Incoming and Outgoing Mail

It's been a busy few weeks but I have still been sending letters and postcards, a few swaps thrown in for good measure. I have also received some lovely mail.

OUTGOING MAIL

A letter to a pen friend in The Netherlands

I sent her; an owl postcard, a fill in the blanks mini card with silly questions like "What animal would you be?" and "What would your superpower be?", a bookmark and I wrote her letter in the cat notecard.

Recently I wrote to a lovely lady from the UK living in France, I sent her a letter through sendsomething.net and she replied, this is my envelope now winging it's way back to her.

INCOMING MAIL

Yesterday I received a reply from my pen friend in The Netherlands and one from my pen friend in Germany, both beautifully decorated envelopes.

This morning I received an official from Poland.
I was lucky to receive this senders first sent postcard with a lovely long message.

I am going to wait a few days before replying to my mail and start working on some Christmas craft projects, I think this weekend will be a letter writing weekend for me.

Mail Roundup

A quick post today showing some of my recently received postcards.

A very cute official card from Germany

An anime postcard (Vampire Knight) from a friend in China

The delectable Sherlock Holmes from a friend in Russia.

Sundays and Outgoing Mail

Sunday is a no mail day so I like to take the opportunity to catch up on projects and letter writing. One Sunday I had fun creating a birthday card for one of my new pen pals in Russia. I found this idea on Pinterest, inside the card I added some small goodies - a gingerbread latte sachet, some postcards and a letter. Hopefully this will reach her in time for her birthday.

Birthday Card and envelope

Inside the card

Incoming Mail

Today I had a lovely pile of mail on my doormat. I am participating in the July to December RR on the Postcrossing forums. Every month from July to December we send postcards to the members of the Round Robin, each month the winners change and everyone gets to receive, this month I am one of the winners!

The lovely cards I received from the July to December RR today

Guanwu Forest in Taiwan 

Jetoy

Casa Loma

North America's only full sized castle, in Toronto

Thorin Oakenshield

One of my favourite hobbits from one of my favourite books and movies.

From Japanese anime One Piece

I am a huge anime/manga fan though I have not yet seen this anime.

Papillons De Collection 

Collector's Butterflies

Snail Mail Love

Hello my name is Kate and I love mail, postcards, letters, beautifully decorated envelopes I love it all.

I am a member of the Postcrossing community a place to exchange postcards with people all over the world. The idea is you send a postcard to a randomly picked address and once your card has been received you will receive a postcard from a different random person. It's great fun and a great way to meet people and connect.

I also have pen friends from all over the world and I love to write to all of them and get to know their different and distinct personalities.

I'd like to share my love of snail mail and help spread the word of the ever growing revival of old fashioned communication through this blog with pictures of incoming and outgoing mail and the odd thought here and there.

I look forward to sharing this passion and hobby with you.