Monday, October 29, 2012

Monday Mailings

It was again a great week for mail. This is definitely a proof of the old saying about mail, "send a letter to receive a letter". I'm still working on my side of the bargain. I have been busy with the shop and haven't still fully caught up with the outgoing. There are a lot of things I've been working on that I'm just dying to tell you guys about, but I've made a decision to wait until after Halloween to start talking about Christmas... I think that's fair, no?

Anyhow, onwards to mail...

Outgoing

Mail Love - Outgoing

Let's start with the little packages going to Caddi and Bree. They won small surprise packages from the giveaway I organized a little while ago. I'm hoping they'll have them soon, but figured I could show the front of the envelopes without ruining the surprise inside... I wanted to make sure that as fellow snailmailers they'll get a good selection of Canadian stamps. So, naturally I went overboard again instead of using the two I could've gotten away with... Obviously 6 is better than 2 (at least when it comes to stamps), right?

Mail Love - Outgoing
I also sent more Halloween mail, you've seen them already. I figured I'll share these still, since I love the stamps so much. One of these is going to my Lovely letters partner Autumn. I used the same idea of the bat to send the second task to her.

I also sent quite a bunch of orders out, but you've seen the format for those already. I'll come up with something new soon, I hope, and will share them again.

Incoming
It was such a good week again! I got two pieces of mail from two people. (I mean from two people, two each. So, four altogether)

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First to pieces came from Susanne. You know they'll be good. I got some candy, a lovely letter and a Halloween card. She made a comment earlier on twitter (you can follow me @HipsterCurious if you want, I'm fairly active over there too) about how similar our Halloween mail is. Obviously great minds work alike!

Take a look at that pumpkin stamp too! How awesome is that? Apparently Halloween is bigger in Finland than I knew. It has to be if there's a stamp for it. I mean, a stamp makes it official, right?

Mail Love - Incoming
The second set came from Jess. She's the first person who's penpal ad I've answered. I found her on Julie's Penpal of the week and after engaging in some very random discussion about carrots, I realized I at least owe her a letter. She just replied and I got, not just a letter but, a postcard too. And they came on the same day.

I wonder what happened to the address label though... See? It's missing parts of it. Maybe it was attacked by a ferocious possum.

Yeah... That must be it.

So, did you get anything good in the mail last week?

13 comments:

  1. When I saw the first picture and read Brees name on it I went all "Ooooh, Bree is so lucky!" just to realize that the other one is coming my way! :) I'm really looking forward to it! So even though my last week was rather slow when it comes to mail (I still loved the two postcards I got from family and the letter from a penpal), I already know that the next week will be great :)
    Take care!
    Oh, and did Mariam ever show up? Well, if not you already have everything together in case you ever decide on another giveaway :)

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    1. Oh, and the stamps are great!

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    2. Another update - I received your little package today!!! Thank you so much, everything was AMAZING and I love it! Thanks! I'm still so very excited I can't express myself properly in English (well, I'm not sure about how I would express myself in German right now...), so you'll have to believe me that you absolutely made me and my mailbox very happy!

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    3. Okay, and the last update for the stamps - they were not cancelled. Strange, right?

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    4. Hi Caddi!

      I'm so happy the package got there and that you liked it! Totally makes my day! Odd about the stamps, but maybe everyone else thought they were too awesome as well!

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  2. Oh I see the mystery packages! Hope to get a sneak peek inside as soon as I can manage! I'm staying away from home. :( Uni life is so crazy and my schedule is just too hectic! Hope I can get back home before Christmas! Awesome stamps by the way! Have a lovely day! :D

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    1. Well, I hope you'll like it whenever you get to see it!

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  3. Yeah, the Finnish have not made Halloween stamps, not by far. It was more of a lucky coincidence that I happened to find a pumpkin in some vegetable themed stamps: https://verkkokauppa.posti.fi/tuotekuvat/merkit_iso/vihannekset_lisakuva.jpg

    So still very much a home-engineered Halloween card. But I put the witch-hat on it, and you'd almost think it was meant for Halloween!

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    1. Oh, fair enough. You could've fooled me. But at least this proves that I was still right about the Halloween-levels of Finland.

      As a random comment, I have to say Finland has pretty awesome stamps.

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  4. Oh no! I loved that label. Ah well, I'll have to be much stickier next time. ;)

    Write when you can/if you want! I loved your letter and I love that you're starting Christmas Projects. I've just finished decorating last night!

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    1. I'm glad you came by here, I want you to know I absolutely loved your letter! I'm definitely writing back, I'm just sorry it's taken me a while!

      I think us Christmas-geeks need to stick together!

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    2. I'm excited! Don't worry about a time-frame for me. I'm not picky. Tell me all about your Christmas projects!

      We do need to stick together. There are so few of us, it seems. That is, until I get on the internet ;)

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    3. I already have a number of things to write about. And be careful what you wish for! I've been making Christmas things for the shop for weeks already, so I'm in full-on holiday mode!

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