Holy Mail Bag, Batman! A week's worth of mail you say?

As promised, I am here to update all of the mail I got this week! I am sorry to keep it all to myself I promise to not take unannounced week long hiatuses again :)

here's a quick snapshot before I break it all down, as you can see it was a pretty good week!

The next cards a I am going to post are all from Swap-bot- the swap was "Once PC Per State", everyone had 15 partners so even though I sent a lot I got a lot in return, too!

(From Rose, Ana, and Laura-Lynne)

(From Belinda, Pam, KikoLala, and Cindy)

(From Laura-Lynne and Alix)

Next up are a few cards from Postcrossing

(From BB in Taiwan, Valya in Russia, "Grandma" in Finland, and Emilie in France)

(From Ola in Poland and Olga in Belarus)

More Swap-bot! (I've done a lot of swapping lately as you can see!!)

(From Destiney 1, Kikolala, Chris, and Cindy)

(From Alix and The Missive Maven

My first home made card (no user name listed)

Look at these cool stamps I got on a swap letter with Neecie!

Which were on this super pretty envelope that I am pretty sure is legit wall paper!

My super cute package from Rachel in AZ- I LOVE magnets!

All my goodies that came in envelopes, a state postcard swap, and Asian take out menu swap, and several pen pal swaps and letters

Three pictures (and several cards) from Walltype

(From Postmuse, Silentrunning43, Lady Ambrosia, Jaime, and Helen)

(From Pat, Alexandria (Greece) and Anchuta

(From Darla and Emily)

here we have some entries from Send Something

(From users Girl on a Glide and The Fruid)

a reply card from Christian over at Can you send me a Postcard, a card from my pen pall Linsey who actually lives across town from me, and my first reply from Melissa over at Viva Snail Mail



and as you can see, my cat does not share our mail excitement today

WHEW!!!!! What an update! Now I am off as some of my swaps are due! Here's hoping you all had a great week of mail! I promise that next week will bring regular updates AND and outgoing destination list! HOLD ME TO IT! :) Happy snail-mailing, swapping, postcrossing, stamping, writing, etc!

Tuesdays are sloooooowww

For those of you who don't know (which I suspect is most of you) I work in the banking industry. That said, Mondays and Fridays are busier than I care to think about when I'm home for the day, Wednesday and Thursdays are a pretty mixed bag of down time and steady flow, and then there is Tuesday. For me, (and everyone I have encountered) Tuesday just crawls by; there aren't as many customers, which leads to less paper work, less e-mails, less phone calls, less to double check, less to have authorized and just an over all sense of nothing to do.

Apparently my mail box felt the same way today. Sent out 5 pieces (3 Swap-bot, 1 Postcrossing and 1 Walltype) and I received two. But, as they say, great things come to those who wait.  Today's incoming mail included a postcard from Walltype user Postmuse AND a handwritten letter from the wonderful Dana over at Save Snail Mail!

Ms. Dana was kind enough to compliment my first attempt at a hand-made card, which you can see by going here (comments and tips very welcome). She also introduced me to a site called Splitcoast Stampers which offers tips, guidance and techniques for those who are feelin' crafty--you can also sign up for their weekly e-mail!

I had several postcards arrive to Walltype users, which makes for a fat and happy e-mail box as well as a postcard to Christian in France who heads up Can you send me a postcard. As usual, any link I include can be found on the left and if you know about something I don't or think I should, please share!

Here is my little PO Box (I wish I had a picture of the ones at my university, they were very cool) and here is to hoping Wednesday is a little more active :D

(Today's outgoing mail went to: The Netherlands, Malaysia, Ohio, Texas and Georgia)