Handwritten Letter Swap

So, after thinking about it a bit more, and getting a little bit of interest form a few of you in blogging world (and a few of my friends who aren’t) I have sorted out the ins and outs of the Letter Swap.

Once a week I will post a topic, they will be open ended so that you can make the letters your own. I will do this for 10 weeks, hopefully by this stage you will have swapped enough letters with numerous people and have a gage on whom you may continue to be old school ‘pen friends’ with. At this stage, you will be writing to everyone who signs up for the swap – but if the numbers grow large I will group people up.

To get you thinking about your first letter, the topic will be ‘Hi, my name is...’, tell your reader/s who you are, what you are about, what makes you ‘you’ and the things that you enjoy. Each person will send this letter to their recipients and then when the next topic is posted, your recipients reply to your letter (and you to your own letters you have received) including the new topic.

You can join in the swap at anytime, you will just have to start with a ‘Hi, my name is’ letter and then continue with the next topic.

Does that make sense (it seems to in my brain, but I know what I’m trying to say).

I have enough interest at the moment to begin, but will leave the ‘offical’ start of the swap until September 20^th to give people a change to sign up.

To sign up, leave a comment below with your email address so that I can contact you to get your details and also to let you know your recipients details, maybe leaving a link to your blog would be handy to so that people can see a little about you and maybe have an idea on things to write about in their letters. Don’t forget to let your friends who may be interested know about the swap, the more the merrier! 

A Dying Art Form...

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After reading Cat's post here, I started to have a think, I'm one of those over-thinker type of people, once my brain gets going it just does not stop.

The last time I really sat down and wrote something was probably in a University lecture a few years ago and the last time I wrote a proper hand written letter was probably when I was 12! I think its sad really that gone are the days of receiving a letter in the mail that does not consist of typed words or worse, bills!

So thats when I got thinking, (and haven't really stopped) who would be interested in a handwritten letter swap? I haven't really thought of the ins and outs of the whole thing yet, but maybe I could set a topic, or a series of questions that you could write about in your letter to an assigned partner (or group if there is enough interest) and then you could all send away and hopefully receive one in return... who knows, you may even find an old school pen-friend in the making, and maybe we could put a bit of life back into this dying art.

So are you interested?

Calico & Co's Big Birthday Swap!

Take a look at the lovely goodies I received in the mail today from Jane, as part of the Calico & Co. big birthday swap. There's two gorgeous fabric hair ties, 6 magnets with vintage type prints on them, 4 Robot magnets (the boy has claimed these!), a mirror key ring with a funky print on the back and an awesome bookmark. Thanks Jane, its all fabulous.

You can all find Jane over at her madeit store twinkietwink where you can find lots gorgeous and very well made goodies. Jane's blog is also worth a look :).

Calico & Co. Stationery Swap

I joined in the Amanda's stationery swap over at Calico & Co. and received my goodies in the mail today. It was such a coincidence to who sent me these fabulous gifts as I have been stalking out her etsy store, brambleandbear, for a few weeks now, way before I even joined the swap!! Actually one of her pieces is on my etsy fav's!! I was very spoilt, I got some fabulous things, three awesome note cards, some owl paper, a pencil and that beautiful metal owl ornament you can see below. Thanks Rachael, it is all devine! xxx