Outgoing Mail

I’ve been meaning to post photos of some of my decorated envelopes/outgoing mail, maybe with some instructions or commentary.  But I never seem to get time to write it up, so I decided to just post some them without much text as I get a chance, as time goes on I may post some older ones mixed in with more recent ones. At the left is the front and back of an envelope I made featuring some old stamps I received as a gift.

A Month of Letters Wrap-up

Well, I’m a little late posting, but I successfully finished my first time of doing the A Month of Letters. My final numbers for the month were: 

Sent:          20-Cards/notes

5-Letters

1-Postcard

1-Package

Received:     4-Cards

 

While I did send a lot more than I received I’m not really surprised at that as I wrote entirely to people I knew-family or friends-so I didn’t really expect to hear back from them all, plus I sent more than one to some people.

 

I sent a total of 27 items in February. That’s an increase over sending 22 things in January and

Valentines envelopes

With the inspiration of a Month of Letters, I’ve sent a number of Valentines cards this year to family members, etc.  I decorated (or made/wrapped) a number of the of the envelopes.  I thought I’d share photos of a few on here:

Month of Letters kick off

I’ve addressed my first card for A Month of Letters, and am in the middle of writing it.  Since I recently started keeping a record of everything I mail, I know my numbers for January.  I sent:

Personally:          6-Letters

11-Cards/notes

With my family:     3-Cards

2-Packages

I’m interested to see what my numbers end up being with LetterMo. Sending 22 things last month seems pretty high for me, and it’s almost as many as I’m hoping to for LetterMo. The last two months for me/us were (not counting holiday cards) November:  9 & December: 16.

Preparing for the Month of Letters

This year I decided to take part in the month of letters challenge on lettermo.com.  The challenge is to try to mail something every day the post runs.  I do probably write more than most people especially as I have out of state family, so I have most of my cards/stationary in my desk, so it’s handy, but I thought it’d be easier if I didn’t have to try to find a card each day as I don’t have a lot of free time, am an over-planner/organizer, and enjoy looking at the things I’ve picked out ahead of time, thinking about how I hope the recipients will enjoy them.  So, as I’ve had time, I’ve been

Organizing Postal Stamps

Different stamps always interested me, but with changing postage prices, it was hard to get them, because than you needed extra stamps, etc.  Well, now that there are forever stamps, one can buy stamps that will last-more or less-forever.  Plus, the last few years, I’ve been writing more plus with rebates, bills, etc., our family has been using enough stamps to keep a small stash.  It’s no more costly than keeping a little extra stationary, cards, etc. on hand-but ones that won’t lose value, even if they go out of style(actually, if we ever wanted to get rid of

House for Christmas 2012

I'm still around, but have been too busy to post, so I thought I'd show so random photos of our house decorated for Christmas.

Wordless Wednesday: Customized Scalloped Label & Envelope

Here’s a custom label and envelope I made for a Valentines card.  I cut around the edge of a piece of label paper and the edge of the envelope.  Then I used a ruler and a metallic marker to color the edges (on the open envelope & before I put the label on).  Then I freehanded the hearts.  I think it turned out quite nice (I’m not doing good at the wordless part, am I?):

I’m still here…

Well, I haven’t posted on here in around two months, so I thought I’d get on and let anyone visiting this blog know that I’m still alive.  After a busy holiday season and out of town family visiting, we decided to buy a new (to us) house, so things have been too busy to post much.  I’m hoping to put some photos up on “Wordless Wednesday” since that should take less time than writing up a post.  That will probably be more letter writing/envelope decorating than house seasonal decorating since right now my decorating is “packed box sheik” .  After we move I hope to get back to more regular posting.  I’m researching how to decorating libraries since we’ll have one in the new house.

Christmas Envelope

I didn’t decorated most of my Christmas card envelopes (since I couldn’t figure out a way to match) but I did write a letter last week, and found a fun way to decorate the envelope.  The tree was a stencil, but I free handed the rest, I just used a pack of gel pens.  I think it turned out pretty cute, and was quite easy.  I ended up extending the snowflakes up to the address which I wrote in a matching pen.  Below you can see how it matched the paper.  I just think doing something like this really dresses up a letter almost like wrapping a present or decorating the inside of a mailbox.