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.
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!
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.
I enjoyed InCoWriMo very much in 2013, but I got a bit overwhelmed. I'll be reading the forum in 2014, but not actively participating.
took a walk to the post office to check for pre-immolation mail.
9 lovely items! Woohoo! Thanks everybody!
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
Last edited by TheRoXFiles; March 4th, 2013 at 07:08 PM.
Hey, I just met you, and this is crazy...but here's my letter. So write me, maybe?
If you're an InCo pen pal, please PM me first if you'd like to write to me. Thanks!
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!
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
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.
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
sinistral hypergraphica - a slurry of ink
"Nothing means less than zero"
Its Stickers day, apparently. Got two letters today, both covered in stickers, Tinkerbelle on the one circles on the other, both very nice.
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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.
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Here are all the letters I have received
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and my current, To Reply pile.
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.
Well since we start a new month tomorrow, I'll run some numbers tomorrow. This should be interesting.
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