Snail Mail Pen Pal Friends Blog

There are a lot of inexpensive items that are great and flat to easily send to pals

1. Tea Bags 2. Hot cocoa packet 3. Bumper stickers 4. Lemonade packet 5. Kool aid packet 6. Pressed flowers 7. Sand/soil from your home 8. Flower seeds

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Order Inky Trail News, the friendship newspaper!

You can order Inky Trail News here (friendship newspaper for pen pals!)

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Boring pen pal letters

How do you keep from sending a boring letter?? At times I want to write but haven't much to say. Should I just write a note telling them I am thinking

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Handwritten letters are best to me

To get a handwritten letter is very special since that person took the time to write a letter to you. It could be easier to use computers but I like

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postcards and bookmarks

I like to include postcards from Texas and bookmarks with my letters. It makes it special for my pen pal. They have sent me the same from their area.

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wisconsin dells

Hi! i live right in the middle of the midwest U.S.A. but as we all work for a living, i am hapy to say that i got my yearly 1 week off to take a vacation.

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Gerard Dubai

We emailed each other for over a year, I am now 50 (2010), Gerard taught English at the American School in Dubai but was from Irelan

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Handwritten Letters

I think hand written letters would be better because it feels like you've actually got something! And it's really annoying me that i can't find any websites

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Tape pen pals

I'm sighted and I been penpalling since I was 17. Then in 1989 another letter pal wanted to do an tape letter which I never heard of before. And I loved

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{Pen Pals and my Library

I love to go to the library to get interesting books to read. I have been a bookworm all my life. What books do you like to read?? I like to read westerns,

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Mail Art: Stencil Art on Envelopes

I like to use plain envelopes and use stencil art to decorate them. I have different types to use depending on the person I am writing to. I like flowers

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Letters: I prefer typed letters

Once upon a time in the land of pen pals, I thought a hand written letter was the only way to go. Now I am older and wiser. I love the different fonts

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Tape pen pals

I'm sighted and I been penpalling since I was 17. Then in 1989 another letter pal wanted to do an tape letter which I never heard of before. And I loved

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Pen Pal Gifts: envelope stuffers

I like to send postcards and bookmarks in my cards and letters. I enjoy shopping around for them to find a special ones for my pen pals. I also like to

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Pen Pal Gifts: Crafts and such

I have sent my pen pal photographs and post cards. But I also love to make little crafts so I have also sent a friendship bracelet made out of embroidery

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