Outgoing mail - January (Part 3)

Whoops this should have been posted a while ago! This was my last batch of mail going out in January.

These are a few New Year Cards I sent out to some friends on the Postcrossing forums. I wanted to send out the new Alice in Wonderland stamps as I think they are really cool.

This is a letter to my pen pal in Finland with a PHQ postcard of the new stamps I mentioned, unfortunately my post office only had a few designs and not the 81p stamps which is such a shame. 

Happy Mail #2

Another post sharing some great happy mail I have received lately.

Here I have a Dr Who postcard from a Swap on Swap-bot, some of my postcards back from the Write back my Postcard RR and a swap with a forum member. 

Naruto 

Pokemon Movie

Pokemon New Year Card (Year of the Sheep)

A package from my pen pal in The Netherlands with some sweet Winnie the Pooh stickers and some notecards - I really like the tiny one. She wrote the letter in the blue card with silver hearts on it, it has a really cool texture.

A postcard from a friend in Russia with a special cancellation.

How cool is this cancellation! 

Happy Postcards

I'd just like to share a few postcards I received in this post. These postcards are from a Swap-bot swap, called Happy Postcards, where we sent a postcard to three partners .

These are the three postcards I sent out.

And these are the ones I received.

A 3D card, my first, of a happy apple :)

A Big Cats postcard

The inside of the Tardis (Dr Who)

Some really great cards there, it was a fun swap to do!

Happy Mail #1

I've been having batches of mail come, a few days with no mail at all then a small handful at a time. It's always nice to hear the thud as mail drops through the door and it's even better when it turns out to be happy mail :)

Some colourful and pretty envelopes from a pen pal, a RR (Write back my Postcard) and a surprise card from a forum member.

This was a lovely long letter from my pen pal in Finland, she enclosed some pages from an old copy of Twilight as well as a bookmark and some diary stickers. I already have some crafty ideas for using the book pages.

A Pokemon card, handmade envelope and memo sheets as a surprise from a forum member I recently swapped with, the Pikachu is soooo cute! The envelope even has a special WWF cancelation :)

Have you had any happy mail recently? Do you prefer to get lots of mail in one go or to have it spread out?

Outgoing Mail - January (Part 2)

I've had a busy few days writing postcards and making a few envelopes and other items for pen pals, friends and swaps. It's been lots of fun ^_^

This is a letter to my penpal in The Netherlands.

 I made the little envelope out of a page of a Lush catalogue - I thought the pink flower was very pretty.

Inside the notecard I taped an envelope on the left for the letter, I added some matching washi tape (seen on the inside of the notecard) to the letter paper, I made a little pocket for the other side to sit the mini handmade envelope in (with the rubber stamps) and decorated with stickers.

I really liked the simple look this time so I just added the same washi tape to tie everything together and lots of different stamps ^_^

This is going to my penpal in France.

 I made another mini envelope from my Lush catalogue and cut out some butterflies and flowers, and the word Dream to put inside the envelope, there is also a bookmark and of course the letter. The envelope is made from a January edition of Gardeners World.

Outgoing mail - January (Part 1)

A few pictures of my January outgoing mail

I made this envelope out of a paper bag that looked quite interesting, I need to remember to make sure the front part is the right way up next time! I lined the envelope with patterned paper to strengthen the envelope and make it look nicer inside. The address is written on a postcard tag and glued, and taped onto the envelope.

Inside a bookmark, letter, a postcard and I made a mini envelope out of a page from a Lush catalogue - the picture is a man twirling a moustache and I filled the mini envelope with moustache stickers and some confetti.

Excuse the quality of this photo, taking pictures at night is not my forte! The big envelope is a Swap-bot swap going to the UK, the owl envelope is a Penpal letter also going to the UK and the postcard is a thank you and New Years card to someone I swapped with in Japan.

Finally this envelope is going to Japan with some postcards for a swap, I added more stamps at the post office. You can't tell of course but I matched the decoration of the envelope with the decorations on one of the cards (the other is unwritten).

Long lost mail?

I did a swap with a friend in China and we had begun to worry it was lost when I did not receive it. Well 2 months and 10 days later it arrived! It's good to know that sometimes mail is just extra slow and not lost especially a special piece of mail like this. Well I think it's special ^_^

There are a few pictures to share from the swap.

First of all the beautiful postcard of Legolas - the card is so much nicer up close, it's ethereal, there is also a postcard with a fanart sketch (seal) on it - it's on both sides but there is also writing on the other side, a sticker with hobbit fan art - very cute and a Postcard of Bard the Bowman

Then another beautiful postcard this time of Thor and Loki <3, a fanart card of Naruto - I love these fan art cards, and a postcard of Dumbledore ^_^

Last but not least some lovely extras including two shaped cards - how cool is that Royal Mail postbox card! and a really pretty bookmark.

I'll have some more outgoing mail coming up soon too.