Day #211

I took advantage of a rainy Sunday to write lots of letters, and send one non-Post-Crossing post card.

Day #195

Back home again and back to writing. Today there was the expected letter of complaint to the manager of the Hilton Hotel, 2 post-crossing cards, and two pen pal letters.

Walt went and picked up our mail, which had been held for a week. One photo is not enough to record it all. First there were two letters from Compassion kids and an updated photo.

Then there were 2 pen pal letters and one card and a note from the nun who was my 3rd grade teacher (who was also my 5th grade teacher)

Finally there were 7 different post cards, including my first from Moldova (upper right) and the first from Odessa (Ukraine), which came with a great stamp showing a bandura (stringed musical instrument). Sweet!

I have my work cut out for me over the coming week!!

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 #95

It's postcard day!

Each of these is going out to a Post-crossing person.

And there was fun stuff incoming.

I loved the little mice on the Postcrossing postcard from Germany. Then there is the hand made postcard from someone in IUOMA and two pen pal letters. The one in the left came in such a beautiful envelope. I'm going to have to find out from these IUOMA folks how they get such clean pastings and what they use for a base for their postcards.

With that theater postcard I made the other day, I stuck everything down with glue, but it didn't seem like it was going to stay stuck, so I pasted it all with tape, but that didn't look very good. I mailed it, but I also liked the design, so I scanned it and then uploaded it to Snapfish and ordered 5 "real" postcards to be mailed.

I think I would make a rotten artist. I could never sell something because I couldn't also keep it!

Day #74

Only two letters went out in the mail today, both to penpals, but another one was written by e-mail to one of the Compassion kids, another e-mail to an email penpal and a third letter was written, but then I remembered that I had aready WRITTEN the letter and accidentally deleted it after I sent it. So the photo really doesn't show how very productive the day was, mail-wise.

Of course there was no incoming mail today, but that's OK. I was busy doing other things.

Day #69

This morning I replied to Tanya, whose name I then misspelled on the envelope because, I guess, my brain was thinking of her last name instead of her first. But the thought was there.

I also sent off a Postcrossing card to Russia.


And it was finally a red letter day for mail:


There was a postcard from Portugal (which is a return postcard from someone on Postcrossing), a package of 3 postcards, which is a Swap-bot project. There was an Easter greeting from our granddaughter, which my sister-in-law forgot to give to us and finally mailed. And finally there were letters from Robyn and Nancy, both penpals, and both good to hear from! I have some writing to do tomorrow!!