Outgoing: paper flower wreath

Since Ania was getting married, I've made a paper flower wreath as a wedding present. That always seems very romantic to me, a flower wreath. Ania had written she was going to wear a flower wreath in her hair at her wedding, that's so romantic! I wanted to try if I could make a wreath out of tissue paper. Well, I could and it turned out to be really lovely! It fitted perfectly in a mailbox size box. I've made a drawing aswell wishing it could rain down love. Well, if it was raining down love, I would be the first to dance in the rain. But I guess most people would want to do that.

Outgoing: Liebsteraward

I was nominated for the Liebster award by Carin from Moose travelling. Ehmm, that was way back in february. Anyway, I think it's ever so sweet from Carin to nominate me. But it's an award that when you accept it, you are supposed to nominate ten others bloggers. And that's just not me, I'm akward like that. Don't get me wrong, I do read lots of other blogs. But I feel quite okay just doing my blog thing, and doing it my way. So an award you can only receive by nominating other blogs, is not really an award is it? But since it sort of feels special that Carin thought of me and she was nominated herself, I've sent her a price. What's an award without a price! And a great excuse to use my vintage ledgers to write a letter on!

Outgoing: to Jay

This is what I have sent to Jay in return for our paper swap. Some vintage envelopes full of vintage paper ephemera, postcards and some old photos of trams. I found a page of old canadian stamps that I included in an envelope and a collection of my drawings. Hope it gets a good purpose in Canada.

Outgoing: to Alice

A while ago I received this beautiful vintage package from Alice. This is what I have sent her for my part of our vintage swap. I wrapped everything in small paper bags. I was waiting for the perfect opportunity to use some of my collection of sanitary towel bags. I love these bags, everytime I'm visiting a toilet I have a look at the sanitary towel bags. Call me crazy, and maybe I am a bit, me sitting on a toilet and admiring the sanitary towel bags, but these bags are made of a sort of sturdy vellum you can only find in a sanitary towel bag. Ehh, well, I'm drifting off the subject now.
I've made a collection of lace and ribbon with a blue feel to it. I've parted with part of my collection of cardboard bobbins (and that was a hard thing to do). The brassiere used to belong to my grandma, that's a true story! She gave it to me maybe about twenty years ago or something, I think it's from the sixties or seventies and still in perfect condition. It's just not my size though unfortunately. And it matches great with the sixties of seventies dressing gown I found on a thrifting hunt! My other grandma was definitely a grandma that was wearing that kind of synthetic stuff. Also included some vintage stationary and postcards (not on picture). I love vintage stationary, just can't get enough of that! I also included a set of porcelain dolls arms. And the first time I could use my waxseal! I'm really glad Alice liked it all, since I got a bit insecure with all her cool vintage stuff she finds at fleamarkets.

Outgoing: the senses

Thought I would try something else for a change. I've made a mail for Inge that is directed to our 5 senses: hearing, tasting, touching, seeing and smelling. Hope the saucer made it in one piece to Belgium.

Outgoing: to Janien in Belgium

I came across these recordsleeves while thrifting and reckoned they would make a great envelope! Sturdy paper and perfect mailsize. I especially loved the vintage typo on this one. In the recordsleeve envelope I had put some paperlove for Janien. She shares the same love for embroidery on paper and vintage sewing supplies. So I put some hand embroidered cards in, a vintage cardboard bobbin en bra fasteners in a vintage envelope (I love it when there is tissue paper inside the envelope), vintage stamps (also a few from Belgium!) and some vintage advertising (perfect for some crafting). My favourite would be the one on the last picture, the typo and the blackness. A perfect ad!

Outgoing: Bingocards

While sorting out the studio, I came across some old magazines I once received from my grandma. In our local village shop I found a bunch of Bingo cards that would be great for little paper projects or something. On Instagram Kati commented on this picture that Bingo cards were hard to come by in Finland, so I decided to send her a bunch, al purchased at our local village shop. The shop were you have to pay in cash and the woman who owns it has to use an oldfashioned calculator to get the right price. It's the same woman who wears her high waisted jeans always with a t-shirt tucked in, she is not the fashion diva from our village, but believe it or nog, you can find almost anything in that tiny shop that's packed to the ceiling! From cups and saucers to paint and elastic bands, toys and picture frames and anything you might think of, you can get it over there! I must try to get some snapshots from that shop one day! I had also carved a bird stamp which I used to decorate the mail with. I went a bit over the top with the envelope, it's not really my style, but I had fun anyway.

Outgoing: Reading woman

A while back I have found this stack of magazines from the thirties. In one of them was a pagesize picture of a painting of a reading woman. I know that Margit collects pictures and stamps of reading women and asked if she would like to have the magazine. And she did! I had to find a big envelope tot fit the magazine in since it is almost A3 size. The envelope was looking so plain though, that I made a drawing on it. On the back I stamped my nursing stamp in matching green. I find it hard to send just a plain envelope! How do you decorate your envelopes?

Outgoing: Holy Mary part 2

After commenting on my Instagram account where I posted a picture on the Holy Mary mail, I've made another mail for Mirjam using the same theme. I had this chocolate box lying around that I once saved from the old paper bin because it was a perfect mailbox size. I pimped it with blue paper and washi tape. Included some goodies like prayer-cards and a rosary, made some stickers from my Holy Mary stamp and made a funky kitschy key-chain. I've made my own stationary with embossing powder. When I received my Versamark ink I just had to try that out! So cool that you can make a touchy feely kind of thing out of any stamp! It's a special kinda ink that you stamp with, when you sprinkle the embossing powder on top of it and shake it of again, it sticks to the ink. After that you heat the powder with a heating craft tool and it sort of melts and creates a texture. Think that's really cool!

Outgoing: Holy Mary part 1

It's not that I am deeply religious, but I was raised as a catholic. As a child I did my Holy Communion (as every child in our village) and was part of the church choir (although I was always the one at the back with my out of tune voice). I have good memories from that time, but now I am older I'm not a practising catholic anymore. I do still have a thing for catholic memorabilia though. I love rosaries and Holy Mary pictures and we always light a candle in front of the Holy Mary altar when visiting a church. The kids always light a candle for our deceased cats by the way. I got chatting to Tessa about this somewhere on the world wide web and I found some memorabilia from when we visited Kevelaer, a small pilgrimage town in Germany. It's one of the towns my late grandma used to visited and always returned with some kitschy catholic stuff (which I loved by the way!). I got really inspired and carved a Holy Mary stamp and found a matching postagestamp. So I stamped away and made stickers and a card and off it went to Tessa!