^ Natalie Dee.

This is just a little mail post as I spent most of the week underneath a pile of zines and yellow envelopes and very few letters were written. I swear I'll chip a bunch off the pile this week! I wish I had more hours in my days! I hope your mailbox has been happy of late :)




^ A lovely envelope and lovely letter from my little sister.


^ I bought one of Jane's lovely zines and this is the great packaging it came in.


^ Another warm, wonderful letter from Megan.


^ This package was postmarked 'MAY 27', can you believe it? It had a long stay in customs and then it was delayed by arriving at my old address instead of being redirected, where my ex-housemate, who has never sent a letter in his life, had no idea what to do with it despite many detailed Facebook messages. Eventually I just asked my mum to pick it up from my old house which she did, then she flew to Fiji and forgot to post it, so finally my sister found it for me, wrote my new address on it and threw on some new stamps. Phew! And it was an excellent package from Jane and I am going to fast track a little something back.


^ Lovely things from Astrid in Germany.


^ A sweet postcard from L.


^ I purchased a great ephemera package from Chaos Supplies and this was the cool packaging.




^ Something for a lovely Send Something penpal.


^ A piece of ocean for Kendra.


^ A little letter for Melissa.


^ For Canadian Liz.


^ For lovely Faiza.



Also, I've been adding a couple more items to my Etsy store one by one, including the above Parfait Lady notecards today which are $4 for 6. I think they are all I'm going to be writing on for a few weeks.

PS. This post is my 300th post on this blog!

^ a dreamy (though sadly unknown) kitchen. i'll take one in red plz!

this week;
+ baked successful experimental choc-orange cupcakes
+ re-dyed my hair and nervously cut myself a fringe which I am really enjoying (with help from this excellent agent lover post)
+ picking freesias, they make the whole house smell delicious
+ ten-to-midnight weiss ice cream trip
+ good phone calls from min, paige and ma
+ 5 letters written in the early hours of tuesday morning while watching entourage
+ a great, long google-phone chat with lauren
+ c's parents started a vegetable garden in our backyard - we should begin to see edible things in 4 - 12 weeks
+ received 48 zine orders - got zines photocopied, decorated envelopes, bought $99 worth of stamps (see receipt below), wrote 48 little notes and sealed up 48 packages ready to be sent on monday
+ reading terry pratchett to c before bed
+ waking up in the morning in a dark room with the blinds closed and heavy rain
+ i bought hairspray that makes my fringe smell delicious, ha
+ miike snow by miike snow

- i ripped a huge hole in the back of one of my favourite vintage dresses while riding my bike and didn't notice until i got home, several hours later (as some consolation i was wearing stockings)
- i ate into my tiny savings account so i could afford to eat. i may need to write myself up a better budget
- relentless back pain - how will this damaged 20-year old spine last another 60(?) years?


^ sadly, $99 worth of stamps only got me 52 stamps (mostly international)


^ i don't have a good stapler and i ran out of twine to bind the zines with so i sewed them up instead.


^ almost all of the orders almost ready to go. thank you so much for the zine love! i hope you enjoy it as much as i did making it.


^ some address labels i drew up and printed onto sticker paper. for sale here if you like 'em!


^ a freshly cut fringe

I recently caught wind of this project via Molly and had to share - I loved the Human Clock and Human Calendar (to your left) projects and now the guy behind them is doing a similar project called PO BOX Clock wherein he asks folks to choose a time from a drop box on his site (I chose 20:03 because that's my birthday), draw that time on a piece of paper or a postcard and then send it in to him. Eventually, once enough have been collected (a lot!) he'll photograph each of them and turn them into a clock on his website wherein a new postcard will pop up every minute displaying the time.




This is my submission;


To participate click here.

I cannot get enough red in my life: 1. Modcloth 'Just Thinkin' about Tomorrow' Dress 2. Beth Ditto for Evans Red and Black Printed Dress 3. Modcloth Houndstooth of the Baskervilles Coat 4. Modcloth KIT Gloves in Red 5. Modcloth Candy Dipped Flat 6. Collectif Sailor Suzie Dress 7. Modcloth Little Bow Sweet Sweater 8. Vivienne Westwood Anglomania for Melissa Wax Seal Flat Shoe 9. Irregular Choice Poetic Licence Peachy Keen Shoes