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Stamps, Stamps and more Stamps!

I received an amazing package covered in old stamps today and inside it was filled with randomness. It was from "Big Fat Stuffed Envelope Swap #5-USA" swap on swap-bot. She really did send a BIG FAT STUFFED envelope lol.

The outside of it,


Some of the things it contained (i didnt photograph everything but i tried)- papers and clipping, photographs, old news paper clipping, lace, buttons, embellishments, stamps, puzzle pieces



She made a postcard out of old stamps and included a little envelope with old stamps.



Also received two postcards from postcrossing,

From Niagra Falls,


From China,



Today I also went to go drop off some film at Target and do some "window shopping" since I still dont have my financial aid money but I did buy this cute Owl card set for $1.00

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This post had turned into a huge rant about my weight, driving and relationships but I decided to delete it and keep it a happy post instead.

Lately I have been feeling really uninterested in the things I like to do. I have been wasting my days laying around the house and complaining about how bored I am. Its awful, I hate feeling like I am wasting my time.

What do you do when you are unmotivated?

What is something that inspires you?

This site is helping me come to terms that I will never be a size 0 and that's okay.
http://fuckyeahchubbygirls.tumblr.com/


No mail to share so I will leave you all with ....

but if you are not into good looking scrawny pale men like I am, here is a ridiculous (& pretty) looking fish...

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This weekend was a busy one and I was hardly ever home so I didnt get to work on anything but I did go thrift shopping (as usual) and I found some really great things,

I Mustache you a question, do you like my new cup?

I LOVE my new tea cup and for $0.30 it was definitely worth it!..even if I dont drink tea or coffee.lol

Next find,

Adorable Solar Power Maneki Neko. It bobbles its head and moves his hand. These usually go for $20 in Little Tokyo and I got it for $0.98 and it was new in its package. Another Maneki Neko for my collection, I have about 40 something now.

Next,

Cute cat painting on wood canvas. There's no year on it but it was painted by someone named Cathy Beaty. $1.99

Last but not least, 

So many stickers! It was pretty much a grab bag so I didnt know what I was getting. Most of the sheets have been used but its still a lot of stickers for just $0.30! I love the flower ones and the circle ones in the background are REAL pressed flowers made into stickers.

So that was my thrift finds. I also bought some other stuff for my Etsy which I will be updating tomorrow.

Today my boyfriend, Tim, made his own hookah! He had been wanting to buy a travel size one instead of lugging around his glass one or his 5ft brass one and risking of breaking something. We went to Michaels and found something that looked like it would work as the base and then headed to Home Depot for some other stuff. One hour later, he had created this cute little thing he named "Little Puff Puff",

Please check out my previous post for "I'm A Blogger, Follow Me!" swap and all my partners' blogs. 

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Swap-Bot Blogger Post

I joined "I'm A Blogger, Follow Me!!!" and these are the blogs I received. I enjoyed reading all of them and glad to find out that I have many things in common with most. I hope everyone enjoyed the swap and keep on blogging!


http://themusingsofamanic.blogspot.com/

http://cookpotstories.blogspot.com/

http://www.jenthewen.blogspot.com/

http://observationsnsuch.blogspot.com/

http://betterthanaked.blogspot.com/

http://chrissygeeswap.blogspot.com/

http://deidre421.wordpress.com/

http://runawaymaggiemay.blogspot.com/

http://ps-kampiscines.blogspot.com/

http://allbetogalore.blogspot.com/

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Lots of mail today!

Coming in:

A letter from someone in England, he wrote that he found me on the send us something site and replied to a thread about me but I honestly don't remember what website that is. Its not sendsomething.net. Anyways, it was a nice letter and he included some a few recipes that sound really delicious. 

A letter from Mary, thanks..I will be replying soon.

A postcard from The Peabody, Memphis TN via PostCrossing. LOL, very classy and sophisticated world-famous ducks.

A postcard from my boyfriend's parents who are on vacation in Arizona. Canyon de Chelly.

A closer look at the postcards can be found at my flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/apeachylife/

Going Out:

The packages arent as plain anymore, I've covered them in stickers.lol. They're just a couple of things I sold this weekend.

Letters are for a member of Going Postal (http://goingpostal.lunsh.net/) and another is replying to the postcard below that was received from sendsomething.net

Lastly, Received this postcard from Postcrossing on Friday I think. I think it's from Poland.

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Gosh, I have so much mail to go drop off but I just keep forgetting plus its been way too hot to leave the house during the day. I went out in the late afternoon and it was over 90' degrees with thunderstorms! horrible horrible weather, I hate humidity.

So I finally finished my first ever ATC. I think I like it and I cant wait to start another one.
The butterfly is a temporary tattoo which I love collecting because they always come in handy for creative crafts like this. I was afraid the ink on the pink tissue paper would run because i needed to add a bit of water on the tattoo but it doesnt look like it did. I also used Conte Crayons for the little design thing, they're really chalky so im hoping it doesnt get too smudged before my partner receives is. oh and the actual card used to be a poptart box which i painted with acrylic. I attempted using tempera paint since my brother always uses it for his paintings but failed ...so i covered it with pink tissue paper! lol




Postcard received from Postcrossing. I was pretty active back in 2007/2008 but then I slowly stopped using it but I recently decided to activate my account again.

I went to New York City last month and I didnt see this :(

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Definitely a good mail day today,

I got my very first ATC today. I joined "I've Never Made an ATC Before!" on swap-bot because I have been really curious about ATC but never really made one before or atleast traded one before because its a bit intimidating. 

This is the I got today,

I am currently still working on mine but I will post it here before I send it.

The package I received today was also from a swap on swap bot. I got tons of random paper scraps which I hope will come in handy or something. I thought the fabric stickers on the package were really cool though,

Also, thanks again Mary for the fun survey and postcard!