember who these letters (and post card) were going to...but I was showing off my new wax seal.

I made this envelope out of the program for West Side Story. It is going across the pond.

I finally got mail today, including the first letter from a Compassion child in over a month

There have also been postcrossing cards received in the past few days.

These came from The US (3), Latvia, The Netherlands, Germany (2), Poland, Belgium.

I also got a couple of letters in plain white envelope, one from Misty (The Pen Thief) and from Cathy T, both of which I have misplaced (but answered already!)

So. All caught up. Now to start again tomorrow keeping things neat and orderly!

Day #244

Here's a post-crossing card to a guy from France who asked for pin-up cards, as well as two pen pal letters.

How nice to receive two letters from little Fred in the Philippines, a great letter from Limner, and a letter from Kathryn, including a sample of her "Zentangus." (I'm still not sure I know what a Zentangus is!

Day #239

I sent off a reply to a pen pal this morning.

..and I received a letter from Shallon in Uganda, a Christmas card from Lynn, a nice letter from Marian, and a post-crossing card from Belarus.

Happy New Year!

The nice thing about going away is coming home to a nice pile of mail!

The stack included nice Christmas cards from Noreen, Barbara, Limner and Patty...


Post-crossing cards from France, South Padre Island, Singapore and China....

A letter from a new friend from Bellingham, WA

a letter from my sponsored child, Anjali, in India.

...and two great letters from Barbara in Germany and Mariska in The Netherlands.

There were also not one but TWO letters to Kimi which were returned for a bad address, though they were sent to the return address on her envelopes!

With all this great mail to read, a suitcase to unpack, a new puppy to get settled in...and a new smart phone to learn, I didn't write to anybody myself!

Day #238

Actually wrote quite a lot this morning... a Christmas card to a friend in Australia, a postcrossing card and replies to 3 pen pal letters. And then I baked more cookies!

Good mail too...The postcrossing card is unusual because it came from a GROUP, so no message but a whole bunch of signatures. There was also a great letter from The Pen Thief (who writes wonderful letters), a LWA pan pal and a letter from Fred in the Philippines.

Day #236

Before going out for the last of my Christmas shopping, I wrote these two overdue letters

This was also our biggest day for Christmas cards this year, so far.

Then came two postcrossing cards and a letter from my sponsored girl in India...it has been so long since I've had a Compassion letter!