Today C and I went for a bike ride. My new bike arrived last week in a big box and we assembled it but had trouble with the brake tension and so when we I left the house today the brakes worked, but soon afterward - nothing! This would have been fine if I could touch the ground to stop - but my legs are too short! It was pretty scary to ride with no brakes and so I ended up walking it into the city and we stopped at the big old post box outside city park to post a letter to Lauren. The pretty pink bike is now being looked after by some nice men who fix bikes until Tuesday. Hopefully she doesn't cost me a small fortune. It will be nice to at least have everything properly adjusted. When I was able to ride it today, it was such a wonderful ride. Launceston is full of bike paths and I can't wait to explore them.
✍ Just Noey has a cute range of 'Post a Plates' at her Etsy, mail good enough to eat off! (via Milly)
✍ Have you discovered the wonders of Bad Postcards? It is a treasure trove of slightly unfortunate vintage American postal items.
✍ Map Envelope lets you print out a template for an envelope that is lined with your Google Maps location.
✍ Ever wanted to tweet by snail mail? Similarly, Dawdlr asks you to send them a postcard telling them "what are you doing, you know, more generally?".
✍ How would one Google without the internet? How about Snail Mail Google? Mail away your search and see if they write back.
✍ An oldie but a goodie - the ol' Postcarden - in Botanical, Allotment, City and Football varieties. It arrives as a card and you transform it into a tiny garden.
✍ I was never a Mr Bean fan as a kid, but this video of Mr Bean trying to post a letter did make me smile.
✍ My grandma makes hand-made quilted fabric postcards - though mine will never live up to her glory I'm thinking about trying my hand at it, I found a bit of a how-to here.
✍ Nutre Jewellers make a collection of wooden rings that you send as postcards and then assemble. Cute! Likewise, you can Build Your Own New York with constructible NY building postcards.
Milly aka Laura aka Make Do & Mend was kind enough to host a travelling journal and I am a participant. The theme is 'What I Did Today' and each participant decorates a couple of pages detailing what happened on the day the journal reached them. So far the journal has only ventured from Laura in the UK to Brodie in Melbourne and then to me and I will be sending it onward to Sharni in Victoria. At the very end Laura will post up pictures of everyone's pages. The majority of my art making tools are in storage, but it was kind of fun being limited for tools. Here are the pages I decorated;
The mail themed travelling journal I hosted back in November is about a third of the way through its 20 participants, hopefully it makes it back one day. Perhaps it's time to start another!
