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I went to Claremont to see their annual 4th of July parade. It was actually really nice. I don't know why we have never gone, it's literally 5 minutes away from my house. They also have a firework show inside the college but it's not free to we went up to Mt. Baldy to see all the fireworks in the IE. 

Having a holiday on a Wednesday really throws everyone off though. Today felt like Monday! At least it's Friday tomorrow. 

Today I took out my mini sewing machine and made some envelopes. I hope the lace doesn't fall apart.

I have a small stack of mail I haven't replied to so I might just use my new envelopes on that. 

I love waiting for the mail the day after a holiday, it's like twice as much mail!

All the postcards are from my momma-in-law, who went to go visit a friend in Arizona last week. She always sends me postcards when she goes on trips. 

So last year I was really into signing up for free stuff and coupons. I haven't really done much of that lately but I am still receiving stuff. I ended up winning two contests this past week, I don't even remember signing up for them. 

I won a fancy medicated lotion and lip moisturizer,

and nail polish,

I also finished my first embroidery this week! I want to keep making more.

Tomorrow is Postcard Day! A lot of people have been signing up, I am excited to pick a winner! 

  

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This was a busy weekend.
Saturday I had a graduation/18th Birthday Party to go to which I wasn't really looking forward to because it was going to be boring but it turned out well. They had a candy bar! amazing and a free photo booth that my mother went crazy and we took way too many pictures. We're still waiting for the company to upload them. Sunday was the annual JPL Open House..it was like Disneyland for nerds. Lines were way too long and not worth the wait.

It was a very good mail weekend though!

Outgoing mail:

 Incoming mail:

 what was inside the package, it was from a swapbot swap.

So this week I made quite a bit of money from my shops. I sold a stack of old books my brother bought at the local library a while ago. While I was skimming through them before I packed them I found this old envelope!
It was from Anaheim, Ca. which isn't that far from here. Look how cheap postage was! It's not even that cheap to send a postcard nowadays!