Mail from Marieke

Isn't this such a sweet envelope from Marieke? It took the mailman a while to deliver, but when he did, it brought a bit of sunshine to my mailbox in this grey winter weather.

Inside such a sweet card and two small cards. So nice, really cool! Mail from Marieke is always really cheerful and really cheers my up. Really happy mail does really make your day seem brighter!

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.

Postcrossing and papercutting

This arrived via Postcrossing! Normally I just receive a postcard, but this was an envelope! It made me really curious! I can't read Russian, so I had no idea from who it was. Turns out it's from Julia from a city I can't read.

And this was inside! A really cute drawing, a papercut and a postcard. What a cute drawing! On the back of it a note about the smels, sounds, tastes and feel of autumn. Like! And then that papercut! Like Like triple like! She has read my blog and thought I might like her papercutting and drawing! Well I do! I do very much!

And then that postcard! A definite favourite! It's a collection, vintage, butterflies, flowers, ephemera. Well, it just sums up what I'm really into. Such a cool mail! I'm definitely going to send her something to say thanks!

Good mailday

And then you come home from work, tired, bouncing kids in the back of the car, thinking about what to cook that takes only 5 minutes to make (there's really nothing you can cook in just 5 minutes, not even Jamie Oliver can manage a whole meal in 5 minutes), a quick glance at my mailbox and really good mail in there! That just lifted my mood in an instant! Check out these really nice envelopes

Mail from Marieke and from Leuke Post! I treated myself to mail from Leuke Post. You can choose a theme, and I chose art&kitsch and I get send (and don't know when) 5 times mail! How cool is that! !

Surpisemail! Love these glassine bags by the way. Inside two vintage style collages, like! And a stickercard from Marieke, another big like!

Fun with mail

This postcard went to Marieke a while ago. A lot of stamps can make a cool foreground to a drawing! Just to check what would happen in the mail. Well, nothing really happened, it arrived as it was supposed to. Not even all the postage stamps were stamped.

Baby on the way!

No, not my baby! A friend of mine is pregnant of her third child! I found this really cool card from Studio Pip. It's vintage, it's full of crazy beautiful pictures and it was just what I was looking for. I love the envelope! Had tried to keep the envie for myself, but decided that was a bit stupid. Luckily my friend totally loved the card and the envelope! And that's why she is my friend, she appreciates nice stuff :-)

Snailmail to Inge

I've made a snailmail to go to Belgium. I used a brown paper bag to put a lot of snailmail goodies in. I even cut the brown paper bag in half because I didn't have enough brown paper! The end result was quite pretty I thought.

In the paper bag I've put some plastic bags I use at my job. I knew they came in handy one day! I've made magnets, mini envelops, stickers, labels, used old postage stamps and a vintage card.

Manga

In our holidays we went to the "worldmuseum" in Rotterdam. There was an exhibition about Manga and its origins from Japanese culture. My son thought it was wicked! As a souvenir he wanted two postcards which he wanted to sent to his best friends. He's only six, so needed some help to write them, but they actually got sent!

Vintage snailmail

For Bianca I've made a vintage button snailmail. She had sent me such a great snailmail, I wanted to make a bit of a effort for her. I found a bunch of old fashioned buttons and some sepia pictures to make this mail. When it was finished I put it all together in an envelope folder.

The envelope folder contained ofcourse a letter, 2 postcards, a little notebook in an envelope, some tags, a few wrapped buttons, and a keychain i've made from buttons and some beads.

I went crazy on my sewingmachine to make two vintage style postcards. The colours of the buttons matched the picture! My postcard stamp also came in handy.

I stained some paper from a dictionary with tea. Just to try if it would make a vintage look. Well, a bit. I've sewed an envelope from the paper and put some stamps on it. Inside a little notebook in the same theme. Hope Bianca likes it all.

At the seaside

After a day at the seaside I've found this really cool glossy postcard, I think it's such a fun card. At this little seaside village full of German tourists it seemed a challenge to find some affordable cards, but I managed to find these!
I'm not to keen on the touristic multiview cards, which all the shops seemed to sell.

Postcardweek!

A week full of fun postcards! Marieke sent me a page from a Czech calender while she was on holiday there. Just to try if it would arrive. It did! Think it's hilarious! Also a postcard from Washington via postcrossing.

Life mustn't get any more crazy, I've even received a postcard from my manager to wish me a good holiday!

A postcard from my girlfriend who's on holiday, written by her daughter. All about some adventure on a sea trip where everyone got seasick.

Bird snailmail

I've made this bird themed snailmail for Mischa. She sent me such a great party snailmail I decided that I made a snailmail full of surprises. I found a book with old drawings of birds at the secondhand shop and found some feathers which inspired me.

As a fun extra I've made this little 3D frame in postcardsize. It says: everyone can do it.

I've made a sort of surpise fold out folder with bird themed papergoodies. When you fold it open you find two flaps closed by pin and tag. When you fold that open you find yet two more flaps that contain surpises! And in the middle a sort of bird treasure.

The bird themed goodies: a letter ofcourse, two postcards, 4 vintage birdpictures, bird postagestamps, feathers, a garland, a little chick that stands upright and two tags. And the little frame ofcourse.

On the postcards i've embroidered birds in a contrasting colour. Think they've come out beautiful!

The little birdygarland made of red felt and some shiny red beads. Also a vintage card which says: a bird.

Vintage seaside

A great postcard from France. Vintage seaside pictures. Like!

Mushrooms

I have a thing for mushrooms. They are kinda magical and mysterious. Intriguing fungus stuff. These came through postcrossing from Russia and Finland by the way.

Taiwan

Seems that mail from Taiwan is always full of great stamps. Stamps are fab! They have a tendency to send happy colourfull mail. Maybe I  should put Taiwan on my bucketlist.

Happy mailbox!

What a surprise today in my mailbox! A beautiful package! I'll share the contents later this weekend. And a postcard with a stork from Poland. Around here a lot of storks breed, eggs have already hatched. They breed on large poles, high in the sky. Usually a few stork sit on the lampposts around here, a pretty sight. Although they scare me a bit from up close, they're quite big! Folklore says they also bring babies. Wow, all this from a postcard!

Snailmail Postcardbook

I've made a postcard book full of goodies! And very easy to make! You just need envelopes, glue and a piece of cardboard. Cut off the envelope flap to create folders, glue only a small piece of the envelope together, and fold a piece of cardboard where you glue it all in. In this case I've cut some holes in it to tie it all together with a ribbon.

Postcards from around the world

This week I received postcards from all over the world! From Siberia a lovely sunny "be happy" beach, from Germany a picture of a palace in Andy Warhol style and a sweet plant postcard from Japan. From Taiwan an antique map card. Postcards written by a chemist, a man, a woman who lives in the city where Toyota's are build and a woman from former east Germany. I don't know these people, but we all love receiving postcards from around the world. It's a joy!

Postcards on the go!

And a bunch of postcards are on the go! From Finland to Belarus, from Germany to Taiwan. And it was a great excuse to use my new stamps I bought last week. Stamps with a typewriter, a bike and a cloverleaf. And my new stack of stamps came to good use.

Stamps!

I just bought a lot of stamps before postalrates go up! 130 postcards to write! Or 70 postcards to the world or Europe.
Hmmm endless postal possibilities!