Vacation mail post!

I also have a vacation outgoing mail post!! I hate the boring stamps but I had to buy them at the drug store. -___- I'm hoping I can con my mother into taking me to the post office and shopping in town so that I can pick up postcards, postcard stamps, and extra stamps to mail abroad! Sucks not being able to drive the rental car...oh, and for those of you who aren't American, our rental car is outrageous in size! But so comfy! Oh, and I got to photograph the backs! Darn!

Front:

How am I even awake?

Well, it's 5:27am back home which is 8:27am up here in Michigan andddd...IM AWAKE! On purpose! Haha. Just sitting here with a peppermint mocha and enjoy the news and lovely views from the windows of the cabin-ish house we are all staying in. Turns out, though, that for a 7 bedroom home (that supposedly sleeps 26...definitely not.), it's rather small! So my parents, brothers, and grandma are going to be migrating over to a hotel and spending the days here at the cabin with the rest of the family.

Yesterday we visited what used to be the Northern Michigan State Hospital, which was a mental institution. Usually, I would not have even stepped foot on the grounds of a building with such a negative past but it turns out that my grandmother worked at the hospital for three months during her nursing training in the 50's! So we went back (and brought her of course!) so she could see it as whatnot. Now the hospital has been turned into shops, restaurants, condos, and office space. We went when the shops were all closed (boo!!) but it was still an eerie feeling walking through the lower halls...it was kind of surreal knowing that if I had been how I was/suffered from my disorders in the 50's or before, I would possibly have been out there. My cousin and I stood looking out the window both talking about how terrible patients must have felt looking out those same windows. But enough of that! Here are a few photos! I wish I had taken more/better ones! 

My view...

Just a quick photo of the view from our house off Spider Lake in Michigan!

Request!

Hey guys!! How are ya'll this morning? 

Just thought is pop in and see if anyone is interested Ina small swap! I'm looking for airmail envelopes of all types!!! (I run out SO fast!!) Actually, I'm looking for all types of envelopes, haha. Oh, and kraft brown paper envelopes! I'm also looking for euro look leaf paper (the kind with lots of binder holes and also loose leaf paper with a designs! Washi tape, too! and stickers and pens! hahaha. Oh, and Diddl!! Oh, and stickers! sheets or flake. Please email! I have kawaii to swap, letter sets, stickers, used stamps (some rare and old), American cosmetics, teas, etc. I can list more if you email me! Below is the type (or similar of what I have.) and I'm looking for other sizes if possible but I'm not going to be too picky! I can send postcards from my vacation, too! 

I think these are the kind I have...I love all the square-ish ones an basiclly everything!

Quick question!

Hi guys! I have a couple of questions for you! 

1. How do you store your received letters? 

2. How do you organize or what do you use for a mobile letter writing kit? 

3. What are your go-to pens/writing utensils? 

4. Do you have an address book orrr...? 

5. What do you include in your letters?

I'll be doing a video of 'what's in my travel letter writing kit' and also an updated 'what's in my bag' photo! Along with more letter writing posts! ;)

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Hey guys! Long time no write! I'm currently on vacation now in Michigan and plan on write and sending quite a bit of mail! Right now, I'm in Ann Arbor, MI, but last night we went into Ohio and the then tomorrow we're headed to Traverse City, MI where we will stay until the 22nd! I've got all my supplies and backed up letters and plan on cranking them out while up there! Here are some photos so far! If you aren't already following me, follow me on Instagram where I'm always posting and am also cataloging the trip! 

Lake Tahoe in the distance.

Our view, the inside of the plane, and my youngest brother and dad.

We had a layover in Las Vegas and they had LIVE cactus magnets! I plan on grabbing a cactus of some sort on our trip back home.

Our AWESOME rental car! We want one so bad for home!

It has a Texas license plate, haha. 

Part of the reason we are in Michigan is because it's my great aunt and uncle'a 50th wedding anniversary! They are two of the most amazing people I know! Anyways, they chose vintage toys that their children, grandchildren, nieces, and nephews all played with! So cute! Each 

Table had a different toy! 

And I was going to show you our hotel room but I sort of deleted the photo after I posted it on Instagram. :/ but here's something more exciting for me! Both my ipsy Glam Bag and Birchbox have shipped and should be waiting for me when I get home! Woohoo!!!

He is a writer's dog...

Just thought I would post this up!