Ever since I can remember, I've had a love for words. As a little girl I wrote stories for my family and teachers. I loved to express myself in creative ways. Later as an adult, I wrote thank you notes, long letters to my parents overseas, and cards for every occasion.
Somewhere in our storage area there is a box filled to overflowing with letters my husband and I wrote each other as teens, before we both lived on the same continent. {we wrote several times a week!} There is something special about the {hand} written word. Yes, I know that these days, we email and text, but there is something fleeting about that, you can't save those words, to pull out again and again, to read over and over and delight in them.
When it comes to special words, words that express our feelings for another person, it is so beautiful to send a card, with hand written words. Words matter. They can have a lasting effect on the lives of those we write to. Words are the messengers we use to show our feelings of love, concern and care. Life is a collage of memorable moments......and it's often the words, written and/or spoken, that we hold dear as time passes.
When a small handwritten note is just the thing to thank, encourage, inspire or motivate someone you care about, the letterpress cards I sell in my shop are perfect. Something the receiver will cherish, and keep, to read your words and feel your love for them. Tuck one in a bouquet of flowers, add one to a bottle of wine you are presenting to your host. {Find my cards & tags in Celebrations}
Giving a bottle of wine? My exclusive WineTags made with illustrations from my collection of antique prints are perfect to tie on the bottle after writing something personal for the recipient, they already have ribbon attached.
Do you still write notes? And when? Or are you, like so many, totally in love with texting and emailing instead? I'd love to hear what changes, if any, you have and are making to the way you communicate with your friends and family.
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Hi, I always do and thank you ones to, it is becoming a lost art with the internet, but I will always send notes because I love getting them back~Happy Treats to all~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
What a wonderful post subject—-writing letters! As a teenager I cut my teeth on Gladys Taber books, and she remained my “mentor” thru her writings. Her books were largely letter style, a regular in Ladies Home Journal, etc from her lovely Stillmeadow in New England. I became a letter writer. My father is a wonderful letter writer. And I hope some day I can turn my thing into a book.
Julie W.