Birthday Mail and Parcels!

 My Pen Pal Spoils Me...

I had a birthday this summer, and she sent me a large box filled with...

All sorts of goodies all wrapped up, so charmingly!

Look at all of this goodness!  The English Tea Shop Tea was on my amazon wish list...how did she know?  I love the Yankee candles, and her gorgeous photography that she makes into cards is just amazing.  Thank you dear Sheryl!  My birthdays are always so much better when something comes through the mail.  

Make someone's day bright,

Send them a letter written by you!

Pam

And so much MORE!

Birthday Milestones...Parceling time!

Do you remember the "Gold Mail " parcel that I sent out recently?  You can view it here .  Well...I wanted to send a follow up parcel to this same pen pal.  And since it was such a momentous Birthday Milestone....I went with the theme:  AND so much MORE!

Hey.  We still have lots of living to do, right?  Yes, of course we do!

Do you know of someone who is having a birthday or some other milestone in their life.  Don't let it pass without a notice.  Send them a letter or a parcel to celebrate!

Write Letters.

Send Parcels.

Do it often!

Lady Pamela

Birthday Love

This and That...

What's not to like about this card (for my birthday)?  It is definitely me!

I especially like that it had enclosed a tea bag...and a lovely scripture verse!

I received this lovely Tea Pot from one of my daughters....it is so photographic.

I had to get two shots of it.

This bottle...crammed with all sorts of fun "necessary" items was a result of another daughter's creative genius!

I have lots of birthdays and anniversaries to keep up with...so another super talented daughter made this~  now I will never forget these important dates!

These nautical themed note cards were dimensional and layered....really cool.  Can't wait to pen my "thank yous" with these!

 My twin sister knows me pretty well...and got me these aqua brushes for my water color and a new book!  Yay!  I love to water color and have been very impressed with these brushes.  Stay tuned for future projects using these.

Oh, I was blessed with tea to try out!  Isn't the Trader Joe's tea packaged creatively?

My older sister gave me this beautiful fabric covered tea caddy/tray.  I just love it.  Doesn't it look like it belongs on a front porch?  Oh...and do you see the Brookside chocolates.  Ummmm.....a total addiction.  Am I alone here?  I didn't think so.

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Yes, this is a sinking Titanic tea infuser, made by the same folks that brought us  Mr. Tea.   A great conversation piece, and a great infuser as well.  Now, I need to sit down with all of my tea and chocolates and do some letter writing!

For my final Mother's day and Birthday highlights...how about some watermelon soap?

Oh, and on my birthday....I got to play a small role in the musical "Little Women"!  Such a fun time.

Write Letters,

Write Often!

Lady Pamela

Do You Keep "Birthday Mail" Lists?

Have you ever flirted with certain disaster? I did, and lost!  I missed a VERY important birthday this week...because I didn't have a birthday list made out, or some kind of plan in place to handle all of these special days.  Aaarrrggghh!  I feel so very sorry...she is my  sweet , little  Chloe...and she is now 2!!  I am  determined not to ever let this happen again...so I contacted everyone, and asked them (one more time...PLEASE...) to send me birthdays. Thankfully, everyone complied.

See some of the blank spaces?  I was still waiting to get the birthdays from Stephanie's family.  Also, I still have 2 more grands "in the oven", so names and dates are still blank! :-)

It was time to get  out the watercolor pencils...Chloe is CRAZY about Tigger!  (her mother is having a Tigger Themed birthday party for her later this month!)  I had to work a bit to get it to come out looking like Tigger...but I think I eventually got it!

Tigger's belly was the perfect place for the address... and of course a quote was necessary!

Next came the  letter, short and sweet...

Thank goodness I had some Tigger stickers...and two orange balloons...one for Tirzah and one for Chloe. I wanted to include a stick of gum...but didn't have any.  I need to get some for my stash.

I mailed it off today, late, but done.    What about you?  How do you  keep track of birthday mail?   I was a terrible Auntie to my nieces when they were growing up.  I had trouble just keeping up with my growing family.  Having 10 children kept me hopping (and still does!). Now we have  four married and  the grand babies are coming...when the next two are born, I will have a total of 8.  I have  12 new birthdays to keep up with (grands, and then my 3 son-in-laws and one daughter-in-law.)  So in just my immediate family I have 22 birthdays to keep up with.  That doesn't include MY side of the family, sisters, mother, etc.

I think I need a plan.

Do any of you out in Blog Land have one of these contraptions?  I bought this at least 8 years ago (probably longer)...to try to get me on track for Birthdays ...

It is a rather nifty little file box with open file folders for each month.  I guess they could hold cards to send out for the month?

See the dates?  I told you it was old!  Sadly, I have never used it.  But just maybe I will start to utilize it for keeping track of the  approximately 30 birthdays that I would really like to send out a card.  Please let me know if you have other means of keeping up with Birthday mail...


Write Letters,
Write Often.

Lady Pamela