One of the things I take time to do at least once a month is sit down, open my address book, grab some stationary, and write letters! I love receiving snail mail (Doesn’t everybody?), but oddly, I think I love writing to my friends and family even more. Maybe it’s the satisfaction that it will make them smile, feel encouraged and loved, or that it will arrive in their hands at just the right moment when they need it the most. An email can be nice, even a phone call, but, to me, a personalized, hand-written note just says a little more.
In honor of my love for letter writing and to encourage you to get your pens moving, I am giving away two sets of four postcards to two lucky winners. These postcards are no ordinary postcards. They are prints of my art from the series Inspirations and Face||Story. Winners will receive four postcards of mixed varieties.
To enter, comment on this post telling me anything you want in relation to letter writing, whether it’s a time when you received or wrote a letter, what you think about snail mail, or how annoyed you are that stamps keep getting more expensive.
Entries must be received by midnight on June 19th.
Winners will be contacted via email.
Thanks for reading…and writing!
7 responses so far ↓
missy // June 4, 2009 at 10:41 pm
I love snail mail from YOU!
And so does Alexis! =)
Aik // June 6, 2009 at 12:22 pm
I love receiving letters, it’s a sign of sincerity. However, I feel lazy to send my replies. The post office is sssooo far away…
Katie // June 8, 2009 at 3:53 pm
I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE handwritten notes! You can tell so much about someone, just from their penmanship. And they are so much more personal than sending an email. Whenever I get special letters in the mail, i always save them.
What a great giveaway, your postcards are FABULOUS, btw!
Grace Urena // June 9, 2009 at 3:18 am
I looooove receiving letters. it reminds me of a christmas morning and getting something u never would have expected. It’s a classic way to stay in touch n something concrete to always remember a conversation or memory with that someone special.
keep doing ure thing rach !
-Grace
Ashlee Kinser // June 9, 2009 at 8:05 pm
Hey Rachel,
First of all I have to say I love surfing through your site looking at all of your work. I never knew you were that talented. How many people did we graduate high school with? We didn’t get to know every classmate with a class size that big. I love your work! My husband and I are trying to think of something to have you paint for a commision piece. I keep dropping hints for a birthday present so we shall see.
Okay, so back to letter writing. I teach at Sylvan Learning Center where I teach everything from middle school math to beginning reading for the little kiddies. I was teaching a lesson on different forms of communication. I asked the student how many ways they knew to talk to someone. She could only think of cell phones, and texting. TEXTING??? I was at least hoping for email! These kids are addicted to it. I tutor them for fifty minutes at a time, what is so important to a twelve-year-old that it cannot wait until the end of the hour?
A few days later, I had to teach an older student cursive. The company he worked for paid for him to get better hand writing skills. I complimented him on his beautiful cursive. He said he did not know anytime that he would use it again. I had to remind him that when it came time to write Thank You notes he should do them in cursive. I said ” By no means should you TEXT a Thank You!!” Ahhh, technology…
I agree, hand written/hand-made cards are such a joy to make and receive. However, with today’s technology and the younger generation….. Well…. TTYL…… LOL!
Keep the Creativity Coming Rachel!!
Ashlee Kinser
Brendan O'Brien // June 10, 2009 at 5:25 pm
Since my love for arts and creativity has been realised in the last 6 or 7 years, I’ve been a mailing junkie! Seriously, I enjoy sending things to others more than receiving them even, though I love to receive as well. I’ve mailed hundreds of postcards to people I do not know personally who live all over the world, and always make an effort to write something personal on the back, as I know that I myself care more about what’s on the back than on the front when I receive them.
The “lost” art of letter writing makes me sad, but also inspires me to try to keep it alive a little longer, even if it is only in my little space…
Jamie // June 15, 2009 at 12:21 pm
i love getting mail (“good” mail that is – ie from friends or family – or ed mcmahon) but i rarely think to send it. maybe if i had some of your beautiful postcards i would be so excited to spread the love that my letter writing/mail sending fires would be reignited.
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