Incoming

So, now that you have had the pleasure of viewing what the post box saw today, take a peek at the my letter box saw today (apart from me squealing like a child for several minutes)

Seriously, this lady is amazing, this snail is freaking AWESOME!


As if that wasn't enough I found all these treats inside!! This was my treat and a sweet swap, I got a note card set, a note pad, several pieces of lovely paper, an adorable mini clip board (perfect for writing my A5 letters on) a pencil AND sweets. I was well and truly spoiled and I hope her partner was as kind!


I also received my letter set and sticker sheet swap today. I got all these lovely papers you see here, that CUTE sticker sheet and at the very far end of the pic you can see something navy blue with a hippo sticker on, which is a little folder to keep letters in. I'm going to use it to store my bits to be sent and letters to reply to (before they get stored away in a special pretty box (: )


I received this lovely postie from the US for the quotecard postie swap the quote is as follows:
"An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity" - Martin Luther King Jr.
Food for thought indeed :)


I got this card from the States as part of the 'Huh?' postie swap.
Seriously... I don't get it.

This awesome postcrossing card came from Japan, the lady told me a little about her cat called Sora which means sky in English. It's a pretty name don't you think?. That cat is freaking awesome, I love it :D


This was by far my favourite postie of the day though. I laughed aloud for a good couple of minutes when I saw it. In fact I'm acutally chuckling now while typing. heh. I need to find a great place to stick this up in my room so I see it when I wake up and therefore wake up with laughter. I love it!!


And last but not least I have this amazing card from my beloved. It was filled with typically 'him' prose and he drew a magazine cover inspired by a 'Nuclear war skills and survival guide' he was reading. It's freaking* hilarious and I love it.
And him.

Even typing out this post has gotten me all excited again about my amazing mail day. To have received just any one of these great things would have been fantastic, but to get all of them in one day? I'm a very lucky girl and I no longer mind that it's a bank holiday weekend, because I have this amazingness to see me through :D

A huge thank you to everyone who contributed to
my amazing mail day, week, month and thank you
in advance to all those who will contrubute further.
I ♥ you all

* Yes, I do realise I've said 'freaking' several times in this post, in real life I would use the eff word when I get over excited (I swear like a sailor) but I don't want to offend, plus I'm tired so my vocabulary seems to have waned. Forgive me dear readers xx

Incoming

I had some more lovely incoming mail today, all postcards. (I'm kind of longing for a lovely long letter to read)

A Postcrossing card from Taiwan


A Private swap from, yep, you guessed it, Indonesia


And another private swap from Japan

I really enjoy looking at the stamps on mail from other nations. I've had some particularly nice ones from Asia and North America recently. I normally feel that our stamps here in the UK tend to be a bit boring, at least on my mail, because I always get given the Queen's head and the price.

I have a thoery as to why... I went to the post office at my usual time, but there had been a) less customers or b) a recent delivery of pretty stamps. As the lady was serving me I noticed that in her book she had a sheet of pretty stamps on top of the sheets of 'normal' stamps. I guess they have a certain number of pretty stamps in their books at the start of each day and just work through them or something? I'm going to test my theory by going to the post office super early next time I need to buy stamps :D

Basically, I'm happy that my post got pretty stamps finaly. Even the 1st class stamps had pictures of dogs on them and the 81p stamps had Queen Mary on them, although I didn't look close enough to see which Mary she was. Mary Tudor I guess. And I think I may have to do a post featuring my favourite stamps from around the world, maybe tomorrow? :D

Outgoing pt 1

Yesterday was a huge post day, now that flights are running again, I had a million (ok, well,17) things to mail including 5 packages. It cost a small fortune but is well worth it. I hope the recipients love their mail :)

I had a lot of fun picking out bits for these packages. It also made me realise how much stationery I actually have. It's a little insane.

Outgoing Postcards


Postcrossing to the US


Postcrossing to Belarus


Private swap to Taiwan


Postcrossing to the Netherlands


Private swap to Japan


A card to a mail lover in the US


Quotecard postie to the US


Another quotecard postie for swap bot


The final quotecard postie


Non touristy postcard swap


Non touristy swap

and the final non touristy swap postcard I realise now that I don't have a picture of it and it may actually still be in my bedroom... OOPS!!! I'm going to have to run upstairs and triple check it's been sent. EDIT: it's definitely been sent as there is no sign of it anywhere at home, it's a shame I didn't get a picture though :(

Stay tuned for the rest of the mail :)