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    Quote Originally Posted by Bogon07 View Post
    Rec'd a celebrity letter yesterday! From Mr INCOWRIMO himself, Eric in a champagne coloured G.Lalo evelope with a round stamp !!!!!
    I've never ever seen a round stamp before.
    Coincidentally also in the letterbox was a small parcel with my new Pearl Al-Star from the WritingDesk and the pen is a very close match to Eric's envelope maybe a touch less pink.
    actually most International stamps are round i believe :P

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    Quote Originally Posted by Aleks View Post
    actually most International stamps are round i believe :P
    Except a certain country by the looks of it.
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    I received a letter from Liv in Paris yesterday. It had a beautiful heart-shaped stamp, and included a tiny sketch of la Tour Eiffel.

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    Got a reply from the UK today and am sending out a response, same day, probably won't happen again.
    I am also papering all of Australia. If you are listed on the site, expect to get something.
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    Three letters and one hand-made postcard today. I like this club!

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    I got a postcard today from Breck that is genius. He took a plain postcard ... nothing on either side ... and on one side he wrote a line with each ink/pen combination he currently has in use. The other side has my address and a note from him. I love this ink record, and I am going to adopt it for the many US Postal Service pre-stamped postcards I seem to accumulate.

    And, after seeing Breck's ink, I think I need some Diamine Red Dragon and Herbin Rouge Hematite.
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    Quote Originally Posted by PostMuse View Post
    And, after seeing Breck's ink, I think I need some Diamine Red Dragon and Herbin Rouge Hematite.
    I can't speak for the Herbin but Red Dragon is a gorgeous rich burgundy red, much less pink than some reds. My next letter to you I'll use it

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    took a walk to the post office to check for pre-immolation mail.
    9 lovely items! Woohoo! Thanks everybody!

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    Weirdly I received an empty envelope today from the RoXfiles! I received a letter from her last week but this envelope is dated four days after that one!! I don't think there should have been a letter in it as the sticky bit still has a plastic cover on it. Well I hope there wasn't!

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    Quote Originally Posted by Toffer View Post
    Weirdly I received an empty envelope today from the RoXfiles! I received a letter from her last week but this envelope is dated four days after that one!! I don't think there should have been a letter in it as the sticky bit still has a plastic cover on it. Well I hope there wasn't!
    I received a letter from Bill Milling today that was under the stamp. I replied to him in the same fashion!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Toffer View Post
    Weirdly I received an empty envelope today from the RoXfiles! I received a letter from her last week but this envelope is dated four days after that one!! I don't think there should have been a letter in it as the sticky bit still has a plastic cover on it. Well I hope there wasn't!
    Weird...so there was no letter in there? :O

    That's very odd. Well...I've just checked my notebook where I've written all my letters. All of them have been sent out. And you're on my "sent" list just once--so I must've sent the letter to you correctly the first time. Maybe I just plain forgot that I'd already prepped an envelope for your letter, made out another one, then just dropped everything into the mailbox with another stack of mail I was sending off?

    Now that I think of it, though...at some point late in the game, I couldn't shake the feeling that I'd written to someone twice, but I couldn't put my finger on who it was. I'd held onto a couple of envelopes for roughly a week before mailing them off, in case I received anything in response. And when I got nothing, I just picked up the envelopes and dropped them in the mailbox. I wouldn't be surprised if that empty envelope was one of them.

    Well...I guess that I sent something very Zen in that envelope, huh? That certainly is unique. Who else can say they sent vast emptiness within a single envelope? :P
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    Received 2 lovely letter today from the States! Carribean_Skye and Type40, I will write back on my next day off, which will unfortunately be next Weds Thanks for making my day though!

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    Default Not my letters, but still inspiring

    Last weekend, I visited the National World War I Museum in Kansas City. There was a display of decorated envelopes sent from an artist to his son in the Signal Corps. Here are just a few of them.


    Letters from home by chaimann, on Flickr


    Letters from home by chaimann, on Flickr


    Letters from home by chaimann, on Flickr

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    Oh wow, that's awesome. Makes me wish I brought my art supplies as I'd at least doodle on my envelopes. Will have to see what I can do with pen and ink.

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    Reminds me of John the Monkey's old thread on decorated envelopes:
    http://fpgeeks.com/forum/showthread....zing-Envelopes

    Here is the link to the envelopes-
    http://www.guardian.co.uk/childrens-...125672&index=0
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    Its Stickers day, apparently. Got two letters today, both covered in stickers, Tinkerbelle on the one circles on the other, both very nice.

    Stickers-Type40.jpg

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    Updating my InCoWriMo results.

    I wrote to 86 individual people (FPGeeks, and unsuspecting normal people).

    1 returned undeliverable
    35 no replies
    19 generated a reply
    31 have replied multiple times

    All totaled, writing to 86 people sparked 50 conversations. That’s a 58% return. Not bad considering a good number of them weren't FPGeeks.

    I currently have 23 waiting, not so patiently, to be replied to. Never fear, they will be.

    Type40Received.jpg
    Here are all the letters I have received

    Type40ToReplyPile.jpg
    and my current, To Reply pile.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Type40 View Post
    Updating my InCoWriMo results.

    I wrote to 86 individual people (FPGeeks, and unsuspecting normal people).

    1 returned undeliverable
    35 no replies
    19 generated a reply
    31 have replied multiple times

    All totaled, writing to 86 people sparked 50 conversations. That’s a 58% return. Not bad considering a good number of them weren't FPGeeks.

    I currently have 23 waiting, not so patiently, to be replied to. Never fear, they will be.
    Are those stats and numbers just for February or to date? I shudder to think about mine, that would require at least an hour of information gathering/compiling.

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    I didn't start writing to people till February but have counted replies to date. I figured with peoples lives and transit times that waiting a couple months would get a more accurate result.

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    Well since we start a new month tomorrow, I'll run some numbers tomorrow. This should be interesting.

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