Sent Snailmail collective september

I signed up for the snailmail collective september (check out http://thenectarcollective.com/the-snail-mail-collective/). A really great initiative to meet people from around the world. Last month i signed up for the first time and got introduced to Andi from http://andispeople.com/. So in september i decided to sign up again. I got paired with two great people. I only had to sent to one person a mail, but we decided to sent to both. And i am glad we did! I was signed up with Leia from the USA and Michelle from Australia. After a few weeks getting to know each other via email, facebook and blog it was time to send out mail! Theme of september was "back to school". I've found a tabletholder that reminded me of my first schoolbag, the front was exactly the same! Only mine was made of brown leather and was really big and full of books! Since both Michelle and Leia are adults, i thought it would be cool to sent them this tabletholder, also great for other stuff by the way! I've drawn the tabletholder on the envelope. I actually wanted to use grey ink, but i couldn't find it anymore! It was probably somewhere in a box in the attic since i am doing up my studio. I did find a grey marker though. The result was a a bit, well, nothing like it would be like with ink, but that was due to the marker. But since the same was inside the envelope i thought it would be okay.

This is what i have sent to Leia. I had cut out leia's name on a notebook, washi tape and stationary, my favourite ballpoint. And a letter with a good luck Miffy.

To Michelle i have sent almost the same, but with different colour stationary. I had tried to cut out Michelle's name, but it was way to much letters to fit in! I've used her initials instead.

The papercutting gave out beautiful shadows! Thought it was such a shame to glue some paper behind it that would get rid of the shadows, i just let it be.

The Snailmail Collective

Last week my snailmail to Andi went on it's way. Hopefully it will arrive some time soon.
It's an initiative from the blog http://thenectarcollective.com/
You sign up at http://thenectarcollective.com/the-snail-mail-collective/ for a month and get assigned a partner which whom you have some email contact before making your package. Each month has a theme, in august it was "under the sea". Well, I've used a bit of creative freedom, but can't reveal yet what I've made......
I was signed up with Andi from http://andispeople.com/ She designs her own stationary, how cool is that! Well, she's also a yoga teacher, teacher and aquarobic teacher and mum of three kids! A busy lady!

Wow! My mail arrived! I've made Andi a sort of vintage beach theme snailmail. She likes the beach and vintagepostcards! She also let me read a personal story she wrote. With al that in mind and a lot if places I've been to this summer, this mail just sort of happened. I actually made her a sort of vintage summer story. Trouble is, I'm better at pictures than I am with words :-) Well anyhow, I've made a picturebook. So this is what I've sent!

This is what was inside the book: quite a lot! Several postcards, vintage traintickets, stickers, a little garland of the dutch flag, seaweed and seashells I've collected with the kids, a shell on a necklace, a little notebook and tiny pencils, and a typical dutch souvenir!

This is a page from the story I've written for Andi. All the stuff I've put in this mail I've mentioned in this story.