Outgoing to the US

Hello everybody

First I want to say thanks for the 1000 views! This is incredible,and if you follow me on instagram (@postalswing) you know that I already said thanks for all the people that supported me and helped me, but I just wanted to say again here on the blog, and well, thanks are never enough :)

But now, for the outgoing to Becca. She wrote me a really sweet letter and I hope my words to her make her as happy as I was reading about her :)

Since it is very hard here where I live to find good Stationery - what happened to all that beautiful decorated papers I used to find in the local stationery when I was 8 and collect it and swap with other girls at school ? - I decided that I was going to do it myself! Well, I want to learn how to use the watercolor set I have,  that was quite pricey and  that I wasn't really using 'cause I thought that I would just created a mess, but I guess my flowers turned out pretty good :p

Becca is a chemical engineering, so of course i had to make a periodic table envelope to her (learn how I did it here).

Becca, I hope you enjoy my words to you,and that the letter doesn't take much time to arrive.

                                                                                                                                           Much Love, Vi    

Outgoing to Israel

Hello :)

Today I came quickly just to show you my Outgoing to Topaz.

Made a TFOS " inspired" card :)

 I hope you enjoyed my words to you Topaz, and that my letter arrive safely for you :)

Much Love

Vi     

Postal Guest - Raquel

Hola mis amigos

Today I bring to you a new Guest, Raquel from Stockholm. She has a wonderful nail art, ( which made hard for me the task of choosing the pics for this post...haha) And I hope you can get inspired from her too :)

1-Talk a little about yourself ( or name,who are you, where you live, what you do etc)

My name is Raquel and my Instagram name is marionbcn. I am originally from Barcelona in Spain, and moved to Sweden back in 2007, I live in the capital of Sweden, Stockholm. I am 36 years old, born august 1978, and im married to kenneth whom  I have been together for 8 years now.

I work as a front desk agent in a boutique hotel in Stockholm. I have a lovely 6 years old kitty named Juno, and I love to go swimming.

Had to put a pic of Juno because, look at this cutie,such a model *--*

 2-when, and how you got into snail mail?

I started writing my first letters back in 1988, my first penpal was a danish girl I met on a holiday in a camping in a town called Palamós in the Costa Brava in Spain. The next summer I met some spanish girls at the same camping and they also became my penpals, you know, back then the internet didnt exist so we could not email eachother!

In 1992 I started looking for penpals actively thru music magazines such as super pop, smash hits or Kerrang!, soon I had about 10 regular penpals who i wrote to in catalan ( my mother tongue), spanish or english. I also strated swapping Fb's (friendship books) and met a bunch of foreign penpals that way.

After FB'S i also started swapping Slams and Decos.

There's few girls and a guy I have been writting with for nearly 20 years, and have met a lot of my penpals in real life during trips, or just had them over visiting. Always had awesome experiences meeting my penpals.

3- what you enjoy the most about snail mail and what you dislike the most?

The real frienship that you develope with your penpals is one of the best things about penpalling, listening and being listened.

What I dislike the most if when people stop writting without even letting you know that they are just gonna drop you off.

4- would you change or improve something in your country’s postal service?

I am very happy with the swedish postal system thank you! the only thing I'd change is the price, its ridiculosuly expensive, but yet again everything is very expensive in Sweden.

5- could you tell one of the most memorable or special things you received so far?

Just lovely chatty letters from my pals are the best things to get really.

6 -can you describe in one word the feeling of receiving mail?

Happiness!

Thanks Raquel for share a little about yourself with us :)

Mucho Amor

Vi    

Incoming - Australia and Hong Kong

Nǐ hǎo Péng Yǒu :)

Last week I received really beautiful letters. First from Wing, who lives in Hong Kong. She also sent me a little Frozen Card, that she designed herself, with the " let it go " song  lyrics on the back, thanks Wing, for this and all the great things you let me know about you :)

Wow, such beautiful stamps *----*

I also received a pretty letter from the sweet Kayla. I mean, just this wax seal made it all so beautiful right?

I loved to hear from you Kyla, in this cute pretty paper ^_^

I loved to read everything you girls had to tell me, and appreciated the little things you girls sent me. Thank you, cant wait to write you back ;)

And now, for the Postcards I received : One from Slovenia , a postcrossing official with this cutie cute kitty *----* and the other, a beautiful waterfall from my swap pal Bruno. Thanks :)

Much Love

Vi  S2     

How I make my envelopes

Olá amigos

Today Im here to share with you how I make my envelopes. I think an envelope can make a lot of difference on a letter. Sometimes(most of the times) just by looking to a beautiful, cool envelope that you receive, can make you even more excited to see what's inside ,and very happy, well at least I get happy :)

And when is a matter of envelopes you can go crazy with your creativity, and not necessary have to buy it to make pretty parcels. And the best thing about making your own, is that you can make it special and according to your penpals style or personality. So in this video I show four different ideas that you can use as base to create nice and beautiful envelopes ^_^

Muito amor

Vi S2    

Incoming from the USA

Thunder Clatter by Wild Cub 

Hello my friends

Today, I was a little bit stressed before leave for the post office ,but my grumpy face soon got a large smile after seeing everything I received :)

Priscilla sent me a really cute letter. I loved  read a little more about her, and can't wait to read even more things about Califórnia

                         

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Thank you so much Pri for those cute stickers and postcard ^-^

I also received a sweet sweet letter from Becca. I loved how she created a beautiful collage right at the envelope.

Isn't this balloon stamp so cute *-*

Thank you very much Becca, from all the words you sent me and the cute little gifts as well S2.

And, to make me extra happy, I also received some postcrossing officials :

I can't stop looking at this ballerina!

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                                                                                                                         Much love

      Vi S2   

                                                                                                                               

Incoming from Israel and Baby Bulldogs

Shalom

Today I received a sweet letter from the beautiful Topaz. It took two months to come all the way from Israel carrying with it not only the beautiful paper and two more coins for my collection (thank you Topaz^-^) and a nice postcard but also a whole new perspective about the conflict that, unfortunately goes on in Topaz's Country.

She was careful enough to make the envelope out of a Divergent ad, that she  knows  its one of my favorite series, so that was very sweet of her.

Thank you so Much Topaz, I can't wait to write and send something as special for you :)

Today I also received a postcrossing official cute postcard from Australia with the most cute Baby bulldogs ever! And look at this stamp *----*

 Much love 

Vi