good things

1. New sweatpants.  Grey and comfy, with elastic ankles.  Just like the ones I wore when I was seven!
2. Celeste and Jesse Forever.
3. A Bloor Street date.  Tacos, a matinee and walnut cakes.
4. Winter biking.
5. Sending postcards to Hawaii and Washington.

incoming mail

Tropical and pink mail this week!  Thanks Phillipa and Merissa!

stamp booklets

I adore everything about vintage stamps - especially these tiny little booklets. This is how they used to be sold.  Imagine going to the post office and asking for some domestic stamps and they give you these?

good things

1. Dinosaur stamps.
2. Homemade smoothies made with coconut water, banana and frozen blueberries.
3. A Korean movie called Poetry.
4. So many cute Australian knickers.  (Thanks P!)
5. Summer dreaming while listening to Estate.

the year of the snake

I always looks forward to Canada Post's Chinese zodiac stamps every January.  This year's snake stamps will look awesome on my next few outgoing letters.  Red, gold and super embossed!

good things

1. Sunny + above zero.
2. Call the Midwife.  I fell hard for this British series.  Now for the book..
3. Marisa' Send Pretty Mail project.
4. Jane Eyre.  La Vita Facile.  The Intouchables.
5. A perfect pizza.

incoming mail

My mailbox was bursting this week!  Thank you Phillipa, Gail, Jessie, Tyler and Vivien!

2013 postage rates

Canadian postage rates are going up this Monday January 14th.  Here are the new rates for standard sized letters:

Canada $0.63

U.S.A. $1.10

International $1.85

P.S. My stamp packs are now filled with 63 cents of vintage goodness.  All three shops that carry them - Kid Icarus, The Paper Place and Blackbird Vintage - are all stocked up!

spring

Our spring flights to Rome are booked!  I can't keep my mind off sunshine, flowers and coffee!

good things

1. New Year's Eve: Cream puffs, homemade lemonade + prosecco.
2. A very sunny first day of the year.
3. Baked our first ever bread!
4. This is Forty.
5. A shoot on the cutest ever outdoor ice rink.

outgoing mail

I typed up this letter on the crown from my Christmas cracker.  I adore typing on tissue paper!

The Paris Wife

"Each of his letters was a perfect tonic and writing him, too, was a tonic, and before long I learned I could hear the mail boy on his bicycle from several blocks away even if he didn't ring his bell."

Paula McLain