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 #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 #109

I sent out 2 letters and some postcrossing post cards today.


One of the letters went to Amanda #1, in response to her letter yesterday. The other was to a soldier in one of the fighting areas of Afghanistan. I read that he was hoping for more letters, so I sent him what I hope is a funny letter about our dogs.

In the afternoon, there was only one small package, but it was great.


In addition to a fascinating letter, Rose sent me a DVD of The Reincarnation of Peter Proud and this great little tea bag carrier that she made (I may send it to my daughter, since I'm not a tea drinker)

Day #97

In honor of its 6th anniversary, Postcrossing let everyone send 6 additional postcards for one day. I took advantage of the offer (plus had a regular Postcrossing card to send as well)

Today was also the day to send out the postcards for a Swap-Bot exchange called "You Animal."


Finally, I also sent off a sunflower postcard to a friend who likes sunflowers, and another pen-pal letter (actually a follow-up to one I sent yesterday)


Incoming was a letter from one of my Compassion children (who asks me to "pray for her cute future," which I thought was in itself "cute") and a Postcrossing card from China.

Day #96

It was inevitable...

Today there was only outgoing mail -- a Postcrossing post card, a SendSomething postcard, and a pen pal answer.

But that's ok. Tomorrow is...another day.

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 #84

Another marathon writing session.


In the big envelope are 10 letters to the 10 Compassion children, each with books or stickers or some other fun thing for them. Then there is a thank you to Elle, who sent me some beautiful stationery and a letter to a pen pal which I put in this great envelope I made yesterday--now I can make legal sized envelopes!

Incoming only brought one letter, but it was worth it.


This is from a new penpal in New Zealand, who is actually my age. Be still my heart! She sounds (and looks) like a fun lady.

I will enjoy getting to know her.