Mail, mail, mail! :D

Hello folks!
These last days have been totally empty regarding mail, I had no letter left to reply and no incoming mail either as I was away from my mailbox. Sad, eh?
Anyways. Today I was finally back home after staying at my mom's for a little over two weeks, so I finally checked the mail and...

Ooooh.... (my reaction when finding all these letters in my maibox ;) )
8 letters! I didn't expect so many :)

3 hours and a half and 6 cups of tea (yes, six!) later, I'm finally done with reading them all, and I can upload the pictures :)

The first is from Louise in the UK. Actually I was already expecting it the last time I checked my mailbox (a little over two weeks ago), so I was a little afraid it has got lost, but no, here it is :)

Lovely Winnie the Pooh stationery!

Second is from Laura, a new penpal from the USA I met on Postcrossing forum. Her envelope is really nice :)

The back is lovely as well :) And she has the same deco-tape as I have! :D

And the letter, written on Paris-themed stationery :) Along with two postcards from California :)

Then comes another letter from the USA:

Teresa has the smallest handwriting I've ever seen (even smaller than mine, haha!) But I love when my pals have small handwriting, because even few pages from them are long letters. Teresa wrote only 3 A5 pages, but it actually stands for the double!

A third letter coming from the USA, this time from Shelby :) I love the envelope, so funny! I assume it has been made from a cereal pack (!)

Front:

And back:

And the letter inside :) She made her pages look like playing cards!

Next one is a pink themed letter from Jenny in the Netherlands:

She includes a Belgian chocolate as well as a typical Dutch tea :)

This white envie is from Tanja in Germany :)

She used really nice writing paper, I especially like the last page, with the cat :3 And she enclosed 3 tea bags!

Another white envie that comes from France! 

Inside was a letter from Ksenia, who's not from France but from Ukraine ;) She was on a trip in Lille so that's why her letter has been sent from France :)

This is the longest letter I received over these eight ones (10 pages). And she also included postcards from Belgium and France

Last but not least, a letter from the Norwegian Marita. I love the envelope, it looks so... Norwegian! :D Sadly the paper wasn't strong enough and the bottom right corner got a little ripped off during the journey :(

Front:

Back:

And this lovely Norwegian envie was full of loveliness! Pictures of a Viking festival, a necklace and a bracelet. And a nice letter of course!

And Marita showed me how to write my name in the old runer alphabet ;)

So now, I just have to write! Let's get the party started! ;)

Tári did some mail art!

I somehow completely forgot to post it earlier: these letters have been sent since Tuesday already! Anyway, better late than never! So I'm showing you here my new mail art.

I was a bit out of ideas for the designs, so they're a little repetitive (flowers, again and again XD), yet I hope the receivers will enjoy them anyways!

Let's look at them one by one!

To Slovenia:

To Estonia:

To United Kingdom:

To Romania:

To England:

To Finland:

How did I make these envelopes? Well, it was pretty easy: I painted both sides of the envelope, and then, once the paint is dry, I glued the address label and painted some little decorations on the front side. And that's all! :) 

Tell me, how much do you like them? ;)

A promise is a promise

Hey folks~!
I promised you some weeks ago that I'll show you my calligraphy skills as soon as I'd be satisfied enough with them, so, it's now time to keep this promise.
I've been trying to improve my calligraphy for some weeks, and at the beginning I was just trying to make lines of a, b, c, d... which was, to tell the truth, completely boring and not motivating at all. So, I decided to do differently and write one of my favourite quotes instead: "when there's a will there's a way".

Here's the template, how my letters should look like:

And now, here's my piece of art!

I know it could be A LOT better, but I think it's not that bad for a beginner, what do you think?

Off-topic: I'm so excited because I'm going to send a letter to Iceland! I hope I'll get a reply because till now I've always had bad luck with Icelandic pals :/ So wish me luck!
The letter isn't done yet, but the envelope is already designed. I tried to do some mail art, Laufey is into art as well so it'd be great to turn our penpalship into a mail art exchange!

That's all for today! Have a nice week end, followers!