Snail Mail Journaling :snail: :love_letter:

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Sometime near the end of last year while browsing through Instagram, I saw beautiful aesthetic photos of pen pal snail mail. I followed a penpal @penpaling_paula and decided to find a pen pal through there.

At this point, you may be wondering, "What does this have to do with bullet journaling?" People like to find new things to track and journal about in their bullet journals. If you have traveler's notebook inserts that you can't think of what to fill them with, this maybe something to fill it with. So here is some ideas for you! :blush:

Just a disclaimer: I don't take full credit for this idea. I saw something similar to this on Pinterest but I couldn't find the original post.

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If you already have pen pals, the first spread you can have is an address spread. Just like bullet journaling you can make it as simple or artsy as you wish!

Another tracker you can have is a snail mail tracker to keep track of incoming mail, outgoing mail, letter theme, and postage spent. This is especially helpful if you have multiple pen pals you keep in touch with. It keeps all that information in one place and you can always look back on who you have written to and when.

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Have a bunch of pen pal letters with goodies you received but don't know what to do with them? You can make some fun spreads with them.

I had some pretty letters that started to pile up in a box and it seemed such a shame that they are sitting in there. The letters I have received have well thought out goodies like stationery and stickers and I wanted to look at them without having to mess up the envelope each time. (I ended up tearing one side of the envelope because I kept looking at the letter and goodies).

I tape everything into my snail mail journal. I used double sided tape for the envelopes. I used washi tape for the goodies my pen pal included because washi tape won't ruin the stationery. If there were a lot of goodies included especially stickers, I used a plastic sleeve to keep them in place.

In all the empty spaces, I wrote notes and drew some doodles. I also added some journaling in larger spaces.

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I hope this gives you some inspiration for something new to add to your bullet journal.

As always,

Happy Journaling! 🤗