Happy Spring!

Hello Spring in watercolor with bird and pink flowers

Hello and Happy Spring! It has been a long winter in Minnesota so Spring is welcomed with open arms! We still have plenty of snow on the ground and are hoping for a safe gradual thaw and not a flash flood. I took this picture on Sunday, March 19. So much snow. But the sun…

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World Poetry Day

feather pen and scroll paper illustration

How will you celebrate World Poetry Day on March 21? Unesco started this holiday in 1999 “…with the aim of supporting linguistic diversity through poetic expression and increasing the opportunity for endangered languages to be heard.” I started writing poems at age 10 (5th grade) and continued until college (early 20s) where I majored in…

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Too Many Journals?

girl with glasses sitting at a table writing in a journal

Is there such a thing as too many journals? I currently have six that I write in on a fairly regular basis. How about you? Daily Journal – What we’re doing these days Book Journal – Tracking all the books I read and thoughts/recaps of some of them Covid-19 Journal – Started in April 2020,…

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InCoWriMo Calendar

February 2023 calendar page

This is the calendar I plan to use for my InCoWriMo 2023 mail. I decided to write the outgoing mail names in the calendar spaces and the incoming mail (InCoWriMo only) in the lined area on the left. For a successful InCoWriMo experience, it helps to plan ahead. Get your supplies. Start your list of…

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InCoWriMo 2023 is Year 10!

illustration of letter writing with an image just showing hands, pen, paper

Happy Times ahead! The month of February is InCoWriMo! What is InCoWriMo, you ask? International Correspondence Writing Month, of course. Their website says this is year 10! Happy Anniversary! This is the seventh time for me. To participate you can leave your mailing info in a comment (It will be published after being approved). Read…

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Winter Wonderland

snow on trees

We have had snow coming down for almost two days straight – big juice flakes! I feel like we’re living in a Winter Wonderland! However, the unfortunate news is that no mail was delivered on Tuesday, January 3 and it’s not looking good for today (Wednesday). I put outgoing postcards in the mailbox for pickup…

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Welcome 2023!

Happy New Year 2023 confetti and stars

Wishing you a very Happy New Year! May all your dreams come true and your grand plans come to fruition in 2023!

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2023 Love Stamps

dog stamp and cat stamp with hearts

These adorable stamps go on sale January 19, 2023 at the current rate of .60 per stamp ($12 sheet). Three days later a regular first class stamp will cost .63 cents. Postcards will increase an additional four cents going from .44 to .48 also on January 22, 2023. While US Love stamps traditionally are released…

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A Halloween Zine

Halloween Zine 2022

Here’s a zine I made for Halloween. I forget how much fun these are to make. It starts off a little scary deciding what to make each page, but I work with what I  have (stickers, stamps, typewriter, washi, lists, ideas) and soon it comes together! Or, it doesn’t and I start over. Here’s a…

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World Postcard Day (3rd Annual)

world postcard day postcard

Join participants all over the world celebrating the 3rd Annual World Postcard Day! World Postcard Day is always October 1st. I recently received my order of these 3rd annual World Postcard Day cards from the Christopher Arntd website. I ordered a few of the regular 4×6 size as well as a few of the panorama…

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