Blog Post w/Fbs

This is another late blog post, but I'd just like to share to you a fellow swapper's blog:

Rainbows under moonlight

The writer, who's Singaporean by the way, wrote quick reviews about the blogs that she has visited, and this site is one of them :)

Well for the mean time, here are some pictures of the mail that I have sent for the month of June:

Postcards, and an aerogram..

These are the friendship books that I sent for 50 grams fb swap. The one with the Domo kun is mine.

I really like how this envelope turned out. I hope she enjoyed the very beautiful stamps that I have put on her envelope.

Fbs, and penpals..

So basically, that's it. These week, I have been receiving postcards, letters from pen-pals, and friendship books from here and there. I also got Filipino friends swapping with me :)

I got a new friend from Cagayan de Oro, and another one from Visayas. :) They're older than me, but I'm happy :) 

Also received very awesome mail from Miku of Japan! I got the fbs that you sent today! Thank you so much for registering them! I really appreciate the effort and money. Going to pass them on soon!

School has been very occupying lately, and here I am.

Do you think I should open up another blog? I'm thinking about it.... 

There are other blogs here and there. I wonder what will by my cutting edge??

100 Ideas - The Finished Part

Okay, so I'm now finished with this swap. See the 2o items that I have crossed out. This is the continuation of 100 Ideas - Keri Smith Inspired

1. Go for a walk. Draw or list things you find on the the sidewalk.
2. Write a letter to yourself in the future.
3. Buy something inexpensive as a symbol for your need to create, (new pen, a tea cup, journal). Use it everyday.
4. Draw your dinner.
5. Find a piece of poetry you respond to. Rewrite it and glue it into your journal.
6. Glue an envelope into your journal. For one week collect items you find on the street.
7. Expose yourself to a new artist, (go to a gallery, or in a book.) Write about what moves you about it.
8. Find a photo of a person you do not know. Write a brief bio about them.
9. Spend a day drawing only red things.
10. Draw your bike.
11. Make a list of everything you buy in the next week.
12. Make a map of everywhere you went in one day.
13. Draw a map of the creases on your hand, (knuckles, palm)
14. Trace your footsteps with chalk.
15. Record an overheard conversation.
16. Trace the path of the moon in relation to where you live.
17. Go to a paint store. Collect ‘chips’ of all your favorite colors.
18. Draw your favorite tree.
19. Take 15 minutes to eat an orange.
20. Write a haiku.
21. Hang upside down for five minutes.
22. Hang found objects from tree branches.
23. Make a puppet.
24. Create an outdoor room from things you find in nature.
25. Read a book in one day.
26. Illustrate your grocery list.
27. Read a story out loud to a friend.
28. Write a letter to someone you admire.
29. Study the face of someone you do not like.
30. Make a meal based on a color theme. (i.e. all white).
31. Create a museum of very small things.
32. List the smells in your neighborhood.
33. List 100 uses for a tin can.
34. Fill an entire page in your journal with small circles. Color them in.
35. Give away something you love.
36. Choose an object, draw the side you can’t see.
37. List all of the places you’ve ever lived.
38. Describe your favourite room in detail.
39. Write about your relationship with your washing machine.
40. Draw all of the things in your purse/bag.
41. Make a mini book based on the theme, “my grocery list”.
42. Create a character based on someone you know. Write a list of personality traits.
43. Recall your favorite childhood game.
44. Put postcards of art pieces/painting on the inside of your kitchen cupboard doors, so you can see them everyday (but not become deaf to them.)
45. Draw the same object every day for a week.
46. Write in your journal using a different medium (brush & ink, charcoal, old typewriter, crayons, fat markers.
47. Draw the individual items of your favorite outfit.
48. Make a useful item using only paper & tape.
49. Research a celebration or ritual from another culture.
50. Do a temporary art installation using a pad of post it notes & a pen.
51. Draw a map of your favorite sitting spots in your town/city. (photocopy it and give it to someone you like.)
52. Record all of the sounds you hear in the course of one hours.
53. Using a grid, collect various textures from magazine and play them off of each other.
54. Cut out all media for one day. Write about the effects.
55. Make pencil rubbings of six different surfaces.
56. Draw your garbage.
57. Do a morning collage.
58. List your ten most important things, (not including animals or people.)
59. List ten things you would like to do every day.
60. Glue a photo of yourself as a child into your journal.
61. Transform some garbage.
62. Write an entry in your journal in really LARGE letters.
63. Collect some ‘flat’ things in nature (leaves, flowers). Glue or tape them into your journal.
64. Physically alter a page. (i.e. cut a hole, pour tea on it, burn it, fold it, etc.)
65. Find several color combinations you respond to in public. Document them using swatches, write where you found them.
66. Write a journal entry describing something “secret”. Cut it up into several pieces and glue them back in scrambled.
67. Record descriptions or definitions of subjects or words you are interested in, found in encyclopedias or dictionaries.
68. Draw the outline of an object without looking at the page. (contour drawing).
69. What were you thinking just now? write it down.
70. Do nothing.
71. Write a list of ten things you could to do. Do the last thing on the list.
72. Create an image using dots.
73. Do 3 drawings at different speeds.
74. Put a small object in your left pocket (or in a bag), Put your left hand in the pocket. Draw it by feel.
75. Create a graph documenting or measuring something in your life.
76. Draw the sun.
77. Create instructions for a simple everyday task.
78. Make prints using food. (fruit and vegetables cut in half, fish, etc.)
79. Find a photo. Alter it by drawing over it.
80. Write a letter using an unconventional medium.
81. Draw one object for twenty minutes.
82. Combine two activities that have not been combined before.
83. Write about your day in an encyclopedic fashion. (i.e. organize by subject.)
84. Write a list of all the things you do to escape.
85. Cut a random shape out of several layers of a magazine. Make a collage out of the results.
86. Write an entry in code.
87. Make a painting using tools from the bathroom.
88. Work with a medium that is subtractive.
89. Write about or draw some of the doors in your life.
90. Make a postcard that has some kind of activity on it.
91. Divise a journal entry using “layers”.
92. Divise an entry using “layers”.
93. Write your own definition of one of the following concepts, sitting, waiting, sleeping (without using the actual word.)
94. List 10 of your habits.
95. Illustrate the concept of “simplicity”.
96. Your Choice - Write a Birthday Message to one who's celebrating her birthday!
97. Your Choice - Take a picture of one interesting book you see in a bookstore.
98. Your Choice - Take a picture of your classmates.
99. Your Choice - Visit a cupcake store.
100. Your Choice - Show an item that you'd love to buy.

And here's the order on how I have done them one by one.

#25 Read a book in one day.

#64 Physically alter a page. (i.e. cut a hole, pour tea on it, burn it, fold it, etc.)

#70 Do nothing.

#76 Draw the sun.

#94 List 10 of your habits.

#37 List all of the places you’ve ever lived.

#96 Your Choice Write a Birthday Message to one who's celebrating her birthday!

#97 Your Choice Take a picture of one interesting book you see in a bookstore.

#98 Your Choice Take a picture of your classmates.

#99 Your Choice Visit a cupcake store.

This is Everyday Mom located near the office where I'm having my internship. 

 

#100 Your ChoiceShow an item that you'd love to buy.

#20 Write a haiku.

#58 List your ten most important things, (not including animals or people.)

#69 What were you thinking just now? write it down.

#4 Draw your dinner.

#11 Make a list of everything you buy in the next week.

#12 Make a map of everywhere you went in one day.

#59 List ten things you would like to do every day.

#71 Write a list of ten things you could to do. Do the last thing on the list.

#72 & #62 Create an image using dots.Write an entry in your journal in really LARGE letters.

So far, so good. To my partners, I have enjoyed this swap, but I think it'll be better to have lots of other ideas. I didn't get to play around that much with this swap as I suddenly got schoolwork. Hmm, I hope that I can be more productive.


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June 3 - 7 Mail

In connection to this post - Monday Mail - 4 Envelopes
Okay, so this is what Monday's Mail insides are the following:

It's a small card by the way, it just looks big.

These are the stamps sent by Ana from Portugal.

and the friendship books sent by YankeeUnicorn from the US

June 4, Tuesday... I received two parcel packages from our postman. 

The first one contained these items:

These were items from a swap called "Mystery Envelope". 

These are the items that I get, because most likely.. they were the heavier ones (postage costs).

The Pink Notebook, Earrings, Soap, and decotape were from the Netherlands.

The Candy w/the badge & magnet, and the soap were from Australia.

I really enjoyed those earrings :)

The second package came from Slovenia. Funny though, as I cannot remember anything for a swap from there. As I opened the greatly packaged mail, I tumbled to see two pieces of napkins.

And as I read the sender's letter, I was greatly touched and moved by what she wrote. Apparently, the sender's mother sent these to make me smile! I really was touched when I read the letter, and it was received with great love <3

 

That's a bird cross stitched in a brown napkin. 

This was the lottery prize that I got, and far from all, this one is I really got treasured because I saw the effort in it. 

This one came on Wednesday, June 5.. and the sender was from Canada. Thank you Kayenderes!

I think I got this one on a Thursday (the bottom card). The top card is a card received way back ago, from Thailand. And the bottom is from my postcard pal, Mme Annick from Vire, France.

Then this one arrived on a Friday, June 7. They are friendship books sent by Dee Jaye, from the US, and she sent me a few light extras to use :) Thank you for sending them!

These were the outgoing mail I sent. Most of them were postcards, and the ones that has envelopes with stamps contain friendship books inside. 

I really liked how that cute long envelope turned out. It's going to an American :)

100 Ideas - Keri Smith Inspired

Hello everyone!

Kinda getting busy lately with school work and internship, so I don't have much time to post lately. But anyways, I'm just posting this to document the things that I need to do for an email challenge I have with 3 friends. 

1. Go for a walk. Draw or list things you find on the the sidewalk.
2. Write a letter to yourself in the future.
3. Buy something inexpensive as a symbol for your need to create, (new pen, a tea cup, journal). Use it everyday.
4. Draw your dinner.
5. Find a piece of poetry you respond to. Rewrite it and glue it into your journal.
6. Glue an envelope into your journal. For one week collect items you find on the street.
7. Expose yourself to a new artist, (go to a gallery, or in a book.) Write about what moves you about it.
8. Find a photo of a person you do not know. Write a brief bio about them.
9. Spend a day drawing only red things.
10. Draw your bike.
11. Make a list of everything you buy in the next week.
12. Make a map of everywhere you went in one day.
13. Draw a map of the creases on your hand, (knuckles, palm)
14. Trace your footsteps with chalk.
15. Record an overheard conversation.
16. Trace the path of the moon in relation to where you live.
17. Go to a paint store. Collect ‘chips’ of all your favorite colors.
18. Draw your favorite tree.
19. Take 15 minutes to eat an orange.
20. Write a haiku.
21. Hang upside down for five minutes.
22. Hang found objects from tree branches.
23. Make a puppet.
24. Create an outdoor room from things you find in nature.
25. Read a book in one day.
26. Illustrate your grocery list.
27. Read a story out loud to a friend.
28. Write a letter to someone you admire.
29. Study the face of someone you do not like.
30. Make a meal based on a color theme. (i.e. all white).
31. Create a museum of very small things.
32. List the smells in your neighborhood.
33. List 100 uses for a tin can.
34. Fill an entire page in your journal with small circles. Color them in.
35. Give away something you love.
36. Choose an object, draw the side you can’t see.
37. List all of the places you’ve ever lived.
38. Describe your favourite room in detail.
39. Write about your relationship with your washing machine.
40. Draw all of the things in your purse/bag.
41. Make a mini book based on the theme, “my grocery list”.
42. Create a character based on someone you know. Write a list of personality traits.
43. Recall your favorite childhood game.
44. Put postcards of art pieces/painting on the inside of your kitchen cupboard doors, so you can see them everyday (but not become deaf to them.)
45. Draw the same object every day for a week.
46. Write in your journal using a different medium (brush & ink, charcoal, old typewriter, crayons, fat markers.
47. Draw the individual items of your favorite outfit.
48. Make a useful item using only paper & tape.
49. Research a celebration or ritual from another culture.
50. Do a temporary art installation using a pad of post it notes & a pen.
51. Draw a map of your favorite sitting spots in your town/city. (photocopy it and give it to someone you like.)
52. Record all of the sounds you hear in the course of one hours.
53. Using a grid, collect various textures from magazine and play them off of each other.
54. Cut out all media for one day. Write about the effects.
55. Make pencil rubbings of six different surfaces.
56. Draw your garbage.
57. Do a morning collage.
58. List your ten most important things, (not including animals or people.)
59. List ten things you would like to do every day.
60. Glue a photo of yourself as a child into your journal.
61. Transform some garbage.
62. Write an entry in your journal in really LARGE letters.
63. Collect some ‘flat’ things in nature (leaves, flowers). Glue or tape them into your journal.
64. Physically alter a page. (i.e. cut a hole, pour tea on it, burn it, fold it, etc.)
65. Find several color combinations you respond to in public. Document them using swatches, write where you found them.
66. Write a journal entry describing something “secret”. Cut it up into several pieces and glue them back in scrambled.
67. Record descriptions or definitions of subjects or words you are interested in, found in encyclopedias or dictionaries.
68. Draw the outline of an object without looking at the page. (contour drawing).
69. What were you thinking just now? write it down.
70. Do nothing.
71. Write a list of ten things you could to do. Do the last thing on the list.
72. Create an image using dots.
73. Do 3 drawings at different speeds.
74. Put a small object in your left pocket (or in a bag), Put your left hand in the pocket. Draw it by feel.
75. Create a graph documenting or measuring something in your life.
76. Draw the sun.
77. Create instructions for a simple everyday task.
78. Make prints using food. (fruit and vegetables cut in half, fish, etc.)
79. Find a photo. Alter it by drawing over it.
80. Write a letter using an unconventional medium.
81. Draw one object for twenty minutes.
82. Combine two activities that have not been combined before.
83. Write about your day in an encyclopedic fashion. (i.e. organize by subject.)
84. Write a list of all the things you do to escape.
85. Cut a random shape out of several layers of a magazine. Make a collage out of the results.
86. Write an entry in code.
87. Make a painting using tools from the bathroom.
88. Work with a medium that is subtractive.
89. Write about or draw some of the doors in your life.
90. Make a postcard that has some kind of activity on it.
91. Divise a journal entry using “layers”.
92. Divise an entry using “layers”.
93. Write your own definition of one of the following concepts, sitting, waiting, sleeping (without using the actual word.)
94. List 10 of your habits.
95. Illustrate the concept of “simplicity”.
96. Your Choice
97. Your Choice
98. Your Choice
99. Your Choice
100. Your Choice

#25 Okay, so it wasn't really one day. I started reading the book around 9-10 pm of Sunday, June 16. Then the following day, June 17.. I picked up the book again and continued on reading. But, I did managed to read the book within 24 hours. 

If I can post pictures, then I would. 

Hoping this one could be updated immediately. 

This post is not entirely "snail mail".

Monday Mail - 4 Envelopes

INCOMING MAIL

So this was yesterday's mail. I wasn't able to go to my internship yesterday, but these 4 pieces of envelopes which were handed to me by our postman, made me smile (even just a bit).

For our first envelope, our friend from Canada sent a lovely card inside. This was for a swap. I just looove those stamps she used. And that bear over the corner also felt like a stamp (but it's not). 

Here's the back side. 

Next is this penpal letter from Anna-Mae, a new penpal friend from Thailand.

And this what makes her envelope cool! It has its own design. "Bo Sang" Chiang Mai

This is the pretties of all, as it was very cutely designed. When I first held it out, it felt like a postcard, but it's not... because there's a little bumpy like feeling in the middle indicating that it has something inside. 

I would just like to thank the sender, Ana Isabel from Portugal, who sent me this very lovely piece of mail. If you're going to ask, what was inside.... 

well they were postage stamps! 

She had her note posted outside the envelope. Heheheh

Thank you so much for your generosity!

And this baby came from US. There were friendship books.... and a lovely 3 paged letter from her. I really appreciated the effort.

I wasn't able to take pictures of what was inside them. Too bad... but there were cards, letters, friendship books, and postage stamps. I just realized that they were much better to see if you also get to know what was sent. 

Well anyways, look out for more posts of mine. 

If I have time, I might be able to post out what their contents are. I also have a post tomorrow, so watch out!

Thank you for reading :) Comments are very much welcome!