#20 Make own cards

A little card-stock. A little stamp. Some crayons and pen. Et voila!

My signature home-made card.

I love making them. They are nice for thank you notes and birthdays. Or just to say, 'Hi, I'm thinking of you.'

I also like finding photos in magazines that remind me of mis queridos and then building a card around the photo. They're highly amateur, but fun.


To my grandmother:

For a sister:

#19 Write postcards

I love writing postcards and letters.


I'm terrible about mailing them though.


I had my first pen pal in second or third grade. I don't remember the year, just that out of the blue a card arrived from my mom's high school friend from Pennsylvania. I had never met her, but she asked if I would be her pen pal. I felt special. And she promised to always try and find peacocks cards for me, because she liked peacocks and peacocks were special.


I saved them all.


Later I was pen pals with my best friend who moved to New England and  then with my aunt who left to work in Ecuador. I saved all of those notes, too.


Here's to the nearly lost art of handwriting notes.