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MMT (Monday Mail Time) #001

twistedfae — Mon, 04 Jul 2016 23:49:03 GMT

I think a weekly mail post is a good idea to keep me posting on here. I am also going to keep them public so people can see it I am still active since my updates are friend only. But the main reason is to keep myself organized cause even with all my planners... Well, I am a mess still. I only check my PO box once a week so it is always a Happy Mail Day, heh.

[STATUS | Trying to get organized after the move out of Ohio. ]


INCOMING	OUTGOING
Amanda M. in AR 07.05.16 Sarah E. in LA 07.05.16 Rebecca R. in AR 07.05.16	Susanne S. in Germany 06.05.16 Logan O. in GA 07.05.16 Dee K. in MA 07.05.16 Alicia P. in MA 07.05.16 Hope W. in NC 07.05.16
WORKING ON	TO DO
Ash F. in HI Lucy L. in WA Melissa J. in CA Tanya D. in PA JJKun in OK Emma H. in UK Dee N. in TN Jessica N. Amanda M. Sarah E. Rebecca R.	Write letters Stay organized Get rid of excess decos Set up deco station

DLP: January

twistedfae — Sat, 31 Jan 2015 13:59:00 GMT

Last year I failed~ They are doing things differently this year and seems like they dropped the planner part of the project. Which is fine with me since I have way too many planners, lol. I am determined to stay caught up this year and finally fill an art journal. This the first month and its prompts.

January Theme
The Blank Page and How to Face It!
January 1
Art Challenge: Book Paper
Journal Prompt: Be Your Own Goal Keeper

January Theme
The Blank Page and How to Face It!
January 10
Art Challenge: Gesso
Journal Prompt: “The beginning is always today.” -Mary Shelley

January Theme
The Blank Page and How to Face It!
January 17
Art Challenge: The Color Wheel
Journal Prompt: "I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way . . . “ - Georgia O’Keeffe

January Theme
The Blank Page and How to Face It!
January 24
Art Challenge: Writing
Journal Prompt: Words with Friends

DLP2015 "Color Wheel"

twistedfae — Fri, 30 Jan 2015 13:32:34 GMT

InCoWriMo

twistedfae — Thu, 22 Jan 2015 15:08:16 GMT

I am so happy this is coming up next month and I am ready to jump in. I am thinking of ideas to prep for it, lol. Not sure how I want to go about it. Do I want to use my printer or not? Do I want everything to be hand stamped? Do I want to make my own stamp? Handmade envelopes? All decorated the same? Red & blue? What pen am I using? Yeah, I love snailmail.

These photos are from last year and I really like using my stamps to make these:

I just used my rubber and acrylic stamps to on sticky labels to make these. I lost the # stamp though.

Here it is cut out and I used a red sharpie marker to make a border. The envelope was a regular plain white and I used my Bic Mark Its to draw and color it all in.

I used the ink pad to make a border on this one and used various stamps on the rest of the envelope.

As you can see, I am still penpalling but not blogging. I usually share my stuff on Instagram now which is much easier since I always have my phone with me. I have two accounts but my mail one is more active, lol. At times I am too lazy to switch.

I need to make a list of who I will be writing to next month. Are you in?

Harvest Moon: Magical Melody

twistedfae — Thu, 06 Feb 2014 22:52:29 GMT

We finally have a tv in the bedroom that I can hook up my GameCube to play this game. I was thinking of just playing it using the Wii but since I deleted all Jamie's game files... Oopsy. It would be worse of me not to use it, lol. I have been playing it for a few hours already and I still feel like starting over. I picked the river location but the see is calling my name still, lol. I would have multiple saves but this game take up a whole cartridge for one save. Wii maybe?

I got the game a few weeks ago after stumbling on to a YouTube video. I don't remember playing this. I know we had one for the Wii that Jamie traded in and I never got a chance to get into it. But I remember it being different. I got this cause you can marry Jamie but the games ends after the wedding and now I am not sure I want to marry him. He is so mean to me but I can make him love me. Heh.

This guy cracks me up! I can always visit him for a laugh at least. This game should of been on a handheld. All HM games should be cause I get obsessed wanting to take it everywhere. I am currently playing Rune Factory 4 too. That I can take with me but they should make a game that looks like this for the 3DS.

The only main progress in the game that I have made... It is slow going.

Animal Crossing has taken over my life, oh yeah!

twistedfae — Fri, 28 Jun 2013 18:03:04 GMT

If you are playing add me~!

Gotta love Clyde~ XD

Boo!

twistedfae — Wed, 06 Mar 2013 16:17:20 GMT

Found this app and thought I would give it a whirl. Test...test... Ugh, gotta go back to the photo lab. Bleh.

Almost X-mas

twistedfae — Sat, 22 Dec 2012 13:34:21 GMT

It has been so long since I've logged in....

I should be getting ready for work but instead I am here playing with the WiiU. Our X-mas gift this year... We hooked it up to update it but I don't think it is going back in the box. This thing is so cool! Add me: vyolentfae My usual username was taken. (¬¸¬)

Ugh, been bad~

twistedfae — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 21:57:50 GMT

Feeling like a bad penpal here... Some of these letter/swaps should of gone out a long time ago. I recently found some while cleaning my craft room. I will get them out as soon as I can since I don't think I have enough stamps for them all. Money is still an issue for me and the bills just keep on coming. But I will catch up soon.

Happy Birthday To Me ^_______^

twistedfae — Sun, 06 Nov 2011 21:51:57 GMT

I picked these up at Target today and will be using it all to catch up on my mail. It's a lil' birthday present to myself, hehe.

A deco with Chaser

twistedfae — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 02:37:41 GMT

THEME: My Silly Kitty
MADE FOR & BY: Me

This picture of Chaser always makes me laugh. That cute lil' furball. I tried to keep it simple using a few deco supplies I bought after work. I used some ribbon, glitter (maybe too much... Is that possible?), alphabet marker stampers, stickers, and confetti.

Deco #13

twistedfae — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 12:58:33 GMT

Taken yesterday during my lil' deco session before work.

THEME: Women of the 80's
MADE FOR: Joy LeMasters
MADE BY: Crystal Lamb

My entry: I just has to use this when I stumbled upon this at photobucket. I didn't use any tape on this one... Just ribbon, stickers, and cupcake scrapbooking paper. It is a little blurry due to the stickers.

Freebies & Punches

twistedfae — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 12:25:46 GMT

On my last break I headed over to the hardware and took a bunch of these color samples. I need to make another trip, heh. I most grabbed the pinks & purples. But I spent an hour last night with my halloween punches until my hand/arm hurt.

I want to make more of these and send them out to a few of my creative penpals/swappers.

A deco that Piratess Pamela made~

twistedfae — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 02:57:56 GMT

THEME: Halloween
MADE FOR: Carmen
MADE BY: Piratess Pamela

My entry: I used a print out I was going to use for another deco. It is just too cute. I used some ribbon, a lot of stickers, Halloween scrapbook paper, flower border punch, and rubber stamps. Also neon glitter and sealed with Duck EZstart tape.

A deco that Crystal made~

twistedfae — Tue, 13 Sep 2011 02:57:17 GMT

THEME:Someone Who Left This World Too Soon
MADE FOR: Sheri Lea Pond
MADE BY: Crystal Lamb

My entry: It took me a long time to find an image that I like out there. Some where just plain cruel~ But I liked the colors on this one. I tried to keep it simple by just using some ribbons, my flower ribbon punch, and flower confetti that I forgot I had. I added neon glitter and sealed it up with my favorite tape.

MAIL ART from Norma

twistedfae — Sun, 11 Sep 2011 12:56:25 GMT

Fat mail alert~! Thank you, Norma for such a huggable package! All I can say is, "wow!" I love everything you sent my way. I wasn't aware you could cram so much into an envelope like that.

Here is the back of the envelope.

Paper heaven, right here.

The glitter flower brads are too cute. Love the ribbon which I plan to use on some decos. And the push pins~ Purple (fave color) stars. ^___^

Super fine glitter~ Love the earth tones which are colors I do not have. Many thanks for that. I cannot resist the colors in the other pack. ^___~ A girl can never have enough glitter.

The stickers are too cute~ The handmade sticker are beautiful and I never seen stickers like the metallic flower/buttery ones. I just had to sneak in your postcards, hehe.

I love this. You make the best postcards. ^_______^ I really need to learn how to use my lil' purple pixie sewing machine. It is still in the box it came in...

A closer look~

Again, thanks so much and I love it all. I cannot wait to be able to do this again. ^____^

Oh my, Studio G at Walmart~

twistedfae — Tue, 23 Aug 2011 13:53:34 GMT

I did some unexpected supply shopping at Wal-Mart when I went to return a shirt. Jamie was talking to a former co-worker so I took off to the craft area, hehe. Stationery was to crowded with all the last minute back to school shoppers... But I found some Studio G goodies~! The mod wasn't all set yet but I was able to find some really cool stuff.

But first, I had two little furry helpers making thing difficult. This is Chaser trying to get Fable out of the way.

Fable thinking he is helping me out by laying on my stuff.

The lil' rubber stamps were to cute to pass up and they even come with an ink pad.

The star was the main reason why I picked this up. But the little vampire was cute too. This comes with a black ink pad.

The spiderweb was what caught my eye and the cute lil' frankenstein reminded me of a penpal of mine. I want to use it on her envelope next time. The ink pad is silver.

I can't get enough of these alpha stamp sets. They come in handy on decos and label bags.

Ah, this one is my favorite~!

I though these were pretty cool too.

I can't wait to use these. ^___~

I also bought these epoxy brads.

A closer look~ Loving the skulls.

I found these cool hole punches too. I want to fill up lil' baggies for my deco swappers.

This one is my favorite. Skull love~

So I hope to keep seeing more Studio G products at Wal-Mart. I'll have to go back and check when they finish putting everything out. I wonder what acrylic stamps they are going to get.

Thanks for stopping by. Now it is time to rush to work.

Label & Stationery Swap

twistedfae — Mon, 22 Aug 2011 22:41:26 GMT

I've been wanting to post these pictures since I sent the labels out. But I was waiting for the stationery to come in so that I could just do one post. Last month I swapped some labels for stationery with Estela in Spain.

I sent her twelve sheets of labels.

Along with a little note that I type so I could use the new font I downloaded. I am still trying to find all the fonts I used to have before my computer died.

Last Friday I got this~ Sadly one of her envelopes was damaged and had to be put in a bag before leaving Spain.

Not sure what is missing but I love what I got. ^_____^ Thank you~

This one was sealed and okay though.

The pen was a little damaged but still works and I love the memo pads.

Love the Diddl pad too.

Thanks, Estela for a great swap. ^____^

Update mail & me

twistedfae — Thu, 18 Aug 2011 03:44:16 GMT

I've been wanting to update but my lazy self keeps winning. Mainly I have just felt drained and so distracted lately. So it is time to focus on my mail again. So I have been doing a little here and there.

I was working on a package for Crystal here using my new border bunch. I am getting the hang of it.

See~ I did this while watching Medium which I am determined to finish before they take it off Netflix. But I want to make a lot and share with my penpals/swappers. ^______^

Ugh, I have even been ignoring my mail & swap journal. I hope to catch up tomorrow but at least mail has been slow coming in.

This is the very recent but I have a few deco swaps to post that arrived as well. But here you can see Kyle's letter that came in last Friday. I had a slam (in blue envie) returned from Flavia in England. And a small note from Carly in Scotland. She moved also and I need to update her on my new addy. Funny thing is that it didn't have an ugly yellow forwarding sticker on it. I think the mail man knows I moved, heh.

I worked on an envie for Sylverhawk this morning. I'll show the rest later when I make another post about it. Sneak peak, hehe.

I even made myself some labels since I have been up since 6am.

So I am determined to get all caught up again. Sorry for the delay if I owe you a letter/swap. Le me know if I owe you something cause I am so forgetful~ It sucks really. I always put things off until my days off but then those days come... And I end up too tired and with no motivation at all. *sighs* So I wait until the next days... So then weeks go by... Grrr, I feel terrible because I feel like I wasted my days off. >__<

The rest of my shopping~

twistedfae — Tue, 09 Aug 2011 12:35:38 GMT

Here is the rest of what I bought last Friday. I am so behind with posting pictures on here that I am about to just give up on posting them, heh.

I bought these while Jamie was getting some information at the pharmacy. I bought this and a birthday card for my dad. I mailed that super late.

The post office was our next stop... I bought these stamps and mailed out some heavy packages. Pictures will come~

I got a few thing at Target~ I love their $1 bin, hehe. I bought some ribbon, list pad (that I use as stationery), and this flower punch that was on clearance. I am still trying to figure it out but I cannot wait to use it on for some deco supplies.

Target also had these cupcake sandwhich bags (to be used as goodie bags), star stickers (been buying anything rainbow lately), and this cute file holder (will be used to hold large decos). That is all~ I still have pictures from a haul like two weeks ago. xD *sighs* Soon I will catch up, lol.

Shopping at Michael's

twistedfae — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 23:36:26 GMT

Even though I shouldn't have... I did a little shopping today...

I only spent $20.68 which isn't bad, right? I got so many goodies though.

These were the first thing that went in my basket! At 49 cents how could I not? I doubled up on a few, hehe.

Oh my, how could I not pick up this Scentos marker? It's too funny and smells like Grape. They had others like strawberry and orange. I also found this lil' kitty punch and some flowers.

I don't have many ribbons so I picked these up in the dollar bin. I want to use them on decos and maybe on some envies too.

I bought these mainly for sticker bags. I have a few I want to sign and move along.

I did some more shopping at Target but I still need to edit the photos. So it is all about Michael's here. ^_____~

A deco session....

twistedfae — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 12:18:06 GMT

Lately I have been focusing on the decos I have sitting here. I got some moving without siging them but some have made their way back to me. I took this chance to deco them before passing them on. I determined to deco at least once a week when I am off. Especially lately that it has been so hot, heh. Here are ramdom shots from my last deco session...

This is one of the decos I worked on but I really didn't like my entry, heh. I really don't have much of my stuff out yet and I am forcing myself to use up what I have in boxes. So I felt limited here, ha! But this is the cover on the deco and I will post my entry later since I didn't take a picture of it.

Here is Tanya's deco which I love how the cover was made.

My little entry and I used no tape at all.

I love working on Halloween decos! I have so much stuff to use for them too since I go crazy buying stuff that are 50 to 70 percent off after the holiday is over.

Here's my entry for that one.

I did a lot of decoing that day. I am about to start another session later on today. I did scan some of the decos and I will be posting them up as soon as I upload them. Some are already gone but most of them are looking for a new home. ^_____~

Mail Art from Jessica~

twistedfae — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 11:52:52 GMT

I want to thank you Jessica for this beautiful envelope~!

Oh my, I love how it turned out, girl! ^____________^ Before I get to what is inside I will drool over the envie again, hehe.

Here's a butterfly I found on the envelope.

This is the back of the envelope.

A closer look at this cute kitty that is my favorite, hehe.

Another shot of it.

I love the vintage look of it all. Thanks so much, Jessica.

My first look of what's inside and I love it all. ^_________^ I am planning to use this stuff on some decos too since I have been focusing on them lately.

Loving the froggy stickers so much!

Mermaids!

A little packaged of more goodies. The air mail stamps are my favorite.

I cannot wait to use these~!

I have been eyeing these kinds of stamps and now I can try them out.

She also wrote me a lil' letter on such cute stationery. You can see the pretty gift wrap she used as well.

I love all this stuff and I cannot wait to use them all.

Again, thank you so much~! It really made me smile when I got it in. This was a great swap to do and I would like to do so again. ^______~

Mail Update from me

twistedfae — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 00:51:43 GMT

Finally sitting down here and updating my blog. I am still not entirely settled in which I should be by now. But eh, I have no motivation right now. I keep waiting until my days off and that is not getting me anywhere. I need to stop that~ But here is some mail that has left Ohio because of me.

I was finally able to mail out some letters today. I have been really slacking lately. But I am trying to get back to the penpal/swapping world. I sent out two letters this morning~ A letter to Jessica with some recent label designs I made. Also, this letter to Tabitha was suppose to go out late last month but I found it in my purse still unsealed. So I added a note and couple of pages of stationery.

I sent these early this month but can't remember the day exactly. Grr, I hate not being organized. But I sent out some excess to Jennifer and a couple of decos to Sheri.

Some FB goodies for Danielle who I met via Livejournal. I am not sure when this went out but it was late last month.

FBs & Lbs

twistedfae — Mon, 20 Jun 2011 13:58:08 GMT

I have been focusing on label bags mostly since most of my creative stuff is all packed up. All I have really is my printer and PC~ So I created some label bags & Fbs on my computer.

Here is a close up of the label bags I made.

I hope I saved the template because it would like to make more with diffent designs. ^_____^

Here are the FBs I made which are really small and cute! I can only use tiny labels on these. I used a thick tissue paper for the inside pages.

Here's a closer look. ^____^