I recently agreed to be pen pals with a fellow blogger. I got my first letter from her over the weekend and I’m ready to write my letter back to her but I wanted to write it on pretty paper. I haven’t written letters in so, so long that I don’t have pretty stationery anymore. After dropping Anderson at pre school, I went to four different stores looking for stationery, even ugly stationery, as long as it had matching envelopes and paper. No luck. I guess that’s one of the things that is difficult to find now in the age of email and text messages and skype and all the different ways people find to keep in touch in a less personal way than through letter writing.
I want to write her this letter so she doesn’t have to wait much longer. She’s in Australia and it takes a couple of weeks for the letter to get there so I don’t want to put it off. I do have a few rubber stamps left from my former extensive collection so maybe I’ll just decorate the paper myself. After I get this letter off, I will get busy and look some more for pretty paper and matching envelopes and maybe I’ll find some in the next month before I need to write another letter!
Wasted Days And Wasted Nights 
I have a whole desk full of fancy paper from the days when I used to write letters…I can’t imagine what I’ll ever do with it now.
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You can probably sell it and make a bundle. You know, supply and demand! I have read so many blogs in the past two weeks where people say they are beginning to write letters again so maybe we’ll see pretty paper again in the stores soon!
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Huh, interesting. My stationery is fancy, but plain—that high-grade deckle-edged rag that only very irritating people would ever use to write a letter…but it felt great under the nib of my fountain pen. Good lord, that sounded dirty.
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Hand written letters are wonderful! Try looking online to stationary. There is a lovely store called Papyrus that sells beautiful stationary maybe they are online too.
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Yes it’s great to write and receive hand written letters. No doubt about that in this age of emails and texting and Tweets. So keep those personal letters going.
And thanks for stopping by during the Blitz and saying hello.
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🙂 https://achaosfairyrealm.wordpress.com/2014/11/23/writing-by-hand/
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I found your scented ink on ebay. Very pricey. I think what I found was $186 for four bottles. Wow!
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I recently ordered a feather quill pen, ink, parchment paper stationary, matching envelopes, with a stamp and wax for imprinting from the Amazon site. I will write a letter to my children and both will email me back their responses.
About once a year I do this to scare family and friends, especially nieces and nephews who rarely if ever receive hand written letters. This is one way they will remember their uncle.
I posted a link to a blog I wrote titled, Pens, Pencils, crayons, 18-century feather quill and a letter stamp.
http://007pandas.com/2015/01/23/httpsdailypost-wordpress-comdp_promptpens-and-pencils/
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Thank you. I’ll check that out.
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