Today's outgoing: January 1, 2016

Now the holidays are over, time to get back to #happymail ! 6 down, 4 to go #unlessmyhandfallsofffirst #snailmail #diy #penpal #missionarymail #mexico #finland #newjersey #missouri #massachusetts #texas

A photo posted by Natalie Miller (@findthosedreams) on Jan 1, 2016 at 5:31pm PST

Where'd October go?

Hello, everyone!

I promise I haven't forgotten you, but October was just a really busy month for me! I actually stopped taking pics of stuff I was sending because I guess I felt like I didn't have the 10 seconds it took to take some.

I figure in the month of October I have sent 3 Postcrossing postcards, 6 postcards for Swap-Bot swaps, 12 letters/flat mail for Swap-bot swaps, 3 missionary letters, and 4 letters for my pen pals totaling 28 pieces of outgoing mail if I counted correctly.

In any case, here's the pics I do have:

Incoming Postcrossing, Swap-Bot and personal postcards all arrived on the same day. That's one happy mailbox!

Today's Outgoing: September 2, 2015

Here's my first letter for my third missionary cousin Megan. She's in New Jersey and actually left earlier this summer. Oops! Better late than never?

 

Yesterday's Outgoing: August 31, 2015

Finally staring to catch up now that the move is over!

Today's Outgoing: July 21, 2015

Managed to get a whopping 4 letters ready to go today. 2 for missionary mail, and 2 for pen pals. It's amazing. After a few weeks of mail draught, I'm behind again after several letters arrived close together! 4 down, but 4 or 5 still to go.

I've also gained several new pals in recent weeks: Iris who I've already mentioned, Crystal in Texas, Monica in Indiana, and most recently Diana in Germany. I'm very glad to get to know these new ladies. :)

Incoming Missionary Mail!! :)

 If you can't already tell by the lack of posts, I've kind of hit a dry spell with snail mail. For the last few weeks I've been 100% caught up on my outgoing, but have been finding an empty mail box day after day. Not even Postcrossing has come through for me. (I've actually had to dig up some of my other hobbies to keep me occupied!)

However...

 Look what I was so happy to find in my email inbox this morning! I am so excited!

Slowly but surely the Mexican mail system has been working just fine, and my missionary cousin Jason is getting my dorky little letters. :) Even more than that, they're actually making a difference. Jason wrote me to say:

 "Thank you so much for your cards. They seem to be getting to me right at the right times during stressful moments to give me a boost to get through them." 

That is totally ideal of course, but I just figured that more often than not they'd just be a silly little perk.

Kristie recently also gave me the wonderful pleasure of surprising me with a card she made herself! I just haven't taken a picture of it yet, but I'll have to add it to this post as soon as I do. :) It's seriously cute.

 

Today's Outgoing: June 17, 2015

New batch of missionary mail.

Totally diggin' that jelly bean encrusted cake. I made these top two envelopes from magazine ads. I'm hoping they aren't too fragile for international travel.

Pusheen is always birthday appropriate.

Today's Outgoing: May 28, 2015