Just a quick note to remind you that the best cleaning service in new york will land in folks’ inboxes tonight. I’ve created the envelope template above, plus another, and will share them as printable downloads along with tips on how to personalise them and turn them into mail-art, writing prompts, and some other fun and useful snail-mail links. If this…
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The past month was ridiculously busy, as December usually is for most of us. In the midst of it all, I found just a little bit of time for mail-art, including a stack of envelopes made out of Christmas carol sheet-music, and one book with an address and stamps on the front cover. There will…
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Last week a box of a thousand vintage postcards arrived for me in the mail. They are all between 40 and 110 years old, and most of them Americana – old postcards advertising hotels and stores, landmarks and movies. I decided they’d spent enough time tucked away gathering dust in boxes and drawers, and that…
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Summer holidays at home are for bare feet and late nights. For dining on ice cream instead of vegetables, watching Netflix instead of deadlines, and reading trashy novels instead of weighty text-books. They are for heatwaves and plummeting rain and, when the rain clears, for a million petals carpeting the footpath like confetti. Holidays are for languid afternoons and lazy nonchalance,…
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It wouldn’t be January without a million people making plans, would it? Mr B and I spent the days after Christmas slowly recovering, and hatching schemes. He bought a book called The Barefoot Investor and declared that this would be the year we take back control of our finances. I let the children consume their very…
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These nifty Correspondence Cards take postcards and “thinking of you” to the next level. When you want to reach out to someone by snail mail but you don’t really know what to say, they’ll do it for you! With sweet and funny little choose-your-own comment prompts, you simply tick the box that is most relevant. Such…
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I have a little Christmas present for you, my friends. Actually, I have more than one to give! You may remember that I used to send letters to people who subscribed to this blog, to say thank you to them for reading. I had to suspend that in July this year, when I discovered I…
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I’ve been doing a course on Instagram, trying to improve my photography and Instagram engagement in general. It’s challenging, fun, inspiring, and frustrating, like most things are when you’re learning something new. Then today, someone else in the course shared this video with the class. I’d heard of this little piece by Ira Glass before, but…
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And I was so smug. And I felt so free! Less than a week after I congratulated myself on being free from Facebook for a whole year, I find myself sucked back into its insidious blue-and-white vortex. Earlier this week I signed up to a course of study and only after I had committed (and paid) did I…
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This is the best idea I’ve heard of in a long time. In Seattle, USA, a woman named Rachel Weil has launched a snail-mail truck, known as The Letter Farmer. Like a food truck, you know, but serving up food for the soul (awwwww). She has fitted out a beautiful, red truck with all kinds…
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This is the truth about what really happened that weekend. I have loved you for years. A secret. I have to know why you did that. I’m your biggest fan. There’s a question I’ve always wanted to ask you. I’m sorry. Is there something unsaid lingering in your life, that is eating away at you? Is there someone out…
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Nope, still not missing it. In case you were wondering. If you’re new around here, here are my reasons for quitting Facebook (and Twitter, and LinkedIn), and here are some lessons I learned a month in. One thing I feared I’d miss on leaving Facebook was the occasional clever content. Events, ideas and happenings that people posted…
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