A Place For My Cards

So since joining postcrossing, I wanted to get a little box to keep all of my postcards in. It's a really neat website and I've bought too many postcards already :p So I plan on sending out plenty and hopefully getting plenty in return. I wanted something that looked nice to keep them in and something unique, so I hit up Etsy. I found this little recipe card box from an adorable shop called Home Made Perfect! She has lots of unique little boxes like the one I got :) And other cute stuff too. I was worried that the box wouldn't be big enough to fit postcards, but it is! It's perfect size actually.

I also got some little alphabetized tabs to put in the box so I can sort the postcards by state or country. What I figured I'd do is if the card comes from the US, I'll sort it by state, if it's outside of the US, by country. Can't wait to fill up the box :D Still haven't received my first postcard from postcrossing, but two have been delivered, so I should have two on the way :)

Yet Another Blog...

This should be a fun blog!! Kelly told me all about Postcrossing...a website that allows you to send postcards out to strangers, literally all over the world and then get postcards back. Postcards are cheap these days and I'm looking for new, cheap hobbies. I NEED to tackle my debt hardcore in 2013. I cut up my credit card (again) and deleted off of every website that had it saved. So I need to find something I can love doing. And this sounds like a lot of fun, so thanks for suggesting it Kelly :) I went out tonight and bought a box of 100 Puffin Classic Book Covers postcards and some stamps and sent off my first five postcards...one to the US, on the the Netherlands, one to Canada, one to Germany and one to Russia. How cool is that? Postcrossing lets you write a pretty extensive biography on yourself too so you get to know the people a little bit that you're sending cards to and they can get to know you :) I'm going to invest in a bottle of modpodge too as I seem to have misplaced mine and start saving the stamps from the postcards as well in one of the many unused journals that I have laying around. I used to love stamp collecting and haven't done it in years. So I'll modpodge the stamps into a journal, and write the date I received them and where I received them from :) And then start collecting the postcards too and maybe eventually do an art project too! This should be fun!! You can follow Kelly's postcard blog too over at http://the-postcard-project.blogspot.ca/ In fact, I think I'll start a blogroll on the side here for postcard related blogs :) Let me know if you have one as well!!