Incoming

I have not posted incoming in awhile, so I thought I would get that up for you this Friday.   The last 2 weeks have been slow for my mailbox, but I did get caught up with a lot of correspondence!

2 nice postcards from Send Something

JD sent me a nice postcard from her travels.

A nice 2 letters from KH.  Finland has a lot of great pen pals!

A nice hand made card from postcrossing

GL sends me a stuffed envelope from Barcelona

DF and I continuing our renewed correspondence.

A not from Matthew- hope your safe with the wildfires!

 

A very nice note from a new contributor - thanks Roxy for the note!  And if you see it here, a letter was mailed in reply!

 

ARRR! A letter from the Post Muse!

A nice note from NB in the Netherlands!

 A note from a new contributor from Send Something.

 A nice letter and some pretties from the Piccadilly Post

Another letter from LR about Project Runway - Make it Work!

Hope this finds you all sending plenty of mail to each other!
-b
 

Care to Send Something Fun!

Hello all,
I hope this finds you having as beautiful of weather as we are in the MidAtlantic!  I opted to mow today, not because I had to, but because it was so beautiful!  Life and house are keeping me busy, but not busy enough to prevent a blog post inspired by a package I received from Piccadilly Post

What a nice surprise after a long day at work!

The next layer should the compartments.  "Daisy" is really great at layering and all "the little things" that look nicely put together instead of stuffed in there - (which I admit is more my style.  Cram it in till you can't cram in any more!)

What's inside the packages? !

And at the bottom is some pretty stationery! 

 

I think her package has kicked off something in my head!  I am a big care package sender and my close friends routinely get little things that I collect because they remind me of that person. But with all the influx of stationery and bits, I think I may have to randomly mail out some more.  I challenge you all to consider trying it yourself!

 

Also consider commenting and sharing about a care package you got that made your day!  Maybe you have ideas that others can use to spruce up their packages!

And here's one I sent out to the winner of the stationery contest.  I used stickers to polka-dot it!

 

Hope this finds you sending a smile and sharing your bounty with others!
-b
 

Step Forward and Claim Your Stationery

Drum roll please!  The names of those who entered my stationery giveaway were carefully written down and handed to a friend who painstakingly folded them and had a coworker draw a name.
Step forward: clcdark - I will be emailing you for address details.

Thanks to all for commenting and sharing in my joy of paper, the great carrier of messages!

May your mailboxes be full and your favorite pen never run out of ink!
-b

Hey Mr. Postman

I thought I would share a link to the So You Think You Can Dance show.  They had a dance to the "Wait Mr. Postman" song featuring Twitch and Eliana.
http://bit.ly/RHugfy
Hopefully this carries you through your Friday with a smile!
And do not forget to check out my last post about a stationery give away!
-b

Score!

Okay, so the first step to helping yourself, is admitting you have a problem.  I have a huge problem/ talent of finding excellent deals on stationery.  Depends on how you see it.  I have not been to my favorite stationery places in awhile, but the other day I found myself with the opportunity to stop in and guess what I found.
No really . . .take a second and guess!

Each box is 20 cards with 4 designs

Pomegranate stationery at $3.99 a box.  This is only half of the selection available.  I was actually choosy about my purchases. 

10 cards and 2 designs.

And these were $2.99 a box

And these were on the sale rack.  That's right - Jim Holtz, idea-ology cards!  The dinosaur stickers were a dollar a sheet!  And do I know a dino loving girl who will enjoy these?!?

All in all, a great haul!  But wait, there's more.  If you too have a stationery problem, then post below and one lucky person drawn at random will receive a set of 20 mix and match cards featured in this story.  Drawing is limited to the United States, just due to the cost of postage.  Please also leave an email or other contact info if I do not already have it.  For privacy, if you do not want your email out there, leave 2 comments - one for the blog and one for me.  Since I view all comments prior to posting, I can filter those out who do not want to be public!

You have until Saturday (9-8-12) to enter.

I am a stationery addict, are you?
-b