HabitRPG is helping me stay on track! A letter a day...

Outgoing

To Germany

To Malaysia

To Texas

To Vegas

Birthday card to my mother-in-law. Got the idea from The Snail Mailer!

I thought it looked like a box of chocolates, which is what we got her. ♥

Fun "Emergency Letter Swap" with the LEP! What would you rescue from your house in an emergency?

Emergency Swap to Canada

Incoming

From Kelsey in New York

From J. Tills in Wisconsin via SendSomething.net

From Anke in Germany [CAMELS ♥] 

From Tony in Georgia via Sendsomething.net

Wishing all of you a full mailbox this Monday!

♥ Ciara Kay

MAIL TIIIIME

Ok, I have failed to keep up the "mail blog" part of this blog as well. So! Here is some of my recent mail!

From Helena in Japan (and my reply on top)

From Amy in LA (and my reply)

From Juli in Florida (and my reply)

From TARAdactyl

...and my reply to Tara. 

From Lena in Germany

From Kelly in Malaysia

From Sara in Texas

First piece of mail in our new place from Meredith in Nevada

From Patricia in Ohio! Love the derby theme!

♥ Ciara Kay

Mail Time!

Man, I am bad at this. I don't want to give away the surprise of getting mail for the penpals of mine that follow the blog, but then it's like three weeks later and I forget to ever post my mail art, and half the time I forget to even photograph it. Ah well. What can you do.

To a pal in NY

To an old friend in my hometown. We've taken up exchanging letters again! ♥

To a pal in FL

Another one to my buddy back home... this envelope was proof that I needed to go to sleep. It kind of hurts my eyes.

To my pal in OKC

A thank you to the Snail Mailer for her awesome 22 card birthday gift! I embellished a fold & mail.

The outside of the fold-and-mail (from Please Deliver To)

Another interactive fold & mail to a new pal [these are so addicting! and it gives me a chance to use up some of my scraps]

Time for lunch. I'm hungry. Then to tackle a fresh pile of mail!

♥ Ciara Kay

Miscellany

Random post ahoy!

Look what I bought at Michaels on Monday! ♥ I went in for that one purple pen and left with all of this (and a few things for Scoutaroo). I could not resist those stamps... or those postage stamp stickers! Or really any of it, which is why I spent $40 instead of $15.

Stamps, ink, a purple pen, notepads, stickers, STAMP STICKERS, ribbon

Look what I got in the mail yesterday! I hosted a stuffed collaged envelope swap over on swap-bot.com and I got this special treat from Texas. I love the black labels!

Goodies galore! Including David Bowie articles... ♥

 Look what I made while I was supposed to be doing other things! A 4-month planner! (I ran out of pages okay?)

I used an old journal (removed juicy journal secrets first! I'm carrying this around with me, after all).

Added tabs & hand-drawn calendars.

Weekly planning pages are a must! I like to map out every detail of my days and looking at the entire month gets overwhelming...

So that's what I've been up to. I have some exciting news that I'll be sharing later this week!

♥ Ciara Kay

LetterMo

Can't wait to get my camera fixed... in the meantime, here are a few photos of today's outgoing mail taken via tablet! I finally had a chance to write some letters and mail out some zines for LetterMo! I have four achievements so far... I love the achievement system, it's so much fun! I hope they have lots more to unlock next year. I also hope I will have my act together next year and not have to wait a week into LetterMo to start sending stuff!!

To a penpal ♥

LetterMo!

Some zines to a new friend!

Reply zines (LetterMo)

To a new friend found on Swap-Bot!

 I spent most of the day in my pajamas. It was glorious. I just got dressed because Jamie & I are headed down to Chico to check out the downtown ArtAbout (a couple participating shops are selling my Valentines! So we are also curious about how sales are going). Later we will catch a movie, and call it a Friday well spent!

What about you? How is your LetterMo going?

♥ Ciara Kay

Happy Mail Day!

My mailbox is fat & happy with new mail coming in every day! And it's about time I posted my outgoing mail as well... I keep forgetting to take pictures. Anyway, here are a ton of pictures of MAIL!! ♥

Incoming Mail

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From Kelsey in New York

A zine from Viviana (swap-bot.com) 

A neat puzzle of sorts from Melissa (sendsomething.net) 

(Above & below) From Kay in Mississippi - awesome handmade envie and a super cool zine!

Letter from a very old & dear friend!

Package of goodies & a letter from The Snail Mailer!

(Above & Below) Mini-zine swap from Christina (swap-bot.com)

Letter from Brittany in Indiana!

(Above & below) Another little note in an awesome handmade envie from Brittany!

Jamie's niece sent us a beautiful card she colored! That kid deserves some mail for sure!!

(Above & below) A delightful package from Laura of the LEP as a thank you for being their official illustrator! This totally blew me away & made my day!

And now for some...

Outgoing Mail

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Lovely piles of outgoing mail!

Inside out security envelopes (from the Snail Mailer!)

A bit of an experiment... has anyone tried to send stickers like this?

Another experiment... a tracing paper letter! It worked out better than I hoped! I just hope it's not too frustrating to read...

A dip-pen letter swap (swap-bot)

Letter to my cousin just for fun!

Letter to a new-ish penpal using my cool new stamp-printed envies!

Card to a faithful penpal!

In other news... I got my first roller derby wound!! I'll spare you the photograph, but the bruise just keeps getting more and more beautiful! It's the size of my fist, and I got it by falling flat on my hip. I'm so proud of it... but I am a bit anxious about practice tonight because if someone hits it or I fall again I will probably cry. Such is Derby.

I do have a few fun things coming up! Special post on Monday, and I have a little surprise on National Handwriting Day (Jan 23). Stay tuned!

♥ Ciara Kay