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Happy birthday package sent to Dana, my good friend and my boyfriend's sister :)

Clay and I had a lot of fun wrapping her presents in fun paper!

 ... and putting a ton of stamps on the package!

 

Mandy Mail

Received this lovely birthday card from my friend Mandy:

And sent her back:

Mom's Birthday Card

Sent to my wonderful mom for her June birthday

For my birthday my parents gave me an awesome new camera. I'm still figuring it out though. It has lots of settings and I'm trying to find the best one for mail art!

Birthday Continued... Mule Stick

A year or so ago I was in New York with my family and my dad and I went to the National Museum of the American Indian, to see a special exhibit called "A Song for the Horse Nation".  The exhibit was incredibly beautiful, and very moving for me, since I love horses and because my horse had passed away.  One of the things that I loved the most in the exhibit were the horse dance sticks, carried in ceremonies.  They were carved and decorated in the likeness of a special horse, usually one who had died in battle. 

This is one of the horse dance sticks shown in the exhibit.

You can see a few others as well at the online exhibit of A Song for the Horse Nation.

When I went back home I wanted to make a horse stick of my horse Windsong (Winnie) who had passed away. It was hard for me emotionally and physically and I didn't get too far.  

For my birthday this year, my dad made me a mule stick in the likeness of our mule Livee.

Here it is:

It is a beautiful work of folk art and it is so special and meaningful to me.

Thanks so much Poppa.

Birthday Post

So my birthday was back in May and I wanted to share some of the lovely birthday cards and gifts I received in the mail!

A beautiful decorated box from my Aunt B. 

I love the pictures of beautiful young women she put on the box!

And inside were some really cute little bug pushpins and a gorgeous unicorn postcard.

When I was younger my Aunt B. gave me a beautiful book called Let's Have a Tea Party, by Emilie Barnes. The little girl in the book was named Emilie too! It felt so special and the whole book was just so wonderful. You can see some of the inside pages here on Amazon.

Speaking of tea, here is an beautiful birthday card from my good friend Iryna:

Iryna is from Belarus, but now she lives in the States. 

I love that she translated the Russian on this card for me.