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.

From YOU

Here are the things that have come through the mail lately...with my apologies for not answering a lot of them yet...

 These postcards are all from a Swap Bot "National Postcard Week" swap, a new postcard every day from the same person.  I love the variety!

 

This is a Postcrossing card, a letter from the Netherlands, a mother's day card from Canada, a change of address ostcard, and 5 postcards from a SwapBot swap.

 

Two Postcrossing cards, one SwapBot card, an enclosure card from a Swap Bot "exchange something interesting" and two pen pal letters (one was sent twice!)

My Mother's Day cards--from 8 month old Lacie, from 4 year old Brianna, and from 46 year old Jeri!

 

 I think the card are all Postcrossing, there were Compassion letters (4 of them all together), and a couple of pen pal letters

 

These are all Postcrossing cards.

Day #298

This is actually 15 postcards and a letter.  I am in a Swap-Bot swap where you send 5 postcards in an envelope to someone.  I chose strange cards that matched the interests of the person to whom I was writing...I hope.  The letter is to one of my faithful (and patient) pen pals.

Some nice postcards in the mail.  The top right is for a Swap-Bot exchange; it's from New South Wales in Austraila.  Next to it is "Dorothy's House" in Liberal, Kansas.  This was for another Swap-Bot exchange, for a poem on a post card.  The writer chose Langdon Smith's 1895 poem, "Evolution."  Bottom left is the British museum from my cousin's widower, Fred, who is visiting London at present, and the bottom right is a Postcrossing card from Amish Country.

Day #262

My $1.05 stamps finally arrived, so I was able to send off these post-crossing cards to: Brasil, Romania, The Netherlands, Thailand and Russia

The mail brought a lovely postcard from my awesome daughter, and a letter from Marian.


The Danny Thomas stamp was released today. I ordered some and look forward to getting them next week!

Not much writing to be done tomorrow. It's my birthday and I'm off to let my mother take me out for a crab lunch.

Day #204

Only one pen-pal letter and 2 early Thanksgiving cards got created today.

And since it was Sunday, there was no incoming mail, so I spent the day organizing all of my pen pal letters...finally everybody has his or her own file folder!

Day #157

I spent most of the morning writing e-mails to our Compassion kids, using the fabulous new templates Compassion has made available, so the actual in-hand outgoing mail was not so spectacular.

This is a Post-Crossing card, a card to my cousin (who collects sand dollars), and a pen pal letter.

There was only one personal mail in the mail to me today, but it was a goodie. This is from my granddaughter.

Day #138

It's the weekly letter to soldier Amanda, and a reply to the neat letter I got yesterday.

Incoming was a note from my daughter, a penpal letter, an IOUMA envelope of goodies, and 4 post-crossing post cards

Day #130

Two outgoing today, one to a penpal in the UK and one to my granddaughter, thanking her for taking me to see butterflies when we were visiting her last weekend.


Incoming included a Swap-Bot dog swap card, a penpal letter, and a card from someone on SendSomething.

Day #100

Somehow it seems there should be something more exciting about day #100 than just new stamps, but that's about it.


I sent 2 letters to compassion kids and a note to my mother, but since it's Sunday, there is no incoming (or outgoing, for that matter) mail. But the stamps are new, so you can enjoy those!

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

Day #47

Three outgoing letters today, two to pen pals, one to family. Postcrossing postcards to Estonia and Finland.

It occurs to me that I just called this "the postcard project" but didn't set a goal or anything. I will reach 50 days of this project just before we leave for China, when I won't be able to post every day. So I think I am going to end at day #50 and then start day #51 when we get back from China.

Got a lovely letter from Sarah in the UK...I loved the Pooh stamp!

Day #45

Kind of a lazy Sunday. I wrote a long letter, mailed in the dog envelope and then a shorter letter to "Emma," who said she loved coffee, so I made an envelope from an old Peet's coffee bag (it even smells like coffee)!


The post card was sent to a blogger who is having a contest and you have to guess a number between 1 and 100. I did. I won't win. I never win.

No incoming mail, since it's Sunday.

Day #41

Today's outgoing included two to Post-crossing people, one to a friend in Australia, and one postcard to my brother-in-law, as well as a letter to a penpal in the Netherlands (I like the butterfly envelope!)

And I loved this beautiful card from Merimax in Slovenia.