Here is a post card I sent to Russia for Post Crossing
I have not done a post crossing card in a long time. I think I may get back into it and see where it takes me.
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This is a stack of letters that I wrote and have not received replies just yet. I am not sure if these pals have moved on and gotten bored with writing or maybe it was me who put them to sleep. hmm I hope it wasn’t me who put them to sleep. Nice thing is that in reading my letters to them I can remember small episodes in my life I had forgotten. Always a good twist to a bad thing.
One Lonely Letter Received Among all the Junk Mail
Grrr I wish I could find something productive to do with the junk mail
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Well, my list today includes the following:
The maintenance type stuff yada yada, not all is on there the list would be never ending.
clutter 3 (Photo credit: wreford)
- Laundry
- Dishes
- Teaching (this one is a must can’t even think of skipping this one)
Then there is the stuff that I have given myself the next few weeks to do such as:
- De-cluttering my bathroom
- De-cluttering my Room
These are the big ones for now more to come I am sure later. Don’t want to make the list to long as it might overwhelm me.
What are some of your plans for de-cluttering?
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Long Lost Pen Pal (Photo credit: andreasnilsson1976)
As I was looking through my box of past letters I notice something. A few good pals have not replied back to my last letter, some as far back as 6 months.
Their lives may have gotten busy or life happened and they have not gotten back to responding. I tend to hold on to these letters for quite a while and I am not sure why. I think I hope that once life settles down they will again pick up pen and paper and write about what has being going on in their life. I don’t mind waiting for a reply if I have a feeling if in the slightest that it is coming. Maybe a quick email or post card saying
Hey a letter will be on it’s way as soon as I get things in order or something.
but no all I hear is silence. Well I will never know or have an answer to this question but.. Why do good pen friends go missing?
The World May Never Know
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Went to the mailbox the other day to see if I had any mail waiting. I was so glad to see two letters and pull them out and immediately my smile turned to a smirk. Warning a dose of sarcasm coming at you, you have been warned.
What could I have seen in this mailbox that gave me a look of oh poop not again well it’s
a tiny letter. It was so small when I opened the envelope I had a hard time finding the darn letter. It gripes me to no end that someone month after month can take the time and effort to write down 5 lines on a sheet of tiny note paper. On top of that they have to pay postage to send such letter on it’s way. Come on people put a little effort in it and write a regular letter. It really isn’t that difficult and I know you can do it.
See like this nice example I found on the net, it doesn’t even have to be on fancy paper, or typed. As long as I can read it and it’s a letter with content all else can be over looked.
Fortunately, I get only like two or so of these a month so that I am thankful for. Ok I will get off my soap box now, back to regular posting.
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This is a sample of this weeks mail that came in and went out for pen friends.
Some mail art fun
This is one that went out, isn’t it pretty. I think I did a good job on it
I went a little crazy with the markers haha
I just love these froggies, so cute
This is one that I received, such a pretty handmade envelope from Kristy Oliver.
Some more handmade envelopes were inside for me to use, yay I love these
I just adore cupcakes and these are my newest cupcake theme stationery
And because I was out of address labels I created this pretty labels for Spring
My new log book, because my other one was old and bulky. Now New colorful, and Streamlined Book
My desk as it looks at the end of this week, it doesn’t always look this organized. When I am in the middle of writing it is a huge mess. This is a toned down version of my desk.
Well that is all for this week of Mail Call, see you again next week. If you have a blog and post your photos please share a link as I would love to take a peek.
Sandy
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I saw this on pinterest and thought yea I can take a try at that see how it turns out.
Here was the end result, isn’t it purdy.
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The two books I am currently reading are:
Good book so far, I just started reading it.
This is an awesome read it has helped me learn new skills, which I am using and they work great. Yay! I was doing okay before this has just helped make it more seamless. Great Read
I am also listening to on audio Robert Jordan’s Series “The Wheel of Time” book #1 The Eye of the World. Long way to go on this one as I am on disk 5 and the book has 22 plus disks.
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Lately , my pen has been slow and I have been mousing around watching the news in the morning instead of writing my letters. Thus my to reply stack was growing steadily. So I have turned off the television and started writing more without that distraction. My day starts off so much better when I take the time to collect my thoughts and put them down on paper.
Here are a few photos of what I have been up to lately.
I am also going to start using my bill payer organizer to file my letters to reply in, because I am not using it for bills anyways.
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Easter eggs // Ostereier (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
Today after did our Easter Egg Hunt and baked with the kids I got to relaxing a bit. I took out my box where I store my pen friend letters and started looking through it. I was amazed at how many letters have not been replied to me in over a years time. I honestly don’t know why I saved them for this long. I guess I thought well maybe, just maybe the person would write back the optimist in me. (ha ha)
Well I took the time today to sort through them and dispose in the round file all those letters that were taking up precious room in my letter box. Now as I see it I have ample room for the pen friends I have that write regularly and want to continue a pen friend relationship.
Now I have to make sure I prune my letter box with more frequency as a way to go with the minimalist state of mind our family is in for this season of our life.
Sandy
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