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!

Two out today...

I'm still without a printer, so I'm hand writing things, which I know a lot of people do automatically, but I just don't like the way I sound in handwriting. Still, I got off a note and a postcard today.

It was the incoming mail which was the interesting thing. There was a letter from my penpal Sara, but the other envelope was from "Cue Happiness" in Canada.


It was an envelope filled with affirmation cards and a little thing to plant imbedded seeds. I checked out "Cue Happiness" on Google and found this site. Then I Googled "cue happiness Canada" and found out about this project. I don't know who sent this envelope, but...thank you! In the proper spirit of "playing it forward," I will be searching for my own opportunity to "cue happiness."

Day #230

One letter sent off to a penpal and a post card sent for a grammar school project. If you want to find more and help you, check The Gingerbread Postcard Run. It's fun. The card I sent was from China.


There was such neat stuff in the afternoon. A nice Christmas card from Kimi and two great Oz-related things from Limner, which will be featured in my daily journal entries starting January 1.

Day #229

Sent off a post-crossing card to Finland and a pen pal letter. I am going to have to go looking for dog calendars on sale after the first of the year...the one I got last year makes the BEST envelopes!

In the afternoon came a post-crossing card and both a Christmas card and a letter from the lovely Melanie and a letter from the lovely SaraLea.

Day #227

Letters to 2 Saras today, plus a Christmas postcard to a penpal and one to my granddaughter.

Incoming was a Christmas card, a beautiful card from a penpal in the Netherlands, a post-crossing card from Australia, and a reply to a letter I sent to someone on SendSomthing.

Day #216

Today was our belated Thanksgiving, but I woke early and had enough time to write a letter before we left for my mother's house.

The nice thing about doing a holiday a day late is that when you come home, there is a nice mailbox full of mail. This was a good batch, including a post-crossing card from Neuschwanstein Castle

Day #214

Got a new pen pal from the Netherlands today. What a fun letter to answer. Also got the address of a Post-crossing person who included no information whatsoever, so I went with a generic California postcard.

Got a nice postcard from Kimi and a very nice letter from SaraLea. A nice way to pass the afternoon.

Day #206

This seems to have been animal envelope day...I really liked these three envelopes

Each of the envelopes (animal and other) went to pen pals today, so I did a lot of writing.

Too bad the fall leaf kind of crumbled on the postcard from Melanie, but it was a nice idea. Also two introductory snail mails which I am looking forward to answering!

Day #205

I worked hard this morning and got four letters answered.

There were only two incoming mails today, but what a treat. A lovely note from Kimi and a fabulous package from SaraLea, filled with wonderful note cards. Naturally I had to put the one with the Chihuahua on top!

Day #190

Just got 2 letters written this morning...one to Amanda and one to a pen pal in South Carolina. I especially liked the Disney envelope I made for Amanda.

Lots of fun stuff in the mail this afternoon.

A wonderful envelope from Kendall in Maryland, including the pop up "Hi" card and the sympathy card, and also the Where's Waldo postcard, a post-crossing card from Atlanta, a letter from Mary in Canada, one from Kimi in California and one from Cathy (my most prolific writer) from Ohio.