pewter-ific

Molly says:

I ordered this pewter stamp dispenser a while back from usps.com after falling in love with it at first sight:

It was back-ordered so I had to wait and wait and wait for it to arrive in my mailbox. Totally worth the wait. I filled it with a coil of Flags of Our Nation stamps (set 2!).

And I also got a sheet of these beauties:

The Love: King and Queen of Hearts stamps. Not pictured here is the king, but a sheet of these is pretty enough to frame! My fellow mavens oughta be seeing those show up in their mailboxes at any time.

I've become quite the stamp geek as a result of this mail project.

Hokey Poe-ky

From Nicole to Rebecca.

Stamp envy.

I've been getting some seriously good stamp action here in London. Every piece of maven post that comes through my door has a different attractive stamp on it.

I thought it was about time I shared:






And now I have a confession. I went to see the lady in the post office today, in a quest to have some impressive stamps of my own to glorify envelopes. But oh no, it wasn't to be. Apparently the Royal Mail only tends to do that sort of thing at Christmas. So, my fellow mavens, unless I manage to somehow can my hands on the few rare decorative stamps that are floating around, you're stuck with the Queen's head. I'll try and manage some pretty colours at least, but that's the best I can do for about seven months.

From Kelly to Molly.
Truer words were never spoken about our friendship:


And inside, my favorite Scrubs quote:
“God bless Molly Ringwald. And God bless this Molly too. Aw, to hell with it, God bless Mollys everywhere!”

Overdue

I thought I'd call this post "overdue" for a couple of reasons. Firstly, because this beautiful card arrived from Angie far too long ago, and I kept failing to take pictures of it because I had it sitting on the shelf so I could admire it.Also, because I know that the Mavens in Alaska must feel like spring is long overdue in their parts, and so it's good to know that it's finally on the way.
Oh, and check out those great stamps. Want. Why is it that all I can get here are boring red ones?Note to self: must try harder on the next batch and see if I can sweet-talk our post office staff into finding something a bit more impressive.

Got Milk(shake)?

Oh Molly, how dare you tempt me with the mention of raspberry milkshakes?

And, yes, I think it probably did fly here itself with all that lovely postage on it!

from Angie to Molly

Edna was a letter-writer herself and she recalled her mother's support in an entry included in Letters of Edna St. Vincent Millay: "I cannot remember once in the life when you were not interested in what I was working on, or even suggested that I should put it aside for something else."

I think that's beautiful.

Posted by Molly