Today's Outgoing: Mid August 2015

Another blah post. Hopefully I'll be able to get back to posting something legitimately interesting, but for now I am still swamped with all that life-y stuff.  In any case, I did manage to get one letter and a couple birthday cards out.

Today's Outgoing: August 4, 2015

Aw, peas!

Feels like it's been a while since I've managed to send anything out. I've been swamped with trying to get a new place to live. If all goes well, I hope everything will be settled and back to normal before September ends. We'll see how that goes.

In any case, I did manage to get this one out to my sister-in-law Lara. Obviously the address labels are pea free in real life, but I decided it is a slightly better alternative to scribbling them out as Google still has not restored it's editing program needed to make the addresses invisible. The pea sticker is the right shape, so I'm guessing we'll be seeing lots of peas in the near future.

 

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. :)

Today's Outgoing: July 10, 2015

Here's my first letter to Monica in Indiana. Keeping it simple. :)

Today's Outgoing: July 8, 2015

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Bad news, guys. Google got rid of the awesome, nearly identical to Photoshop, photo editor it had built in and replaced it with garbage. That said, looks like we're back to ugly striped pics. :(

Good news is that Iris' envelope turned out awesome. Crystal's isn't exactly bad either, but I'm afraid Iris' upcycled children's book/Cameo addressed one is far superior. Sorry Crystal!

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.