A week of mail

My Amazon order: 4 Cookbooks to cook light recipes and stay in shape.

My Janetstore order: lots of new letter paper and stickers to write to my dear penpals & friends.

4 letters in my mailbox this week: from Germany, Ireland, The Netherlands and Croatia.

Ringer - Pilot Episode

As some of you might already know, I have some sort of an addiction for TV shows and what is September for TV shows addicts? Well it's the start of new seasons and the opportunity to discover new shows.

One of these new shows is... Ringer. Also know as Sarah Michelle Gellar's come back on TV. Ringer's premiere was yesterday night on the CW. I had been waiting for it for quite a while now as the trailer was kind of intriguing so it was with lots of excitement that I woke up this morning to finally watch the serie's premiere.

At first, I found a lot of similarities to another show that recently started on ABC Family called "The Lying Game" (based on Sara Shepard's new series). Two sisters, twins, one takes the place of the other and discovers what kind of life her sister had, she finds out she had a lover, etc. You have to wait until the last second of the episode to realize there's actually nothing in common with both shows. The storyline is way different and seems to actually be well-thought on the Ringer's side. This is a very promising show and I am already looking forward to watching next week's episode.

Apparently, Sara Michelle Gellar is back! and there's no vampires in sight.

A week of mail

I am back to blogging, at least for the moment. It's been a while and I thought I'd get back with pictures of what was in my mailbox last week...

I got 3 letters from Italy, USA and Denmark... and a package full of make-up products that I had ordered earlier last week. The package is amazing, I got the products I ordered which are worth 102€ and I paid only 40€ as each product was discounted to 5€... plus I got free products, a magazine and lots of samples. Happy Me :D

What you can / what you can't send in a letter?

I haven't really updated my blog recently due to my crazy life (yes I do have a very entertaining life... no, I'm kidding, I'm just a lazy ***) but there is a subject I want to discuss with you guys.

Do you have any ideas of what can and what can't be sent in a letter to your country? Like for example, you can't send tea to Australia.

I had never thought about things that couldn't be sent to or from France before a few weeks ago when one of my penpals from Croatia received my letter and the envelope had been opened and then the next week, I received as well 2 letters that had been opened but seemed like all the content was still inside.

One of the letters that reached me opened

See how careful people at the post office in France are?! They put the letter in a safe plastic bag so that nothing would get out of the envelope... It says on that plastic bag that the letter reached France already damaged but do they really go through all the mail and carefully put the damaged one in a plastic bag to serve the receiver perfectly? I have some doubts. I'd rather think they are the ones who opened it.

Anyway, it happened twice in the same week and both the letters were carrying tea (one from the UK and one from the US) but the tea bags were still inside so I guess we can send tea to France but why would they open it? Is it because you can only put sheets of paper in a standard envelope? otherwise you should send the letter as a "small package"? so that when they feel like there's something in a flat envelope that shouldn't be, they have to check?!

I feel like, with the time, the weirdest things happen at Post Offices. They have rules that nobody knows about and for God's sake, why can't one send tea to Australia? Do they make bombs with Teabags?!

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Happy Mailbox

I received lots of amazing mail this week as well :)

A Tea-rific swap from Japan (and I have already tasted some of the teas which are delicious)

I also received a letter from Iran and address labels that I had ordered on Etsy. Labels that you will see on my next letters to you :)

And here are 2 letters: 1 from the Netherlands and the other one from the USA.

And another letter from the USA :)

And to finish the week on a sweet note, I received this Candy Swap from Germany.

Thanks to another week of mail, I am now absolutely late with answering my letters but I'll try to do my best and answer most of the letters this week before other letters start getting here again.

xoxo

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Happy Mailbox [2 weeks for 1]

Here is not just a week of Happy Mailbox but 2 weeks as I totally forgot to post the pictures of last week's happiness :)

WEEK #1:


I received my amazing Boots that I bought in the Sales (Yes I really needed them ^^) and 2 books to add to my collection. I am now reading "Breaking Dawn" by the way.

I also got a swap called "French Themed Swap" and 2 amazing letters from my sweeties: 1 from Denmark (I love love love the envelope) and 1 from Germany :)


WEEK #2:

It was a quiet week regarding mail (well I also received some books that I had ordered and a jacket that I bought in the sales but I don't want you to think that I am addicted to online shopping cause I am not)... Now that's said...

I received a "Simple Tea Swap" from Sweden and 2 amazing letters: 1 from the UK and 1 from Germany which totally made my day yesterday and I totally loooved reading it.


Well, I hope next week will be as quiet (if not more) so that I can find some time to catch up on my letters cause I haven't forgotten my New Year's Resolution =]

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Happy Swapping

As I have already mentioned it earlier on my blog, Swapping is something that I like doing.

It's not always about sending fat mails and big packages, swapping is more than that. The main element of Swapping is actually sharing a part of who you are, a part of the world you live in.

Which is why I have subscribed to a swap named: Support your partners' blogs. In order to support them, I have decided to write a post about their blogs :)

My first partner is Veronica from Italy who is currently studying as an Erasmus student in Romania.

Her blog is called "Erasmus in Romania" and she shares there bits and pieces of her life in Bucharest as an Erasmus student. All the posts are written both in English and Italian so that everybody can understand her, how clever is that?

As I have been an Erasmus student myself, I really love to read about others' experiences as well so having her as my partner really makes me happy.

You should all definitely have a look at her blog: ERASMUS IN ROMANIA

My second partner is Holly from Florida (USA). She is a crafty person (and a very talented one). As I am not at all a crafty person it's always nice to see other people's ability in doing so :) So whether you're a crafty person and want to get inspiration from Holly or you're just like me, impress by what other people can do, then you should visit Holly's Blog: INK STAINED THOUGHTS

Happy Swapping

xoxo

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