Letter Writing & Mail Art
Snail Mail & Mail Art
Websites * Blogs * Resources * Photos
Letter Writing & Mail Art Blogs & Websites:* Letter Matters - Mrs. Duffy's blog
* Confessions of a Pen Thief (1/21/13: Defunct? - no posts since July 2012 * Winnie's Girl * Art of a Letter * Letter Writers Alliance blog (aka LWA) - LWA Membership information & their visitors store - Envelope Chronicles - Leaving a Paper Trail - For the Love of Letters - Sweet Tea Paperie ~ the Snail Mail Project - Defunct? * Oh, Write Me! * I Still Write * The MissiveMaven's blog (has lots of links to other snail mail & mail art blogs & was one of the 1st mail/letter writing blogs I stumbled upon years ago) * Every Day Should be a Red Letter Day (Jennie Hinchcliff's blog ~ co-author of Good Mail Day) * Make Every Day a Good Mail Day (blog of the other co-author of Good Mail Day, Carolee G. Wheeler) * Cappuccino & Art Journal (Pamela in SF) Her envelope tutorial is here and her booklet making tutorial is here. * Letters & Journals - Only a website at this point but hopefully it will be in print soon because I can hardly wait to subscribe and see it start arriving in my mailbox! * Penpalling & Letters * Wendy's Letter-writing website -- defunct website but I keep hoping she'll renew it ** I really wish I'd copied all the links because she had a lot of good links & resources! - This is/was her other/related site but it doesn't look like it's been updated in ages either: http://www.passionforletters.com/ [Dec.2012: looks as though this site is also defunct and only has one page now] * Friendship-by-mail / Inky Trail News - I'm not sure but think this may be run by the same person as the two (now defunct) sites listed above but with lots of ads. She also has a pen pal magazine (Inky Trail News) that you can subscribe to. * The Letter Exchange (LEX) * Simplicity Embellished * Scribbling Glue * The Letter Writing Revolution * Pens, Paper, Inks ... Whatever! * International Union of Mail-Artists (IUOMA) * Leaving a Paper Trail (Becky aka The SnailMailer) * The Modest Peacock * Me, My mail and I * Save Snail Mail * Write Before Your Eyes * CreateMixedMedia's 3 articles on "The Art of Handwritten Letters" : parts One, Two & Three * Airport mailbox locator (new but the list is growing) * The National Postal Museum & their blog: "Pushing the Envelope" * Post a Letter Social Activity Club * Postcrossing's Blog * Dosanko Debbie's Etegami site (in Japanese: e = picture & tegami = letter) * Leigh Reyes's Blog - My Life as a Verb * Maarten's Snail Mail Pen Pals Online * Bywater Wisdom (or lack thereof) * USA Mailbox Map * Nancy Olson, Ink. * PenInkcillan (pen & ink reviews) * Pocket Blonde (ditto) * Hello Life * Gray Dog Mail * 365 Letters * Orphaned Postcard Project * Going Postal * The 52 Letters Project * Mailbox Happiness * The Lost Art of Letter Writing...Revived * Travel by postcards & letters * The Letters in My Mailbox * Lovely Handwritten Notes * Sarah's Scribblings - American Stationery - letter writing/etiquette articles & store - Friendship-by-mail - & free printable stationery - The Letter Exchange: - LEX Resources page - LEX Recommended Books No longer being updated: - Mailbox Happiness And here are some newer (to me, at least) mail, pen, paper & ink related blogs: * East...West...Everywhere * Please Deliver to.... * Letter Writers Rock * Merissa Cherie * Deb's Letters * Songs in the Key of Ink: The Art of Personal Letter Writing * Postcards and Letters * Gourmet Pens * Addicted to Pens and Paper FOR PEN & PAPER: JetPens (mostly cool pens from Japan that generally aren't available here in the US; great service) Goulet Pens (plenty of pens, Noodler's & several others - I'm drooling over the newish TWSBI's - & an extensive choice of fountain pen ink and paper; great service, too) InkNouveau (Goulet Pens' blog) J Stationery (fine Japanese stationery; not as large a selection as JetPens or GouletPens but good prices and the service was good) The Pen Addict's blog - reviews of new pens & pencils he has great giveaways, too! =D) An Inkophile's Blog Quo Vadis Blog Rhodia OrangeArt Store - expensive $ but gorgeous stationery - they carry Crown Mill and their Presentation boxes look wonderful Anderson Pens & their Blog Kate's Paperie Paper-Source Tiger Pens Blog & Tiger Pens Store Pendemonium HisNibs ("fine fountain pens & writing supplies) Richard Binder Fountain Pens Gourmet Pens Delectable Pens Paper & Ink Arts (they have Spencerian supplies, too) No Pen Intended Rants of the Archer Nostalgic Impressions American Stationery - American Stationery's blog: The Note Pad - American Stationery's articles about Letter Writing --------------------------------- For printable templates of foldable letters (no envelope needed) check out Letterfu. My favorite is the sushi. I used to keep extra copies of it in my desk at work. Salutations & Valedictions
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I love snail mail & good mail days =Dand this is definitely my favorite book on the subject of mail art: Good Mail Day by Jennie Hinchcliff and Carolee G. Wheeler.
More books about letter writing & Mail Art: * Gift of a Letter - Alexandra Stoddard * The Art of the Personal Letter - Margaret Shepherd * The Art of the Handwritten Note - Margaret Shepherd * Just Write: The Art of Personal Correspondence - Molly O'Shaugnessy * The Handcrafted Letter - Diane Maurer-Mathison * Writing Personal Notes & Letters - Jennifer Williams & editors of Victoria magazine * Personal Notes: How to Write from the Heart for Any Occasion - Sandra Lamb And books of letters (both fiction & non-fiction): * The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor - edited by Sally Fitzgerald * 84, Chariing Cross Road - Helene Hanff ~ Some of my Snail Mail Photos ~Write to DelightOur Letter Writing club -
We started off meeting in a Church / Elementary but with the nicer weather in the spring and summer, we started meeting in various local parks. And we usually get together on the last Thursday of the month now. With our rainy season quickly approaching, I'm not sure where we'll meet. --------- This letter writing resources handout is from our very first Write to Delight event (which was actually for my daughter's high school senior project): Write to Delight letter writing handout (2-sided)
LetterMo participants blogs* Writing by hand
* Treesweater's New blog * Girl for All Season's * Predilections * Tea leaves * A maily day (or Anny with a why) * Just Call Me a Crafty Frog - "Mailbox" * Special Delivery! What's in Your Mailbag? * Return to Rural * The Indextrious Reader * Mailbag Explorations Back up to Blogroll on main page
1) Snail Mail Blogs: ♥ Letter Matters (Mrs. Duffy's blog) ♥ Sharing Doubles the Joy/Carol Ann McCarthy (if link doesn't open try her home page & then click on "blog") ♥ Dosanko Debbie's Etegami Notebook ♥ Everyday Should Be a Red Letter Day ♥ Letter Writers Alliance ♥ Winnie's Girl ----> Pie Post - The Suburban Pen Pal - Cappuccino & Art Journal - Stamp of Approval ---> USPS Stamps - Your Postal Blog - Sarah's Scribblings - East...West... Everywhere - Leigh Reyes's Blog ~ My Life as a Verb - Letters & Journals - Save Snail Mail - Scribbling Glue - Songs in the Key of Ink: The Art of Personal Letter Writing - Bywater Wisdom (or lack thereof) - 365 Letters - Oh, Write Me! - Billet Doux & Little Mercuries - Mrs Murphy's Mailbox Magic! - The Postman's Knock ♥ The Lost Art of Letter Writing . . . Revived ♦ The Jane Austen Letter Writing Society (sounds like fun) - US Zip Codes lookup & map ♦ More links on Mail- Art & Letter-writing Resources page ***************** - My DIYJapanese-style envelope tutorial and template |