week 3

Sorry this is going up later than planned! My kids are out of school for the summer now and I'm doing my best to limit my online time.

Before your assignment this week, I have a brief rant. I've been looking at stationery the past few weeks. (Actually, I am ALWAYS on the lookout for stationery, but I expanded my search to a few well-known local stores after I started this project.)

And can I say? They don't make stationery like they used to! EVERYTHING is either a tiny correspondence card or a fold-over card, which is only slightly better. When I write a letter, I want to WRITE A LETTER. If I could fit it on a tiny card, I'd just send an email for God's sake! Those are nice to stick in a package or gift, but not for writing a juicy, catching up, here's what's happening in my life kind of letter. Right? Maybe we're all just supposed to keep in touch via Facebook status updates now.

I mentioned my favorite set of personalized stationery from when I was a kid. It even had front pages (with my name embossed on them) and following pages, with no name at the top. You were SUPPOSED TO WRITE more than 1 page. That was how ALL stationery was - I had a huge collection.

I should mention, I did find some Crane stationery online which isn't EXACTLY what I want, but its close. It's called Letter Writing Stationery. Now there's an idea. I'm still on the hunt for a local store with more casual options. (I love Crane paper, but the designs are more traditional than what I'm looking for.) If you have a tip for me, let me know.

Ok, so on to week 3!

It's summer vacation time for us. And with my current dissatisfaction with available stationery, we're going with postcards this week. Send a postcard to someone who's not expecting one.
If you live in a place where there are postcards readily available (we live just outside of Washington, DC, so postcards are everywhere), send one from home.

Or, if you want to wait until your vacation week, do that. But bring addresses and stamps! (Things I always forget which is why I never send postcards.)

I sent a postcard from home to a little friend who is collecting postcards a few weeks ago. And next week, we're leaving on vacation, so I'm planning to send postcards to some neighbors who are moving into a new house while we're gone. Maybe I'll be their first piece of official mail!

If you have no idea who to send a postcard to, check out Postcrossing. You can send and receive postcards from around the world. I'm going to have my kids try it for a summer project.