Advent mail from Mischa

This mail arrived from Mischa the day after receiving my advent swap thing. What a lovely colourful envelope! She painted it herself! Love the colours!

There was a relief from the paint. Mischa described in her letter that she had bought a craft tool (which I never heard of) with which she can make these really cool swirls! How lovely is this!

And what a surprise for me inside! A letter ofcourse, a short one since she was lacking time with what she was doing for her kids, making a home made advent calender. That's probably what I'm going to do next year aswell, make my own! And also a really cool Christmas card in the same colours as the envelope! It's a small detail, but I'm all for detail.

Check out what was inside! An advent calender full of little wrapped gifts! Wow! Here was definitely some effort put into this! Labels, kraft paper, red wrapping paper, all in the same style. Like!

The tiny sticker labels Mischa made are so cute! And well thought of, therefore it made it all come together. I'm going to have fun uwrapping something everyday!

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 :-)

Sintmail!!!

For the Sinterklaas swap thing I got sent these two envelopes! They arrived on different days as well!

Inside the packages were another two envelopes which said: do not open until the 5th of December! In case I would forget and "by accident" open it earlier :-)
This what was inside the two envelopes, a handmade Sinterklaas book, some presents, and a vintage card. The book of Sinterklaas was full of colouring pages and stuff for the kids. Well I do hope it was for the kids anyway.
Inside a small package were these three geisha beads. Kinda cool!

This was what was in the other presents and some stuff that came from the Sinterklaas book. Some Sinterklaas napkins, a puzzle, some stickers, a tin and two cards.

I thought the tin and the beads were colourful! Tins can be used for loads of stuff! Kinda have a thing for small tins, can't help it. The (self printed) vintage card got a bit wrinkled through the mail, but vintage is cool anyway. Inside the tin were a few instructions for Sinterklaas craft stuff. Some crochet (a "must try" for 2014) and a origami manual I couldn't  read since the resolution of the image was to low.

And then this unexpected parcel arrived! It really must be Sinterklaas!

It was from a snailmail swapsite i've joined in the summer. I had sent someone something, but that person never registered it. So that was the end of it for me. But somehow my name showed up on the mailing list and a Janet send me this! An unexpected surprise! Inside this mailbox was a letter, a recipe (I'm going to try that next year!), chocolate coins and some small wrapped things. I liked this one, lucky hangers from Sinterklaas en Zwarte Piet! And Amerigo (the white horse of Sinterklaas) and his staff!

You gotta love the old Sinterklaas! These are prints of real stamps by the way.

Unexpected but really good fun! There was also a block of sticky notes inside and dress up dolls, the kids loved it!

Sintmail from bianca

I've received a Sinterklaas bag (de zak van Sinterklaas) through mail from Bianca! How funny is that! I think the postman thought it would never fit in my mailbox so he crushed the whole thing a little, I should have a word with this postmen guy some time soon I think!

Bianca has sewn typical Sinterklaas wrapping paper on top of the bag! And even used special postage stamps for this occasion, they smell of the traditional pepper nuts we eat during this season! Although yet again the postman was a bit to enthusiastic with stamping these stamps.

Since it was just for a little fun, Bianca has put this inside. Chocolate coins! Who doesn't love them! traditional pepper-nuts, some cards, a little note, some stickers (which were wrinkled due to our postman) and some tiny pressies!

Tadaa! And the pressies were: an eraser in shape of a cupcake (immidiately my daughter was nagging me for it, well okay I thought, but in hindsight, a cupcake eraser would look kinda cool on my desk), colourful handkerchiefs and some Sinterklaas labels.