Project: Doodle A Day ~Open~

Day 24: Open

Doing projects like this really make you realise how quickly time is flying by, it has been a lot of fun and very thought provoking that I'm tempting to do it next month also as after all I'll have holiday for 2 weeks of it. I'll see though when the time comes.

 

Today I sent someone on make my day this Alice Postcard, its just such a nice postcard. I decided I wasn't going to spend 87p or £1.28 without getting my mail to the full 20g so needed an envelope to go with each one to add in a few extra. This one as you can see I decorated to the Alice theme by using Alice deco tape and then I copied part of the Alice on the postcard (the head is different). Then I needed to do something for the open theme for doodle a day, I thought of so many things as usual (an open sign on a door, opening a container, present etc...) but I decided in the end to keep it simple and decorate the back with drink me and a bottle to open! The pink looks so much nicer on the actual envelope then in the photo as its so bright.

Project: Lovely Letters

It is that time again to show you my latest lovely letter. One of the things that my partner said she liked was books so I had to use one of my Alice in Wonderland sets but which one do I use was the question....

I ended up choosing the last one because it didn't just have Alice in Wonderland but also Little Red Riding Hood, Wizard of Oz and Snow White... might as well get really in to the Fairy Tale theme I guess. I also realised that I had two of the first set so I'm offering one on my other blog Make My Day, if you haven't done already maybe you'd like to have the chance of getting it by shouting Make My Day!

The writing paper is pretty plain in design and colour considering how much could have been done with these themes and I do find these sets quite boring but my writing looks great on them. I tend to use coloured pens, tapes and stickers anyway so it soon makes things look more cheerful.

I decorated my envelope to match the theme of Alice in Wonderland, even the book page matches as its about Guilotines and the Queen of Hearts wanted everyones heads chopped off.

I continued with the book theme by sending a booklet about Bradford, a leaflet on Haworth where the Bronte sisters grew up and wrote their books. As its a world heritage place its like stepping back in time. Also I included a postcard of the Wool Exchange which has a few shops in its building but majority of the building is occupied by Water Stones which is a book shop.

Even though my letter wasn't as long as last time and I had plenty of sheets to continue writing on I decided to do my 2nd task on the Wizard of Oz letter pad a friend sent me as it fitted in so well. I have to admit though that I really struggled with my 10 questions as I wanted them to be fun and challenging without the usual style of 'What's your favourite colour etc?....

Today I received my partners letters....

Its funny how my partner thought to use an Alice in Wonderland theme on her envelope too and it looks great. The stamps I loved and she included a few goodies.

Here are the 10 questions for me to answer which I'll send with my next letter.

How are you getting on with your Lovely Letter?