Meant to post the photo of these envelopes sooner but I forgot until last night when the internet was down. lol
January Envelope Exchange
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Tag Archives: letter writing
Anticipation
We don’t know yet when we will travel to get our son in Taiwan but one of the best things about the wait is getting to write him letters! I have been looking forward to this part of the process for a long time, the anticipation phase.
We’re telling him about life in Texas, our pets, homeschooling, and anything we think he’d like to know about before he comes. We include pictures too. I hope the letters help him to imagine living with us and being part of our family.
The hardest part of writing him is that we have to write in Chinese! Good thing J knows how to translate from English, but we still have to look up many of the Chinese characters as neither of us know very many.
Want a pen pal?
Probably old news to most of you, but if you’re looking for a letter back Crane & Co. will write you. All you have to do is write them first. Their address is:
Crane & Co. Pen Pals
44 West 28th Street, 8th Floor
NY, NY 10001
They also will enter all who write them a letter in a contest to win Crane paper goodies. What could be better?
Chinese landscape
I found a lady through the San Antonio Calligraphy Guild who teaches Chinese brush painting in San Antonio. So Sunny and I have been going every other week or so to take a class after Sunny’s therapy dog work at the Blanco Library on Monday evenings. The teacher likes us to take home a “product” after every class so she has us paint greeting cards.
It’s nice to have so many cards at the ready to write on for my pen pals though I wish we would get to practice painting larger. I did sign up for Henry Li’s online workshop starting July 16th so I’m hoping that will be good for practice. If you haven’t seen his You-tube instruction videos I highly recommend them. They’re the best free instructions I’ve found.
June Envelope Exchange
Used vintage stamps and did the lettering in Uncial this time!
