#Lettermo

February is coming up, and it means it's time for the Lettermo! I'm fairly sure most of you knows what it is about, but if you don't, it basically is a commitment to send a letter every day for the month of February (i.e. 23 letters).

That was the first project I joined when I started this blog and I had so much fun that I also extended my commitment to some months afterwards.
So, if you're into challenges and you're not afraid of the writer's callus, you should think about giving this a try, and I assure that it's really rewarding whenever you complete your daily task :)
{All infos here.}

Is any of you going to participate?
Have a lovely day ♥
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Ps: make sure to check out the blog in the next few days as I'll be announcing a fun snail-mail related project :D

postcard-mo?

I keep receiving emails from people asking me about when will I do another lettermo and if I will accept letter requests again. As I said before, I loved doing the lettermo, but besides being a little too expensive for me, I was also pretty upset that the majority of people that requested and received a letter, never even bothered to send me an email or a message just to say "hey, the letter made it!".
On the other hand, I'm also grateful because thanks to it, I met some amazing people.. so I'm doing something slightly different for the summer, but with the same leitmotif.

As some of you might know, I'll spend the summer at home this year. If there's someone else like me that is not going anywhere and would like to find a little something in their mailbox, you can request a postcard!
Submit your details here, and one random day (July/August) you'll find a postcard from Italy waiting for you :3
There are only 20 slots available, so if you signed up in time, I'll send you a confirmation email.

EDIT: Ok guys, I've already filled up all the slots, thank ya'll! I'll be sending confirmation messages soon~~

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wood in my mailbox?

Hi guys, happy Saturday!
What did you find in your mailboxes this week? I found a lot of beautiful letters that I can't wait to share with you :)

The first letter that arrived, it's this one from Ria in Romania. She wrote my letter on very old paper (so beautiful!) and sent me some postcards and a drawing that her sister - who loves fashion design - made.
Her sister also draw on the back of the envelope, but I forgot to take a picture >n< Anyway you can tell she's pretty talented!

lettermo May week #5

As every month's final post about the lettermo, I feel both sad and accomplished.
Every month I love this project more and more, and every month I get to know new friends and there's nothing better!

As tradition, here's the stats:

This month was waaay better than April in terms of incoming. I received about the double of the letters I received last month, not to mention that a couple of them where wonderful packages <3
Anyway, let's see the last letter I sent out this month, sigh.

SMASH my mailbox

Hello you guys, happy saturday! I hope you're all having a lovely weekend!
I'm pretty much in a good mood today, just by thinking about of the wonderful surprises I've received in the mail this week!

But let's proceed with order:

On Monday, I received Kelly's letter. She was part of the past lettermo, and according to the date on the stamp, she sent this letter April 26th! Postal service is ridiculus sometimes.
Anyway the letter is lovely, starting from the cute paper she used, to the adorable things she included: instant pictures of her two kitties (♥) and some stickers. If you're reading this, Kelly, I'm sorry for the delay and I will surely reply asap :3

Lettermo May week #4

Hello my dear penpallers!
Is May being kind with you? With me, not really. I've been sick for two weeks now, and as it wasn't enough I have exams to do at Uni.. I had an hard time keeping up with you all, so I'm sorry if you're still waiting for a reply or a letter from me, but the odds haven't been in my favours lately.
However I'm eventually feeling slightly better so I should have all the due letters sent by the end of the month!

For those reasons, I also don't have much photographic material to show you, because I forgot/was too tired to take pictures everyday.

Anyway let me show you the few pictures I took:

mailbox madness!

Hello there!
Mail-wise, this week has been very satisfying and I received letters every other day! A true record for me.
The first thing I've received is this batch of stationery paper I ordered off La Papierre.

It's a lovely shop with a lot of different letter set, and I wanted to buy something since.. forever, and now that I've finally did it, I couldn't be happier! I really love every single one of the designs (I bought a grab bag, because I couldn't decide!). Julie, the owner, also has a blog called "penpal of the week", which is a very original source to find new penpals or even just to lurk and snoop all the pretty letters that she sends/receive :)

lettermo May week #3

Hello you guys!
How are you doing? I'm super busy with Uni, and keeping up with the letter writing is going to be a problem this month! But so far so good, I'm still on schedule :)
Here's the letters I've sent out, and I will send, this week:

tea in my mailbox!

Hello again, fellow mail lovers :)
how's your postal life going this week? As for me, my mailbox has been filled with some pretty awesome mail that I can't wait to show you!

First, I've received this lovely teapot postcard and tea bags from Elisabeth in Germany :) I'm particularly excited to try the cherry flavoured one, I've never tasted it before!

This is not the only tea I've found in my mailbox, though..

lettermo May week #2

Hello folks :)
as you might have noticed, I skipped the first week of mailing this month. Incroyable, I know.. but I don't even know what happened and why I actually skipped it. I'm just forgetful and my remembrall was out of reach.
Anyway, starting from last Monday I've sent all the due letters, and all the ones for the rest of the week are laying here ready to be released in the world.
Here's the pictures :]

commissions: open + request a letter May

Hi guys, I apologise for this post that will be a shameless self-promotion, but if I want to keep my letter project going, I need funds. That's why I decided to start working on commissions. Here's a list of the available things:

another lettermo is over.

Hello everyone! This is my favourite time of the month, when I can see the big picture of what I've done during the whole month :)
Since I love graphs -especially pie ones- here's the one for April:

As you can see, the outgoing letters has been way more than the incoming ones, and also more than the monthly goal for the lettermo (about > 10 letters ).
Anyway, it's fine. I enjoyed my fourteen letters :) and of course I enjoyed writing all the 34 I've sent out.
If you've read my last post about outgoing letters, you might know that I was late with the deadline of this lettermo and still had to post those ten letters.
Today (which means I'm still in time for the April lettermo, YAY!), I've rushed at the post office, and sent out all the remaining envelopes.
Check them out :)

lost mail

Hello guys,
did it ever happen to you that something you've sent, or you were supposed to receive, got lost in the mail?
Unfortunately, it did happen to me, and several times also.
Just in the past month, 5 letters that I was expecting, never showed up, and also a couple of letters I've sent, never arrived at their destination.
Bisedes the anger due to the loss of money, but especially, for all the care I put in every single letter I write, what really bothers me about this inefficiency is that this way, it's like having a conversation interrupted. And that's pretty awful, you know?
Anyway, sorry for this rant, let's see what I received this week:

My new friend from Finland, Mette, sent me her first letter along with a really lovely stationery set :)
I don't know if you can see it clearly, but the stamp on the envelope is pretty cool, too.

Lettermo april week #4

Wait what? It's already week 4? It means another month is over - so fast, blargh -. However, I still have a few peeps on my list that requested a letter, that for a reason or another (mostly because of swap-bot though) still have to received their envelope of randomness. So, if you're one of those people, don't worry! The lettermo might be over but I will keep my word anyway :)

Now let's talk about the outgoing letters for this week!
Monday:

Letter for Mayan, Portugal. The envelope is handmade from a page of a vintage children's book. Inside it, there are quite a few random things, I don't know why Mayan -probably because of what she wrote when requesting a letter- gave me the impression of being the kind of person that might have enjoyed an envelope of weird stuff, so yeah. Maybe I'm completely wrong and she'll hate. Very likely so.

Tuesday:

Letter for Thea, Norway. I had so much fun writing/preparing this letter because she's one of my favourite people on tumblr and wanted to make something special for her! I've also put two nice stamps because she have a Wreck This Journal too, and they might be a good addition to her stamps page :)

lettermo april week #3

Hello you guys, three posts in raw this week, that's not really my thing! :D
As the title says, week 3 of the lettermo is completed. Unfortunately I haven't been at home until today so I didn't have the chance to take pictures of the letter I sent. From monday to today, they were for: Roxana, Nicola, Katrina, Mette, and my reply to Mary.

This week I've been quite busy with Uni and studying, but today we took a day off, and especially at night, I had the time to work on a few things such as keeping up with the letter requests, drawing a bit and experimenting with crafts!

Today, we went at the mall for some spring/summer clothing shopping, even if the weather here is being terrible lately. Surprisingly, I bought quite a few things and I found myself liking the pale mint color a lot.. maybe too much. (This is weird because I mostly wear only black/gray/white things..so)
We also had the chance to finally buy some macarons again! They're a little bit pricy but so worthy.

I bought 8 macarons in total, in four different flavors: pistachio, raspberry, violet and, dark chocolate.

Alice in my mailbox

Hello everyone! How is your day going?
Mine just turned out very good, since I found some pretty letters in mailbox!

This lovely letter, is from my new american pen pal, Mary from California.
She has such a neat handwriting, I'm really jealous of it! Her letter also conteined a pretty heart shaped origami and an ex libris sticker, so nice!

Lettermo April, week #2

Aaand another week is gone! Since I started the lettermo, my weeks seems awfully shorter to me. I'm already almost half way through it, and it doesn't seem real.
Anyway let's see who's going to get their mailbox filled this week :D

Monday's letter, or better, packet, went out for Lauren. She contacted me on tumblr and we arranged a swap of arsty things, just like we did a year ago!

Tuesday's letter was for Megan, and I attempted to make something interesting out of her envelope:

happy mailbox

Hello everyone, I've been messing a bit with my blog schedule lately. Anyway, it should be back to normal now, hopefully!
The lettermo is still going, but I've decided to make just one post a week with all the outgoing letters, on thursday, instead of a couple a week.
This post today, is dedicated to all the incoming beauties I've received last week and today.

Steffi, sent me another letter. They're always very colorful and pleasant to read, not to mention that she always send me awesome things!

Lettermo April, week #1

Hello there, fellow stamplickers!
How is the writing life going? Mine, pretty good. On monday I started the lettermo and succesfully completed this week so far.
Too bad I haven't been feeling really well this week, and didn't really had the time and patience to take many pictures of the outgoing letters:

From left to right, in order of mailing date:

• the big yellow envelope, is for an ephemera swap. I've sent out 250g worth of vintage paper to Lesa from swap-bot, and hopefully I'll receive the same quantity of stuff from a girl from Israel, soon; (monday)
• First letter out of those requested, for Christabel in the UK; (tuesday)
• Penpal letter for Susan in the USA; (wednesday)
• Alicia's letter contains three inchies for a swap. It was my first time making inchies and I really hope they'll meet her tastes because I really felt like a noob while making them. :( (this morning)

Today, instead, I made a mail art piece that I'll be sending out tomorrow.

Lettermo is over + Incoming

Today, March 30, my first Lettermo has officially come to an end!
It's time for some stats:

 I think it's quite a remarkable goal for just a month! And just to let you all know, I was happy with every single bit of paper that you sent me :3

Unfortunately, I don't have the pictures of the last letters that went out for the Lettermo early this week; I wasn't at my place and I didn't have the camera with me. Anyway, they were for: Kelly, my new penpal from Canada; Iris, and two for some girls from swapbot.
Today's letter, and the very last for the Lettermo, went out for Neda:

I've also received some pretty mail this week (under the cut!).