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.

Today's Outgoing: June 12, 2015

And here is the first of the Where's Waldo envelopes.

Today's Outgoing: June 10, 2015

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Just a couple birthday cards headed out locally and to England. :)

Today's Outgoing: June 9, 2015

I completed a new batch of desecrated/evolved children's book envelopes! Cathleen gets to be the first recipient of the Cinderella edition. :)

Today's Outgoing: June 2, 2015

This one is going out to my newest pen pal! Iris lives in Belgium, and we "met" through Postcrossing.

A while ago I found a bunch of extra thank you postcards from my wedding, so I've been sending out small batches of them for Postcrossing not because I'm a narcissist, but because hopefully it makes an interesting card for the recipient. I always include our wedding date in my note.

Iris sent me an email back through Postcrossing asking for my address so she could send me a thank you in return. I thought she just meant a thank you for sending her a postcard and that she was really going above and beyond the usual e-mail thank yous you can send through Postcrossing, but I was floored by what I found when her thank you arrived. Not only did she send me one of her own {gorgeous!} wedding thank yous, but we were also both married on the exact same day!!! Seriously, how amazing is that?

I got her card a few weeks ago, and I still can't get over its perfection. So beautiful!