On the Inbox

I made a promise after October first, I would start posting pics of all the mail received.  Well I have most of it pictured, now I just need to get it up for your viewing pleasure.  Here is the first of many to come!

A postcrossing from Belarus!  The sender was getting married the next day.

 

A nice postcrossing from Russia.

A nice tourist card from Germany.

A Wolfey sighting!  She lives and before long will be back to the states.

 A word:  This is not real.  This is no more than a hoax will not be in the the Guinness Book of World Records.  A quick Internet search revealed all this.  I am not opposed to starting a postcard or mail art chain, just not sending mail under false pretenses.

 A nice tourist card.  Postcrossing for the Netherlands.

 A very shiny Postcrossing from India.  I am sorry for the flash, but really happy to get the card.

 The flying Buddha, a postcrossing from China

A cute kitty/ fall themed card from Taiwan

 

A nice card from Juli notifying me that Enter the Haggis was in my area.  I just checked out their site and apparently they are doing a mail call looking for letters that inspire them to write their next album!  Awesome concept, swing by through the link and check it out!  I may have to blog on this again as I am not sure everybody reads these well.

A postcrossing from Germany

A postcard conversation I have going.

 A postcrossing from the Netherlands.

 A Postcrossing from the USA

And Juli's last letter.  I love mail too!  I guess that's why we get a long so well!

 

More mail to come!

-b

More, More, More, How do you like it?

Hello Folks,
 My life is coming down to a crunch.  The lovely weather is encouraging my activity and hopefully I will accomplish many of the check offs on my list today.  One thing I am doing is getting caught up on the mail!

Above is a really nice hand made postcard form postcrossing

A lovely surprise from Giselle!  She sent me a view book of her beautiful city, Barcelona, Spain.  She is one of the first pen pals I made when I started this journey.

A great package from Kendall.  You may have seen her blog at Happy Little Mailboxes.

2 postcards.  One of the Sydney opera house from postcrossing and the other from the Mutter Museum from RB.  That is the Museum of Medical Oddities located in old town Philadelphia.

Another postcrossing

I find it humorous how I can get the same theme on the same day from 2 different postcrossers.  One comes from Taiwan and the other from New Zealand!  While I like these, I just want to point out that nowhere on my postcrossing profile does it say specifically that I like cats.  Which makes this a little extra serendipity!

Some more wonderful postcrossings!

A green package from St Patricks Day.  The Picadilly post makes fabulous little gift packs of paper.  I love the recycling of the Lucky Charms box!

Klimt from KC.  I especially like his golden phase of artwork.

A great letter from CKB!

A letter from RB full of her recent adventures.

A nice postcrossing including a letter and bus ticket from Russia. 

Sometimes pen pals come to you through interesting circumstances.  Annie and I started to correspond after I sent her some Inuit artwork.   Turns out she is getting a degree in Native American Culture in the Netherlands.  I like advertising from other countries, so we struck up a deal to trade.  I send here what I can find on our native cultures and she sends me packaging and ads from  the Netherlands.  True symbiosis? 

Well I hope this finds you all writing lots and enjoying Spring/ Fall in your respective hemisphere!

My Best,
-b

No Fooling, More Mail!

This is the second post I created for April Fool's Day, but I post so rarely that I decided to save this for a day.

Always the recycler, this is from Patricia at Just Letter Rip

From Hannah!

From Troy!  I think he will be awhile in reply since a recent injury has him side lined from writing/ typing.  Heal quickly my friend!

From HS at Addicted to Mail!

Above and below are from LR - a very active SendSomething member!

A letter from JK

A sweet surprise from Lou!  I am a huge fan of Project Runway and she included some postcards from the French version of the show! 

Above and below are from the French Connection Malyss (not the drug ring, apparently the original French Connection).  She sends Valentine flowers and clippings of Carnival from Nice.  Not her favorite season, but a colorful one!

Colorful and fun, I think I'll read another one!  Off to make mail and I hope you will too!
-b

The In Keeps Coming

Here are some more over due to post letters.  Hopefully once the housing is figured out, I'll be back to my old posting and writing habits!  So lets start with some letters in.

Lucas Writes

RB sends a letter on owl wings

An old friend

A new friend from China

I forgot to take individual pics of the 3 postcards in the lower left corner.  They are all from Postcrossing

The above is MP from SendSomenthing and the lower 2 are postcrossing.  My first from Belgium and a great designed one from NJ

Also Postcrossings.  I like the hand drawn bike and the small batch from Fishermen's Wharf in Seattle

One is postcrossing and the other is shear JJ fabulousness

 Impeccable M sends some Irish luck

Misty's great hand designed card and a postcrossing.  Apparently Misty will send you one of her handmade cards when she gets a new stamp from this years release that she has not gotten before.  I was the first to send her the heart health stamp, which has surprisingly been one of my favorites this year.

2 fun cards from blog readers! 

A letter from SJ an old friend!

I love the Erte card from a postcrosser  - remember you can invite people to write you if they want.

Tara's back! 

From the Philadelphia Museum of Art - I got to go to the limited and super fabulous Van Gogh exhibit, but they do not allow pictures at the exhibit.  This photo is from the 18th century and depicts one of my (our?) favorite past times!

I always like to go to museums, I have ideas for mail art and I enjoy the museum stores for their unique items for sale!

Keep Writing my Friends!