vive la snail mail!

Dear Shutter Sisters,

Shortly after I posted here about wanting to get back into the habit of writing letters and using photography to facilitate that, I got a Facebook message from Mika, a member of the Shutter Sisters community, about something she was participating in called The 100 Postcard Project.  According to the website, it's "a grassroots initiative to revive the art of personalized, material human connection through the writing of postcards and letters. Collaborators on this project aim to write 100 postcards or letters in 100 days, between May 22 and August 29, 2010, artistically rendered or otherwise."  I got excited that other people were interested in snail mail, too!  And then a week or so later, a friend of the family began sending us  postcards.  I started sensing a revolution brewing...

I received my gorgeous photo/postcard from Mika last week, and it was such a lovely feeling to receive something with my name handwritten on it, knowing that it was meant just for me, not a mass message to an email list or a blogpost for an anonymous audience.  It made me wish that more people could experience this for themselves.  Then this week, when I read Amy Krouse Rosenthal's Mission of the week--to pair up her readers as pen-less pals (e.g. the digital version of pen pals), it clicked...Snail Mail Shutter Pals for Shutter Sisters!

So here's how this will work.  If you would like to start exchanging a photo and/or letter/postcard/note with another Shutter Sister, leave a comment below with a functioning email address [in the email field of the comment form, not necessarily in the comment body itself].  Within the next week or so, I will play matchmaker and pair you up via email to exchange mailing addresses.  You will then send your Shutter Pal a photo and a short (or long) note about that photo and what it means to you, what it says about you, or whatever else you want to write about.  Or, if sending a photo is too much pressure, just a note or postcard will be great too.  And to help you along, I am giving away a packet of Photojojo's mailable photo frames to two commentors.  They'll instantly turn any 4x6 photo into a postcard!  Leave a comment by Monday night 10pm CDT to be entered to win.

Isn't this the perfect way to say Hello to each other?  Who's with me now?  Viva la snail mail!

Peace and Love,

Sarah-Ji

P.S. If you're daunted by the idea of letterwriting, start out by simply writing a note on the back of a photo, like a postcard, or sending an actual postcard.  I think of postcards as the Twitter of the epistolary form, and that makes it much less intimidating.

P.P.S. If anyone wants to send me Postcards From Italy, feel free to do so!

Update on Tuesday, June 29, 2010 by Shutter Sisters

Congrats to Debi of Emma Tree and Heather of To Live Inspired--you each won a pack of Photojojo's mailable photo frames! 

What a great start to our Snail Mail Revolution!  Feel free to sign up if you haven't already.

Update on Monday, July 19, 2010 by Shutter Sisters

If you signed up to be a Shutter Pal, you should have received an email by now with the information on who you've been matched up with.  If you haven't received that email, please contact Sarah-Ji directly at sarah [at] sarah-ji[dot]com.  Iif you wish to be added in the future to the Shutter Pals exchange, contact Sarah-Ji (instead of commenting on this post).  Thanks, and happy snail-mailing!

Comments

[Heather]

If it isn't too late - please count me in.

[Amy P.]

ohhh I would love to do this... :0)Amy

[theresa]

yes, please. would love to participate.

[Angela]

I love this idea!!!

[Jaime]

I love love snail mail please sign me up! ~ Jaime from Australia

[Jessie]

I would love to take part. I call snail mail my "happy mail". I love it when happy mail shows up in my mail box.

[Clea]

LOVE this idea! I resumed letter writing last year and it's such a lost art. Please add me to the list!

[Michele H.]

Oh...what a lovely idea. I loved having pen pals as a child (teen). So much fun to check the mail. I know it's too late for sign ups but I just wanted to post how much I love this idea:)

[jo marks]

wonderful, count me in! :)

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oh i'd love to have a partner! i just love mail... both to send & receive!

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[Tiffany]

am I too late? I would love to do this.

[Jessica]

Hi! I got your email, read it on my phone and then accidently deleted it. Can you resend? I absolutely want to take part in this project, if it's not too late.
Thanks!!!

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[Kat]

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