Focus: “a state or condition permitting clear perception or understanding”. . . Meet my one word for 2018; FOCUS. By focusing on that one word I believe I will be able to write a better blog. I need to focus on the reason why I started Letters in Time – to “bring back the art of handwritten letters, one letter at a time”. Sounds simple. Ha! I have already begun to stray, with all sorts of ideas running around in my head. FOCUS. “Bringing back the art of handwritten letters, one letter at a time”. I know I will have to repeat this to myself over and over several times throughout the ..read more

When was the last time you wrote a Thank You note? And I don’t mean sending someone a message on Messenger. I mean an actual, hand-written card or note, put in an envelope with an address and stamp and sent on its merry way. I’m feeling pretty good about my answer, which may be why I’m asking at this point in time. I recently sent out over 20 hand written thank you notes (feather in my cap!), written on thank you cards I made (another feather!). And previously, in June, I sent out another batch of over 20 (another feather; I’m looking like a bird!). Some of the thank you cards from the batch I ..read more

It’s time to get back to blogging! Summer is always a busy time for me (I’m thinking I might be a “seasonal blogger”), but today I’d like to share a fun project that I completed last week. This was a custom order for someone special, and even though I put in some long hours to finish it on time, I had a blast putting it together! As I’ve mentioned before, I have a couple of shops on Etsy where I sell cards that I make. One “line” of cards I have on Hilltop Paper Studios uses stones I collected from the shore of Lake Superior. I grew up in a small town on Lake Superior and have always loved col ..read more

Deltiology: The study of picture postcards. Why now, you ask? Because May 7-13 is National Postcard Week! While doing some research on National Postcard Week, I found some really interesting information. The identification of a postcard’s place and time of production can often be an impossible task because postcards are produced in a decentralized, unregulated manner. For this reason, some collectors choose to limit their acquisitions to cards by specific artists and publishers, or by time and location. (from Wikipedia) Deltiologists, as postcard collectors are called, collect for a variety ..read more