A Month of Letters: Week 1

One week has gone by and I've been able to mail something every day!  So far so good.  Well, except for the fact that I didn't always take a photo of what I sent.  But here are the ones I remembered to photograph.

 

 

 

A Rick Springfield postcard to a friend & fellow fan and a birthday postcard to a Lettermo participant.

 

 



 

A couple pen pal letters and 2 postcards.  One to a girl doing a social studies project trying to collect a card from each state. 

 

Two more letters and yes I actually drew that hot air balloon on the envelope.  Not sure how that happened!  LOL 

Five postcards, all with photos taken by yours truly.

 

Here are a few items I received from other Lettermo participants:

Love the envelope!

 

 



 

 

I also received postcards from a Round Robin I'm in this month on the Postcrossing forum

 

 

 

 

Not much but still way more fun than bills and junk!!

Let the Games Begin

 

 

Today is the first day of A Month of Letters and so far so good.  I have two pieces of mail ready to go!  I don't think I'll be updating daily.  Maybe just once a week on Friday.  And for today I don't plan on posting a pic of what I'm sending yet as I don't want the receivers to see before they arrive!

 

In the meantime......

 

I tried my hand at making a few of my own envelopes!  I used a map that was inside a travel guide book I had requested long ago and we never ended up going to that destination.

I also carefully turned a "junk mail" return envelope inside out so the design is on the outside.  I got the idea from the forums on Lettermo.  Very cool.

 



2013 Reading List

Ok so I didn't reach my goal in 2012.

Whatever.

I'm trying again in 2013.  This time I'm going for a whole 20 books! 

And I'm gonna do it this time!  So come back to this post (the link will be in the sidebar) or friend me on Goodreads to see my progress. 

1. Playing For Pizza, John Grisham (12/21/12-1/25/13)

2.  A Walk to Remember, Nicholas Sparks (1/25/13-1/31/13)

3. Cosmopolis, Don DeLillo (2/1/13-did not finish) I just couldn't get into it

4. Northern Lights, Nora Roberts (2/7/13-3/11/13)

5. Beautiful Creatures, Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl (3/11/13-3/25/13)

6. Clockwork Princess, Cassandra Clare (3/26/13-4/24/13)

7. The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky (4/24/13-4/28/13)

8. Beautiful Darkness, Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl (4/29/13-5/15/13)

Currently Reading:

Beautiful Chaos, Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl (5/24/13-

One month, 23 Letters

 

I've decided to join the Month of Letters

 

 

It's a challenge for the month of February to mail at least one item for every day the mail runs.  A letter, a postcard, an article...whatever.

 

 

Let me know if you'd like to receive something from me. 

You can find my email on my blogger profile, connect with me on lettermo or input your info on my postable account 

Pictures, pictures, everywhere!

 

Even before taking photography seriously I loved taking photos and looking through old family photos. 

 

Back in the day when we used film or Polaroids before that, we'd take them, have them printed, throw them in a drawer or box where they'd sit until we dug through them looking for something.

 

 

 

The last time we moved which was about 12 years ago I decided to take on the project of organizing all the prints along with all the ones my mom had laying around. 

 

 

I was going to put them in chronological order and get them all in albums and labeled like the ones you see here:
 

 

 

Then when my grandmother passed away in 2004 and we were going through some of her stuff I ended up taking a trunk full of family photos home to go through.

 

 

Problem is, these photos I have posted here.....they were just taken today.  Yeah, that's how far I've gotten on my project over the past 12 years!!

Not to mention the fact that all the 100's of prints I have in these boxes only date through about mid 2004.  That's when I went digital. 
I'd say I've taken thousands since then.  I didn't have to worry about wasting film.  Now all those sit on my hard drive waiting for something to be done with them.

I always figured I'd have a selection of them printed for each year and add them to the rest so we'd have something to physically hold and look at. 

Now I just feel overwhelmed! 
But I hate that they are just sitting around in boxes!

I'm thinking about getting some of these cases to make it quicker and easier to store them rather than trying to get them all in albums.




I'll feel much better when I dig myself out of this hole.  IF I ever dig myself out!