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#3 of 52: Flickr, Handwriting and Lost Letters

23 Tuesday Jan 2018

Posted by inlovewithjournals in books that sound interesting, giveaways, letter writing, life, websites

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canada post, flickr, goulet pens, kyo maclear, lamy 2000, national handwriting day, wonder pens

Hello there. Sorry this is late; after uploading last week’s post I got a message saying no more posts until I freed up some space. Hopefully this one will upload.

I am making headway on the space issue, and thanks are due for that to Paul Godden, who commented on last week’s post and pointed me in the direction of Flickr. I’m now hosting my photos there and linking to them from here. Genius! And they have a LOT of space at Flickr. Thanks again Paul. The photos are slowly being moved.

I wanted to write today because it is National Handwriting Day! Today we celebrate the practice of handwriting with a pen or pencil, on John Hancock’s birthday. And on the 41st anniversary it looks like the US congress is supporting their efforts. Let’s hope this signals a shift in thinking in regards to bringing back the teaching of cursive in schools. Goulet Pens is giving away a Lamy 2000 gift set to celebrate. Fun stuff!

More along the handwriting vein: a review of Kyo Maclear’s book The Letter Opener by Liz over at the Wonder Pens blog. My local library does not have a copy but I have flagged it on Goodreads as one I want to read. It is 1989 and Naiko is working in the Undeliverable Mail Office, looking through the contents of letters and parcels for clues as to the address to which the items belong. When her friend and coworker vanishes Naiko tries to piece together what might have happened. There actually is such an office at Canada Post; I was contacted by them many years ago when a box of personal items was undeliverable. When opened there were quite a few letters bearing my name and address. They belonged to a dear friend of mine. When they phoned I was deeply touched he had kept them and equally sorry I could not help them find him, as we had lost touch many years before. I offered to take the items off their hands and do further research but they, rightly, rejected that idea. The box was not mine to claim. I hope somehow the box found its way back to him, along with my letters.

I hope you wrote something by hand today, and that you enjoyed the pen, the paper and the fluid joy of it. I know I did.

Vintage Valentines

14 Sunday Feb 2016

Posted by inlovewithjournals in letter writing, stationery

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greeting cards, st. valentine, vintage

St. Valentine was a priest living in Rome in the third century. Marriages were banned under Emperor Claudius II and it is thought that Valentine arranged marriages in secret. The story goes that he sent the woman he loved a letter signed “from your Valentine” on February 14, the day of his execution. So on this day I wanted to show you my vintage Valentine collection.

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When I was 13 or 14 we visited my mother’s uncle after his wife passed away and soon after a package arrived in the mail for me. It contained these Valentines and some of my great aunt’s things. Fred and Marjorie were married for over 50 years and he always gave her a Valentine’s Day card. These particular ones were sent during their courtship. The ones that have dates range from 1920 to 1930. I think they are quite wonderful and hope you will too.

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This is the oldest one in the collection, from 1920. It looks the most like modern day cards. The others are much more ornate but this one has a simple elegance that I like. The red ribbon is silk and still quite a vibrant colour.

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I wonder if this card was sent before they became an item:

Good Wishes on Valentines Day
The lovers think they own this day, perhaps they really do,
But it seems to me there ought to be a place for Friendship too;
So I’m going to steal a corner of the day old friend of mine,
To send you my good wishes by dear old St. Valentine.

And he signed it From W.C.W., his initials. W was for Wilfred.

This next one isn’t signed or dated.

basket of roses closed

This marks the first of the three dimensional cut out cards. These cards are beautiful closed or open. The message is simple – To my Valentine – and is the only sentiment on the card. But really the card speaks for itself.

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I love the surprise of the bird with its beak resting on a white envelope, and the castle in the distance with the rolling hills, which is only hinted at when the card is closed. And the attention to detail is astounding – look at the tip of the sword the young man is sporting on the left. Fantastic.

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Another stunning example, this time with daisies being the flower of choice. According to canadianflowerdelivery.com daisies are the embodiment of purity and innocence, swearing a loyalty to love and a commitment to shared secrecy. The inscription says To Marjorie From Fred, 1922.

I guess what is truly astounding is that something so old is so wonderfully preserved. The colours are still vibrant and the paper still stands up. Very delicate but tough at the same time. I have been very careful since receiving them in 1983 or 1984 to keep them in archival envelopes and I rarely take them out. So writing this post was a treat for me too!

birds and wheels open

I think this one is my favourite. I love how the angel, Cupid I guess, is descending the stairs, scattering roses as the maiden descends. The maiden is gazing at the lovebirds on the left, and her hand is holding actual string that is attached to the larger white birds on the right. The envelope for this one must have been huge. I have two of the envelopes Marjorie received, you can see them lying on the desk, but I’m not sure which envelope goes with which because the dates have long since faded.

pansy lace standing up

This one opens like a modern-day card but the front is definitely not something you would find in Hallmark! There are actually four layers of paper cut outs here. I’m in love with the lacy white overlay. But in this photo I realized you can’t actually see the charming couple in the middle of the overlay, so…..

pansy lace laying down

There they are! So cute. The paper fasteners between the layers have lost a bit of their stiffness but we still get the idea. It must have been magical when it was brand new.

pansy lace inside

Look at his handwriting! He was probably using a fountain pen.

The reference to “Dan Cupid” means “Lord Cupid” according to my quick internet research, from the Latin Dominus. Cupid looks exhausted from shooting arrows, and very pleased with himself.

purple flowers closed

Here you can see a bit more of the envelopes I mentioned earlier. And this Valentine is another example of the paper cut-out tradition, this time from 1923.

purple flowers open

In this example the flowers are not as intricately cut out as the lacy one, or even the daisy festooned flying chariot example. But it is still charming and the colours remain true.

Love brings sunshine to the heart,
May yours in mine such joy impart.

And finally we come to my last Valentine, this one from 1930.

roses closed

Absolutely bursting with roses!

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Here we see Cupid with his be-ribboned heart, with a tiny letter attached, inscribed “Valentine’s Greetings”. The cuts are so intricate, the leaves of the roses but also the ribbons on the heart.

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And on the back of this one we find my great uncle’s message to me. Midge was her nickname and how I was introduced to her years before. I believe he was in his late 80s when he sent these to me. He died a short time later.uncle fredHere is the man himself, which he included in the package. On it he wrote another message to me: “I found this in a book taken in Scotland in 1917 when I was on leave. Do you like it. All the girls like me not the picture.”

I liked it very much indeed Uncle Fred, and I will never part with them.

Happy Valentine’s Day everyone.

Some Birthday Goodies

20 Sunday Sep 2015

Posted by inlovewithjournals in letter writing, my journal collection, my pen collection

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carnet, crystal pen, girl of all work, michael's, miss piggy, peter pauper press

Another year older and some new stationery items to review!

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My friends really know what I love. The 360 Adhesive Point Tabs from Girl of All Work Accessories were a sweet surprise when I got into work on Friday. I love Girl of All Work; they have such beautiful products. These Point Tabs are the Rush pattern, and they are super cool.

Then another great friend presented me with a bagful of awesome stationery!! The two standing journals in the back as well as the black cupcake notebook in the foreground are from Carnet. They are lined, wide-ruled, and the paper feels really good. I will do ink tests when I use the notebooks. The paisley one and the chalkboard cupcake one are hard cover, while the gold and white geometric design is soft cover. The pink and gold monogrammed notecards are from Michael’s and I think the blue and gold mini notebooks and the pen are also from Michael’s. The pen is known as a Crystal Pen and I’ve seen many YouTubers rave about them for their planners.

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The paisley journal (top left) has blue lines with a beautiful flower pattern at the top of each page. (Sorry for no closeups; pressed for time.) The gold geometric soft cover notebook is open at the top right and has light lines, and opens flat, just beautifully. Same with the reporter-style notebook (black with cupcakes on the cover): standard white paper with light blue lines. I stuck a Point Tab sticky on the page and it adhered really well. I did a writing sample with the Crystal Pen and it’s a very smooth writer, with light black ink. I’ve seen refills online so that shouldn’t be a problem. And the notecards are heavy cardstock with a nice surprise in the envelope: gold lining. Fancy!

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And then two other beautiful friends included these lovely items in their presents to me. I love this STUNNING Celtic notebook by Peter Pauper Press. I have never seen this pattern and I’m just thrilled with it. The ornate planner/purse charm will look gorgeous on my planner I think, and the Miss Piggy note sheets are hilarious.

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The journal is actually called the Celtic Colours Journal and here’s the inside endpaper.

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This paper was a surprise – so beautiful! It is very lightly lined and a beautiful tan colour. And that gorgeous green ribbon! Very special notebook.

Thank you to my lovely friends who spoiled me with these beautiful notebooks and stationery! It means so much to me that I can share these wonderful items with all of you.

Journal and Letter Storage

15 Sunday Mar 2015

Posted by inlovewithjournals in letter writing, my journal collection

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michael's, phasha, storage

Recently I bought a couple of those fancy decorative boxes from Michael’s. One of them I’m using for finished journal storage.

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I wanted them close but not taking up space on my bookshelf. I really like these boxes.

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I have no idea what I will put in the other box but when I figure it out I will probably post about it.

And further in the vein of storage, I was running out of room for my received letters in an inexpensive accordion file. I thought about buying smaller decorative boxes for the letters but I wanted somehow to be able to look at them and re-read them. I wracked my brain and it suddenly occurred to me that I also have never used one of my large Phasha journals and it could solve my problem. And it did.

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I thought I would put the letters in received date order and add an index to the front of the journal.

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This way I can just glue the letters in as I respond to them.

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It’s really working well and it’s fun to glue the envelopes and letters in. I still have a ways to go with all of the letters I’ve responded to in the past couple of years…..

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It’s astonishing that these letters were bursting out of my accordion file, but seem to all fit in this shoebox just fine. I have 89 letters to glue into my journal. I’m just so pleased to finally find a purpose for my beautiful Phasha journal. I couldn’t see myself writing in it because it is so huge but it’s perfect for these letters.

InCoWriMo 2015: Final Update

08 Sunday Mar 2015

Posted by inlovewithjournals in events, letter writing

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InCoWriMo 2015 ended last week. I did not do as well this year; I sent a total of 14 letters and received 7. But the whole exercise has ignited my love of letter writing once again, much to the delight of my Reply To pile (can a stack of letters feel delight? I like to think so).

All of the letters I received were lovely but a few stood out.

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At top left the long yellow envelope was very interesting, and was from a brand new pen pal. Actually all of these were from brand new pen pals. I love the gold wax seal and the InCoWriMo stationery is great. I should print those out for myself next year. But the beautiful art card was the gem of the month. Isn’t it gorgeous? I can’t wait to get through my Reply To pile to these folks. I’ve written three letters this weekend so I’ll get there soon.

I hope everyone who participated in InCoWriMo this year had a blast, as I certainly did. I apologize in general to those pen pals who are waiting on a letter from me; and to the new pen pals thank you so much and I will answer your good letters just as soon as I can.

Happy writing.

The Literary Gift Company

16 Sunday Nov 2014

Posted by inlovewithjournals in letter writing, stationery

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catcher in the rye, charlotte bronte, chonicle books, david chapman, emily bronte, j.d. salinger, james joyce, john lennon, library of congress, literary gift company, nathaniel hawthorne, shakespeare and company, the scarlet letter, ulysses, william shakespeare

If you have readers or writers on your Christmas list then The Literary Gift Company is a good place to start. They have a multitude of different literary gifts, at various price points. Clothing, diaries, jewellery, journals, stationery and home decor, just to name a few categories. The team behind the website is super friendly and the shipping is fast and super reasonable. I placed an order and it arrived in 6 days.

I bought some Christmas gifts so I can only share the one item from the order I bought for myself: The Card Catalog: 30 Notecards from the Library of Congress. The notecards come in a realistic looking cardboard catalog drawer, with 5 tabbed dividers. It is published by Chronicle Books.

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Let me explain two things that drew me to this notecard set. In university I worked in the university Library, part time during term and full time in the summer. I loved the work and in the first couple of years my job was to type up the card catalogue cards. Yes, actually type them up using an electronic typewriter. I still remember the thrill of completing a set of cards, one each for the author drawer, title drawer and subject drawer. Then removing the long steel rod in the bottom of the drawer, removing a section of cards so the new ones could be inserted, and then running the whole set through with the steel rod once again. Today we take for granted the digital catalogue we all enjoy at our local library, but there is something so satisfying about the physicality of the card catalogues of 20 years ago.

Secondly, I visited the Library of Congress in 2000 and I was forever changed by the experience. The library is like a fairy castle, shimmering white columns and soaring frescoed ceilings. The scope of their holdings is staggering, and I was overwhelmed with emotion as I stood and looked down upon the main reading room. It is an awe-inspiring building, and so it should be, for it houses the largest library in the world. If you want to take an online tour(!) click here.

So you can imagine my excitement when I found this notecard set. Let me apologize to any penpals reading this; you will not be receiving one of these notecards because I doubt I will ever part with one. Except for this one – it has been spoken for by a Salinger- fan-friend:

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I must admit I do not remember any of the coding for the catalogue cards so I do not know what most of the markings mean. I was struck by the colour; it is the only yellow one in the bunch but google hasn’t been able to help me determine what that colour might mean. And I was struck by the “bz 40 Mar 12 1980” as David Chapman was reading Catcher in the Rye after shooting John Lennon in December of 1980. Chilling.

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Can you imagine the outrage felt by Emily when her only novel was attributed to Charlotte? Although she may not have lived to see this edition published, as she died in December of 1848.

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I love this cataloguer’s note detailing the use of the word repudiate and other textual changes, including the addition of a preface, in this particular edition of Hawthorne’s The Scarlet Letter.

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Impressive; this edition is one of the original 2,000 published by Shakespeare and Company in Paris, 1922.

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And my favourite; although I’m not sure this card refers to a book at all. It opens with the word Ornament, but it is a Card 2; I wonder what Card 1 said? Lovely prose and beautiful handwriting.

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And if you are wondering the back of each notecard looks like this (on the left) with coordinating blue envelopes.

I hope you enjoyed this review of the notecard set and take a look around the Literary Gift Company site for more bookish items!

Stamps, Boxes and Filigree Blue

01 Sunday Jun 2014

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bleu pervenche, j. herbin, paperblanks, punch studio, recollections, stampendous, stamps, stationery

Some random stuff tonight. I found myself in Michael’s yesterday with my 40% off coupon on my phone. I’ve been really getting into stamps lately; one of my letter writing friends uses the neatest stamps on her envelopes and I’ve been looking for something to embellish mine. I bought a couple on ebay which have not yet arrived; stay tuned for posts on those. But yesterday I found these at Michael’s:

stamps

The smaller stamp on the left is called Typewriter Keys and is by Stampendous. I can’t find a name for the stamp on the right, but it is by Recollections. It was on sale for $7.99 so I couldn’t apply my coupon, but the Typewriter Keys was $16.99 so I got 40% off that. I applied them today to a letter for one of my pen pals.

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The front of the letter.

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The back of the letter. I really like the way they’ve turned out. I hope my pen pal likes it too!

I also found these decorative boxes at Michael’s, on sale for 40% off. They are by Punch Studio, and I have some beautiful notepaper by them already, so these boxes fit right in with my collection.

decorative boxes

I’m not sure what I will keep in them but my pens are a perfect fit…

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pens fit perfectly

And finally I was updating my Book Journal recently; I’ve been really struggling to read over the last two months, not sure why. But I just finished On a Personal Note by Rita MacNeil and I was reaching for my Book Journal to update, when I realized I haven’t shared my Maya Blue Ultra journal in the Silver Filigree Collection by Paperblanks yet.

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Here it is on the shelf, just waiting to be introduced!

filigree in blue

This is from the same family as the Reading Journal, only in blue. I saw it online last year at a discount and I had to order it. All I could think was how great the Bleu Pervenche ink would look in it; it’s the perfect match to the blue. I want to start journalling in it right away, but I’ve chosen the Embossed Italian Journal as my Volume 2 for 2014. Sigh. I’m not so happy with the Italian. The paper quality is not fountain pen friendly, which means I’m limited as to which pens I can use in it. And it’s very floppy and hard to write in and doesn’t have a ribbon…sorry I don’t mean to complain. It’s a beautiful journal but the guts of it are just not my preference. I hate to abandon a journal that’s barely been started, especially since it was a gift, but….further bulletins as events warrant.

 

Card File for Correspondence

11 Sunday May 2014

Posted by inlovewithjournals in crafts, letter writing

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So I’ve been keeping my correspondence log in this ARC notebook, which started out as a Letter Writers Alliance log and turned into an InCoWriMo log, as I got a much better response from that endeavour than the pen pals that were sent to me from LWA. But as the number of letters sent grew larger (I’m in the 60s now since February 1) and my stack of replies seems to stay at a constant dozen, I needed something more organized. I wanted to keep track of the person’s name and address but also a log of our correspondence and some idea of what I’ve already said to the person. Don’t want to be a boring correspondent. So I came up with a card file. I had a 40% off coupon at Michael’s and I used it. Please know that I am not a crafter; I have never attempted decoupage before so this is my first project. Please indulge the rookie mistakes. 🙂

front of box

I wanted something more interesting than a recipe box but not as big as a conventional card file (one that might fit a shoe box – I don’t have that many correspondents). I saw this rough wooden box in Michael’s and thought it was perfect. I bought a bottle of Mod Podge and some foam brushes and went to town decoupaging the box. It’s not finished yet; I will do another post when it’s done. I intend to cover the entire thing (or as much of it as I’m capable of) with interesting paper I have collected over the years. In the picture above the paper on the front right is a page from my Bo Bunny Miscellaneous Me collection of notepaper. I cut it into an interesting shape, laid it on the box, and covered it with the gooey Mod Podge. The paper on the front left is gift wrap given to me years ago. You may recognize it from this post in which I use it as a divider in my planner. The sticker is one I picked up at Michael’s a while ago. I’ve been waiting for the right project to use them on and this is definitely it. The finished project will probably have more of those stickers.

closeup of front

I thought it would be interesting to have the paper cover the edges of the box. I used an exacto knife to cut the box open again after the paper was dry.

The image on the top of the box is a napkin, believe it or not. I removed the two layers of absorbent sheet on the napkin and was left with a very thin sheet with the image on it. It was tricky to decoupage as it becomes like wet tissue as soon as the Mod Podge hits it. But I’m very happy with the end result.

top of box

The other side of the napkin had a similar but slightly different design so I put that one on the inside of the box lid. You can see where the napkin started to tear on the left. I’m learning!

inside cover

For the card file I needed dividers. Michael’s didn’t have any so I went to Staples and they only had the brightly colored modern ones; I was hoping for the vintage looking black and tan ones. No luck. So I made the dividers myself using brown tags.

index card dividers

The two-toned brown tags match my colour scheme, such as it is. I used an alphabet stamp set to make the letters.

Each correspondent will have their own set of three types of cards: Name and Address on the first, Log on the second, and Letters on the third and subsequent cards.

sample cards

The first card is simply their name and address, and perhaps any extra info about them, like their username on FPGeeks or Youtube for example. The second card, the Log, will be a record of when each letter was sent from me and when I received their reply. The third card, the Letters, will be the details of what I said to them in each letter. I don’t want to repeat funny stories about the cats or my husband or something at work. And each set of cards will be fastened together with an interesting paper clip (finally a use for all those funky paper clips I own!). Each paper-clipped set will be filed under the person’s first name, as that is how I will think of them for sure. So when I sit down to write a response, I will have their last letter in front of me to answer, but I will also have all of their information from the card file. I’ve been using this system for about a week now and it’s working great!

As I said I still have work to do on the box. And after it’s all covered in paper I’m told I should do a final Mod Podge coat, to seal it all in. I will do another post when I’m done. Hope you enjoyed this – I’m certainly having fun playing with paper and glue!

The Fading Art

05 Monday May 2014

Posted by inlovewithjournals in articles, letter writing, websites

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handwriting, incowrimo, letter writers alliance, letters, new york times, postcrossing

Loved this article by Catherine Field in the New York Times. I share the author’s fears of what this generation’s legacy will be. Handwriting is no longer taught in schools. Young people claim they cannot read cursive. So I share the fears but I’m also optimistic. With websites such as Letter Writing Alliance, InCoWriMo and PostCrossing more and more people are turning to “old-fashioned” methods of communicating. I searched for “penpals” on Google and over 1.5 million results were returned.

A good handwritten letter is a creative act, and not just because it is a visual and tactile pleasure. It is a deliberate act of exposure, a form of vulnerability, because handwriting opens a window on the soul in a way that cyber communication can never do. You savor their arrival and later take care to place them in a box for safe keeping.

Our souls crave human connections, not wifi connections. I have faith in humans so handwriting will be around long after I’m gone. At least I hope so.

InCoWriMo Begins

02 Sunday Feb 2014

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handwriting, incowrimo, letters

Well it actually began yesterday but I was busy all day and didn’t get a chance to take a photo of the letters I’ve written so far. So here they are:

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Even though folks have shared their addresses with me I felt it best to hide their personal info.

I’m very excited! I sent a message to an InCoWriMo participant because I laugh at all his posts on FPGeeks and he replied that his wife, also a forum member and InCoWriMo participant, had already sent me a letter! How cool is that!

Happy letter writing everyone.

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