Stationary

I am often sad to find that you can't just go out to a shop and find nice stationary. Not a lot of people in my life feel the need to write letters anymore, but I know a few people who do. One friend in particular likes to send me letters stamped with the cute little stamps I have bought her for holidays past.

Today I found this wee shop on Etsy: Paper Pastries. So many fun little stationary and stamp sets! This is probably the only place I've seen in years where you can get a real, wooden stamp like my dad used to use.

Someone definitely just got a Christmas gift out of this...and it's not to me, from me. :-)

Viva la Postcard!

A dear friend of mine is currently traveling round Europe and the UK for a few months. Before she left we were talking about postcards and how it's such a shame that people don't really send them as often as in years past. So we made a deal. It's quite simple, really. We're just going to send each other postcards from wherever we are (even if that doesn't happen to be a vacation spot). After all postcards are cheap, postcard stamps are even cheaper and can be bought in mass quantities, you don't really have to say much, and they range in design from something you can send your kid sister or grandmother to something you should probably be embarrassed not to be putting into an envelope.

True that they usually arrive at their intended destination a week or so after the person who sent them has returned from their trip, but who cares? In this age of "all mail is either a bill or junk" isn't it nice to get something that's nothing but fun?

My answer to this question is yes.

Album Currently on Repeat: Kings of Leon, Aha Shake Heartbreak