FROM LAURA.

Received from Laura in the U.S.A., July 2012.

Laura is known as suburbanpenpal on flickr and she love writing letters and makes the most beautiful envelopes. On her blog you can see some of them.
She is a Master student in art history at San Jose State University. In her thesis she would like to write about mail art.

My letter from Laura is full of pretty details.

A beautiful embroidery in cross stitch. Love it!

Beautiful shades of pastel colors.

Details of a tag, a little drawing and a quote.

Laura's pretty handwriting.

A little envelop of a Japanese design with Laura's personal stamp. I like these kind of old stamps.

Shnelly Mail!

Dear Laura, thank you for your lovely letter to me. Your embroidery is hanging in my studio.

FROM AMANDA R, 3.

Received from Amanda in Canada, July 2012.

Amanda have spoiled me for the third time with the most pretty postcard from her trip to New York.
Soon I'll be going on a little holiday with my lovely husband and a postcard will be on it's way to you. From where will be a surprise.

My first and second letter from Amanda.

From MOMA, artist is Laura Owens. Cut-and-pasted colored and printed papers, watercolor and pencil on paper.
A very pretty card, like a family tree. Love!!!

FROM ERIN.

Received from Erin in Australia, June 2012.

Erin is such an amazing artist. She makes the most wonderful pieces of porcelain /ceramic. Her objects is like a fairytale and very fragile. Please have a look on her etsy page Erinswindow. Her mother Tokiyo makes the most beautiful garments of old vintage kimonos and I'm dreaming away to another place when looking at it.

Erin is from Japan, but is living in Brisbane with her daughter. They like walking and looking at things. Every night they sit and play or make things, as they do not have a tv. Lovely, lovely, lovely.

Erin have been living in Paris, and she always loved to take black and white photos of tree and old buildings.

You can follow Erinswindow on facebook for updates on her work and her blog for work in progress.

Erin have send me a letter where green is the main color.

Yarns in kasuri, also called ikat. I simple love this technique.

A  sample of Chirimen kimono.

Two samples in green. To the left a wet felting sample made by Erin and to the right a linen kaya.

Like me, Erin is in love with the moo cards.

Dear Erin, thank you so much for your fantastic letter. The kasuri threads is hanging at my studio and one day I hope to be able to use them, either in my work or as inspiration.

FROM CLAUDIA, 2.

Received from Claudia in Austria, June 2012.

Claudia from Wide Eyed Tree have spoiled me again with a new letter full of treasuries. I'm so happy.
My second letter to Claudia with some of my old wipes can be seen here and her first letter to me here.

The beautiful letter from Claudia.

 A handmade chain with a cross made by Claudia many years ago.

One of Claudia's cards. She makes the most beautiful stamps and I think I'll soon going to purchase some.

In my first letter to Claudia I send her a catholic postcard from Peru. Now she has send me one back and I like it a lot.

Dear Claudia, thank you so much for your lovely letter. Your handmade cross will I put on my computerloom at my studio, as I like to have beautiful items hanging on it to give me  good luck, when weaving new designs.

FROM ZENOBIE.

Received from Zenobie in England, June 2012.

Zenobie lives in London and likes to make things out of yarn, walk, bake bread and listen to folk music. She is half Greek and this is where her beautiful name comes from. She has studied history at the University, but her passion is to work with plants. She has a beautiful blog called Queen of Carrot Flowers. I love the name.
Zenobie loves the process of hand making and started knitting when 15, but her biggest passion is crochet, especially the freestyle crochet. She feels it's like painting with yarns. I believe her description is beautiful.

Zenobie have photographed my letter in such a beautiful way. Please have a look here.

My letter from Zenobie. I don't know how to describe the feeling I had when opening it. I feel so lucky.

I did not knew that feathers were something that Zenobie treasure a lot and I send her one.
She send me in return a freestyle crochet feather made in cotton and embroidery thread. It's inspired by the technique used by a Japanese artist called Jung Jung who makes crochet vegetables.
I'm so much in love with it and have already start wearing it. The details is magnificent.

Like me Zenobie likes fleamarkets and these doilies have she found on her favorite market in London.

A little bouquet of daisie flowers and beautiful fabric from Liberty of London.

Dear Zenobie, your letter make me so happy. It was a fairytale oppening it.

Your freestyle feather crochet is excuisite and I have it at my home, so I can put it on my clothes, so it can brighten up an ordinary day.

FROM ANNA.

Received from Anna in Germany, June 2012.

I have received the most stunning letter from Anna, with the most amazing textile details.
Anna is a communication designer specialized on social media, living curently in Berlin and on her blog BLINK BLINK she write this about herself:
In general:
I'm a designer,
who tends to think a lot.
And also not.

I like these small quotes which often leads to something else on her blog. Like this:
Full of holes.
Check for pulse.
Blink your eyes.
One for yes.
Two for no.

I've no idea what I am talking about.

Anna likes to be in movement and to change things in her life constantly. Her dream is one day to become a consultant in matter of design / innovation brand communication and to focus on her own creativity and design-skills.
If you want to see more from Anna, visit her flickr.
My letter to Anna can be seen here.

The envelop itself is a little piece of art. Love the lines!

The letter from Anna is full of old vintage upholstery fabrics.
This piece in velvet have so many wonderful details. I like the difference in the almost tufted soft yarns together with the more twisted flat areas in the design.

An amazing card made by Anna.

Another velvet in jacquard weaving. I'm in love with the light green color.

Pretty detail in the letter from Anna.

Detail of flower.

I like the way the colors interact with each other and blend together and becomes a new color.

Dear Anna, thank you so much for your lovely letter. Your card is laying on my desk at my studio.