Posted by: inkytrails on: February 14, 2010
Do you send Valentine’s to Your Pen Pals?
Why Not?
A few years ago, I bought a bunch of Kids Valentines (the cheapo kind that kids give out at school) and included them with my mailings that week!
It was fun!
Pen pals add all different types of small tuck-ins into their letters (post cards, stickers, seed packets, book [...]
Posted by: inkytrails on: February 14, 2010
Do you send Valentine’s to Your Pen Pals?
Why Not?
A few years ago, I bought a bunch of Kids Valentines (the cheapo kind that kids give out at school) and included them with my mailings that week!
It was fun!
Pen pals add all different types of small tuck-ins into their letters (post cards, stickers, seed packets, book [...]
Posted by: inkytrails on: February 13, 2010
Ok, now maybe I’m getting a LITTLE WEIRD here.. but I love funky artsy Envelopes in the mail box… so no laughing at these!!
Grin!
Do you see what this is? Its a magazine cutout of shoes, funny ole shoes! It’s a free magazine, cut out of anything on any page, and simply used a Dollar [...]
Posted by: inkytrails on: February 13, 2010
I made some artsy envelopes for a pen pal gathering a few years ago, where I taught a class on quickie ways to decorate envelopes.
Let’s check out a few and how to make them quickly, efficiently and oh-so darn colorful.
First, IMAGINE your pal (or family member) opening their boring old mail box to see [...]
Posted by: inkytrails on: June 17, 2009
Check out this cool envelope! I love funky things like this! Click to see any of them better.. very cool!
Now, IF Andrea had known, she COULD have made this much better.. with the word HOPE all over the back. I helped her out a bit here… The third envelope is my enhanced [...]
Posted by: inkytrails on: May 30, 2009
As the Beatles sang, “Hope is All We Need”….
In today’s economy that is certainly true! But this is a fantastic way for pals to help the USA regain some HOPE!
I do hope you will take the time to read this, and then REMEMBER…..
Write HOPE on your envelopes!
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Posted by: inkytrails on: May 30, 2009
Yesterday, I added a page to my website on a gal who organizes a Sticker Collection every year, and mails packages to hospitals…. I hope you will help!
Kids Stickers
Posted by: inkytrails on: March 29, 2009
My 17 year newspaper, Inky Trail News, is now changed to a digest-styled newsletter… as of the January 2009 issue. Just something new… and it feels good too!
Thanks to all pals who took the time to write and tell me they liked it… your support really helps!
p.s. if you’d like to check it out in [...]
Posted by: inkytrails on: March 23, 2009
I was so honored to get this postal stamp recently…. thought I’d share it with you!
Thanks to Madeleine Brauer for sending her letter (and thanks to Lesley Sjardin, her New Zealand pal, for sending Madeleine to me!)
Sometimes, often times, its the very small things in life that make life so worth living.. making your heart [...]
Posted by: inkytrails on: February 25, 2009
Sometimes the simplest things in life, give us pleasure….
Just printed and stuffed some Kids Pen Pal Lists to mail this morning. Felicity from England is going out today… so I put SIX coloful USA stamps on hers!
A pink rose, American flag, blue bird, apple, Santa, Uncle Sam… fun fun! Kids get excited [...]
