Letter Writers Alliance

Moleskine Postal Notebooks

Sometimes postings on Monday, Wednesday and Friday are not enough, but if I want to be sure to have a full and regular blog, I have to hold things back. No longer will this annoucement on the awesome/astounding/amazing SUPERLATIVE Moleskine Postal Notebooks be contained. Please watch this informative and fun video as sent to us by Member Trish.

 

I love this so much. I can't wait to buy a ton of these. A little birdie told me that they will be carried at GREER and I'm sure other stationery stores of the finest caliber will have them available as well.

***Full Disclosure*** While GREER is the very best stationery store in existence, I should mention that I do have the pleasure of being employed there on occaison. I was a customer first and remain so to this day.

R.S.V.P. Teaser & Sale Date

Our latest Royal Society of Venturesome Parcels project is going on sale at 7PM CST on Wednesday, April 11th. The theme is....

For those who do not know what R.S.V.P. is: The Royal Society of Venturesome Parcels program is a themed mailing over four weeks, one package each week. Each weekly package has secret items in them for your postal enjoyment. The last series sold out in a few hours. This particular set is very dear to my heart and I look forward to sharing my stamp collecting love with you.

Rumpus Letter Subscriptions

I'm not very familiar with the site The Rumpus, but I got an email tip from Member Kim L. about a new service they are starting where they mail you letters. For $5 a month, you'll receive almost weekly letters from known artists and authors such as Dave Eggers, Marc Maron, Stephen Elliott, Janet Fitch, Nick Flynn, Margaret Cho, Cheryl Strayed, Wendy MacNaughton, Emily Gould, Tao Lin, and Jonathan Ames. They want you to "Think of it as the letters you used to get from your creative friends, before this whole internet/email thing."

If you're looking to get more mail, that's one way to do it. If anyone does subscribe, I'd love to have you review the service for the blog.

{photo from Denis Dore Photography photostream under CC license}

Letter Ledger by Paper & Type

If one of your resolutions for the New Year was to be better organized about your mail, Paper & Type has a lovely option for you. Of course, L.W.A. members also have the official Correspondence Record, but this one is nice too.

{spotted on Oh So Beautiful Paper}

What's in Your Pouch?

Ana, of The Well-Appointed Desk, shared what all it is she keeps in her Official L.W.A. pouch. It is a mighty little pouch, yesirree. I illustrated what all I keep in mine. Notice that we both like click for color pens, washi tape, Le Pen by Marvy and Palomino Blackwing pencils.

Do you have an L.W.A. bag and want to share what you tote along with you on your letter-writing travels? Add a picture or drawing to our Flickr! We'd love to see them.

Old-Fashioned Holiday Greetings

I missed these when they came out last year, but Pigeon Post has an excellent aesthetic going and I can't not share it with you. Honestly, the stamp edge is probably enough to make me love them, but the illustrations are truly wonderful as well. {There's a Valentine's set too, in case the winter holidays aren't your thing.}

Holiday Card Preparations

I know, I know, "Too soon!" you are thinking, but if you have to send the volume of cards that I send, you should have started this two months ago. Fortunately, Margaret of Paper Pastries is on top of things! She's released a fine and dandy rubber handstamp to dress up any ol' envelope with bright holiday cheer.

In keeping with the holiday spirit, Margaret is giving away one of these stamps to a lucky L.W.A. reader. Leave a comment here with your favorite thing to do with holiday cards, either sending or after you've recieved them. One random winner will be selected next week.

**We have a winner: Mari, commenter No.8 as choosen by random.org. She said, "I usually take a photo of one of my cookies, adhere it to a plain card and write - by hand, of course! - my greetings on the other side. The picture is usually of an animal from the Chinese Zodiac, so this past year's Christmas/Year-End card featured a rabbit in s suit with a monocle. (Mr. Rabbit is in the banner of my blog) Because it's so expensive to send boxes of cookies to friends and clients I find this is always nice way to share some of my baked goods and my greetings."**

What's more, she's also offering a discount code for everybody. You'll get 15% off your entire Paper Pastries order if you put in the coupon code "LWA". The code is good until December 17th, 2011. That Margaret, she's so nice!

Tiniest Airmail Invites

The World's Smallest Post Service has done it again; wowing us with this set of custom "airmail" wedding invitations, complete with a tiny fold-out map and colorful buttons for RSVPs. You can see more photos on their blog. My favorite is that she also used airmail envelopes to send the tiny missive in. Her dedication to detail meant that she hand-typed all the addresses on a Royal typewriter as well. Keep up the fine work Lea! We love your stuff and can't wait to see what you do next.

Waterhalo and Send More Mail

Jaime from Toronto not only keeps a grand journal full of collage and postage stamps at waterhalo, she also sells Canadian stamp packages as seen at her sister site send more mail. Truly, you are one of us, Jamie.

Deluxe Army Surplus Desk

Oh, Army surplus, how I love thee. When the apocalypse* comes you need not give up your mail art ways as long as you have one of these trust, dusty cases {and the minions to transport it, but that's a trivial matter, surely}. Desk contents may vary and can include a desk pad, numbered pull-out trays, pads of paper, desktop paper holders, lots of hard cover notebooks, clear plastic rulers and triangles, large rolls of graph paper and 5 pull-out boxes stuffed with tape, pencils, erasers, felt tip markers, magnifiers, candles with wood holders, paper clips, staples and brass locks. Closed box measusres 47"L x 21"W x 16"T. Prepare for the worst over at Major Surplus.

 

P.S. Thanks to our member Cesar for the link!

*But who will deliver your letters after the apocalypse? Kevin Costner. Pop-culture has told us so.