Amazing mail from Katri / Kanada!

 I got something amazing today!

I know I tend to find all of my incoming mail amazing, but seriously - if you found something like the above in your mailbox, wouldn't you be over the moon as well?

 Inside this oh so pretty decorated envelope (Oh my, Washi tape is so great - but did you see that stamp seal there on the back of the envelope? Yep, that's a seal made of a stamp!) I found another envelope with my name on it...

 which contained a small letter for me. But there were other envelopes as well. The following picture is a very bad one, but the light really isn't that good over here today. You can see two paper envelopes and two transparent envelopes, which I look forward to send :)

 There was another smaller envelope as well from Hello Kitty, but I didn't get a nonblurry picture from that one and the (green) tea as well - but those were also included :)

Then comes the stickers and labels and stars and dots and arrows awesomeness - I'm so looking forward to pepping up my mail with these!

Are you ready for more awesomeness? Look at this! I exclaimed my love for animal stamps often enough and I love stickers as well - and now I received animal stamps turned into stickers! Isn't this amazing? They are so beautiful!

 And I also got some some stickers made from an old book!

You surely can tell that I'm very excited for all of this :) If you want to receive something similar as amazing from Katri, I propose hopping over to her Etsy store where you can find upcylced stationery (from vintage maps! Bonus points!), postage stamp stickers (as well as address labels like the one she used on my letter) and cute notebooks among others. Oh, if I would have the money...

Alles Liebe,
Caddi


PS: Two more days to sign up for the advent calendar swap and the giveaway!

4 things sunday # 2

I'm taking part in Sallys 4 things challenge. Every Sunday I decide on 4 simple little goals I'd like to achieve in the coming week. I'm not talking about graduating university or buying a house. These are little challenges, challenges I really can accomplish and which will help me to make my life just a tad more organized.


Here are my 4 things for this week:

* Write a postcard to both my mum and dad.
* Plan at least one afternoon for my children's group.
* Prepare 5 days of the advent calendar I'm doing for the swap.
* Reorganize the kitchen shelves.


How did I do last week?

* Write four letters.  Check! I wrote even more, and I'm almost done with answering all the mail that has piled up during summer. I'm ready for more mail! :)
* Eat ten healthy things.   Check! Again, I ate even more healthy things than I thought I would :) By the way, "healthy things" for me means mostly apples and carrots :) Bonus points here, because I even got my boyfriend to eat some healthy things :)
* Work out twice.   Well.... I did work out once, I wanted to do so again this weekend but it was just way to cold. When it's cold I rather snuggle up in a blanket instead of working out. (On the other hand though, I don't really enjoy working out in summer either - do you notice something here? :) )
* Buy a new book.  I failed on this one. I bought lots of stationery supplies and small goodies, but I didn't decide on a book.



What are your goals for next week?

Alles Liebe,
Caddi

Outgoing mail of the weekend.

I have been working on my outgoing mail again the past few days and I managed to write three more letters :) So I have accomplished one of my goals from the last "4 things sunday".

These are the letters that will go out this week:

# 1 to Julie in the USA - she sent me an introduction postcard over the summer. I love the book of that little caterpillar! It's just too cute.

I had also received an introduction letter from LR over the summer, so I also got around to send her a letter. 

I love the stamp! I guess you all know by now that I love animal stamps, so an animal stamp with Bernhard Grzimek on it as well...

I had received a letter from my italian pal F. this week and I already replied to her as well. I used some stationery that I got from LR, thanks for that! She had sent me a goodie bag not long ago, so I decided to add some things for her as well - among these, some sweets...

 ... and another little present. I love to wrap things up with a button on top of it! I think it's just waaay to cute :)

Of course I'll have to pay more postage for that (3,45 € instead of 0,75€), but that also means I can add more stamps! F. is collecting stamps as well, so I hope she'll like this small collection - there are some of my favourite stamps among them, the two left in the top row and the one on the left in the bottom row - an advertisement poster from 1890 posted from the shipowning company Ballin who transported mail to the German islands.

Oh, and the stamp F. used on her letter (which she sent from England) was lovely as well - the queen in pink :) 

I hope you are all doing well! Did you already sign up for the giveaway and the advent calendar swap?

How do you wrap presents? Any neat ideas that are easy as well?

Alles Liebe,
Caddi

Outgoings still outnumber the incomings

I am still not really receiving much mail, but I'm okay with that - I'm still working on my last outgoings, also I know for sure that a letter is coming my way from Jennifer :)

I received an envelope from Shannon with the postcards I won over at her blog. Thank you so much!

I wrote three letters yesterday and the day before yesterday, so I am close to fulfilling my sunday goal this week - only one more letter to go!

The first letter is going to Sabrina here in Germany. As you can see I am already using the labels you can win over in my giveaway (well, of course not the ones you will be winning...) and I really like them.

The next letter is for Ely in Mexico. I just realized that the paper I used for the envelope looks a lot like christmas... well, I like christmas so that's alright. I'm so looking forward to the christmas calendar swap!

Last but not least, a letter for Shelby! Can you see that sticker on the envelope I got from her? Apparently her letter got into customs - in the harbour in Hamburg! I wonder why they didn't send it via airmail - but oh well. That also explains why the envelope took at least two weeks to arrive :)

 How are you guys doing? I hope everything is okay with all of you!


Alles Liebe and take care!

Caddi