Pen Pal Newsletter…. creating friendships, one letter at a time!

Archive for February, 2009

Anna Brooker Mail Art

I just uploaded a 2007 video of me showing off a very cool Mail Art piece I got from Anna Brooker in England. Yes, its a few years old, the video isn’t great and that’s why I never shared it online… but I decided, today, it’s better to share it with other pals, so they [...]

Postal Stamps on Letters

Sometimes the simplest things in life, give us pleasure…. Just printed and stuffed some Kids Pen Pal Lists to mail this morning. Felicity from England is going out today… so I put SIX coloful USA stamps on hers! A pink rose, American flag, blue bird, apple, Santa, Uncle Sam… fun fun! Kids get excited opening [...]

Free Teleclass on Thursday night

Marney from Artella, a gal I’ve followed for several years now… watching, watching, watching all her artsy fun! This week she is hosting a free tele-class! Just thought I’d post it here in case someone wants to join me there! The Complete Idealist’s Guide to Growing a Creative Business: 37 Ways to Really Make an [...]

Printable Stationery

I made some new printables today — used some old British postal stamps from the Postal Passion art kit from Artella and made some printable stationery for your letter writing! Need new stationery? You can print it out from the site or download and print over and over! It’s free! Printable Stationery here… I use [...]

A Deer Came to Visit Us Today!

OK, can you even BELIEVE these photos? This is a tame deer that came to visit… where he/she is from, we don’t know! I looked outside to bring Chi Chi back indoors, and there’s this DEER staring at Chi, and Chi is staring right back! We don’t live in the country, though their is a [...]

Lipton Pyramid Tea

Check out the “changing shape of tea”…. I got this free sample teabag of a really nice Green Tea with Mandarin Orange today! It’s a really nice lightly fruity taste and smell.. loving it! I wouldn’t take the time and effort to tell you about just any old teabag… but LOOKEE this one! Its a [...]

Envelope Mail Art

Here is some quick envelope art… art doesn’t mean perfection, it can mean FUN, exciting envelopes in your mail box! Help me stamp out boring envelopes! Just big cheap foam stamps, the kinds kids use, stamped randomly over the envelope — on two of them, I tore a picture from a magazine… and used my [...]

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