Woo Hoo!

When I came back from our trip to Yellow Pine, Idaho (Harmonica Festival) I had a huge stack of mail!!!

This Beautiful postcard is printed on birch.  Definately a new favorite!

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From my first penpal: Vicki.  She makes the best envelopes!  Ironically, she's from Cincinatti.  I had to move to Idaho to meet her.  

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This is also from my friend Sirpa.  Some of my Ohio friends may remember her from girls camp!
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Awe!

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From a new pen pal in California.  She also writes zines.  (She is my inspiration & gave me some positive feedback on my first zine.  Send me a postcard if you'd like to read it.)
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My second penpal who lives in Florida.  She and I share a fondness for Hello Kitty.    This gal has more siblings than anyone I know.  (And I know some folks who come from large families!)

There are photos of our trip on facebook.  Our drive there and back was nice, beautiful, and a bit scary at times.  We were winding back and forth on this road that was inches from giant cliffs.  The festival was in a tiny village; population 35.  It was mostly a drinking festival.  (That wasn't posted on the website.)  We stayed there for only one day.  The second portion of our vacation took place at Warm Lake.  Beautiful place.  Compared to the other fresh water places we've swam in in Idaho, it is the only fairly warm place to swim!  We got to go out on a fishing boat thanks to our friends the Kings.  There was swimming.  Campfires.  S'mores.  Bear warnings.  (Yep.  We heard gunshot.  Then a grizzly looking fellow came along to tell fellow campers that a brown bear had been sighted, again.  I really wish he hadn't of told us in front of the kids.  They were a bit freaked out that night.)   And my hubby got a bad sunburn.  (A first in our 16 years together --usually I'm the one getting fried by the sun.)

There is actually one more package, but I'm saving that for another post.  But just a warning:  my oldest son thinks I've sunk to a new low/or risen to a new high in nerdness!