Out Going Snail Mail!!!

#Outgoing!

I had some Texas Mail going out...but I didn't plan this envelope too well.  My script sort of crashed into the stamp corner, ugh! I had to put the other stamp a good distance away.  Lesson  Learned.  Its probably a good idea to place your stamps on your envelope ...FIRST,  Then go ahead with whatever else you plan to do  on the envelope.  

Oh how I love this Sam Houston Stamp!    Texas has certainly produced  its share of  "colorful" men! 

Did a bit of parceling this past week.  I do so love this vintage"Mailman" stamp!

Little people mail going out!  I always want to send individual letters to this family's children...but it never fails...they never arrive all at the same time  causing a bit of  consternation among the ranks, I'm afraid

Texas mail, camp mail, map letters, thank you cards. little people mail, parcels...oh my.  It has been a really good postal week for me!

Write Letters 

Write Often.  

Lady Pamela

Camp Mail...and Art Journaling

Don't Forget To Send Mail  To Your Campers!

This one was sent to Matthew...he is actually a counselor this year!  He is leading the Archery and Air Rifle  activities for little boys.  I had to keep this one sort of "manly"  LOL!

This one went out to my daughter who was a camper for the first time at this particular camp...

Back side!

Did I mention that I have been to camp already this summer?  I spent two weeks for the teen weeks at Bethel Bible Campgrounds.  It is nestled or rather perched on the top of a mountain in the Blue Ridge!  Lovely, lovely place.  I decided to take my Bible journal with me...and my water colors. I had never tried to do any water colors in my Leuchtturm 1917 but decided to take it  along with me and try it out.

I have a fascination for colorful clothes lines!  This is a scene of the cabin I stayed in to the left and a storage building  to the right.  That is our cabin's clothesline.

The swing in front of the lodge...and the tether ball set.

My home for two weeks.

This was my first water color.  It is not finished and I am least pleased with this one...but it still depicts the lodge, with the ARC behind it and the  metal bell that rings for meals...and other activities.  As a beginner, you learn by doing.  Don't  be afraid to try!  You'll make discoveries along the way that will  aid you in a future  projects.  I know I learned  so much by just getting out there and trying.  

Anyway, I was pleased with how well the Leuchtturm 1917 handled my water color experiment.  I will be returning to camp in two weeks for my final week at camp....and capturing a few more scenes around the camp.  Don't forget to send YOUR camper some mail.  This could mean the world to them!  

Write Letters.

Write Often.

Lady Pamela

Letter Writing is Alive...at Camp!

I am happy to report that letter writing is ALIVE and  WELL at camp!  I am just returned from a week at Bethel Bible Camp in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia.  Of course, I enjoyed all of the activities and the wonderful fellowship with young ladies ages 8-10.  They were a pure delight!  But, I was especially interested in all things postal at the camp!  I was really wondering if parents really wrote or not any more.



This little lady was a first timer away to camp.  She missed her sweet family !  Thankfully, homesickness was staved off by  receiving 6 letters during the week.  She clung to them all week.

Well, surprise, surprise, surprise!!!!  The first full day of camp...several of the girls in my cabin got not one but one young lady received 3 letters!!!!  Now that really took some foresight on the parents!   Good job parents!! I was thrilled, and so were the campers...all of them.  Even if they did not receive any mail  they were just excited to get to see the letter and read it themselves.  Letters were passed around and enjoyed by all.

The receiving of mail caused quite a stir that first day.  The girls eagerly positioned themselves and began writing letters with high hopes! Just look at those faces. So much excitement!!

Re-reading letters by flashlight!  Precious.

 

Mail Call!

 

 

 

 I actually got 3 letters, I couldn't find my lovely letter from my  oldest daughter at the moment I took this photo.

 

Another daughter thoughtfully wrote me and even included one of my favorite wax seals!  The bird carrying the letter.

 

My husband, clever man that he is,  sent our  two children (at two different camps)   mail and included a full sheet picture of our scruffy dog, Emma...who sorely missed them. Our youngest daughter was enamored with this!  She carried the picture  around and showed it to all of her friends.

 

So, dear readers, Letter Writing is alive, in little encampments, probably around the globe this summer.   If you know of any young person going off to camp, especially for the first time please take the time and write them even a short note or post card.  You may never know the full  impact that it will have, but  trust me, it will be treasured and may make the difference between the camper going home or staying!

 

 

Write Letters,

Write often.

 

Lady Pamela

 

 

P.S.  I believe my summer should be slowing down  so that I can  get back to writing everyone who is waiting for a reply to their letters...Jan, Elaine, Sheryl, Mrs. Duffy... oh my!  I need to get going!

Camp Mail! Writing your Campers, Out-going (before THEY go!)

Camp Mail

Yay for "Low-tech" camps!  They make room for letters.

I hate to admit it...but I forgot to write my 14year old son who has already gone to two camps this summer! Arrrrgghhh!  Thankfully , one of my daughters wrote not once...but twice to him.  Yay!  Someone around here is on the ball.  Really.  Camps seem to spring up like weeds.  In two days I will be off to camp in the beautiful Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia with my 10 year old daughter--she, as a camper, myself as a counselor.  My 12 year old son will be off to NC  in the Sauratown Mountain range (also called the mountains away from the mountains), incidentally, we will be departing on the same day.

One thing about writing campers is the necessity of THINKING ahead!  All of the camps that my children attend are rather short...only one week or less, so this does not allow for any dilly-dallying or shilly- shallying around.  In fact, I sometimes mail my letter the day BEFORE they leave for camp, this makes for mail in the camper's hands hopefully before the last day of camp (when they are picked up!).

Camp letters are usually short, just a note to inform them of the mundane  insanity at home they are missing and to let them know they are missed...and loved.  I have sent many a packages  in the past, but have, in recent years, resorted  mainly to the simple letter. I do try to jazz it up with mail art... the sillier the better. Sometimes, getting a bit devious, I might put on the envelope:  "make the recipient sing a song on receipt" or, "perform 10 push ups"...ha, ha.  Your kids will love you.

Out-Going Camp Mail  (going out, even before they leave home!)

 

I told you, it would be silly...

 

The back side is silly too...

 

 

 

Ruthann's is all sweetness and all about making friends at camp!

 

 

She's going to love this and wonder how I sent it...if I am AT camp with her!

 

 

My (now 21 year old) daughter  Maddie, was a crafty one.  She knew it was "super cool" to receive mail at camp, and  she determined to get LOTS of it.  Here was her plan: The Sunday before she left for camp, she typed up the address of the camp with her name and a brief plea  to write her...and then proceeded to hand out these slips of paper to everyone at our church!  And do you know what?  It worked.  She always got tons of mail.  I'm sure she just slyly smiled each and every day when they had  "mail call" ...and called her name--over and over.  And of course, those dear ladies at our chapel not only wrote her...they also tucked in a "bit of encouragement" for her into their letters.  That made Maddie smile all the more each day as she trekked to the Snack Shack and spent her "encouragement".

One camp we send our children to encourages letter writing  by the campers.  Before they have lunch the first full day of camp, they must have a letter written to home!  How about that?   In the camp brochure, they are told to bring a stamp, envelope and paper.  Don't you love this?

Well, I must end this post and go DO what I am writing about!  I have to get two camp letters out by tomorrow's post.  Don't forget your campers (like I have already this summer) and plan ahead.

Write Letters
Write Often,

Lady Pamela