Snail Mail Recently Received

I have been really enjoying my foray into the world of snail mail.  

This is my first postcard from Postcrossings!  

My favorite part were the wonderful stamps on it!

It came from Oregon and I met a new friend with twin boys!  

I joined in January and have sent out five postcards now.

  This first postcard was very exciting to receive!

Postcards take quite a while to travel and one must 

be very patient in this instant age!  

I sent one to Taiwan this morning to a young man interested in lighthouses.

Well, heavens!!  He hoped I would send a postcard with a lighthouse for his collection.   I didn't have one for him on hand so I sent one with a photo my son in law took on a visit to the Outer Banks.

I used an app on my phone, Postagram that my sister Karan, the world traveler discovered and shared with me.

  

The receiver doesn't have the fun of great looking stamps with this app,  but at least my new pal in Taiwan won't have a duplicate postcard since the picture is an original.  He has quite an extensive lighthouse postcard collection.  

I love Postagram because it's instant and

 it only costs $1.99 to send an international post card including postage.  

The app is free.  Domestic cards are only .99  (I'm not connected with them in any way

A free ad for them!  Just because I like them!)

So then I learned about Pocket letters!!

 This is my first POCKET LETTER!  

 I received it from Jill a longtime blog friend.  I loved her post on Pocket Letters 

and asked her more about them.  Since them they have consumed me!  I have sent out three and have four more almost ready to go!  I found swap partners on Pocket Letter Pals on Facebook

and on the Pocket Letter Pals webpage.

This one was truly amazing noting how personalized it was as Jill lives in Canada and I live in Florida.

Inside, the pockets are filled with little treasures, like tea and thin chocolates, gifts for making more Pocket letters like fancy tapes and stickers and wise proverbs and stencils and sequins and all kinds of interesting pictures etc.  They are so fun to unpack!  

Each pocket letter received is different and shows the artistic creativity of the individual.

This is my second pocket letter received!  

Jill's longtime penpal and also a member of Pocket Letter Pals on Facebook, asked if I would like to 

swap and of course I said yes!  She is also from Canada  and her pocket letter was once again, 

so FUN to unpack!!  Each pocket held something different!  And I loved how she created pockets on the cards to tuck little gifts into.  I'm already using that idea  on the last few I've made! 

 My favorite gift from Carol were a supply of cutouts of the mason jars she used in different patterns.    But it is hard to choose a favorite when there are so many delightful things tucked into each pocket!

Yesterday I received another post card.  This time from Indonesia! 

Now isn't that great to find in the mail amongst the ads, circulars and bills?  

She had fun stamps, and a personalized Hello Kitty ink stamp and look!  Down through the middle decorative washi tape!   A month ago I had no idea what that was, now I love it!  

I learned to say How are you in Indonesian and used that knowledge already (in my emailed note to let her know it arrived!)  

Now I'm looking forward to the mail again as I used to before the internet when long newsy letters would arrive and pictures would come in the mail from far away sisters and my mom.  

The joy of snail mail! 

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