Showing posts with label elephant. Show all posts
Showing posts with label elephant. Show all posts

Sunday, June 19, 2011

Elephant Mail

 Sent to my grandparents
My grandfather loves elephants.


I put the address on the back side of the envelope because I thought this image was too beautiful to cover up.  This is an envelope I received through Swap-bot.

Thursday, June 16, 2011

Budget

I just bought 50$ worth of stamps from usps.com...
I think it will last me for quite a while though. It'll be a good mail day for sure when those arrive!

I believe that mail supplies come third in budget, following rent & food.
I've made a real effort recently to stop buying stationery- unless I find it at the Goodwill which means it's only 2$!  This forces me to use up the oodles that I already have and to make my own out of stuff lying around. Sometimes it's still hard to resist certain notecard sets, but I find that I've mostly conquered that temptation.  Now my temptations run to labels and art supplies.

Coming up soon...
My first handmade stamp!

And here are some ridiculous elephant postcards my friend Dana has been sending Clay and me: