Good mail days

INCOMING

Received a wonderful letter with some recipe cards and this nice handmade gift from California. 

Some incoming postcards. You should see my art wall. It's slowly getting smothered in these.

OUTGOING

A letter and postcard for a new mail friend in India.

 Made another booklet. (I'm hooked.) This one's going out to Jenni. Hope she likes it!

Breakfast

Instagram life

I can't believe June is already here! Weather is defintely hiking up into the high 90's, low 100's, but at least the sun is brightly shining. That's one thing I love about Arizona, the weather is always predicatable- clear skies and sunny. This makes daily outfit pickings fairly easy.

Sonoita Wedding

My best friend's brother just got married this past weekend. The chosen venue was a beautiful vineyard located down in Sonoita. Their wedding couldn't have been on a better day as the sun was shining with a clear blue sky, wonderful scenery, and of course- lots and lots of wine.

Good mail days- Incoming

I received another beautiful written letter from Jacob, and happy mail from Yuki in Japan. She was so sweet and sent me some of these adorable little sticker tabs.



Memorial weekend recap

This is pretty much a summary of what my weekend looked it. I think my favorite part was stuffing my mouth full of Chips Ahoy cookies and catching up on all my subscribed YouTube channels. In case you were wondering, this is pretty much what all my weekends look like if I'm not dragged out of the house. (*I'm trying to avoid going out and spending money if at all possible. My trip is just a few weeks away and I'll be in need of some serious play money.)

Also, is anyone else sad that The Office has ended? I can't believe it, no more Dwight. Now what I am to watch to get my spirits high and chuckling?

Good mail days- Incoming from Portugal

I received this wonderful mail earlier this month in which it totally caught me off guard and really made my day. One envelope consisted of clippings pertaining to Portugal culture, which is where the sender is from, and the other envelope contained all mail related clippings. This was such a wonderful surprise and such a creative idea.

I was so touched at the fact that Ana had spent her precious time clipping out all these little individual pictures (and using up all her color ink) for me. It's hard to tell in the photos, but each envelope had about 30-40 clippings easily. Many thanks to you, Ana, if you're reading this! These will surely be used within my snail mail projects and my personal art journal.

Greetings from overseas

I've been receiving some pretty unique postcards via Postcrossing lately. All of them are so nice with such kind words thoughtfully written on the back.

And then these postcards came in the mail a few weeks back.

I'm not sure if the sender is a reader of my blog or if she sent this through postcrossing, but her thoughts were all jotted down on these 5 postcards. Her doubts and worries were thought provoking and appealed to me in such an inspirational way. Sometimes we just need someone to hear us and let it all out, and I was happy to be that someone.

I look forward to working on her corresponding package. I hope it'll make her day that much better.

Finally using my nikon dslr camera

I know my blog has consisted of a lot of paper and mail goods lately, but don't worry. I'm still posting "everyday life" posts on here as well.

These last few months have been crazy busy for me. Between work, vacation planning, and corresponding to incoming letters, my time has somewhat been stretched thin. Now that things have calmed down a little and I'm sort of caught up with my to-do list, I'm finally able to play with my new nikon dslr.

These are some of the very first testing shots I took. I'm still playing around with the manual settings, and hoping to get a new lens before my NY trip next month. 

Got any tips for a newbie? 

Picture taking {with my instax}

Dusting this baby off and finally putting it to good use. I've been taking pictures of the surrounding area, and trying to capture some pretty desert sceneries. I've even included a few of these in my outgoing snail mail.