Daily Mail: Outgoing

This week I've mailed a variety of things; letters, postcards, swaps, and even a book.

Sammy poses for a photo shoot with the mail.

The book I sent, Pride and Prejudice and Zombies. I admit that I did not like Jane Austen and thought that this fun interpretation but it made it even worse. I put it up on Paperbackswap.com and it was taken in minutes.

A reply to Angela from A Year of Letters. Her blog is very enjoyable as well.

I thought Troy would get a kick out of the Gumby stationery since he enjoys my pretty papers.

A reply to Kendra, my penpal in California.

Another covered bridge postcard going out to Lauren my postcard pal from sendsomething.net.

A recipe card swap where the recipe card was the postcard. Recipe cards make excellent postcards!

A Valentine's Day swap.

That's it for this week! I'm trying to come up with some letter/postcard themed topics that I can write some posts about. I'm defiantly going to do one about making your own stationery but are there any other ideas?

Daily Mail: Outgoing

Swap bot swaps. A lot going out!

Saw-whet owl postcard going to The Orphan Postcard Project.

Valentine cards are already in production. This was actually part of a swap sent out today. Not to shabby.

New Craft: Paper Engraving

I've been wanting to do this for a while now and finally found a nice kit to do it with.

You might not be able to see it very clearly, but this is an engraved butterfly design. The kit I bought was from Michael's Martha Stewart collection and is originally $20 but they always have good coupons so I bought it for $10!
It comes with two stencils; one with border designs and small figures, and one with bigger designs; a double sided stylus, 5 notecards with envelopes, and 2 sheets on wax paper. This is a great quick and easy way to personalize stationery. I just need to track down some medium weight paper sheets so I can make my own letter sets.