Packages, parcels, and postcards...A year of postal glee

Do you like the new look of my blog? I thought it was just about time I updated a bit. And just in time for the holidays! I have been SO bad about posting, but I resolve to do better! (Yep, resolutions already.) Just to let you know, I DID banish a bunch of nasty little LIMFACs, AND reached several goals, including my walking goal, listed below... I was just extraordinarily bad at keeping everything recorded!

This year I am going to send out a piece of snail mail every day that I can. I got the idea from another blog, called a Year of Letters, which I think is a lovely idea. However I know I will be sending more than just letters, so I thought I'd rather go the snail mail route. Plus, I don't want to commit to days with no mail delivery. I will fall hopelessly behind that way, I'm sure of it!! I guess mine is a year of postal Dandelion Smiles, minus Sundays and holidays. :)

So, to aid me in my goal of spreading Dandelion Smiles all over the place, I will focus on several things:

One, I am an active (overly active, actually) member of swap-bot.com, a swapping community. So lots of my mail will be sent for swaps, I'm sure.

Two, I have an Etsy shop, Dandelion Smiles, and I am going to count packages sent for that. Although, let's be honest here... Those parcels are few and far between! But I do try to make them extra special, so hopefully the receivers do smile when they open them.

Three, I have joined chemoangels.net, an organization that matches up "angels" with chemo patients, so the patient will receive several letters or packages each week of their treatment. (They also sponsor senior angels... check them out!) I think this is a spectacular idea, and giving someone something positive to focus on will be great. I will also be sending a weekly package or letter to a friend's mother who will be starting her chemo again shortly (or she may have already begun! I need to get on the ball!)

And four, I have several lovely ladies with whom I regularly correspond, and friends to whom I NEED to write but haven't. They will all benefit from this!

In reading over my list, I think I can easily fit in Sundays and holidays as well! That sounds like a crazy amount of mail! Well, we'll just start it off and see where it goes, right? And, always looking for interesting and fun ways to package or send my mail, if you stumble across an interesting site or page in your web-travels that relates to mail or packages or letters, etc, throw me a link and I will join you there. Thanks!