Incoming mail.

It's hard to believe it's been so long since my last blog post, and I would like to apologise to everyone who has been waiting for a new blog entry. During the last four weeks my life has changed radically. I managed to find a new job and it took me a while to get used to the new routine and responsibilities. I have less time for myself, although I do my best to be productive even on my days off. It's not easy to try to maintain everything well, you know, working around the house, trying your best to spare your own time through your family and friends, reading and responding to all the letters you receive. I cannot say I dislike my life right now because I actually love it. I feel better than I ever have.

In this blog post I would like to show you some of the recent incoming mail. If you follow me on Instagram (@rasmuser), you might've already seen these pictures. If not, I hope you enjoy seeing them here because all the mail my pen pals send me is so beautiful!

From Ada (Poland)

 From my new pen pal Haylea (United States)

From Lozzi (England)

From Sabrina (Germany) who finally published her blog post on our meeting (you can read it here)

I love all my pen pals and I am grateful for the friendship and support they give me ♥

Till the next time,

Caroline xxx

PS. Changed my Tumblr URL to Grace-Beneath-The-Pines.

More incoming mail!

Seeing new letters at my doorstep always makes me happy and brightens up my day a LOT. Today I'm coming with another blogpost in which I will show you what I've been receiving over the last few days. It's going to be a short post since I'm sick and not feeling too well at the moment but would still like to keep up with writing on this blog weekly.

First of all, a letter from Ada who's from Poland. I'm not a big fan of Lord of the Rings but I do think the stationery is lovely! Ada also sent me tea but it was gone by the time I took the pictures :)

Next comes a letter from Edith who lives in Hungary. It was a long, sweet letter and I really enjoyed reading it!

And another gorgeous letter from Theresa who lives in Germany. I really love the stationery with the Harry Potter houses printed on it <3 I'm a potterhead so whenever my pen pals send me Harry Potter related things, I get really really happy!

Last but not least, a beautiful piece of mail from Mira. Mira is from Finland but she works as an au pair in the United States. I can't get over the fact how beautiful the envelope Mira decorated is! Besides, the sent me loads of goodies which I'm really thankful for! Thank you, thank you, thank you!

That would be it for today's blogpost! It's not the end of the incoming post, though! Part three of incoming mail coming up on the blog soon!

Cheers,

Caroline

Postman problem solved + outgoing and incoming post.

Hi everyone! I haven't received any mail after I had written the last blogpost. Until today. Recently, I have found out there was a new postman in our area who didn't take his job too seriously... There have been a lot of problems with him lately, and yesterday I took a ride to the local post office to express my dissatisfaction. I was told that the new postman was only working as a locum for the old one and that he would only do it for one more week.

I had been waiting for letters from three Polish girls that I got to know on a pen palling Facebook group. The founder of the group, Ada (whose letter I am still awaiting but I'm hoping it'll arrive soon), came up with an idea of this great action which everyone interested in snail mail could take part in. Ada collected our addresses and made a draw assigning us one or two of them each. We had to write surprise letters to the people whose addresses Ada had chosen for us. I was happy to find out I had to write a letter to Ada! I wish I had taken my own picture of the letter I wrote so I could upload it on the blog. However, Ada snapped a picture of it and posted it to our Facebook group. I don't think she'll mind me using her picture to show you my letter to her:

It would seem that the complaint has been treated seriously because the new postman brought a bunch of letters today! I had already started believing that the mail must've got lost... So these are the letters from two lovely girls: Dworak and Wiktoria:

Dworak, thanks for the tea, that little angel and the kisiel <3 (kissel)

The postman looked quite grumpy today, if you ask me. What if he knew I was the one to complain about him? Sorry, not sorry!

Yesterday I finished writing my letter to my Chinese pen pal who lives in Taiwan. Ying Syuan is such a lovely and nice person and we've already exchanged a couple of letters. All her letters are thoughtful, beautiful and interesting. I hope my post will reach her soon! You can find some snaps of my letter to Ying Syuan below.

I also included my favourite recipe :)

I feel so happy and relieved that the incoming letters didn't get lost. I hope the new postman will do his work scrupulously from now on. I'm still awaiting two more letters: one from Ada that I had mentioned already and another one from my Polish friend living in Sweden. 

That would be it for today's blogpost! It was quite random because I hadn't thought I would write it today. However, it makes me happy that I have things to write about. I have plenty of ideas for future blogposts as well but if there is something you would like me to write about, let me know in the comments below! I will take all suggestions into consideration. 

Cheers,

Caroline