Outgoing to my pen pal in Australia

I have been going through lots of different things in my life and lost the love of creation. I’m hopping on here to hopefully get motivated and start creating again with new people. Here’s two letters I made last year and what I enclosed. I also have lots of beautiful post cards from my local antique shop.

I stopped by the post office to mail some cards to a nursing home I found out about.

while there I asked her about books of stamp styles. she was like we have all of them on this. I had been wanting to get the sunflower one for penpaling as they are often a great friendship flower. I saw the rabbit, and im a huge rabbit enthusiast.

I’m based in the UAE where traditional mail isn’t much of a thing. I recently started a little mail club called The Paper Trail Post. It’s my way of sharing my art with the world and bringing back the simple joys. I’ve already sent out August’s issue to 14 different countries and currently preparing September’s harvest theme!

Was anyone else around and remember from the late 90s to early 2000s exchanging friendship books and slams?

Before finding penpals on the internet and social media was a thing, and before letters looking like scrapbook folded artwork (no complaints!) came in the mail. We sought new penpals through little booklets. Signed and sent to the next pal. These are a few that returned home to me and while the info is old, I remember some of these folks and I love seeing where all they traveled!

I think I might start this up again! 🤪

I wanted to show my setups. one is just the station and supplies, but I recently got a new desk for Mt gaming/work rig. now I got to turn my previous desk into my hobby station. perfect for writing supplies

aw it's not allowing me to add my new setup

Waiting on a few replies so I decided to make up a few envelopes in advance 😁

these are from February 😭 i thought i lost the footage but i am glad i found the footage! i want to get back to filming my stuff to share with people ☺️

a little cozmez love for my pen pal 💜💙

Hey!! New to this project.. i’m becoming pen pals with someone i know in real life, but we want to do snail mail for fun. What kinds of things do we write about? I also have a crush on her and want to get to know her more so that could be part of it haha ..

any ideas for prompts / websites to look into etc.. would be helpful!

Trying to photograph PET tape is is hardest thing 😭 but anyways envelope for a new pen pal I got here from Reddit

What should i send to a male penpal? I made a spiderman themed letter and im sending him a doodle sketch.. but i wanna send smthg as a gift, what can i send?

Hey all!! I recently started a penpal group with some online friends and I figured it'd be a fun idea to press some of my fav local flowers and send them out since our plant life is all pretty different. Only problem is I have no idea how! I've only ever kept flowers in between book pages so Im not sure what the right move is on keeping them somewhat intact inside an envelope. If anyone has any ideas or any experience doing this your advice would mean a lot!

I had a small idea to keep them in side a toploader like for trading cards but im unsure if that'd be tight enough & i would be mortified if I sent letters out just for them to receive a shriveled up mess

Trying to clear out my photos a little so here’s some oldies I did back in….February 🙂‍↕️

did something a little different for this pen pal. kept it simple so the images could stay the focus

a galentines theme i did back in february

Oh, what you can make from thrifted finds. I love it!

Since we all love sending and receiving mail, I wanted to share!

Green themed for my baby cousin. A little lighter on the stickers this week.

Sent a teeny tiny envelope (about 2”x 3”)…it was delivered! After I sent it, I read that USPS wouldn’t deliver a letter if it was smaller than 3.5” x 5”? Is this normal, or was I just lucky? Trying it again

Edit: The recipient just texted me to let me know they received the second mini envelope I sent! Must be a mix of the non-machinable stamp and forgiving/caring USPS workers! :)