Snail mail exchange: fall is here!

Fall is officially here, and it's time for another Snail Mail Exchange!  This is our fourth exchange now, and I've absolutely loved seeing women across the country {who sometimes don't even know each other} connect through something real and tangible.  And who doesn't love to receive snail mail?!

Here's how it works...

If you decide to participate, I will randomly assign you a snail mail exchange buddy to whom you will send a small, fun snail mail package.  Think handmade, simple, thoughtful.  The point is just sending someone something to make them smile, not spending a ton of money.  And you certainly don't have to make something if you don't feel comfortable with that.  Just think of something YOU would enjoy receiving. 

Ideas:

  • Handwritten notes/cards or encouraging quotes/verses
  • Items from nature
  • Bookmarks
  • Something handmade/sewn/knitted
  • Tea/coffee
  • Simple jewelry
  • Lotion/soaps
  • Little notebooks/school supplies
  • Books you'd like to pass along

{HINT: I was at Michael's the other day, and they have a plethora of inexpensive fun wood, burlap, and chalkboard gifty items - I almost had to be forcibly removed from the aisle.}

We're all unique, so we'll all include different items in our packages. Obviously.   

**But to be fair, just make sure you send MORE than just a note - include at least a few other things.  Put some effort and thought into it - just don't throw it together the day before the deadline, OK?

So, are you in?

Post a comment below and I'll contact you with details (if you don't know me personally, be sure to include your email address).

Snail mail exchange: fall edition.

Fall is officially here, and it's time for another snail mail exchange!  Snail mail exchanges #1 and #2 went great ~ I've absolutely loved seeing women across the country {who sometimes don't even know each other} connect through something real and tangible.  And who doesn't love to receive snail mail?!

Here's how it works...

If you decide to participate, I will randomly assign you a snail mail exchange buddy to whom you will send a small, fun snail mail package.  Think handmade, simple, thoughtful.  The point is just sending someone something to make them smile, not spending a ton of money.  And you certainly don't have to make something if you don't feel comfortable with that.  Just think of something YOU would enjoy receiving. 

Ideas:

  • Handwritten notes/cards or encouraging quotes/verses
  • Items from nature
  • Bookmarks
  • Something handmade/sewn/knitted
  • Tea/coffee
  • Simple jewelry
  • Lotion/soaps
  • School supplies :)

We're all unique, so we'll all include different items in our packages. Obviously.   

**But to be fair, just make sure you send MORE than just a note - include at least a few other things.  Put some effort and thought into it - just don't throw it together the day before the deadline, OK?

So, are you in?

Post a comment below and I'll contact you with details (if you don't know me personally, be sure to include your email address).

** UPDATE AS OF 10/24/13: The snail mail exchange is full for this time around, but please post a comment if you'd like to be contacted when we do the next one.  Thanks!

Snail mail exchange - part deux.

It's time for another snail mail exchange!  The first one was kind of an experiment, but it went so well that I've decided to organize another.  It's simple...

If you decide to participate, I will randomly assign you a snail mail exchange buddy to whom you will send a small, fun snail mail package.  Think handmade, simple, thoughtful.  The point is just sending someone something to make them smile, not spending a ton of money.  And you certainly don't have to make something if you don't feel comfortable with that.  Just think of something YOU would enjoy receiving.  I'm also thinking about giving this exchange a theme, like SPRING.  Anything that has to do with spring.

Ideas:

  • Handwritten notes/cards or encouraging quotes/verses
  • Items from nature
  • Bookmark
  • Something handmade
  • Seed packets
  • Tea/coffee

Here are some of the items I received from my friend Ginny in the last exchange...

Colorful adorned paper clips, fun quotation cards that are now hanging in my craft room, and some beautiful pods from a sycamore in her hometown, with inspirational words attached to them.  I still look at these every day.

So, are you in?

Post a comment below (if you don't know me personally, be sure to include your email address) and I'll contact you with details.

Here's to snail mail!

UPDATE: As of March 19th, this snail mail exchange is full.  Stay tuned for the next one!  Thanks!

Snail mail exchange!

This post from one of my favorite blogs, Walk Slowly Live Wildly, totally inspired me. 

Photo: walkslowlylivewildly.com

Ahhhhhhh.  Who doesn't want to receive some knitted rainbow fingerless gloves in the mail?  Or a bookmark?  Or some tea?  Or just a lovingly handwritten note?

I miss snail mail.

And I want to revive it.

Who's with me?  I say we do it, exchange addresses if we don't already know each other, and start gracing each others' mailboxes once a month with rainbow-y, sunshine-y goodness.

I have no clue how to organize so everyone receives something in the mail and returns the favor, but I'm open to ideas!  So if you're in, post a comment and let me know.

P.S. I think I'm going to start knitting.  For real.