Day #295

I was catching up on stuff that had been recorded on our DVR while we were at Easter dinner last night, so I only got a postcard and a letter ready to go out this morning.

The postcard went to a school which joined post-crossing to get a view of the world.  I thought that this old schoolhouse in Old Sacramento would be interesting for them.

I also wrote a letter to my sponsored child in the Philippines, but that gets sent by e-mail through Compassion, Int'l.

There was a great bunch of incoming mail.

Two great post-crossing cards, from Spain and Finland (including one of the great Inge Look cards) and a wonderful Swap-Bot card from Perth (Western Australia).  Then there were three penpal letters, and one Swap Bot letter from someone with whom, I think it's fair to say, I have absolutely nothing in common.  But that's the breaks when you enter into a random swap.  Sometimes you win, sometimes you don't.

Day #234

I don't usually send the same postcard to 2 Post-crossing people in the same day, but I did today...both wanted to know about the city in which I lived, so this seemed the thing to do. Also sent a pen-pal letter.

There were 2 incoming Postcrossing cards, and two Christmas letters, one without a letter (from my old grammar school teacher), and one with a letter from a penpal.

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 #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 #203

I have lots of letters to answer...and it doesn't help that I keep rescuing them from the dog's mouth!

Today I wrote to 3 penpals, to Soldier Amanda, and to a post-crossing person.


Letter came from Wales and Swap-Bot postcard from Virginia

Day #189

I finally finished a letter I've been trying to write to a pen pal for several days now and got that into the mail along with an answer to a letter from a new writer I received recently.

Got some nice mail today, too.


Three letter and two postcrossing cards, one of which came in an envelope along with a letter and all with some cool stamps. And I simply love the Inge Look cards from Finland!

Day #139

The outgoing mail was a combination of what was written on Sunday, and what written today. Today was a day for long letters.

Only one letter incoming, from Karen, who just moved to Calgary. Now Karen's pen is very light and I struggle to read her letters, and as she just moved, I needed her return address from the envelope, but the end of the address (which turned out to be "SW") had been stamped over by the post office. So I did a Google search and--what fun!--I found a real estate video of the guy who was trying to sell their house. So I got to see it before they moved in.

I also created a spreadsheet today to track when letters arrive and addresses of writers. I know that many are going to drop off because we don't click and this is a good way to track that...and discard the drop offs after a few months.

I found out I have heard from 36 people since I started the project. My best writer has sent 8 letters. Second are two women who have each written 4 times, then 3 who have written 3 times (not all of these wrote their first letter at the same time, of course). Thirteen have only written once and I guess after receiving my reply aren't interested in continuing the correspondence, but who knows--maybe I will hear again from them some day. I'm happy to get a letter a month from someone. Not happy...thrilled!

I also found a letter buried under the junk on my desk which I haven't answered in over a month...I will be answering that letter tonight! (Maybe that happened to some of my letters that have not been answered.)

Day #133

Three outgoing today. A penpal letter, a thank you letter, and the weekly letter to Soldier Amanda.


Good incoming mail. Finally heard from our Japanese daughter that she, her friend and family are OK after the earthquake. There were 2 penpal letters, an envelope of great postcards from Speck, and a card from Brasil for the IOUMA.


But even better were two letters from two of my Compassion kids, Fred in the Philipppines and the first letter from Emmanuella, in Ghana.

Day #65

It's Sunday, so there is only mail waiting to go out tomorrow. a return letter to a pen pal, a letter to a friend in Japan inquiring about her and her friends, a letter to another penpal in a home-made envelope. A postcard made out of a brochure I found in China (of the Peking Opera, I think), and another postcard of my favorite hotel (in Guilin, China) sent to a friend in Australia. All will go into the mail tomorrow.

Day #44

Post-crossing cards today to Germany, Thailand and Russia, and my weekly letter to soldier Amanda in Afghanistan, along with a pop-up Kliban cat card, which I hope gives her a bit of a smile.


Nice stuff in the mail, too:


A letter from Denise in Wales, a Swap-bot letter with all sorts of sparkly things pasted on it from Kristen inTexas (it came postage-due, but I guess the letter carrier didn't notice), and a Post-crossing postcard from Toledo, Ohio

Day #43

This was long letter day. I wrote one letter, to Denise, to keep myself awake while watching the Royal Wedding (1 a.m. - 4 a.m.). And I wrote a very long letter to Nancy this morning.


The mail brought a nice letter from Sarala. I had sent her a letter in one of my favorite envelopes, the one with one made-up eye in one corner, fading into white makeup on the face. I loved that envelope and was happy to hear that it arrived safely. I also liked Sarala's envelope, made out of a page of a map.

Day #40

It's all about the envelopes today. The one on the left goes to Cindy Y, whose profile read that cupcakes are her favorite thing. I found the picture in a Food Network magazine. The one on the right goes to Elle Mental, who sent a great post card yesterday and offered to send me some special stickers. I could have sent her an e-mail, but I have now made all these envelopes I want to use!


What a great package came from Denise today, via Swap-Bot.

What fun. I'm trying to think how I'm going to use this stuff. What is even more fun, Denise had been following my blog before she was assigned to be my partner on SwapBot.