How the Art of Writing Letters Has Inspired My Creativity #lettermo

Yes! I found a new mailbox. Handmade envelopes, find your new homes!

One of the Lettermo Challenges is to put mail in a variety of mailboxes. Found a new one yesterday! February has been many things for me so far: the month when I watched Nemo come a calling upon my daughter. It has been the month of my eldest daughter’s twenty-third birthday. It has been the month of making and sending Valentine greetings for the first time in years.

The biggest thing February has been for me?

It has been a month of writing and receiving letters.

I had forgotten how fun it is to write newsy notes and receive newsy notes, written by hand from people you have never met. Because of Lettermo, I have met others who love this sort of communication. When I was a little girl, I wrote oodles of letters.

Email and life took over so no more newsy, handscribed notes or pouring over the stationery section of the store to get the “just right note paper” with colored envelopes, naturally. There is nothing I love more as a letter writer and receiver to have cool envelopes pop into the monochromatic white or ecru envelope.

I sat in a cool, independent bookstore in Echo Park called "Stories" and wrote letters one February Friday night.

Thanks to Lettermo, I have started making my own envelopes and cards and even more wildly (for me) I have actually started to make matching cards and envelopes. I have also sent more than thirty letters and received nearly as many. I still have five more to write to catch up and I’ve heard (via twitter and the like) people have letters to me on the way.

I am even going to write a letter to Malta this week. MALTA! I never would have conceived this before, my handwriting and art landing in a mailbox that remote strikes me as more than a little bit cool.

It was through writing letters my creativity has burst into flames in quite a renewed way.

As I said, February has been quite a month!