Incoming Mail June-July

Although I promised to become a more active snail mailer, I have to admit, I have been slacking off. My days these days consists almost exclusively of napping and playing League of Legends. I have become a slobby nerd. I don't completely mind though.

But I've been trying to ~disconnect~ myself these days. I also finally found my card reader again so I can finally upload the photos of the wonderful mail I've received throughout the summer.

The first one is a wonderful mail from a French old man from swap-bot. It was a mail-art swap and I received an exquisite number of gorgeous stamps! He was so generous in sending the used stamps and I am so lucky to have had him as a partner for a swap. Here's a couple of my favorite stamps from the large pile of stamps that he sent me.

The second amazing piece of snail mail I received was a Postal Society Monthly Tea Swap for June 2014 from Arielle. When I found this gem of a parcel in my mailbox I was actually speechless at how gorgeous it was. 

What Arielle included inside was even more amazing! This was probably one of my top favorite things I received in the mail.

Inside was a stuffed booklet filled with ephemera, deco tape, and lots and lots of great tea!

This was the first page of the booklet. Absolutely gorgeous!

This is the first sachet of tea that Arielle included. A delicious peppermint tea. I actually brewed this up while editing these photos today, it was possibly the best peppermint tea I've ever had.

Every page of the booklet was so cute!

The little satchel had loose leaf tea (violet coquette) which was very aromatic and pleasant to drink. Possibly my favorite of the teas that Arielle included.

At the last page of the booklet was a handful of different tea satchels. You can't really see it clearly in this photo but the background to the last page was a starry sky with tissue paper clouds (so creative)!

After receiving such an extravagant parcel, I wanted to put together something great for Arielle.

I don't want to spoil anything for her, but here's a sneak peak at what I sent her.

Inside I included a vintage transparency of the Fraser River Canyon circa 1956.

The third amazing piece of mail that I received thus far was a letter from Pattie. I connected with Pattie through instagram when she left me a lovely comment about my snail mail photos and a lot of notifications of hearts. She showed interest in becoming penpals and looking at Pattie's admirable snail mail photos in her instagram profile I agreed in a heartbeat.

A couple weeks later, I was greeted with this adorable little envelope in my mailbox

Inside was a packet of ephemera and goodies.

There were pages from an old book (the kind that has that lovely old book texture and smell) in a language that I do not understand but admire at the same time. A lovely pressed daisy!!!!!!! And a beautiful illustration that Pattie drew.

Pattie also included a letter that was very creative. (Very TF-esque AHAHAHAHAH I made a LoL funny)

For that lovely letter, I also put a letter of my own to send to Pattie. I've been trying to work on jazzing up my letters a bit. And I really like using white ink on craft paper (it's great but such a pain to do because I have zero calligraphy skills). I got a bit lazy and typed the rest of the letter on my typewriter.

I also put together more stuff for her but I will only show this handmade patch I made for her. (In the background is a business card for one of my favorite donut shop Glazed & Infused)