Today's Outgoing: January 5, 2014

Today was a busy card making day. In 2014 I resolved to send all of my family and close friends a birthday card. I didn't do perfectly, but things went well enough that I wanted to do it again this year.

This card is going to go out to my cousin Jason who is serving a mission in Mexico for our church. Apparently the mail system there isn't the most reliable, so hopefully it will make it. If not I'll have to try a postcard version.

Most of the pattern came with my Silhouette Cameo software, but I modified the words because I didn't want to glue each letter individually. The balloons are also inseparable from the black piece, so I had to learn how to draw the balloon shape in the program to make all the colored ones. Sounds harder than it was.

Today's Outgoing: January 3, 2015

Made this envelope with my slick new Silhouette Cameo!

Today's Outgoing: December 30, 2014

Slowly getting back on top of things. I'm just crazy exhausted all the time.

Today's Outgoing: December 10, 2014

Finally getting a second letter off to Nikki in England. :)

Today's Postcrossing December 9, 2014

I was surprised to find two Postcrossing treasures in my mailbox tonight. I'll definitely need to look up where Belarus is!

(The other one is from Illinois, but my blogger app crashes whenever I attempt to put multiple pics on one post. :( )

Snail Mail Fail

So the other day when I was digging up my Christmas decor, I was horrified to find about a dozen unsent thank you postcards from my wedding. It may not be a big deal to some of you, but our wedding was almost two and a half years ago!

Growing up, my mother instilled in me a serious attitude of gratitude. Somehow I got it in my head that as far as serious sins are concerned, unsent thank you notes fall just after murder and fornication.

I know I'm being unnecessarily hard on myself here. It was an honest mistake. I really legitimately 100% thought I had completed all those darn handwritten thank you notes and posted them in a graceful amount of time following the wedding. Based on the number of left over blanks I'm certain at least 60 or so made it to the mailbox.

But still... there's one dozen that remains, most of which are addressed to my close relatives and one of my oldest childhood friends!

To add to my guilt, two of the dozen recipients have actually died since my wedding. I just pray that God will pass the message along to them and they can all have a good laugh about it together. :')

Postcrossing Album

Over the weekend I snatched up a totally cute 40 page magnetic photo album from a thrift store. It's in great condition, hardly any wear and tear, and the UPC even says it's less than 5 years old from from Target.

The best part is it's just what I've been looking for to store my Postcrossing booty. (The second best part is that I got it for a mere buck fifty plus tax!) Take a gander at half the cards I've received so far.

About 5 of my sent cards were all registered this week, so I'm expecting a postal ambush to add to my collection shortly. :)