Jeannie Marie & Company

I wanted to share with you a nice surprise I received a couple of weeks ago.  I've been waiting until I sent my Christmas thank you notes to post about it so I could show off a bit....but pride goeth before a fall!   I admired a sealing wax set that Paulette from Cheerful Thrifty Door  had posted at one of the parties I visit.  I commented about how lovely it is to get a letter sealed with stamped wax.  I had blogged about a lovely note I received with purple sealing wax  entitled The Beauty of Actual Letters .  Paulette looked up the post and decided I should have the sealing wax set!  She sent it to me along with a sweet note in early January.  I was certainly surprised and delighted when she wrote for my address and I had a few days to anticipate the gift.  Really, it was such an out of the blue gift!!  It certainly made my year! When it arrived the perfect opportunity to use it presented itself, I had several thank you notes...

I love that we can quickly email a message. We can Tweet in a heartbeat and some people even still fax. Phone calls on smart phones can send images while we speak. But there was something special about real mail.  The mail we hike out to the end of the driveway to get.  Today it contained a letter, hand addressed...in gold ink...with sealing wax. How often has that appeared in your mailbox?  For me, very rarely.  Even before the electronic age.  It was so charming, so unexpected I was reluctant to open the envelope.  But I did.  Preserving the sealing wax, of course. This special envelope did include a delightful letter! Isn't this better than email?  This is an actual hand print, I can feel the ridges.  The lace behind our great niece's picture is real.  The poem is personal.   Thank you, Holly!  You really brightened our day!   Happy Holly Days back to you! (And I'm saving the sealing wax too)