Mail therapy
May 5, 2008
More smoothpebble advice:
Maybe you are feeling sad and blue, maybe you’re having a crappy day (or week or month), maybe your job is tedious, maybe your kids are getting on your last nerve, maybe you just need a little something to cheer you up. Well I advise you to consider mail therapy.
Start making some flickr friends or visiting some friendly crafty blogs. Join a swap, or spend some time perusing Etsy. And next thing you know your mailbox will be overflowing with all sorts of things to put a smile on your face! My other piece of advice is that if you enjoy making things just for the sake of making things and they are piling up around you - why not make someone else’s mailbox happy?
Just a few of the things making my mailbox happy:
Postcard from Lea - flickr and blog.
A terrific box full of goodies from Jan. The blogging fairies papercut is us, and I’m thrilled she sent it to me.
The lunchbox I received in the Lunchbox Swap. It’s from Teddi, who is now making oodles and oodles of water bottle carriers. She’s either a very talented seamstress, or insane (I base the latter assesment on my own experience sewing a lunch box). I think she’s probably very talented!
I purchased this little bird from The Wren on etsy. It’s the cutest little zip pouch, and I love the little bird tag on it. Tag addicts unite!
So, what are you still doing here? Get out there and make some new friends!
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Erin | May 5, 2008 at 4:54 pm
I loved this post and the message that it sends. You know, our greatest joy should be from gving to others…so, on that note, I am going to get the address of a few people this week and start working on something for them. Hint, hint Jackie - I need your address too. Just e-mail me with the info. I will try to come up with something this week…and mail it out next week. Thanks for the kick in the pants! I was having a crappy day!
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batspit | May 5, 2008 at 5:10 pm
A wonderful testament to my life long obsession with mail, friends, and the interwebs! Three cheers for Smoothpebble: Hip Hip Hurray! Hip Hip Hurray! Hip Hip Hurray!
Those lunch boxes seem impossibly complicated.
I’m typing a conclusion today for a paper I’ve been working on for months- Thanks for the huge smile, I needed a reminder creativity doesn’t have to be painful.
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Melinda | May 5, 2008 at 5:20 pm
YAY FOR CRAFTY PENPALS! Now if someone would just get me that pony I always wanted…oh, and Jackie rocks absolutely, this post is proof!
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apple cyder | May 5, 2008 at 7:52 pm
Great post! Bloggy friends are the best. Love that bird pouch….
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Snippety Gibbit | May 6, 2008 at 12:24 am
How fun to see my peculiar findings photographed so beautifully.
What a cool lunchbox set. I love the fabrics.
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Anna Y | May 6, 2008 at 12:35 am
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painted fish studio | May 6, 2008 at 2:56 pm
this really is the week of mail and friends! i love that we’re all meeting new, creative people. and i love your little wren, i’m a fan of her shop!
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kristin | May 7, 2008 at 7:17 pm
i’m all about happy mail!