Incoming Postcards

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.

These two cards are Les Chats Enchantés came from someone who I hope to swap with further, this is a new collection that I discovered and these are my first two cards, I just love them!

A Studio Ghibli card - this one is from the film Spirited Away.

Another Studio Ghibli card - this one is from the film Howl's Moving Castle

These two cards are from one of my favourite animes - Bleach 

Do you like to collect postcards, do you have any themes you like to collect?

Outgoing Easter Mail

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.

This envelope went to my pen pal in Germany, she mentioned previously liking the flavoured Mocha available, usually around Christmas, I happened to find some recently so added it to her letter, plus a chocolate bunny and some Rilakkuma memo sheets.

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 here

6 month RR (Part 4)

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!

A lone wolf in the snow

A beautiful white tiger. This card was an extra surprise card from one of my partners (she also sent the above wolf) in the round robin. 

Some beautiful butterflies

Another lovely Jetoy

Finally a gorgeous Inga Paltser owl, with a fitting Easter theme.

Outgoing Mail

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.

Going out are a few replies to some letters from a Pen Pal Round Robin, 

and a reply to a pen pal.

Here is a reply to someone who sent me a letter from Instagram for a challenge called 30 days of letters, a reply to my pen pal in the Netherlands and a letter to my International Geek Girl Pen Pals Club, more on that later!

All about tea!

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.

Here are some of the swaps I have recently done.

These teas went to Germany and the USA, I covered a bit of card in paper and wrapped the edges in washi tape so I could protect the teabags a bit and stop them bunching up in the envelope. I taped the tea to the backing with some matching washi tape.

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!

This envelope of tea came from Malaysia, a nice mix of tea and a lovely postcard as an extra. I haven't tried all these teas yet, the strawberry one was nice though.

Do you enjoy a good cup of tea, or do you prefer another drink?

Swaps and Mail Art

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.

Outgoing Mail

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.

This was an envelope I decorated for a lady in Austria, I also included a letter and some washi samples. it was good fun making this envelope though I think I'd colour the owl differently if I did it again.

This is an envelope I created for someone in the USA, I filled it with some items I thought she might like, but forgot to take a picture of the contents as it was quite late at night when I finished it.

I continued the theme on the back of the envelope. I had great fun making this envelope :)

Incoming Mail

This was a package I received for the send me a gift tag, the envelope is a cute pink and blue zig zag and has some really nice animal stamps on it, inside were some cat stickers, a pen and a pad of mini memo sheets some of which might find their way into some people's letters ;)

This was a package of pen pal supplies for a tag from the lady I sent to in Austria, she sent me some amazing owl themed items as you can see, some writing paper, washi tape and a Frixion pen which I have wanted to try for ages :) She also recently replied to the letter I sent her so I will be sending her a reply soon.

Incoming Easter Mail and Swaps

I've received some lovely letters and swaps recently with lots of creativity and inspiration. It always makes me want to create some form of mail and the letters I receive are always full of great conversation which I want to continue with straight away. I try to wait a little bit though so there is some space between letters especially when the letter goes to a country where the mail travels quickly.

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 :)

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.

This was a letter from my pen pal in the Netherlands she sent me some blank notecards and a cute postcard plus my unfranked stamps which was nice of her as I collect stamps and I thought those were pretty cool stamps ;)

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. 

As you can see I have a few letters to reply to so expect an outgoing mail post soon!