FriendshipForAlways: A massive update!!

Hey there everyone! I know it has been a while since I have updated our blog. I like having a group blog, and honestly, I would love a co-author. Any takers?? Anyhow, there is much to tell.

There are a few contests going on and the Member of the Month was decided. Lets start with the question asked by Misty:

Competition Question (Winner Will Be Announced January 31st): What is your favorite thing about snail mail?

Cathy Wienke: I love getting to know people thru snail mail. Its a wonderful thing to know different people all over the globe.

Simone Gunzburg: Getting to know ppl I wouldn't have the opportunity to...I love getting mail

Jamie Marshall: Oh, awesome question, girlie

Joyce Wright: getting to know people and learn about other places and cultures

Sherri Johnson Akers : Makin new awesome friends all over the world to share our lives with!

Ashlie Yazzie: Instead of getting bills and junk. Getting awesome mail ... Plus hearing stories from other people on how their day is going, if they got kids or not.

Leontien Groenewold: sharing your life with friends all over the world and I just love getting letters in my mailbox

Kerrie Foulsham: I just love reading letters and writing to all my lovely pallies and using cute paper makes it way more fun. I love making new friends and knowing there are other people out there who like snailmail too

Holly Vandver: I Love Reading The Letters And Learning Everything About My Pen Pals.. I Love When They Ask A Lot Of Questions... I Love When My Mailbox Is Full.. Everyday I Watch The Mail Man From 2 To 4:30.. So I Won't Miss Nothing Or He Won't Drop Nothing.. Cause My Mail Man Is Bad At Dropping Things.. I Love Hearing About My Pen Pals Day... I Love Making New Friends Cause I Have No Friends Here So I Tend To My Pen Pals.....

DanaBear Marie Shepard: I love about snail mail is that it brings back the old days. ITs not about texting. Its about having fun and being creative. Its about having showing the true you. I believe that handwriting tells all. I love it. I always sit and wait when the mail gets here and so excited when I receive the mail.

Jamie Marshall: It occurred to me that I haven't answered this question!! Well, what I like about snail mail because it fills a void in my life and allows me to be creative. I am also an "old soul" and I think sadly that snail mail is dying. With technology now, it is easier to write an e-mail than a letter and you can receive it immediately. And they are so impersonal! Today's world is in such a rush with everything and everyone. I mean, I LOVE my cell phone, but now people text instead of making a phone call. People are so dependent on their cell phones too; it's like "oh my god what would I do if I forgot it" and "what if I miss Bobby's call" Don't get me wrong, cell phones are awesome, but land-lines are dying too. If land-lines were still the only way of communicating I would sooooo get one of those rotary phones ( yeah, old soul here), but I would never get the chance to use it. What if cell phone towers died and we were unable to use them? We would have a massive panic! ANYHOW, sorry for the massive rant, but snail mail allows me to keep a dying art alive. I also don't have any friends here and this fills a void of emptiness I feel and gives me a hobby. You all should come over and see my side of the study!!!

Nimmy Francis: snail even slow reaches its destination...we always wait for the mails from the dear ones with great excitement..I still remember my child hood when I was not having Internet connection at home and I used to wait for the letters from my dad working in Indian army and my aunty in Italy...I reckon that pleasure of waiting and personification of letters are the beautiful parts of snail mail...our own snail mail..person takes effort in writing..he or she is trying to pour out their emotion into a piece of paper..u cant just copy ND paste in those cute snail mails..I do have those mails even now with me..when ever I read it,I feel the presence of my old cute dad n aunty

Desirae Vaccaro: I love putting love into each envelope I make and I love how personal letters are. Some of my closest friends I have made through penpalling

Haley Hubbard: Getting 2 meet new people writeing each letter wiv love and sand out letters and gifts 2 all my penpals and getting letters in the post I love writeing letters xxx

The winner to our lovely question is the fabulous Nimmy Francis. Awesome answer to an awesome question. GOOD JOB LADIES!!!!

Okay, now onto some related crafts. Sandra Paz-Daniels made these: