Incoming Mail End of January-First week of February

The past two weeks have been filled with such good mail days! I've been able to reconnect with my old, close friend from the town that I used to live in before moving to Illinois. It's such a different feeling to sending mail to a person that you know and have seen and hung out with face to face compared to the handful of strangers that I send mail to. (Not that sending mail to strangers is bad!) Anyway, here's some photos of the mail I received from the last week of January to the first week of February:

The first letter was from one of my favorite penpal, Carrie,  from the Letter Writer's Alliance! Every letter I received from her has always been such a joy to read. I wish I was as articulate and could craft words to tell about my life (I guess I make up for bad letters with lots of goodies though! haha!). Carrie seemed to have an off day in this recent letter so I put together a small "Bad Day Remedy Kit" for her (which I forgot to take a photo of...ugh). 

Inside the Bad Day Remedy Kit I put in one of my favorite zines to read when I'm feeling down, some healthy snacks, and a long long letter filled with qr codes of playlists, cute videos of dogs, and comedy routines. 

The next letter was from Briana, a follower on Tumblr that always liked my penpal tagged photos. I sent her a letter sometime around the end of winter break and she sent one back to me filled with a bunch of cute shiny stickers.

I had ordered this zine from Miranda (The Love Parcel) a week or so ago and was so impressed when I opened up the vellum envelope it came in! She included some ephemera with the zine and it was such a joy to flip through the pages. 

The zine was filled with love letters from Miranda's path and was absolutely stunning. This was one of my favorite pages. 

The last parcel caught me completely off guard. I had found a parcel pick up slip in my mail box one day and thought it was a parcel from one of the swap-bot swaps I signed up for. Instead, I found a big box parcel from my friend Lizzie! Lizzie was one of my close friends in high school. We both were coffee enthusiast and she introduced me to the heavenly Madcap Coffee Company in downtown Grand Rapids and to Intelligentsia in downtown Chicago. I sent her a Christmas mug and present over winter break but never had a chance to get her dorm address from her. But now I can send snail mail to the first friend that I avidly sent mail to! Lizzie sent me a wonderful cat card, a cute porcelain cat, a really really cute pencil case with the major cities of the world,  and an absolutely fantastic espresso flavored fair-trade chocolate. 

That's all the mail that I have to share this time!