Do you send Valentine’s to Your Pen Pals? Why Not? A few years ago, I bought a bunch of Kids Valentines (the cheapo kind that kids give out at school) and included them with my mailings that week! It was fun! Pen pals add all different types of small tuck-ins into their letters (post cards, [...]
Ok, now maybe I’m getting a LITTLE WEIRD here.. but I love funky artsy Envelopes in the mail box… so no laughing at these!! Grin! Do you see what this is? Its a magazine cutout of shoes, funny ole shoes! It’s a free magazine, cut out of anything on any page, and simply used a [...]
I made some artsy envelopes for a pen pal gathering a few years ago, where I taught a class on quickie ways to decorate envelopes. Let’s check out a few and how to make them quickly, efficiently and oh-so darn colorful. First, IMAGINE your pal (or family member) opening their boring old mail box [...]
This is my husband, Terry, with our tiny wonder — we think this could be the worlds smallest tomato. It’s long gone, but he just picked another tiny yellow tomato yesterday.. never knew they’d grow this tiny! Grin!
Don’t you LOVE this envelope? I love when kids draw on their pen pal letters! Great Job! Kids can find pen pals here!l
Check out this cool envelope! I love funky things like this! Click to see any of them better.. very cool! Now, IF Andrea had known, she COULD have made this much better.. with the word HOPE all over the back. I helped her out a bit here… The third envelope is my enhanced version! Great [...]
As the Beatles sang, “Hope is All We Need”…. In today’s economy that is certainly true! But this is a fantastic way for pals to help the USA regain some HOPE! I do hope you will take the time to read this, and then REMEMBER….. Write HOPE on your envelopes! Go directly to the HOPE [...]
Yesterday, I added a page to my website on a gal who organizes a Sticker Collection every year, and mails packages to hospitals…. I hope you will help! Kids Stickers
My 17 year newspaper, Inky Trail News, is now changed to a digest-styled newsletter… as of the January 2009 issue. Just something new… and it feels good too! Thanks to all pals who took the time to write and tell me they liked it… your support really helps! p.s. if you’d like to check it [...]
I was so honored to get this postal stamp recently…. thought I’d share it with you! Thanks to Madeleine Brauer for sending her letter (and thanks to Lesley Sjardin, her New Zealand pal, for sending Madeleine to me!) Sometimes, often times, its the very small things in life that make life so worth living.. making [...]
