^ Recovering Lazyholic.

I'm feeling like I can't keep up with anything lately. I am currently suffering through impending uni doom. My parents come home from Japan next week and I'm hoping bringing all my stuff back home will bring some normalcy. I have 41 letters in my pile to reply to, some of them becoming pretty overdue. Each letter has something so special and beautiful about it and thus I really can't bring myself to just sit down and churn out letter after letter in one sitting; they each deserve an equal amount of time, effort and appreciation. I hate the idea of writing a bunch of messy generic impersonal replies. If you're waiting on a letter from me, thank you so much for your patience - I can only hope my late letters will be worth the wait when they arrive!

Incoming;


^ I bought three of these babies from one of my favourite zine writer's Etsy shop - Alex Wreck's Brainscan. I'm not sure who I'm going to share them with yet, but I love them so!


^ A sweet little package from Greta in Lithuania. The postcards were particularly fetching.


^ A grandiose letter from Sarah in South Aus.


^ This envelope beheld a bunch of awesome things. From the very sweet miss Olivia in Montreal. I can't wait to use the 'Bonjour! Je m'appelle' labels.


^ My first letter from Miss Jane Boston and every bit of it was excellent. She included a back issue of her zine Stab Heart, which served as a wonderful introduction to her. She also included a print out of a survey to fill in - I hope she doesn't mind me posting it here, I just thought it was the most wonderful thing to include and I can't wait to fill it out;


^ Click on the images to see them bigger.


^ My first, very sweet letter from Rashel. I can't wait to reply.


^ An awesome little package from Garci filled with goodies. She won my first giveaway and her letter and envelope were covered with stamps I sent her. The vintage stationery she used is so gorgeous.


^ A very sweet handmade birthday card from Ria. Thank you Ria!


^ A brilliant little envelope and letter from Nicola.


^ I purchased some cute postcards from Diana of Our City Lights' Etsy store and she threw in SO MANY sweet goodies. Good mail is such a mood lifter. Even her invoice was so pretty! I highly recommend purchasing her wares - the postcards are fantastic.

And last but not least, Elissa the haiku queen sent me yet another indescribably incredible package, this time as I was a winner in her recent giveaway. Check this stuff;

^ Never ending huh? :D I've been wearing the paper crane necklace and the paper plane brooch every day.

And that's all the mail I received this week! Phew!

I stayed up until 4am the night before last clicking through the amazing posts in these two blogs. I love it when a blog just hooks you from reading a single post. Amazing ladies;



I just purchased these beauties from Vividot. I had her shop open in my browser for days, trying to choose. There are really too many beautiful designs in her shop and way too reasonably priced. I'll definitely be back;


^ Purple bike lane hair clips and Lavender primrose ring.

I've also got my eyes on these;




FYI; The giveaway winners have been drawn - but my camera's batteries are dead and my charger is at my parents', so I can't announce it just yet as I did a funny little photographed drawing names out of a bag exercise. Stay tooned! I can't wait to announce the winners.

I have two big assignments due tomorrow but I'm sick and I'm considering just emailing my lecturers, exaggerating my ills and then following it up with a medical certificate from my doctor who hands them out like candy. Here are a bunch of Etsy goodies I have my eye on;

1. Post Script; a zine about postcards that IS a postcard 2. Lego Postman Earrings 3. Airmail Postcards 4. Mini Book and Letter Hybrid 5. Postal Love Magnet Set of 3 6. Ilona Art Postcard Collection 7. Mailing Labels and Stickers 8. Vintage Postmark and Postage Stamp Buttons

9. Envelope Mail Sorter 10. Flying Airmail Envelope Set 11. The Postcard Reclamation Project Postcard Set 12. Vintage Style Cavallini & Co Airmail Stickers 13. Atlas Map Envelopes 14. Hand Lettered Air Mail Envelope Seals


15. Recycled 45 Record Mail Sorter 16. Vintage Household Labels 17. Hey Mr Postman Coasters 18. Wooden Stamp Set 19. Air Mail Stickers Mega Pack 20. Postman Paper Doll


21. Mail Odds & Ends 22. Flight Notecards 23. Airmail Label Notecard Set 24. Airmail Hand Carved Rubber Stamp 25. How To Send A Letter Zine 26. Airmail Pendant

PLUS check these out. I reaaaaaaally want a pair. I think they were only a prototype but I really hope they released them;




Listening to: We're Mostly Made Of Water - Kid Sam
Consuming: White chocolate
Avoiding: Impending uni doom.

Apologies for the lack of posts - I'm darting back and forth between my house and my parents' house where I'm babysitting overseeing my sister and step siblings for two weeks until my parents return from Japan. Here are a few quick pictures I took of the town on my walk;


^ Home to the Dungog Film Festival.


^ There was a tractor driving down the main street and I laughed.

My sister and I were playing with the settings on my camera a few nights ago and made some pretty pictures with a lighter and a torch in the dark;


Incoming;


^ My Benevolent Postcard Society incoming for this month, from my own state! I love these Courtney Brims postcards, I think I'll have to buy some for myself sometime.


^ A wonderful first letter from Angelia. Wonderful stationery.


^ I am very fond items of mail from this lady. I love the style of her envelopes.

Outgoing;


^ A postcard order to Linsey. Envelope made from a vampire book.


^ A birthday card for my Grandma :P


^ A postcard order for Sharon.


^ A postcard order for Megan. Envelope made from my postcard collage printed onto card.

For the rest of the day I'll be trying to convince myself to do some uni work (uni goes back tomorrow, boo). I left all of my letters in Dungog in a big bag and drove my mum's car back home and now all I feel like doing is writing letters.

Happy weekend! :)

Remember this collage? I got a hundred postcards printed of the design and they arrived today in a big pack;



There's a bit of white space around the edges of the image, but other than that I'm pretty happy with them. Glossy-front, 100% recycled paper and with an address sticker graphic printed on the back. I got them printed through Vistaprint and they took about three weeks to arrive. I just listed them in my new Etsy store; $5 for a pack of 5 or $1.50 each, if you like 'em! I've only listed 5 of each, but I'll definitely put more up if you're interested :) I've only put those two listings up so far but I've got a few other things (stationery, stickers, zines etc) that I'm thinking about putting up there too. Thank you so much for your encouragement on previous posts regarding selling my wares! I really appreciate it :)

^ Yeah I totally stole my own graphic for the store header :P

To celebrate the opening of this little Etsy store - Mushab00m Bazaar - here is a teeny tiny giveaway offering for you;

Giveaway includes; one pack of 5 postcards, to two winners; lovingly packaged in brown paper and bakers twine and in a personally decorated package with a letter from yours truly.

To enter;

♡ Drop a comment right here and tell me - If you were to write a postcard to a celebrity, who would it be to and what might you say? To someone you like or someone you don't like? Something nice or something mean? Somebody current or somebody from the past? Interpret it as you will!

♡ You're welcome to tweet or blog about this giveaway for an extra entry (in another comment) but it's by no means obligatory. Just make sure there's a way to contact you! :)

Anyone is welcome to enter and I will draw the winners randomly at midday on Saturday 17th of April. Good luck and thank you! :)

Funnily enough this coincides with my 200th post and hitting 200 followers, celebrations all round :P