Recapture the lost art of letter writing.

The day after her birthday, in July; I stopped writing after six pages, and never did get back to it. She always sends me letters, along with my Christmas and birthday cards, so I really want to get this one finished.

I will write a letter (or postcard) a month to miscellaneous friends.

I haven’t written to anyone that I wrote to last year, yet. But I just finished letters to John, Joel, and Sam (although I don’t have his mission address yet… better fix that). And maybe I’ll write one to my grandma this week. Or Flan—I never wrote back to that last one at the end of the year.
The quality of the letters is not very high. Yet. It will improve with practice, I hope. We’ll see.

I don’t know if that constitutes me doing this but I finally finished a letter. I don’t know if I’ll get a response back or what but atleast I can say I really enjoyed doing this. Writing on the thicker paper was something in itself, then sealing it actually melting the wax and putting a seal on it seemed very dignified. I don’t know about my handwriting, but I did my best and I know there is only so much you can control with your handwriting without having to study a whole new course in caligraphy or handwriting itself. lol but maybe some other time… for now I’ll have to be content that I was actually able to write a letter with good ink good paper and good correspodence material

so I finally got my signet!!!
ok… now I just need to find my address
book and find someone who will enjoy a
hand written peice of correspondence from
moi’.. hrm… well wish me luck I’m about
to complete this little venture and see
how many times I have to edit and re edit
my rough drafts lol I hope I have a big
enough waste basket… wish I didn’t have
such great paper to waste though… oh
well.

so I went to office depot and actually
bought me some nice weight of paper..
and of course took the suggestion and
bought some wax… I guess now I just
need to find a signet.

but before that I am trying to figure
out who I can write to that has enough
time to sit and read a letter.

well I guess that will come in time..
so any other suggestions before I start
should I take a handwriting course?
if so.. where can I take one? or should
I just write letters.. hrm I dunno
I’ve never written a letter lol so I
guess I need a shove in the right direction
the protocols?

well I’m sure there will be many revisions
to my first letter wish me luck

You can buy sealing wax from most stores like Papyrus. Buy the wax and a seal (it’s like a brass stamp), and close your letters with it. It looks INCREDIBLE, and the wrongness of social elitism aside, people love a touch of eighteenth-century aristocracy in their mailboxes.

I completed a nice, handwritten letter and mailed it off…and the recipient emailed me back, so it went from an art to an experiment! It was fun while it lasted…perhaps some day I’ll try again. :)

I bought some nice parchment paper and a gel pen… now if I can just remember how to write…