holiday tree to Maggie

I did this design in 2022 for my 100 Days of Redos. Finally decided to part with it.

And my darn ink wasn't flowing well, so I messed up her name (wish I had done a ligature with the M and A, as it would have looked better. Sorry Maggie!)

Insert, which turned out better!

 

Yearly Fam Cards (2025)

Did my altered Roman K Caps for our family holiday cards this year...

I still need to work on my layout and letter positioning as well as a few ligatures.

I LOVE how Mark & Tony's turned out!!

And had a little fun with this one (actually a happy accident as I was trying to cover up some mistakes).

Holly to Lynne

Created this design a few years ago for my 25 Days of Cmas Envies and decided to send to Lynne as a ty for my bday env.!

I want to remake with the design flipped.

 

Reindeer to Kristine

Gonna start posting some holiday Thank You's heading out to those who sent me bday wishes!

Did a reindeer theme for Kristine with altered Killian Caps

Hard to see on the red but I'm getting low on brown craft env.'s

Happy Bday to ME! :)

I was so surprised with all the lovely bday snail mail I got this year!!!

(and 2 others that arrived a bit late! They also had goodies in them, one even giving me postage stamps! -- I'll always take a stamp!)

thanks so much to my snail mail pals!  Made this year even more special.  😊

 

Converted Amazon (Recycled)

So, this paper brown package was in near pristine condition, and with the "Recyclable" label, found it perfect to convert into an env.! I'd been wanting to do this with other things (other brown bags) but we use ours for garbage! How fun!

(ok, save your amazon rants... As a friend of mine once said, "in shopping at Target or amazon, I feel as though I'm supporting those hard working employees and their families.")

i once read a person's blog who was trying to shame others for not "shopping local" which I find to be an utter joke, esp. if that local shop owner is an @**hole. Local is just where you live. Plus, what if that person cannot afford that local person's higher prices??? It's easy to judge when you don't have empathy or understand for all. I myself have encountered a few not-so-nice "local" shop owners and i'll be damned if they get any of my money!

But anyway... this isn't about that... My snail mail blog is for my envies!!! SO back to that...

Finished. Wonder who I'll send it to??? (maybe that blogger who was shaming!  :D)

before.

Nov. to Dominique

Another L. Doctor inspo!

this one stems from my tiny art piece: https://foldedpenfan.blogspot.com/search?updated-max=2025-10-30T07:34:00-07:00&max-results=7

I also did a version of Killian Caps for her name.

Back side (again more K. Caps)

Close ups

And with one of my Erasure Poems art (did leaf match).