Making the switch to Bloglovin

Since Google reader will be leaving us soon I made the switch over to Bloglovin.  Follow me there:

Follow my blog with Bloglovin

Luckily when you sign up over there you can import all the blogs you follow through google over there.  It did miss a few but for the most part it worked fine.  

The one thing I don't particularly like is that when you are on your home page it only lists the blogs that have unread entries and then you can only see those unread ones.  I like being able to see all the entries for a particular blog in case I wanted to go back to a previous post.  

You can go to your "following" page and click on a blog to see all the posts but it's extra steps.  Something to get used to I guess.  

A Month of Letters Weeks 3 & 4

I did it!  I completed the Month of Letters challenge.

I sent out a total of 58 pieces of mail. 

Didn't do to well at photographing it though.  Here are a couple envelopes I made/decorated...

I connected with some great people and hopefully we will continue to correspond long after this challenge!  

Zentangle

A couple years ago I came across Zentangle.  I don't remember how or why.  After checking it out for a while I decided it would be fun to try.

So back in November of 2011 my daughter and I took a basic class at our local craft store.  I loved it.  I never felt I could draw but I was able to do the things they were showing us in class.  

And like many things I get into I came home all excited, tried a few more tangles.  Drew this:

And promptly "forgot" about doing much with it again for about a year!  I dug my sketch book back out in December of last year and did this:

I decided at that time that I wanted to try to do it more regularly and get better at it.  So I bought myself a 2013 tangle a day calendar.  I love it but of course I am WAY behind on doing it daily.  

I started out good 

Did a few I liked and a few I didn't.

And stalled out around January 9th!!  

I'm working on getting back to it.

I wish I could find a balance and learn to give time to all the things I enjoy instead of obsessing about one for weeks or months and ignoring the others.  

A Month Of Letters: Week 2

I'm still in it.  Getting out at least one or two items a day.  But I still feel "behind".  I have a bunch of things I need to respond to and I always feel like I'm too slow getting back to people.  

I really need to be in the right mood to write a letter.  I always have good intentions of sitting and responding but then when it comes time I don't always feel like I'm in the right state of mind.

I only photographed my incoming this week.  I keep forgetting about the outgoing.  Well, I forget the incoming too but at least it's here and I can go back and do it the next day. 

A cool hand made envelope, Large letter Ohio postcard and I just love that heart.  It's the cardboard piece from a box of chocolates that the sender covered it cancelled love and heart stamps and sent as a postcard.

More postcards from a Round Robin.

A Few more from the same Round Robin.  I love that little doggie peeking out the door!

More postcards and a letter from a Month of Letters participant.

Here's the note card that was inside that envelope.  I just love the colors.

And a cute valentine's postcard.  The little folded paper hearts were tucked inside a small envelope attached to the back of the postcard.  So fun!

Now I'm staring into a fun weekend of scholarship applications and financial aid forms! 

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!!