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The Missive Maven: Epistolary Exultation
Extolling the virtues old-fashioned snail mail and letter-writing. Photos and thoughts on letters written and received, favorite stationery, fountain pens -- all the accouterments of the old-fashioned letter
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Snail mail swap
Behold the fruit of another swapbot swap: Snail Mail :]. The idea was to decorate a snail mail envelope with snails - this I can do! (I even tried drawing a couple.)The instructions directed, "just make sure it is snaily!"I'm all over snaily... I've ...
He wrote it all down zealously
This postcard is from Edward Gorey's "The Glorious Nosebleed," via a postcard book from Pomegranate Books. The title of this postcard/page of the book is "He wrote it all down zealously." (I added the bat sticker.)I put some Gorey stamps on the back,...
Pen packaging
I participated in a Pen Swap on Swap-bot recently, and I decorated the package to match the contents.Well, okay, I didn't send an antique fountain pen like this, but I did send a fountain pen. ...
Envelope for GMD Faux Post Giveaway
When I saw this post on the Good Mail Day blog, I fell in love with the "special delivery every day" faux postage. And those awesome gals, they said they had a few to give away if you sent them a SASE! So I did, but of course I had to pretty up the e...
Goat eats mail
Here is a simple little envelope on which I used a few of my favorite rubber stamps.I adore the mail-eating goat, and of course that's an Edward Gorey bat.Below the awesomeness of a disembodied hand holding a placard, that's a moo.com sticker featuri...
Mail art thank-you
My amazing little package full of mailbox postcards from Carolee of PodPost begged a mail-art-licious thank-you response, so I had fun putting this puppy together, with all the meta-postal goodness I could muster. Only the Shakespeare stamp doesn't r...
Letters Mingle Souls
I tried to achieve some harmony in the stamps on this envelope, both rubber and postage, in that the Letters Mingle Souls theme appears in both. I am particularly fond of the Universal Postal Union/Letters Mingle Souls stamps, and use them sparingly....
orange stampy goodness
I was so taken with this envelope! This came from a blog reader in Florida, and I covet her stamps. I've never seen the Handwritten Letter/Letters Mingle Souls stamp before - love it!!Along with a sweet short letter, she sent me these four adorable p...
Dragon mail
This great letter has a Chinese flavor in the use of stamps. It's hard to tell in this photo, but there's glitter in the two stamps on the front of the envelope, too.I love the dragon holding the letter!Know your fortune. "Guests coming. Means troubl...
Attack of the butterflies!
This fun rubber-stamped envelope came to me from a certified member of the International Union of Mail Artists! You can hit her fine blog at mim4art.blogspot.com....
Creepy Wednesday: a taste of the occult
I got this lovely ouija-stamped envelope from the occult/goth lover and keeper of ElizaDeath. The starburst waves are in gold and silver. She also included a handmade altered art postcard:Freaky!...
Maybe even vampyres like to receive letters...
This blog reader letter from Germany has to be one of the most creative and lovely ever. Of course it included bats so I'm sold, but it's also a fine letter. It is a self-fold, a really fine job that was secured with stamps and included the clear not...
Bats by the light of the moon
Another batty decorated envelope from a fellow bat aficionado, who is far more artistically capable than I. She has wonderful rubber stamps, especially of bats, and makes these beautiful art pieces of her envelopes and sometimes cards. Yay bats!...
