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!

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.

Day #137

These were two penpal letters that I sent, one of which was an introductory letter through SwapBot.

But incoming was a sweet note and also a great letter from someone in Germany, whom I want to get to know.

Day #129

Today was a very busy day, and I didn't have time to write anything but one postcard, which went to a SendSomething person who likes The Simpsons.


But there was nice incoming mail. A postcard from the Netherlands thru PostCrossing, and three very nice penpal letters.

Day #103

Only one outgoing letter today. I received an intro letter from Lynn yesterday and spent time writing her a response...also, the dogs had me up for over an hour in the middle of the night, barking at the police, who had stopped a drunken biker in front of our house, so the need for a morning nap won out over writing another letter!


Incoming today included a packet for my new sponsored child, Emmanuella from Ghana, a pen pal card from Randi in Oklahoma, and a Postcrossing card from Canada

Day #94

Monday's outgoing


I added these to the batch I did on Sunday. They are a small gift for my cousin, a package for my son's new baby (due in September), a Swap-Bot package for a Dog/Puppy exchange, a Swap-bot postcard to Brasil, a letter to one of the Compassion kids, a response to someone who stumbled across this page and wrote to me, and a pen pal letter. Quite a variety this time!

...and Incoming...

2 Post-crossing postcards, the great hand made card from Linda at IUOMA, and two wonderful postcard orders from the Missive Maven