New Website!

I have moved!

justletterrip.com

Many thanks to my daughter Sharon for the new digs! Not only did she provide the website, but she also moved everything over from my old blog. All in the two hours I was gone to church! She’s got mad computer skills, make that skillz with a “z.”

Guest Post: Send Get Well Cards to Patty

I see that it has been a while since Mom posted on her blog.  Patty was in a car accident on Thursday, March 14.  She is in the hospital, banged up, bruised and has broken her left arm in a couple of places.  Surgery is going to be needed in a few days to repair the break. I spoke with her this morning and she seems to be in good spirits and doing as we'll as can be expected under the circumstances.

She requested her iPad because the hospital has "excellent wifi" reception, lol! Anyway, I know how much she loves receiving snail mail and thought it would be a great idea if her online friends would flood her mailbox.  She especially enjoys hand-made cards. The mailing address is listed to the right. Pass this along, the more mail, the better.  I'm sure it will lift her spirits to see the cards.

XoxoxoX
Sharon (daughter)

Inspirational Message

The art department paints signs to hang in the hallways at school.  Some of these signs promote school pride.  Some cheer on the sports teams.  Others are simply inspirational works to foster positive attitudes and to provide motivation.

On the wall directly opposite my classroom door hangs one such sign.

Students swelter in my stuffy classroom where temperatures hover between 85 and 95 degrees (no, we don't have air conditioning) and for an hour struggle with geometry or statistics problems.   Finally, the bell sounds.  BBRRRRIIIINNNNNNG!!!  As students gather their belongings and scramble to beat each other out the door, an uplifting message awaits their exit.

 

 

In all fairness, the sign originally said "NEVER GIVE UP" but the tape on the first part didn't hold and the custodians swept up the fallen paper and tossed it.  Much to my amusement, it took a few days for most people to notice and a couple more for the art department to redo the missing word.  In the meantime, I seized the day, not to mention my camera, and snapped a few photos.  They still make me smile.

piggy

http://www.geico.com/public/ringtones.php?filename=piggy_ringtone.mp3

Free Marriage Counseling

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Lovely Tulip Card

Thanks go out to Sirpa Roos for this lovely tulip she painted for me. 

Doesn't it just shout SPRING IS HERE?  It does to me.

And if that wasn't enough goodness, check out the envelope she sent it in.

It is gorgeous as well.  Notice the numbers in my address.  She used ones cut from the tape I sent.

Good idea. 

Cherry Blossom Time

Today I mailed out six postcrossing cards.  All of them depict scenes from Washington, DC during Cherry Blossom time in early April.  Aren't they gorgeous!  And, for those of you who think I can't count, there was a duplicate of the last card.

It's Getting To Be That Time Again

Time for one of my all-time favorite cartoons.

Do You Know About Peachy Cheap

Here's an item some of you might be interested in.  12 rolls of tape for one low price.  Check it out at Peachy Cheap.  And no, I am not affiliated in any way with that site.  They offer deals good for one day only, except on weekends when the deal runs on both Saturday and Sunday.  I held off ordering this tape all day Saturday and it still hadn't sold out at noon today, so I took that as a sign I was supposed to order.  It still hasn't sold out as of this posting, so maybe that's your sign????  Call me "Enabler."

Book of Days 2012

Besides letter writing and mail art, my next favorite activity is art journaling.  Here is the front cover of my 2012 Book of Days.  I'm following along with our fearless leader, Effy Wild.  Here's a link to her Book of Days site.  The basic program is totally free.  There is also a Facebook group to join if you like.

She provides two or three videos per week where you can watch her create pages in her own art journal.  Very helpful for those like me who have a huge gap between the idea of my page as it exists inside my mind and what I actually translate onto on the paper.

I won't be posting the journal pages here, but if you are interested you can follow me on Pinterest.  It amazes me that I have 60 followers already on Pinterest, but I've never pinned anything to a single board!  Who are these people?