Here I am again, ready to finally wrap up a week of mail and letters =) and what a week it was. Very interesting indeed.
First of all, my incoming mail, not just from the past week but since before Christmas already. November was a bad month mail-wise but the letters started arriving by December and kept coming 
so here are letters from Emma, Renee, Päivi, Martina, Jenny H, Alesha and Emilie and a charming little package from Jenny M =D it was filled with sweets ^^
and here are some of the charming details:
Finnish stamp nr 1. It has braille on it, if you look closely you can see the bumps
Finnish stamp nr. 2... they just have the cutest stamps there
I wrote back to most of the letters already, and in fact today received a new letter from Emma =) and I didn’t take pictures of everything. But I took a picture of this weeks outgoing mail:
there’s a letter to Rin from Australia whose interview was on Julie’s blog last week and I just had to write her a letter. And a letter to Martina from Slovakia. And as you can seen I’ve been trying to be creative. I browsed through Rin’s fabulous blog and was amazed by her creativity when it comes to mail art that I thought I might try some things myself. I’m still so inexperienced in this … these two envelopes were my first trys. The one to Rin features a Harry Potter fan art of Luna by myself that I printed on the envelope and I added a few dashes of colour. For the other I cut out a flower from some paper that was still in my arts-drawer. I do want to try other ways of making envelopes, from other colourful paper maybe and I browsed through old pamphlets from museums that I was keeping, goddess knows for what, and cut out a few things. I have a few ideas, maybe I can show you more next week.
Yesterday, though, I had another idea. I love stationery but it’s basically impossible to find anything cute here in Germany. So a few weeks ago I bought coloured printing paper in A5 with the intention of just using it like that, as stationery. Unfortunately I didn’t pay attention and got paper that’s a bit too heavy to my taste (160 grams). Nevertheless I played a bit with quotes and pictures and printed three designs (the one on the left though is printed on 90g plain white paper using a scan of one of my favourite postcards)
The quote on the left is from Lord of the rings. This to be exact. A favourite of mine.
The one in the middle is a Wicked design. The quote says “The only obligations I am under are the ones I assign to myself”. It’s from the novel.
The one on the right is a Huna design. Huna is the traditional Hawaiian philosophy and the quote are the seven principles.
I’m really happy how these turned out and I have a few more colours I can play with and I’m sure I’ll find more intriguing quotes to put on paper =) I might even dig out the old typewriter again.
