January's mail

When I had a look at last year's January's mail post  I had to smile because there's such a HUGE difference between the amount of mail I got in January 2012 and in January 2013! Last year I received only 4 pieces of mail, and this year, 17! The difference is crazy, isn't it? Well, I do have more penpals than I had last year, but I think this isn't the main reason to explain that difference. I think it can be explained because last year I mailed out lots of letters during January month, so the replies came through February/March, while this year I sent more mail at the end of December/first week of January so the replies started to come in the end of January. I think this can be a rational explanation :)

So here are the 17 envelopes that fed my mailbox along the month:

17 letters in 31 days means 0.55 letter a day, or a letter every 2 days.

Average distance travelled: 2096.35 km

Longest distance travelled: 9301 km from Santa Rosa, California, USA

Shortest distance travelled: 489 km from Ulm, Germany

I'm so happy to see that there are already 21 people who joined my giveaway! If you aren't among, hurry up, you only have until Saturday to sign up! :)

Wishing you a lovely February

Tári

My blog is one year old - GIVEAWAY!

As I promised in my post yesterday, I'm hosting a giveaway to celebrate my blog's first anniversary!

The winner will receive... a surprise package! (actually, I say it'll be a surprise mostly because I haven't made my mind up yet about what I'm going to offer, haha) But I can tell for sure it'll be mail related items (paper, envelopes, stickers, pens or anything like that)

I'll give you one week to join - so that means you have up till February 2nd, 00:00 (France's time zone, look at the clock on the right to know what time it is here)
How can you join: just leave a comment below with:
-the number of your comment (if your the first person, write #1, if you're the second, write #2 etc)
-your name and country
-your favourite book and/or author (and if you haven't any, just tell me what was the last book your read) I'm a bookworm and therefore I'm always interested in what other people like to read :)
-And please remember to leave me a way to contact you, in case you're the lucky winner :) It can be the link to your blog (if you have one), or your email address.

It doesn't matter if you are a regular reader and commenter of my blog or if you're just new to it - everyone is free to join :) I want to share some love!

So, good luck everyone!!

Love, Tári

I've been spoiled!

I guess there isn't any other words to qualify my mail week. Literally, I've been spoiled! So much mail, everyday! My mailbox will get fat it it continues eating so much :P

Okay, let's see what I got :)

A handmade birthday card from Laura in the USA:

A bookmark swap from Germany. I love what my partner sent, and the envelope is also awesome! I love air mail *-*

Birthday mail from Ilga, Germany:

She sent so lovely things! *-* And the tea was really yummy!
A close up on the little card, I really love it <3 It's now decorating my bookshelf

And another close up, this time on the notepad, lovely as well:

Then arrived a late Christmas package from Laura (the girl who also sent the birthday card). Snoopy envelope! :D

What's inside...

The present was a little notebook and a pen :) Take a look at the notebook cover, it's lovely!

A late Christmas card (I assume it's handmade)

And finally the whole package! In the (air mail!) envelope containing her letter she also enclosed two bookmarks, a postcard and a photo. So nice!

Then it's a letter from Marita in Norway. She made me hungry with the cupcakes envelope! :P

Lovely polar bear stamp (did you know I liked polar bears?)

She enclosed a pressed flower but unfortunately it didn't survive the journey... :(

On Wednesday I got a letter and a nice birthday card from Audrey in Germany...

... and a letter from Kate in Czech Republic

Look at that fun birthday card!

Last but not least, yesterday I got late Christmas mail from Ilga in Germany! (sorry the pic is a bit blurry :/)

Take a look on the lovely notepad she sent

And the Christmas card

And finally the stamps on her envelope:

That's all for the incoming! Yeah, I told you it was a lot of mail! Now let's see what I sent out.
My new semester at uni has just started so I don't have too much work yet, so I still have quite much time to write. Which is good because as you can see, my to reply pile has really grown up this week! ;)

I first wrote a letter to Bree in Malaysia

Then to Sara in Italy

And finally to Ramona in Germany

Three letters written by me this week - a really good number for a non-holidays week. I'm satisfied with my work :)

Hope you had a great mail week as well

Love, Tári

PS: Tomorrow is my blog's first birthday so I'll host a giveaway to celebrate it. Stay tuned! ;)