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

Want an Awesome Postcard?

My sis-in-law gave me a rad box of postcards for my birthday and it has made me excited about postcards again... So if you would like one, add your info to my Postable! They are all gloriously random and lovely and I will glean great joy in sending them out into the world.

Some shop-related news:

♥ Secretary's Day is a week from tomorrow! Appreciate the administrative professionals in your life with this neato card!

Purchase on Etsy!

♥ I listed two new printables available in the shop!

♥ I'm going to have a booth in a craft faire on May 11! It will be my first ever... and it will be well documented... I have a Pinterest board designated for ideas & tips that I've been collecting from Etsy and elsewhere! I'm really excited about it... The faire is part of a music festival, Music for Music, to raise money for local music scholarships and give local artists a chance to show their stuff. Should be fun!

♥ I have a Lost Sock Memorial Day (May 9) card on its way, and I think I'll finish up the artwork for those printables I mentioned and make some fully designed stationery in time for the craft show, too...

Now, I need your opinions!

Stationery: What design would you like to see next?
	Rats
	Dinosaurs
	More Bowie
	Cute Rainy Clouds
	Roller Derby Girls
	Surprise Me
pollcode.com free polls

I'll be spending the rest of the afternoon with a Sierra Nevada and iTunes to keep me company while I  make some mail, work on my product photography & enjoy the windy Chico weather from safe inside (where there's no pollen!!)

♥ 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

Birthday Wishes & Printables

This is what I did for my birthday:

• Went wine tasting (delicious!)
• Went on the Sierra Nevada brewery tour & tasting (very interesting and quite tasty... there was a beer that was aged in Bourbon barrels... SO good)
• Went to a mystery dinner theatre (gross food, kind of a lame show, oh well)
• Spent the night with friends (way fun!)
• Had breakfast at an Irish pub (so yummy!)

I also wanted to share some cards I got...

From my grandparents. Inside it says "Resistance is futile, you're still one of us" XD BEST CARD EVER

22 cards from the Snail Mailer! All in separate envelopes... best gift in the world from a penpal!!

In other news, I have bronchitis now, which is why I've been a bit quiet around the interwebz the last few days. Also it was my birthday, so I guess all are legitimate excuses. =P

I do have a new product in the shop though! I decided to make some printables for $5 each... What do you think?

Garden Snail Printable Stationery 

Praying Mantis Printable Stationery

With all the bugs visiting it seemed appropriate. It was 85 degrees (F) today!! Crazy... so glad the house is well insulated! I mislike the heat.

What would YOU like to see more of from Scoutaroo?? I'm really interested in any kind of feedback! ♥

Here are a few things I have planned for the near future:

• Penpal Address books
• Birthday Cards
• Penpal Kits
• OOAK Envelopes
• Fold & Mails

Anyway. Today was kind of a brainstorming day. Lots of ideas, very little resources to implement them... ah well, I just need patience!

♥ Ciara Kay

Incoming!

I have 10 pieces of mail that I still need to reply to... At least they're all from March! But it's April now, time to get crackin'!

Man, these photos suck. I forgot to switch my camera back to "auto," haha. Oops! Well, you get the idea: I get beautiful mail from beautiful people.

From Amber in Louisiana & Olga in Mexico - my first penpals from each of those locations!

From Germany

From Kay in Mississippi

From the Snail Mailer featuring a bunch of goodies & a super cool Jacob's Ladder letter!

From Helena, a Brit in Japan!

From my good friend Deborah in San Francisco! Easter goodies including a Letter C keychain & stickers!

From Tasha in Oklahoma, my New Year's Resolution buddy

From my talented new penpal Harjyot in Mumbai, India!

From my thoughtful friend TMC! The first birthday card of the year! I turn 22 on Saturday. :)

I hope everyone had a good Easter. We enjoyed a great church service (we were treated to hymns on organ, very classic and beautiful) and lots of food with Jamie's family! We also got a chance to stop by my parent's house for more dessert & fellowship. It was a beautiful, cloudy, rainy day to remember the Resurrection!

Today I got a lot of stuff done; at least enough to justify a few hours of Animal Crossing: City Folk! Jamie is going to buy himself a new Wii U and I've rediscovered my obsession with silly Nintendo games like Animal Crossing... If only they made Viva Pinata for the Wii, I would be in heaven. Viva Pinata is my favorite game EVER.

Off to write some letters! That is, if I don't give in to Animal Crossing... The sound of Animalese just warms my heart!

♥ 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