Sinterkerst voor Bianca

For Bianca I've made a Sinterkerst mail! Over here we have a commercial from a telecom provider that always makes me laugh. It's about some rich people who got poor but still want to live rich. So they just celebrate Sinterklaas, Christmas (kerst) and New Years eve all in one! That's so funny I thought I'd make a combined mail for Bianca. She had sent me this really cute pink and green box some time ago with this really cute crocheted hedgehog. And since it's the end of the year, why not make a bit of an effort. New Years resolutions are for the new year.

The mail consisted of two packages. A Sinterklaas package and a Christmas package. Two mails in one! And a letter, since what is mail without a letter.

This was in the Sinterklaas package. Lots of Sinterklaas crafty stuff. A traditional chocolate letter with the letter B from Bianca. Some red and white ribbon, red and white hearts, labels, stickers (inside the envie), a dress up Sinterklaas and a note from Sinterklaas (no not really ofcourse, but during this time of year we send notes to one another in name of Sinterklaas, like you do with Santa).

The dress up Sinterklaas was maybe a bit childlike but it's kinda funny! Well I think anyway.

Then I've wrapped the chocolate letter and the other stuff into two presents which I then wrapped into another piece of wrapping paper. Unwrapping is just so cool! Just like when you are a kid, when you get a bit anxious to see what is inside on your birthday or at the night when all the presents arrive at Sinterklaas!

Inside the Christmas present were these white bags with red labels on them made with my really cool Motex letter writer thing. It said: a white Christmas, a vintage Christmas, a red Christmas, a chique (really fancy French word for classy) Christmas and a colourful Christmas.

These white bags were so fitting! Glad I ordered those! Inside was a lot of Christmas stuff!

A red Christmas.

A chique Christmas.

A vintage Christmas.

A white Christmas.

A colourful Christmas.

My origami stars came out great! I've made them when I was lying sick on the couch, gave me something to do besides social media :-)

Happy mail to Leuke Post

Since I really like all the mail Janien from Leuke Post sent me so far, I decided to send her some mail in return. Suddenly I wondered, she sends happy mail to (i think) lots of people, but does anyone send her something in return? And also, just because mail can make you happy.

This is what I've send her. A handdrawn card, two glassine bags with in the one a christmassy card with two splitpins in shape of a maple leaf and some glitter, in the other some vintage pictures. Two slides with small people, and some small pink and red origami hearts!

On the back of the card I've written with my lettertape: "just because mail can make you happy" The slides were wrapped to protect them in the mail. All the accent colours were red, just a little detail.

I've found these slides in my drawer and used them as a frame for two postagestamps. By accident I've found a fairy tale about small and big Klaas and glued that onto the slides together with some little people! Unfortunately the little yellow person was loosened while in post, despite my wrapping.

The origami hearts were quite small but really cute! I've wrapped them together with a piece of string.

The card was made from an old really ugly postcard on which I've glued a page from a book. And then I drew a bird in it. Simple but beautiful.