Utica Snail Mail Incoming!

Some Recent Finds In My Mail Box

This came in my mail  some time back.  My niece has started a new enterprise called:  #uticablueprints on instagram.  I believe she will have an Etsy store up soon.  She makes these prints  of Utica's wonderful architecture ,her home town.  She is so talented isn't she? Then she included something else for me in the package. She picked up a customized rubber stamp for me in India. Perfect! Thank you Sarah.  (Update:  here is her Etsy store:  UticaBlueprints )

Here is one of her cards that she sent me while she spent a year in India.  I love how she sketched her surroundings.  I am wondering  if she kept a paper journal with her sketches.  Hmmm, I'll have to catch up with her and find out.

The Craftier the Better,

Happy Snail Mailing!

Pam

Minty Mail...Out- Going!

Let Me Tell You About A Letter in My Mailbox... (Week #2)

I am hoping that this week's winner enjoys mint green!

Here it is being packaged to go all the way to...

India, Kolkata, specifically!  Congratulations Sarah!

I loved how she opened her letter... "As soon as I saw your letter writing challenge, I grabbed my pad of stationery to get to work!"

Sarah and her husband  (who are newlyweds) are spending their first year of marriage in Kolkata, India.  Sarah is a RN who is working at the Kolkata Rescue Mission as a volunteer.  Look at the lovely stationery that she penned her most charming letter!  These pen and ink drawings by Samir Biswas of 1982, depict local scenes from Kolkata.

Beautiful...and so interesting!

And another one!  Thank you so much , Sarah,  for writing me a letter.  Your package will be in the mail today!

I have received a comment from a friend in Japan saying that he wouldn't qualify for  this weekly contest because of his international status...NOT SO!  This is open to anyone who writes me a letter.  I arbitrarily select one winner from my mail bag...but everyone will get a response from me.    It is my little way of encouraging you to write a letter.  So, go ahead...you have time to get something off to me...

Write Letters,

Write Often!

Lady Pamela