strawberries and a sweet letter

It's finally my favorite time of the year...strawberry season! A surplus of strawberries means instant happiness for each delectable bite of sweet goodness.

Lately, I've been wanting to treat myself. So whenever I'm feeling a bit blue, I like to slice up a couple of the sweetest smelling strawberries into one of my favorite tea cups and drizzle honey on top of it. This has been very effective in boosting up my mood and has yet to fail. It's great because the juices from the strawberries collect at the bottom of the tea cup and mingle with the honey to create a small teaspoon of heaven which is a perfect ending to adjourn my afternoon rendezvous with the strawberries.

Anyway, lately incoming mail has been fairly slow. Every morning I head out to my mailbox with a quiet excitement for any new mail from my penpals or for the swaps that I signed up for. Although it has mostly been junk mail and bills that have occupied my mailbox, a good gem of a letter navigates its way in there occasionally.

This week, it was a letter from Emma.

Emma consistently writes the best letters and I love them. I love that I can write letters to Emma that are sometimes filled with flowery words reminiscent of the 1800s and she responds back with out missing a beat. This was the first letter I received that was written via quill which was really awesome.

This summer is flying by. It's already mid-June and I feel as if I was just packing my things from my dorm room. How crazy.

summer mail time

It has been a good month or so since I've come back home from college. With all of this free time in my hands I have been trying to start snail mailing more passionately so that I can reach my goal of sending 100 total things via snail mail. Here's a couple quick things that I've sent over the past couple weeks:

I participated in a swap-bot swap that was centered around mail art and using postage stamps which was fun. My favorite one to make was probably the one with the pansy drawn on it.

I also made a tiny card to send to my friend Irene since her birthday was coming up!

I also put together a little parcel to send to my friend Lizzie. Filled with good coffee beans from intelligentsia and things that I picked up along the way.

this was a map of the Field Museum along with my short comments on the exhibits haha.

Inside Lizzie's parcel was also a badge I painted. I completely forgot to take a picture of it, but Lizzie sent me a snapchat of the lil' badge pinned onto an ~official Barnard lab coat :D

Lately, my favorite crafting activity is to make little badges. Here's a couple that I painted.

That's about it! There were a couple more letters that I sent that unfortunately were deleted from my phone because I'm a big doofus. But that's how my summer crafting/snail mailing has been going on so far!