Mail O' June

I can't get over how much I adore mail.
These past months, while my posting has been HORRENDOUS, I have still managed to find time to write letters to my fab pen pals! Here are only some of the wonderful incoming/outgoings that I have received/sent these past months!
Enjoy!

Incoming
I feel so lucky to have such a wonderful group of buds and pen pals alike who write such beautiful letters and create such beautiful mail art! Always a joy to open the mailbox to letters like these!

A pile of only some of the gorgeous mail art received this month!

Some of the (as always) gorgie mail from pen pal L., in U.S.A.

 

(And some of the lovely stamps adorning aforementioned envelopes.)

 

A recent lovely letter from S., in U.S.A.

A fab letter from J., in Australia.

A lovely letter from M., in U.S.A.

A phenomenal, action-packed letter from S., in Australia.

(and the gorgeous "Canberra" stamp--our nation's capital--stamped with her Quorn beauty!)

Outgoing
I can only hope that my outgoing letters bring the recipients as much joy as the ones I receive!

A handdrawn butterfly for my best bud; U.S.A. (and the stamp of which is the second to last in my Lady Bird Challenge stamp collection)

A little red for my cousin; U.S.A.

Some vintage nautical madness for an awesome pen pal; U.S.A.

Some arrows and hearts for my cousin; U.S.A.

A long overdue birthday package for pen pal J in Australia...

...and the vintage hand-finger-pointing decal for the package!

 

A long overdue letter for S., in Australia...

...and the washi-tape/typewriter decaling...

...and the gorgeous postage stamps (that I am super-duper in love with!! Including Lady Bird Johnson stamp which is the last in my Lady Bird Challenge collection of stamps!)

And a little outgoing orange to dear friend in U.S.A.

And such is the mail! Today, I shall write three more letters and might even post them on here!
I'd love to hear about your mail adventures! Comment below!
Cheers,
Ms. Always Traveling

Incoming & Outgoing | Jan 2013

It makes me pretty irritated to think that it has taken me this long to finally get around to posting my first incoming and outgoing of the year. The blogger.com interface has been a little bit lame lately--it hasn't let me upload photos using Internet Explorer, so I'm now trying from Firefox. Let's hope it works.

Anywho, these past weeks have been insanely busy.
But I've been trying extra hard to find a few moments to read and reply to all of the wonderful mail that I have received this month.

Let me share it with you:

A birthday card from my dear A., in Australia.

A Chrissie/Update card from the lovely B., in Australia.

...and his stamp choice.

My reply to the lovely B.

I used a lot of different mediums for B.'s reply. It not only had a vast collection of tape and stamp decorations, but I also adorned the letter with the cartoon of one of my favourite cartoonists--Dan Piraro.

Do you get the cute joke?

I wanted to use a nice variety of stamps for this piece. I think I did!

A wonderful piece from the dear B., in Mass.

...and his stamp choice (gotta love that jazz!).

And my three-dimensional reply! I was loving the hints of green mixed with the typewriting accents.

(You really can't go wrong with green!)

My quote for this year. "An idea that is not dangerous is not worthy of being called an idea at all." ~ Oscar Wilde.

Some more typewriter accents + stampography.

The stamp choice on a letter from my dear C., in Florida.

A wonderful Chrissie card from my dear H. and M. in Australia.

I LOVE the 2012 Chrissie stamp collection from AustraliaPost!!

A bit of a surprise--an unexpected letter from dear J., in Mass.

...and my reply. I had been keeping this magazine cut out for a while in the hopes of finding the perfect usage for it. And I'm pretty happy with how it turned out!

LOVE those LOVE stamps! But so ready for the "Sealed With Love" 2013 stamps!

As always, another lovely piece from L., in Oklahoma!

...and her perfectly designed stamp choice--a girl after my own heart!

The inside of my reply to L.

...and my colour-coordinated stamp choice!

More magazine cutouts of technicolour dreams!

And the finished product! Huzzah!

A holiday card from M., in Honolulu!

Two wonderful celebratory cards from S., in Australia! (Thank you so much, S!)

And another wonderful piece from L. in Oklahoma!

And that's not all! I have more to share, but I'll put those up later!
Hope you guys enjoyed my (very belated) mail post!

Oh, and get this--something that I have been hearting for a while managed to find its way to me. I can't wait to share it with you...

Good to be back--
~ Ms. Always Traveling

Outgoing

And to pair with that "Incoming" post--and "Outgoing" post!

Outgoing

A 3rd "Lovely Letters" reply to my new penpal R., in Germany.

Love the colour combination and the cherries!

An early Chrissie letter in reply to an early Chrissie stamped letter, to S. in the United States.

...and it's all hand-typed!

Send mail--
~ Ms. Always Traveling