A lot of outgoing mail!
I’ve been writing letters more regularly recently so I have a few outgoing mail pictures to show you!
A card to Johanne, my deceased uncle’s girlfriend. (Did that make sense? My uncle is the one who’s deceased, not Johanne, obviously. Though being able to reach dead people by mail would be lovely…)
A letter and a couple of cards to Jamie in the USA.
A letter to Sara in the USA.
A letter and stationery swap to Bernadine in the Philippines.
A letter to Korina in Guam.
I have more outgoing photos, but I’ll save them for another post because it’s time for lunch and I’m hungry!
But I have a silly question first: if you could write a letter to any dead person (and have them read it of course), who would it be?
Big surprise here: I’d pick my dad! <3
I LOVE LOVE LOVE that ‘Miss Anne Thrope’ stationery!
I spent ages thinking about who I’d write to…does a fan letter to Heath Ledger count?! I always wanted to write him one when I was much younger.
Rihannon, yep, why not?! I always loved him too.
By the way, I received your penpal ad yesterday – thank you! It should be posted on my blog before the end of the month. xox
I’d write to my former piano teacher <3
And I’d most happily write a leter to my dead grandma <3 I'm sure she's watching me all the time and knows everything what's in my heart, but if only I could tell her everything, I'd be so happy, and maybe I wouldn't be such a scared soon-to-be-18 fellow~
I love the envelope for Korina, it's so cute <333
Nina, good choice! I remember my piano teacher fondly as well, though she’s still alive. :)
Michi, I’m glad that you like the envelope for Korina because your letter is being mailed today and the envelope I made for you is a bit similar! I’m sorry about your grandma… *hugs*
I do write letters to my mum…it makes her feel more close!
I’d write a letter to my mum! There are still so much things which I would have wanted to share with her…
Just like you, Julie, I’d write a letter to my father <3 There are soooo many things I'd like to share with him, if only I could!
Awww, Jona, that’s so sweet! Maybe I should do it too…
Satu & Tári, I’m sorry to know that you girls have lost one of your parents too! Wouldn’t it be wonderful to still be able to share things with them?!
In your letter to Sara USA, where did you find the Miss Anne Thrope stationery? Those pages are beyond lovely!! Thanks for introducing me! :)
Jorie, I purchased that letter set on eBay a long time ago! I just did a quick search and there’s one person who sells them:
http://www.ebay.ca/itm/STATIONERY-SET-RACHEL-WILLIAMS-MISS-ANNE-THROPE-NEW-/290782787041?pt=US_Nonfiction_Book&hash=item43b40135e1
Well, I’d love to write either Frida Kahlo or Dorothy Parker. Both amazing females in history, and I’d love to pick both their brains (despite Halloween coming around the corner, I do mean that figuratively). Great mail! I love those WWII stamps.
I would write to my mum! I lost her at the age of 16, so I have a lot to say! I am now almost 34.
I loved your outgoing mail :)
Oh no, I can’t believe that you were only 16 when your mom passed away, Mir… How awful!
I would write to my grandpa no doubts. At the end of the month it will be 15 years that I miss him and if I could have a letter delivered to him I would write it now:there’s lot to still tell him!
First, I LOVE the paper and envelope you sent to Sara. Glad to see you’ve already steered someone else in it’s direction. :)
I would write letters to my Mamaw. In fact, I do frequently and keep them in a box under the bed. She was the one who encouraged and foster all of my crafty habits so I frequently want to share recent projects or think out kinks with her, since we can’t talking it out I still write it out and it helps me work through the little design problems and technical issues. so, it’d be awesome if she could respond.
Wow Julie, I really love all your outgoing mail designs !! Your website, blog and your La Papierre Etsy shop are amongst my favorites ! You are so talented and very creative !!
The person I’d like to write to is one of my very first collegues, she died at the age of 36 and left a husband and two very young kids, she was a role model mum to me and I still miss her a lot !
Please allow me to say I am incredibly jealous of your insanely neat handwriting!! I try to write neatly, but either my thoughts are too fast or I don’t have the time! So sad!
I think I would write to my brother. He died nine years ago very suddenly. :-/
Oops. My e-mail was wrong on the last posting. :-(
Laura: Aren’t these stamps amazing?! And can you believe that I don’t even know who Dorothy Parker is? :O Probably because my culture is mostly French… Ah, excuses excuses!
Marta: Were you close to your grandpa? Unfortunately I didn’t really know mine that well…
Kestrel: I think it’s lovely that you write letters to your Mamaw. <3
Connie: Thank you for all the compliments! And it’s so sad to die at such a young age, especially with little kids around! So tragic…
Shauna: Awww, thanks, I’m glad that you like my handwriting! :) But sorry about your brother, how terrible… What happened to him, if you don’t mind me asking? *hugs*
I would definitely write to my grandmother, my father’s mother. I was named after her, but she died 13 months before I was born, so I never got to meet her. I really wish I had. Sometimes I talk to her, though, as if she were here next to me. Is it really possibly to miss someone you never met? I believe so.
And for those liking the Rachel Williams Miss Anne Thrope stationery set, it’s done by Dark Horse and is also available on Amazon and a few other smaller resellers.
I would write to my baby though I’m sure she knows what and how I feel anyway.
Othella: Yes, I think you can actually miss someone you’ve never met! It’s nice that you were named after your grandmother – see, she still played a big role in your life even though she wasn’t there with you physically…
Natalia: Oh no, did you lose your baby? I’m so sorry to read that… I think losing a child is the worst thing a parent can go through. But yes, I agree with you, I’m sure she knows how you feel – and she might even be protecting you from where she is <3
Julie,
He died suddenly at the age of 35 from Diabetic Ketoacidosis. It happens in type 1 (insulin dependent) diabetics when their blood sugar is too high for too long. If caught in time it can be treated, but he was alone at a friend’s house without his insulin. Unfortunately that friend had just lost his father and was out of town for the funeral. He was found by his friend’s roommate. It was pretty rough, and almost a decade later my mom still falls into a major depression on the anniversary. :-/ I agree, losing your child is the worst thing a parent can go through – I have never seen my father cry, but I could see the immense pain in his eyes at the funeral.
Shauna: That’s awful! :( I can imagine how hard it was (and still is) for your parents… and for you too! A death that could have been preventable is so sad… Doesn’t death make us feel small & powerless?!
Julie, what is that gorgeous $1.05 stamp you used on the orange envelope??? I love it, but it doesn’t look familiar (and I thought I kept a close eye on our stamps, lol!!!)
Katherine: This stamp was issued in 2001! It’s lovely, isn’t it?!
http://www.canadapost.ca/cpo/mc/personal/collecting/stamps/archives/2001/2001_nov_xmas.jsf?LOCALE=en
Gorgeous!
I’d write to my friend Taylur, who passed away in January in a snowboarding accident. She was only 17.
Oeehh that letter paper you used for Korina’s letter! Where did you buy it? Or what brand is it?
Chelsea: I’m so sorry about your friend. It’s so hard to understand why things like that happen, isn’t it?!
Ilse: The paper is made by Punch Studio and I bought it at a book store in Montreal! I have a ton of these sheets so I’ll be putting up a swap for them on my blog… probably at the beginning of December! So check back if you’d like to swap for some :)
Thanks! I’ll keep an eye for it :)