Today, what I wanted to share is my letterbox. I have always been fascinated by the act of writing. Putting a pen to paper, feeling the paper under my hand, even smelling the ink (yes, I prefer liquid ink pens). What is it but a small step to channel my love of writing stories to an enjoyment of writing letters?
I just recently (as in, since last summer) started writing paper-letters. Before, I´ve always kept in contact with my friends through long long long (and may I stress long once again? I´m fairly long-winded) emails. This is partially due to the fact that most of my best friends are located at best in other countries, and at worst in other continents. You can imagine how important emailing each other was, when schedules didn´t mesh easily, Skype was not in use (did it even exist?), and long distance phone calls just weren´t viable.
I´ve always liked letter paper--when I was little, there was a fad in which every little girl bought letter paper and we traded them in order to get the prettiest ones. A bit like collecting cards, only larger. I was naturally part of that craze (and the stationery I accumulated back then is somewhere in my attic, in a large folder). However, we didn´t really use that pretty stationery to write on. It was just too pretty.
Last year I finally took the plunge and wrote one of my friends in Europe a letter, accompanying the birthday present I sent her. I got a reply in the cutest letter paper you´d ever seen. Best of all, it wan´t just letter paper, it had something written on it! I was irrevocably hooked. I´ve been buying cute letter paper and writing letters since. At the moment, I´ve only got one penpal, but I´d love to get one or two more. I promise I´m very prompt in writing replies.
It´s such a shame that cute stationery is so hard to come across nowadays. I don´t want to write a letter on boring normal paper! It loses part of its charm! Like I said before.....If you´re looking for a European penpal to exchange letters with, I´m here! And I write long letters!
Today I´ll be sharing my letterbox, the box where I keep all my letters and stationery in with you. My Usakumyas, being the little devils they are, decided that they wanted to help too. What can I say? We had quite the adventure.
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| "What a lovely flowery box!! I wonder what´s in it?" |
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| "As leader of the Pochette-Kumya Council, I, Pink Usa, suggest opening it and finding out." |
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| "Gah, do we fit, do we fit?" "No, dummy-Black, your butt is too big!!" |
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| "That worked better--we just had to take out all the stationery!!" "What´s wrong, Shiro-chette?" "*gasp* Can´t breathe!!" |
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| "MWAHAHA!! I´ll just run off with some of the lovely letters now...it´s easy to stuff them in my hood!" |
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| "My good Sir, I might be new around here, but that´s most certainly illegal! Unhand those letters!" |
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| "Victory!!! Mission accomplished!" |
Oh, aren´t these BunnyBears the silliest? But apparently the newest family member has quite the sense of justice! My precious letters are in safe paws.
