5/16/12

Hopefully this puts me back on track again, with things I sent today...

There were two Post-crossing people who liked children's illustrations (one was a toddler).  And the Ira Gershwin envelope went to a pen pal.

This was incoming today.

 

There was a Mothers Day card from my sister-in-law, a postcard from Swap-Bot, and a letter from my penpal, with a photo of her twins.

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 #260

I sent off a few things in the mail today. Two were postcrossing cards, one was a card to sendsomething (which I've forgotten about lately!). Then there was a thank you note, a letter to an author who just joined sendsomething (I'll be curious to see if she was really interested in correspondents or just publicizing her book), and two pen pal letters, one to the US and one to Germany.

Ok. There were hand delivered by my husband, for himself and for our dogs ("the girls"), but they still count as incoming mail on Valentine's Day.

This was the only incoming mail, a postcrossing card of Hong Kong, but mailed from Sacramento, 20 miles from here!

Catching Up Again

I've been computer-less for a week, so unable to update here. So here are my most recent things sent out (not much!). I did send out 11 letters to my Compassion children, but I wrote them using Compassion's on-line letter writing function (which allows me to embed photos in the letters...and they print them for me!). This one went to my almost 4-year old Granddaughter....

These are post-crossing cards.

I didn't send out any letters because I had no printer (and didn't get around to hand-writing), but what a wealth of incoming mail I received!

This group includes one of those wonderful Inge Look postcards, this time from the Netherlands.



One letter in the above grouping was this great card with matching stamp from Kimi.


And now off to write lots and lots of letters!

I've been frustrated with the USPS web site and unable to find international stamps. I finally wrote to them and discovered that you can get more stamps than show on their front page:

This link will take you to more first class stamps than show on the page, and this link will take you to the "extra postage" page where you can find international stamps. There is now even a $1.05 stamp.

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 #226

Two outgoing pen pal letters today

A nice letter from one of my penpals in the UK and a Christmas card from a guy from Malaysia who lived with us for 3 years, while he went to high school (now lives in the US with his American wife and their two children).

Day #223

I had to go to the blood bank, and then meet friends for coffee, so only time for one letter this morning, to a pen pal in Texas.

What a great afternoon, that brought mail from some of my favorite pen pals!

Day #197

Here's the outgoing...working hard to catch up on answering back incoming mail!

2 Post-crossing cards and, 1 letter to someone on SendSomething, a SwapBot letter, and a pen pal letter

Incoming was a Post-crossing post-card from Russia, which was supposed to be a funny card, but the guy only told me it was a funny card and didn't bother to translate it for me. Maybe the joke is on me.

Also another pen pal letter.

Day #193

Tried to answer "short" messages this morning and got several written. All were to letters or notes received

Then the mail came this afternoon with lots of fun things.

There were a couple of notes from people who have been following this blog (you know how I love that!), a swap-bot card and 2 letters from penpals.

This will be the last "incoming mail" photo for a week, since we are going to be away until Sunday. Our friend is moving in to take care of the three dogs, but we have stopped mail delivery so I expect to have a big bunch when we pick up mail next Monday!

Day #189

I finally finished a letter I've been trying to write to a pen pal for several days now and got that into the mail along with an answer to a letter from a new writer I received recently.

Got some nice mail today, too.


Three letter and two postcrossing cards, one of which came in an envelope along with a letter and all with some cool stamps. And I simply love the Inge Look cards from Finland!

Day #173

Here are the letters I wrote today.

The bottom one is an envelope I made out of an ad for an upcoming production of Oklahoma!, and I liked what I did with the back of the envelope...

...adding the title of the show pasted on to seal the envelope.

And there were fun things in the mailbox today too.

...a postcrossing card from Italy (my first from that country) and three meaty pen pal letters, including the announcement of impending twins due in May. "The happiest times are when babies come" (Miss Melanie, GWTW)

Day #162

I have apparently offended the gods of mail. I sacrifice to them every day and each day I go to the mailbox and find nothing in return. All I got today was a request for money.

However, I sent a lot--a bunch of postcards from my latest trip to San Diego, all announcing the birth of our granddaughter, a post card to a neighbor, and a letter to a pen pal.


Maybe tomorrow there will be mail.

Day #151

It's the Saturday outgoing mail.

My weekly letter to Amanda, 2 pen pal letters, and a request from theLetter Writers Alliance asking for a new penpal. One of the two they sent me earlier worked out great, but the other seems to have gone by the wayside. I didn't even get an answer when I sent an e-mail asking if there was a problem.

The afternoon brought one post-crossing card.

This is from 2 year old Pavlik in Belarus, who writes very well for a baby. (I suspect there was help from Mom!)

Day #149

I didn't get home until too late to write mail to send out today. But what fun with incoming.


Two pen pal letters, one new letter, and a PostCrossing card that is probably home made, since there is no ID or even a state identifier on it--but I love the horses! I also love the floral design on the letter. One of these days I might actually take pen in hand and try decorating something.

Day #115

A bit of outgoing mail today...


A note to a friend in Australia, 2 pen pal letters, a recipe postcard to my friend Lynn (who just hosted me in San Diego), and 2 Postcrossing cards.

No incoming mail today. :(

Day #104

I only had time to write one short letter today, to our new Compassion Child, Emmanuella.


I was going out for the day, so wasn't here when the mail came, but when I got home, I had a nice bunch of fun mail.


The two postcards are both from Swap-bot swaps and the smaller letter is from pen pal, Noreen

Day #81

This is outgoing for today:

2 Postcrossing postcards, a SendSomething postcard, a pen pal answer letter and two Sendsomething letters. One of those envelopes has a chicken wishbone in it--think it will get delivered uncrushed? One of the cards had been returned to me as a bad address, but the stamps hadn't been canceled, so I just put a new address on it and tried sending it out again.

And there were incoming postcards from St. Petersburg and from New Zealand.


(I particularly liked the stamps on the card from St. Petersburg).

I also had a postcard that I had mailed yesterday delivered to me, stamps canceled and everything. I have to take it back to the Post Office and have it mailed to the recipient!

Day #80

This is what I added to yesterday's pile. I decided it's too big to leave for the mailman to pick up, so I have to drive it to the post office.

This is a Toy Story postcard to our granddaughter, two SendSomething postcards, a thank you note and two SendSomething letters, one even hand-written.

In the afternoon there were three great letters:

All from penpals - Noreen, Kathy and Danette. A really good mail day!

Day #65

It's Sunday, so there is only mail waiting to go out tomorrow. a return letter to a pen pal, a letter to a friend in Japan inquiring about her and her friends, a letter to another penpal in a home-made envelope. A postcard made out of a brochure I found in China (of the Peking Opera, I think), and another postcard of my favorite hotel (in Guilin, China) sent to a friend in Australia. All will go into the mail tomorrow.

Day #39

Just one letter written this morning, since we were driving to Berkeley for a class. This to Kestrel, from sendsomething, in response to her note.


When we got home from Berkeley it was fun to pick up the mail, which included two penpal letters and three postcards, one from postcrossing, one from a blogger, and one from sendsomething.