tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-88925223652530397642024-02-07T10:13:46.399+00:00Happy Mail DaysCheck out my incoming and outgoing mail including postcards from Postcrossing, swaps from Swap-bot and letters from pen pals.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02570097320537954399noreply@blogger.comBlogger56125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8892522365253039764.post-35682408488433093912015-04-28T21:27:00.000+01:002015-04-28T21:27:00.600+01:00Mail Roundup<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So I've been really busy recently writing letters, and postcards with a few swaps thrown in. Now it's getting closer to summer and holiday season I'm slowing down and focusing on my pen pals mostly. I've done one last big batch of posting then I have some postcard swaps this month and a few travelling journals to complete. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">First the outgoing mail, just one big picture this time as I spent a week getting this mail ready to send in one go.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I had to go to the post office for stamps so some of the envelopes didn't have them when I took this picture. There are two flat envelope swaps and the rest are postcard swaps, some for the January to June RR and the rest for a Write Back My Postcard RR.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I received another fantastic letter from my pen pal in Germany, I was really pleased to find some chai tea to drink while I read the letter and a postcard of an anime I haven't seen, yet ;) I'll be replying soon!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I received my first letter for the International Geek Girls Pen Pal Club and I couldn't be more excited! It was a really fun letter to read and had a really unique (in a great way) questionnaire which you can see on top of the letter. I can't wait to reply to this letter but I am waiting until my first letter arrives - we sent at the same time roughly.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Finally another exciting letter this time from my pen pal in Hong Kong, as you can see she sent me a "Greetings From" card, these are designed and sold by Postallove and this is the first of my collection! I'll be replying to this letter soon too, I'm going to have a busy few days!</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02570097320537954399noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8892522365253039764.post-46124161707915484072015-04-26T21:01:00.000+01:002015-04-26T21:01:00.063+01:00Secret Pen pal Scavenger Hunt 2015<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">After two months of travelling my parcel finally arrived at it's destination - South Africa! Now I can reveal the items I sent as part of the <a href="http://happymaildays.blogspot.co.uk/2015/03/secret-penpal-scavenger-hunt-2015.html" target="_blank">Secret Pen Pal Scavenger Hunt</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The topics I chose were; s<span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 20.7900009155273px; text-align: center;">omething that represents you, t</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 20.7900009155273px; text-align: center;">he postal freak's kit, t</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 20.7900009155273px; text-align: center;">he bad day survival kit, s</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 20.7900009155273px; text-align: center;">omething quirky and s</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; line-height: 20.7900009155273px; text-align: center;">omething to read.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For something that represents me I chose to send some postcards of places that mean something to me with a little something written about them on the back, </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">and an ATC made by me.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The postal freak's kit was easy to do, I made an folder, the green rectangle in the back, on the inside I used map paper showing South Africa and the UK, I then filled it with the flat items and wrapped the bigger items individually.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For the bad day survival kit I made 2 mix CDs one with heavy metal music and one with more mellow tunes, I also added a teabag in a handmade folder (the green square) and of course some chocolate!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">For something quirky I choose some Waldon Pancake postcards and a coaster.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Finally for something to read I sent The Pig of Happiness, as I love Edward Monkton and I wanted to share some happiness :D</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02570097320537954399noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8892522365253039764.post-44652167466289747132015-04-24T21:00:00.000+01:002015-04-24T21:00:00.925+01:00Pen Pal Swap<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I recently did a private swap with someone on swap-bot. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We had to send each other memo sheets, stickers, tea and a letter.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I wrote the letter on some Sailor Moon paper as she is a fan, I also enclosed some washi tape samples and a postcard from my English Heritage box set.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I received some delicious chai tea, some cute stickers - I love puffy stickers, and some really cute memo sheets - a character I haven't seen before.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was a fun swap to do as we have similar tastes and interests, I hope to continue writing to her.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02570097320537954399noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8892522365253039764.post-26932081860448024472015-04-22T22:36:00.000+01:002015-04-22T22:36:00.340+01:00Incoming Postcards<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Recently I have been taking part in a Round Robin on Postcrossing where you can find various themed groups, it's a good way to find certain cards for your collection and sometimes discover a new collection.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02570097320537954399noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8892522365253039764.post-33321951667926855432015-04-20T21:00:00.000+01:002015-04-20T21:00:00.549+01:00Outgoing Easter Mail<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As it was around Easter time when I replied to some pen pal letters I decided to send some Easter themed replies, who doesn't like a bit of chocolate in their mail every now and again.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This letter went to my pen pal in Finland, some Easter themed stickers, that chocolate bunny again, a spring themed postcard and an Egyptian themed FDC as I know she is interested in Egypt and stamps. You can find her blog <a href="http://etanapostia.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">here</a></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As promised the final part of my 6 month round robin cards. If it's something you think you might enjoy taking part in keep an eye out for sign-ups around May on the Postcrossing forums. I am hoping it will be running again from July to December and I'll be signing up again for sure!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've been writing a lot of letters recently and will be sending a big batch out, I love the feeling of sending a bunch of mail out. I have yet to choose some stamps at the post office, I hope I can find some nice ones.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02570097320537954399noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8892522365253039764.post-70237722711597231512015-04-16T21:58:00.000+01:002015-04-16T22:00:54.887+01:00All about tea!<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I've been doing some tea swaps recently, I love tea and it's been great fun to try out some new teas and discover new brands. It's also fun to swap tea and other hot drinks with friends and pen pals. I am really enjoying Chai teas now, and drinking my nice tea at night when I write letters, I save the PG tips for the day time.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These teas came from the USA in a lovely envelope, no photo this time as I opened the envelope away from home. I received a really nice mix of teas to try. So far I have tried the Salted Caramel tea and the Pumpkin Spice Chai - that was really yummy!</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02570097320537954399noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8892522365253039764.post-55608888026769242492015-03-31T14:23:00.000+01:002015-03-31T14:23:00.205+01:00Swaps and Mail Art<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I recently took part in some tags on swap-bot and I was lucky enough to receive some really nice items. Some of the tags I took part in were to create something and some were just sending a little something to the person you were sending to.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is an ATC I made for a lady in the UK, she asked for one with a peacock feather theme. I used vellum as the background, embossed some gold card then topped it with the coloured stamped images and finished it off with seme iridescent gems. I was quite pleased with the outcome.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This fun package was from my pen pal in Finland, she sent me an Easter package with a cute postcard saying Happy Easter in Finnish and a chocolate teabag - which tasted quite interesting and nice. She filled a little metal tin with the goodies you see here which included some great snail mail supplies :)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This was a lovely letter from my pen pal in Germany, she made a little booklet letter which is so cool and a great origami tea bag holder - I drank the tea before I thought to take a picture! She also included a trading card of Tauriel from The Hobbit.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This was a swap from swap-bot, I received some great snail mail goodies including 3D stickers of cats - the pictures all change when you tilt the stickers. They are so cute I might have to keep a few for myself but I will use some of them in my letters. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I haven't done an outgoing mail post in a while so I thought I post a bunch of mail I have sent recently.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A letter to my penpal in Russia and a new penpal in Germany, I've used some of the goodies from my <a href="http://happymaildays.blogspot.com/2015/03/secret-penpal-scavenger-hunt-2015.html" target="_blank">Secret Penpal Scavenger Hunt</a> parcel.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02570097320537954399noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8892522365253039764.post-2852730593290022402015-03-20T21:00:00.000+00:002015-03-20T21:00:00.669+00:00Incoming Mail <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Another quick mail roundup post of my recent mail. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This was a swap I received from America for the swap "Notecard With A Small Enclosure". I do this swap regularly as it's a fun swap. This lady sent me some lovely items matching my interests - Japan, Bento, Anime, Owls and Scrapbooking.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02570097320537954399noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8892522365253039764.post-90348346926323682152015-03-19T18:00:00.000+00:002015-03-19T18:00:00.852+00:00International Geek Girls Pen Pal Club<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I recently discovered <a href="http://geekgirlpenpals.com/">International Geek Girls Pen Pal Club</a> on Instagram and decided to sign up as it seems like fun. The new round of pen pal sign ups has opened for the month, you can sign up from the 15th until the end of the month. When you fill in the form you have to list your top 5 geek loves, this helps you to be paired up with someone similar. You can be quite specific and it's suggested you don't list just "books" but the types of books or Authors you like - the more specific you are the easier it is for you to be paired up. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My top 5 geeks loves were; 1 Anime - Bleach, Naruto, Death Note and some Shoujo, 2 Supernatural, 3 Dr Who/Sherlock (I couldn't choose between the two), 4 Smash Books and 5 Postcrossing. It's quite hard to chose a top 5 as I have so many more than that! I'm not sure if I could have maybe grouped some stuff together to fit more "loves" in ;) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So I should hear back around the beginning to middle of April, fingers crossed it all works out!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I recently sent out a batch of officials and I have done some more swaps on Postcrossing and swap-bot so I have received quite a few postcards lately.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">These three postcards come from an offer thread on the Postcrossing forums where one of the members is offering 3 blank postcards in return for posting one of his postcards back to him, written of course ;) I chose these, I'm undecided whether I will keep them or use them for the minute the ginger kitten in particular is very cute!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I received a notecard from a lovely lady in America who found me on Sendsomething. She enclosed some recipes for me to try. She has a great blog <a href="http://skiyemail.com/" target="_blank">skiyemail.com</a> where she posts about InCoWriMo and her snail mail exploits. I have sent her a reply hopefully she gets it soon!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is the card I chose to make and it represents Imbolc/Candlemas a festival representing the Sun returning, the longer and lighter days.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I heard about it on a blog called <a href="http://frame.bloglovin.com/?post=4235147727&group=0&frame_type=a&context=feed_all&context_ids=&blog=12910747&frame=1&click=0&user=0" target="_blank">SnailMailLove</a> and signed up for this year's round. Participants each get a partner to send to and have to chose 5 things to find or make from a list, pl</span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">us a gift for your partner.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Here are the items I received from my partner. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">She sent me some lovely items some of which I have already used in my outgoing snail mail.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The Postal Freak's Kit - Some address labels, an airmail envelope, some postcards and washi tape. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Something Quirky - A funky magnet. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Something That Represents My Partner - A coffee themed postcard and notebook, something we have in common as I love coffee too!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I host a penpal round robin on Postcrossing and I have joined in a couple of the rounds recently. I've been lucky enough to find some new penpals. How do you find penpals to write to?</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is a lovely letter from my new penpal in Germany, she also happens to be a member of the anime fan club I am in so we have "met" before. Check out her blog <a href="http://striffysmailexchange.blogspot.co.uk/" target="_blank">here</a>.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is a lovely letter from my new penpal in Hong Kong, they have recently celebrated Chinese New Year. The envelope is a First Day Cover for Year of the Ram - so cool!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I also received another cool piece of mail from a member of swap-bot, I did a mail art swap where we had to make mail art using three out of five themes, the themes were; a superhero, a hippo, blue, children's illustration and stripes.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> I sent an envelope decorated with Big Ears from the Noddy stories, I also happened to have a Noddy stamp so I used that.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This is the awesome envelope I received and the goodies which were inside. The front is decorated with Flash Gordon comic strips written in German.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have another batch of gorgeous cards to share with you today. Last week I received a piece of happy mail everyday which has never happened before - very cool!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Recently I decided to draw my allotment of addresses on the official Postcrossing site as I hadn't sent any in a while. I sent 9 out and so far 3 have been registered, I won't be receiving any cards for a while though as I have a small gap (about 5) between my sent and received. I have also been doing lots of swaps, again, and have received a few pen pal letters.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Last but not least a letter I sent to my pen pal in Finland. I made an ATC for her and a little envelope with some teabags, there is also a little bookmark and postcard. The envelope is made out of a page of a Noddy annual.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I also sent out a tea swap and a handmade swap and forgot the pictures. </span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So I have a few pen pal replies to work on plus some other letters, note cards and mail art to work on - fun times ^_^</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Hello again, some more lovely incoming and outgoing mail to share with you today. I'll start with the mail I have received.</span></div>
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02570097320537954399noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8892522365253039764.post-69749695483221411972015-02-19T21:00:00.000+00:002015-02-19T21:00:02.460+00:00Stamptastic!<div style="text-align: center;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well funny title I know but I am feeling a bit enthusiastic today about stamps. I placed an order online recently for some stamps to use for my snail mail and I received some fantastic stamps. It's always a case of lucky dip, you choose the value of the stamp but never know what pictures will be on them. So I thought I'd share my lovely stamps with you, who knows you might receive some post with one of these stamps on them!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And another gorgeous wolf, from Germany. The wolf cards came on the same day ^_^</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I'm a big fan of pretty stamps and postmarks, or cancellations, and have been really lucky recently to receive some great ones.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Another one from Japan I especially love the temple stamp, very beautiful.</span></div>
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