Valentine Weekend

I spent my weekend lazing around.  I feel like I'm coming down with something. I've been slowly working on my mail mess.  I thought this would be a good weekend to get some mail backed up for the week ahead as part of LetterMo. I also thought it would be a good weekend to write out my Valentine's. Two years ago or so I stocked up on them and then never sent them out. Aside from just generally not writing for all the reasons I mentioned earlier, I find that one of my biggest problems is I'm too precious about my mail stock. For one reason or another I'm "saving" things that I love for some other person or some other time. Just like they say about fancy clothing being saved for a "special occasion". Every day is a special day. Wear the darn dress. So I'm using my postage and sending my stock.

I got an entire sheet of this dino postage that I never broke in to when the postcard rate was .32.  I was going to use them for my Toy Story postcards. Sadly, I'm not sending mail to that person any more, so I'm using the stamps anyway.

Also went through and used all of my old postcard stamps, I had 2 polar bears left and several apples. I wasn't saving them for anything, I was just not consistent about using up sheets. 

A few years ago I got these from Emilie over here now but formally Winnie's Girl. I forget if she had an Etsy shop or not, but I loved these and she was selling them so I bought 20. She did that drawing herself. 

And these things are super retro-cute, are they not? They have three different designs that have this perforated edge, I think they only had one when I bought these. You can check this design out here and then poke around. They are $10 and totally worth it. Now I wish I had all three :-) I even put the stamp off to the side so the recipients could see the little sketch of where the stamp goes.

This cupcake is a little Hallmark 8 pack I had picked up, I don't even remember where. Possibly the Target dollar bins a few years ago.

Some more old postage. That PS Write Soon set came from the one and only Missive Maven and her Etsy Shop. I used them all up finally, been sitting on those since 2012. Shameful.

Can we talk about how much I love these weathervane stamps? I only have about 4 or so left now, and I'm sad about it. There are surprisingly few on eBay. The problem I ran in to was that I only had three 10 cent makeup stamps. I need more makeup postage. I'll also need to buy more of these weathervane stamps.

Also finally using my cloud series of stamps. This was the other card, they go in the white envelope. Another Hallmark 8 pack I bought along with the cupcakes.

Emilie: Incoming

So, you know that moment when you're going through your photos and you realized that you forgot to photograph your response to a letter?

That's this moment right now.  Either that, or I just didn't reply.  Emilie will tell me when she sees this!

Emilie sent me Thanksgiving Mail, which I thought was awesome.  I loved how she used the self-adhesive stamp leftovers as decorations!  Totally stealing that idea.

She wrote me on this beautiful gilded fall paper.

Want to see my Christmas Card?

My pen friend Emilie blogged about it over at Winnie's Girl.  Apparently it was a hit!  Yay!

1st Letter Writing Social

So last Saturday, the 21st, I attended my very first Letter Writing Social.  I was able to meet two of my new pen friends, Tara and Emilie, who were the organizers of the social.  Tara even made cookies that looked like envelopes!  These are some of the photos I took while I was there.  I wrote a letter to my boyfriend on one of Tara's typewriters, which was difficult with a broken finger but fun just the same.


The best part of the whole thing was browsing other peoples stuff, swapping materials and chatting.  I was too distracted to really write a letter :-)