Nov from CCanfield - Letters to Santa

 I woke up on Christmas morning and suddenly remembered an email that I was going to re-post - and had forgotten to do so. I am writing this at 6:33 am on Christmas morning. The grandkids (11 and 9) have been told that they must stay in bed until 7:15. Nanna gets to roam around and make coffee and check the blog.... and this seemed like a good post to amend... with this email that arrived from Nanski in early Dec. It is reprinted with permission.

Don’t know if you are going to mention the USPS Santa this year, but I thought I would mention it to you. I found out about it through your blog and we love it here. We’ve done it for 3 years and I always think of you! We still participate in some other Santa drives, but the USPS is our favorite because we are fulfilling specific requests. We try to get on early to pick a letter we can relate to and when possible from our own state. This year was a real winner: books! Stuffed animals and a few games for a brother and sister in Massachusetts . We couldn’t be happier and it gets us in a festive mood when we are out on the hunt for the best presents. It definitely keeps the holiday spirit alive.

That made me very happy. Thanks for sharing. 

This is a good example to go along with my pre-written add-on. An idea like this could be done fairly quickly or it could take a fair amount of time. It would a good one to try on a set of envelopes. Start them all with a set of lines - and then finish each one differently. I like that idea. Will I remember to do it? I sure hope so.

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This was in my folder - to go back and clarify something from an earlier post

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This quote was on the back of Janet's July envelope. I set it aside to figure out a way to *keep* it and I won't have time to letter it myself in the near future. However, I realized I have a tab on the blog just for quotes. I forgot all about it - because I started it in May of 2020 - which was during the lockdown and we all had so much time to get ourselves organized. LOL. 

I'm just happy that I discovered my good idea - 4 years after I had it ---- more LOL --- 

I did a search and did not find the quote associated with anyone. [Then I think I found out it's from Austin Kleon. But, I have to do more research]

Don't count the hours. 

Art is not efficient. Sometimes a good piece is born in minutes, but even then it is usually surrounded by days of seemingly fruitless poking. 

Accept this and you will be much happier.