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- Marie

Mail 2012: week 1 - sent

I am not a fan of new year resolutions but I actually did make a small one this year. I'll try to be better at posting my in- and outgoing mail and swaps. Therefore I'll be doing a weekly update each monday. This is the mail I've recieved and sent out in the previous week, this has been a happy mail week for me:

Sent 

A letter for my Danish penpal Mie. I made the envelope out of a page in an old childrens book and made the blonde girl hold Mies adress in her arms. The letter looked like this inside:

 Mickey and Pluto stationary :-)

This bunch of cool stuff was a swap-bot swap in my own group. The idea was to send at least 200 grams of 'stash' items as a new year cleanup. The above is what my partner will recieve.

The back of an envelope I made out of a 'Flow' magazine cover. The letter inside is for my penpal Bree in Malaysia.

This is the front of the envelope. I think this envelope is so incredible beautiful. I added a faux postage stamp saying 'Cherish these moments'. Let's have a look at the letter I sent Bree:

Seven pages on cute paper. And a few closeups of the interactive parts of this letter:

A package of 'jule' (Christmas) tea to enjoy while reading the letter and...

A tiny santa look-a-like that I just seem to find everywhere.

This is the back of a blue-themed letter I sent to my penpal Anicka in the Netherlands. I am really happy with how the front of this envelope came out:

Great plates everywhere. This is so old-fashioned-Danish style. I love it ;-)
Ofcourse the letter was also blue on the inside:

Julepost / Holiday greetings 2

Happy New Year everybody. I haven't been updating for a long time and normally I wouldn't apologize about that since this blog is made for me and I just want to update it when I feel like it. There is, however one exception: When it comes to mail I've sent and recieved. This is the type of posts I really love doing because I know many of the people who are sending me mail are watching the blog waiting for their mail to appear in a blogpost and finding inspiration in other peoples mail-art.
I've been to bad at updating about mail but will try to improve in 2012. For now here is a big pile of stacked up images with mail  I've sent and recieved during the holiday season. I know I haven't taken pictures of all of the christmas cards this season and I'm sorry but I really did enjoy all of them :-)

Recieved

This pretty and very personal christmas card is from my very good friend Tanja who also lives in Denmark. The card is featuring her two adorable boys. Tanja and I started out as penpals around 10 years ago and met the first time a few years ago. Now we don't penpal anymore but I've found a friend for life :-)

 These pretty packages was sent to me from Chelle in a private swap at swap-bot. Let's have a look inside:

 So much awesome stuff. I'll give you a few closeups:

 One of the cutest bookmarks I've seen in a long time...

 A pretty notepad...

Embroidery transfers. I've begun using these on some throw pillows for the sofa. They are trickier then they look ;-)

 A cupcake calender. Yum! This is the back of it showing all the different pictures.

I am a sucker for old fashioned seals: heated up over a candle and then stamped on the envelope. This one was on the outside of a christmas card from one of my friends. It says 'God Jul' which means 'Happy Christmas'. The card inside the envelope looked like this:

Sent

I sent this package to a very dear swap-bot friend. After I wrapped it up it fitting amazingly into the envelope. Want to see what was inside?

The book 'Once bitten, twice shy' (that I've recieved here if you're interested), a Danish magazine for crafting and the foil package contains different teas.

Jeg glæder mig

Til at vise dig det Kæresten og jeg arbejder med i vores fritid pt: en tegnefilm der skal sendes ud til vores bryllupsgæster for at de skal sætte kryds i kalenderen :-)
og ja, vi tegner, animerer osv. selv, så selvom det er en lillebitte film har det været et stort projekt. Den skal dog sendes ud i januar, så nu skal vi snart have den klar :-)
Billedet er et smugkig på en tegnefilmsversion af mig ;)

Julepost

Er det bare mig, eller er årets 'julefrimærker' ikke særligt julede?

Ikke at de ikke er virkeligt fine, og sjove og ret wulffmorghantaler agtige.. men julede? Arj vel?

Billeder i øvrigt grabset direkte fra Postdanmarks online netbutik.

Virtuelt peberkagehus

Jeg ved godt jeg endnu ikke har fået fotograferet de lovede kreasager, vi lavede i går, men indtil jeg får det gjort, kan du i stedet komme i julestemning ved at dekorere dit eget virtuelle peberkagehus lige her

Julehygge

I morgen står den på jule-klippeklistre dage ude hos mine forældre.
Det er en ny tradition jeg forsøger at stable på benene.
Jeg har købt Panduros julehobbykasse og tager også en masse andet med, så vi kan få fornyet vores julepynt. Jeg deler billeder med jer, af det vi har fået kreeret.

Laver du selv din julepynt, eller foretrækker du at købe det?

Post uge 45

Recieved/Modtaget

 Cute postcard from 'Deposit a Gift' where we are registered for our wedding. Great service :-)

 The first letter from my new penpale. Wayne in Wales. So pretty with glitter and everything ;-)

A letter from my Danish penpal Mie.

Sent/ Sendt

24 bags of tea for a tea advent calendar swap.

First letter for my penpal Sian in United Kingdom

Julegaveværkstedet: Til mor

Jeg er så heldig, at mine forældre ikke følger bloggen og derfor kan jeg dele julegaveidéer med jer her.
Jeg er godt i gang med mit 'julegaveværksted', hvor jeg får lavet en række hjemmelavede gaver. Jeg vil gerne dele dem med jer her på bloggen, så I måske kan blive inspirerede til også at lave et par hjemmelavede gaver i år.
Hvis man sætter lidt tid af og gør sig lidt umage, behøver det ikke være et halvfærdigt leraskebæger alá håndarbejde i 4. klasse.

Først vil jeg dele hvad jeg laver til min mor. Jeg mangler stadig en lynlås, som gerne skal være i mørklilla eller turkis (nogen der ved hvor jeg kan få sådan én billigt?), men ellers er den næsten færdig:

Hvad skal din mor have i julegave?

Papegøje tavle

Jeg havde en gammel grim og kedelig opslagstavle, som jeg på et tidspunkt havde bestemt skulle være grøn... Jeg ombestemte mig dog halvvejs færdig og derfor har den bare stået, men forleden tog jeg mig sammen og med lidt maling og en tapetrest...

har jeg fået en fin papegøjetavle :-)

At sprede forårsstemning I

Vi plejer aldrig at pynte op til påske, men i går fik vi begge lyst til at være kreative og det gav da lidt forårsstemning i køkkenet.

  Jeg byggede med meget møje og besvær dette fuglehus, som både kan hænge og stå.
- beklager de dårlige billeder, men snuppede dem lige på vej i seng i går.

Kæresten lavede en fin papirblomst til min lidt kedelige potteplante.

Måske skal vi puste æg i aften.

Pynter du op til påske?