Penpals, Scrapbookers, Postcard Artists and Other Creative Types

[femmebaker]

I'll do the project here with a later due date!

[nycfem]

Perfect, will repost on Monday with a new due date

Originally Posted by femmebaker

I'll do the project here with a later due date!

[Diva]

OH! I'm confused.....did I miss the announcement? I can't find it! Due date?

Can someone clue me in?

[Tommi]

Originally Posted by Diva

OH! I'm confused.....did I miss the announcement? I can't find it! Due date?

Can someone clue me in?

I can't. We are on the same page..literally...TEEE HEEEE


I'm still waitng to get that last one off.

[nycfem]

No new due date for Jake's project.

Mine will be posted on Monday. Femmebaker's post referred to being happy that there will be a later due date than I had on the hyphen site (as she had been one of the people signed up for it), since I am cancelling the project there and moving it here with a new sign up and a new due date.

[SingularNYCFemme]

Originally Posted by nycfembbw

Perfect, will repost on Monday with a new due date

Yay! I am now subscribed here, and expect that most of my online forum-type presence will be moving to this site anyway. It might seem weird to say of an internet site, but all I know is that the "feel" when I am "here" is so much finer than what I've experienced elsewhere!

I definitely want to participate in the project with the new due date, although I expect such participation in other projects will be limited. If anyone wants to exchange letters, please PM me as I have a hankering for trying to revive the art of letter writing (of the ink on paper sort).

All the best to all,
Cathy

[Tommi]

Welcome to the new world where the air is fresh and clean Cathy

I received a strange item in the mail yesterday. It was actually handwritten correspondence: and envelope with my daughter's handwriting , a letter and school photographs of my grandest kids. Smiling Trinity Hope who is 4 and pensive Dustin Bradley who is 6. She wrote of missing me, and California and the life she had being raised by two "sorta" women. She spoke of her first adventures in the snow when she was 4, when we bought a place in the mountains and we made a snowman together, and the trip on the chartered bus with 30 5th graders to Sacramento because I had to be a chaperon, and me in a wetsuti chaperoning at Catalina in 7th grade. She said she smiles everytime she sees big clouds, because it reminds her of when the Ex and I used to tell her we saw things in the big fluffy white mashed potato's, and we painted together.

She is a good girl, albeit all grown up, and married a guy she met on the internet and I told ya so,...and I was thrilled to get a letter. Will i write back without spell check..probably ~~ maybe, just because

[Diva]

Originally Posted by nycfembbw

No new due date for Jake's project.

Mine will be posted on Monday. Femmebaker's post referred to being happy that there will be a later due date than I had on the hyphen site (as she had been one of the people signed up for it), since I am cancelling the project there and moving it here with a new sign up and a new due date.

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!

Originally Posted by SingularNYCFemme

Yay! I am now subscribed here, and expect that most of my online forum-type presence will be moving to this site anyway. It might seem weird to say of an internet site, but all I know is that the "feel" when I am "here" is so much finer than what I've experienced elsewhere!

I definitely want to participate in the project with the new due date, although I expect such participation in other projects will be limited. If anyone wants to exchange letters, please PM me as I have a hankering for trying to revive the art of letter writing (of the ink on paper sort).

All the best to all,
Cathy

I'm glad You're here now! I believe there are MANY of us who feel the same way about this Planet Place! You are in VERY good company!

[SingularNYCFemme]

Originally Posted by Diva

Ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh!!!!!!!!








I'm glad You're here now! I believe there are MANY of us who feel the same way about this Planet Place! You are in VERY good company!

{{{{{{{{{{Diva}}}}}}}}}}
Thanks! I am indeed!

[Gemme]

Jake's 3D Project is in the mail, except for softness' because I don't have her new address. I'll pm her for that.

Jake, I enjoyed this project and I enjoyed being able to take my time to do it. If I didn't have that time, I wouldn't have been able to come up with what I did and I think it's pretty nifty, if I do say so myself.

*pats back*

I am pleased that you have a project all lined up, J! One of my favorite projects of all time was your PostSecrets card project, so I'm looking forward to seeing what you come up with. If you will, when you post the info, go ahead and add my name to the list? I may not get a chance to sign up for it's closed otherwise.

*grumbles about work locking the computers so I can't play anymore*

[amiyesiam]

To clarify:

Jakes project is finishing up and great stuff has been done

Gemme needs softness's address

Diva is confused

Jen is now HERE!!!!!!!!!

Singular is looking for people to write actual letters too

Jen will be starting the next round on Monday (to damn far away if ya ask me)
Purepisces already knows what it is (not fair)
So does Femmebaker, who is happy to have more time

Tommi got a letter

Softness wants to do a round making book marks (great idea)

[Gemme]

Originally Posted by amiyesiam

To clarify:

Jakes project is finishing up and great stuff has been done

Gemme needs softness's address

Diva is confused

Jen is now HERE!!!!!!!!!

Singular is looking for people to write actual letters too

Jen will be starting the next round on Monday (to damn far away if ya ask me)
Purepisces already knows what it is (not fair)
So does Femmebaker, who is happy to have more time

Tommi got a letter

Softness wants to do a round making book marks (great idea)

You forgot:

Ami is announcer for the day!

[purepisces]

Originally Posted by amiyesiam

To clarify:

Jakes project is finishing up and great stuff has been done

Gemme needs softness's address

Diva is confused

Jen is now HERE!!!!!!!!!

Singular is looking for people to write actual letters too

Jen will be starting the next round on Monday (to damn far away if ya ask me)
Purepisces already knows what it is (not fair)
So does Femmebaker, who is happy to have more time

Tommi got a letter

Softness wants to do a round making book marks (great idea)

And where have you been, ami?!? I've missed you around here.

p.s. Jen HAS been here ... she just left us for the last project, which I'm still sad about. I wanted to see her childhood memory.

p.p.s. I'm really enjoying knowing the super-secret, fabulous theme for the Jen's project. It's possible that you could bribe me to tell before Monday ... but it's gonna cost ya! Unless Jen is reading this and then I would never, EVER tell.

[amiyesiam]

[QUOTE=purepisces;110065]And where have you been, ami?!? I've missed you around here.

completing projects
getting a tooth pulled
organizing
catching up with my reading
spring yard stuff
and um, starting new projects lol

p.s. Jen HAS been here ... she just left us for the last project, which I'm still sad about. I wanted to see her childhood memory.

p.p.s. I'm really enjoying knowing the super-secret, fabulous theme for the Jen's project. It's possible that you could bribe me to tell before Monday ... but it's gonna cost ya! Unless Jen is reading this and then I would never, EVER tell.

I bribed Gemme once but that wasn't for info

[Gemme]

Originally Posted by amiyesiam

I bribed Gemme once but that wasn't for info

Yeah, that was kinda fun.

[SingularNYCFemme]

Originally Posted by Tommi

Welcome to the new world where the air is fresh and clean Cathy

I received a strange item in the mail yesterday. It was actually handwritten correspondence: and envelope with my daughter's handwriting , a letter and school photographs of my grandest kids. Smiling Trinity Hope who is 4 and pensive Dustin Bradley who is 6. She wrote of missing me, and California and the life she had being raised by two "sorta" women. She spoke of her first adventures in the snow when she was 4, when we bought a place in the mountains and we made a snowman together, and the trip on the chartered bus with 30 5th graders to Sacramento because I had to be a chaperon, and me in a wetsuti chaperoning at Catalina in 7th grade. She said she smiles everytime she sees big clouds, because it reminds her of when the Ex and I used to tell her we saw things in the big fluffy white mashed potato's, and we painted together.

She is a good girl, albeit all grown up, and married a guy she met on the internet and I told ya so,...and I was thrilled to get a letter. Will i write back without spell check..probably ~~ maybe, just because

{{{{{Tommi}}}}} What a gift! My best childhood friend and I corresponded in letters whenever we weren't in the same place, like during the summers and then some when we went to college. We both loved the film "The Scarlet Pimpernel" starring Leslie Howard, Raymond Massey and Merle Oberon. So we had a habit of signing our letters as Chauvelin (her) and Sir Percy (me), with such silliness as "Your humble servant" and the like. She was a gifted artist who could draw the most incredible detailed tiny things, and to this day I have some of her letters tucked away, and they really are treasures, especially as we lost contact in our early 20s.

Anyway, even without the references to that novel and film, the pleasures in a letter written in pen and ink, without spell check, are many. Hopefully in another week or so I shall buy some pretty stationery and begin to revive that in my life!
Cathy
P.S. This site really does seem to be blessed with freshness and clean air!

[Soft*Silver]

I would like to propose a project...and will wrangle it too...but it will take all summer (seriously) to do...do I need to ask anyone? Who?

[nycfem]

Originally Posted by softness

I would like to propose a project...and will wrangle it too...but it will take all summer (seriously) to do...do I need to ask anyone? Who?

Why don't you post about your idea on this thread and we can all give you feedback

[Soft*Silver]

well, I like to make pressed flower cards. I get mine from my own gardens, but also from wildflowers growing in my area. I thought it would be a nice idea if, during the summer, we pressed flowers and shared them with everyone in the fall time. We could make cards, and send extra pressed flowers along with the cards, so each person would be able to make more cards on their own too! I press mine simply in a telephone books. Leaves are also nice to press, since some of them give great texture and form. I would love to see flowers I dont have in my zone...and to get some that I could use in future products would be awesome! I had been tinkering with making holiday cards for family and friends with pressed flowers, including a frame that they could then frame the card to display all year round, as a present...

so...what do you all think?

[LadyRain]

i would be up for this, i have a flower press around here somewhere, as i have done this many many times. RAIN...