Happy Things to end the week with

As you know this has been a fantastic week for me (although a few sad moments which I won't share right now).

I spent one of the days this week with one of my best friends Liz her daughter Layla-Rose, my nephew Caeleb, my new sis in law Gem and nephew Micah. We had lunch and went to the Sciencentre. My other nephew Isaiah went to work with my brother.

♥ Caeleb with his head on a plate at the Sciencentre. 

♥ Layla-Rose after waking up. 

♥ Micah's shoes, though he wasn't wearing this particular pair that day.

♥ I also caught up with another good friend of mine Thara. We had Wagamama for lunch and this is our Japanese tea. 

♥ My new Frankie magazine, my new neutral coloured with tiny white polka dot stockings/tights and my new wrap bracelet/necklace.

&hears; It has a teeny butterfly and flower plus the little hand says handmade :) 

♥ My new job of course!

♥ Being able to buy new work clothes that aren't just black and white

It has been a great week and I've been feeling really happy. In so many ways. Lighter. With a lot of ideas. I have a giveaway in store, my Etsy shop is going on sale and there will be a new swap for The Happy Mail Project. 

Hope you have a truly beautiful weekend!

Postale Society

I have become a member of the Postale Society. It's a subscription membership and I can't wait to start receiving my post cards that will follow a story. Go to the Postale Society website to find out more about it. 

I got my subscription when I was at Two Golden Hours. They will also be at the Finders Keepers markets this weekend. 

This is my little postcard packet of little inspirations giving me more clues about the story I am following. 

All the little bits inside. 

It really makes me curious to how the story unfolds.

You are encouraged to make an inspiration board of some sort with the items. I had to tape it onto a frame. I thought I had a pretty cork board but obviously I didn't. 

I'm the biggest advocate for mail and correspondence. There's The Happy Mail Project and I have the Postal Reverie in the works too. Still not 100% sure what I'm doing with that yet but I have some ideas. 

So enjoy mail and keep handwritten letters alive. 

P.s. Jasmine has a done of look book with me over at her blog. Check it out :)

The Happy Mail Project

Hey lovelies. Well I have finally planned out the snail mail group. I decided to go with The Happy Mail Project. I might make a Flickr group, so we can see all the lovely mail goodness. 

So basically with this mail group, there will be some type of mail swap, hopefully once a month. Most of them will be quite easy like post cards or lists. And you don't have to join every swap. Just the ones that take your fancy.

What will happen is each month there will be a swap and if you are part of the group you can sign up for it. I will then partner everyone up. I'm going to mix you all around in the group so you can swap with different people, but that doesn't mean you won't swap with the same person a few times. 

I promise this will be fun :) I will probably sent out little letters to each person occasionally and I have a few special things planned for the group (like hand made bracelets or special post cards etc).

If you want to join just email me gracienne.nancy{at}gmail.com. I would prefer if you had a blog, but if you don't still email me and we can work something out :) And those who have already expressed interest from the last swap I will be emailing you soon. 

I have also created a button for you to take and I'm making a page for the group as well (I want to make a tab but at the moment it's just a link on the left hand side of the blog).

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I hope you enjoy and remember to email me with any questions or suggestions.