Rain increases letter productivity

Indeed, when you can't go out, what's better than staying in your warm and cosy house and writing a letter?
It's been raining for 2 days here -and so great to finally see rain after one entire week with temperatures over 30°C! So I just kept on writing, and I was inspired, because it turned out to be long letters :)

The first is 12 pages long and goes to Jenny in the Netherlands (well, I wrote this letter when it was still hot outside, so it's a bit off-topic but I'm showing it here anyways because it's a long letter and it deserved to be pictured :D )

Then 14 pages to Tanja in Germany

And the longest in 20 pages and goes to Ksenia in Ukraine! (The envelope is already stamped because I had already sealed and stamped it when I realized I forgot to take a picture, so I opened it again ;) So typical me ^^

As you can see I tried to decorate the envelopes myself. But well, I'll never be a mail-artist *sigh* I ruined Jenny's envelope when coloring the bubbles, and I was totally lacking inspiration for Ksenia's. There's only Tanja's which I'm quite please with how it turned out. Sounds like I will soon go back to use pre-decorated envelopes...

Stamps

Yesterday I told you I got a new stamps order. So now here comes, as promised, the post about it :)
I started to really get out of stamps (especially of postage complement stamps), so I was very glad the post service delivered this order quite fast.

The 0.10€ stamps, those I was running out of. Not the most fancy, but the most useful for sure!

I found these ones funny!

On theme "water"

The new Europa stamps, on theme "Visit France"

Take a closer look:

This stamps show 5 famous French sights: from the left to the right: Mafate Circus on Reunion Island, the Eiffel Tower (who didn't recognize it? ^^), the bridge on river Gard, Saint Michel Mount, and the Place Stanislas in Nancy.

And the last ones are on theme "sports". After all, it's Euro 2012 at the moment and soon will start the Olympics Games... ;)

Talking about stamps, I decided to start a stamp collection! But I won't collect the stamps "in real" because it's way too heartbreaking for me to cut the envelopes. So I collect... pictures of stamps! I spent a part of the morning photographing all the stamps on my envies... Now you can look at the result here :)
And if you notice you have stamps from countries I haven't, and want to make my day, you can mail me pictures of them at: ink-spot(at)hotmail(dot)fr. Thank you! :)

June's mail

I was about to forget to post my June stats! Hopefully I remembered to do it on time, so here we go for the third post of the day (I can't remember of one day when I blogged so much! :D )

Here are all the mail received in June:

15 letters :) 0.5 letters per day, or a letter every two days. Not bad. Good mail month should I even say!

Average distance traveled: 3176.53 km
Longest distance traveled: 8220 km from Plano, Texas, USA
Shortest distance traveled: 485 km from Blaustein, Germany

Wishing you tons of nice mail in July! :3