Random Object Swap

We hosted a Random Object swap in June and asked our participating members to send us photos of the objects that they both sent and received. We got quite a few fun photos and I wanted to share them with you. I smile when I think about the reactions of the postal workers all around the world, as they handled and delivered these bits of fun randomness.

 From Nicolle (USA)

To Sofie (Sweden)

From Sofie (Sweden)

From Victoria (USA)

From Meredith (USA)

From Kerri (Australia)

From Millie (USA)

To Susan (UK)

To Caron (USA)

From Caron (USA)

To Sarah (Canada)

To Kelly (USA)

From Kelly (USA)

To Katy (UK)

From Katy (UK)

From Chaya (USA)

From Heleen (The Netherlands)

To Heleen (The Netherlands)

From Shel (USA)

To Domonique (USA)

To Cecilia (Germany)

To Andrea (USA)

From Andrea (USA)

Many thanks to everyone for posting and sending their photos. I hope you had fun with this swap.

Peace,

Denise (AKA Washipocalypse)

LEP Meetings (Part 2)

Last month, Julie blogged about her road trip adventures, getting to meet several awesome LEPers. Since the last meet up post we have received a few photos from other League members and I want to show them to you!

Jennifer - CaRho - Kari - Sonnia

(California)

Samantha - Jemima - Amy

(Australia)

Sarah - Samantha - Othella
(Oklahoma)

Arjen & Nadine

(Belgium)

And here we have LEP's first canine couple, Lupi & Reggie. These pups belong to Catrin and Amber.

(Utah)

Jennifer - Rachel - Millie

(Texas)

Jennifer - Kari - Kimmie

(California)

Meeting new friends is so much fun! If any new LEP meet ups happen, we want to know about it! Take pictures and send them to us:  league@extraordinarypenpals.com.  

Peace,

Denise (AKA Washipocalypse)

I've been promoted! (Should I ask for a raise?)

I’ve been slowly (but surely) making my way into this killer deal of a position here at the League of Extraordinary Penpals. I entry-leveled as the janitor and almost immediately I was promoted to Janitor in Chief.

Julie’s son drew this picture of me. While I’m rather fond of the entire drawing, I’m particularly fascinated with the hands. It makes me feel like I can do anything with them. As it turns out, I’m really great at things like changing the litter, sweeping, doing the dishes, and taking out the trash.

In between my remedial, yet ever so important custodial duties, I managed to contribute a few tasks of substance in the League. I’m pretty sure this impressed the boss. (Maybe playing with her hair and the massage helped too.) So today I am proud to come to you as the official Superhero Sidekick Assistant (SSA) of the LEP.

I’m super excited to be here and if there’s anything I can do to make your LEP experience better then please let me know. You can send me a message on Facebook or send an email to:   league@extraordinarypenpals.com.  

Peace,

Denise (AKA Washipocalypse)

The stationery is back!

After being out of stock for over 4 months, the lined stationery packs and the envelope packs are now back in the shop.

But wait, there's more. If you want to get both the stationery sheet pack and envelope pack, I will give you 5 free envelopes. I know, this is exciting stuff - try not to pee your pants!

There you go:

Special (25 lined sheets + 20 envelopes) + shipping

Canadian customers $18.00 CAD American customers $20.00 CAD International customers $24.00 CAD

Special (25 unlined sheets + 20 envelopes) + shipping

Canadian customers $18.00 CAD American customers $20.00 CAD International customers $24.00 CAD

More stationery this way...

Julie
AKA Super Sushi
xox

LEP meetings (part 1)

The League of Extraordinary Penpals is not just any penpal club - it's a place where people make friends for life. Sometimes those friends only meet on paper, quite often they also spend time together chatting in the Facebook group, but others also talk via Skype, on the phone or even meet in person. I've seen many wonderful friendships blossom through the LEP, and I'm always happy when members post about "real life" meetings.

In April, I was lucky enough to take 2 weeks off after my surgery to go on a road trip in the United States and meet 5 LEP members. Here are some photos of me and Andronic, Brittney, Denise, Lynn and Erin. (Yes, lots of sushi was consumed.)

During my stay in the US, I tried to take at least one bathroom selfie in each different state I visited (Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota and South Dakota). Lots of pee jokes ensued in the Facebook group...

Now I'd like to ask LEP members a question - have you met anyone from the group since its inception in February 2013? If so, send me pictures at league@extraordinarypenpals.com and I'll make another LEP meeting blog post soon!

Julie
AKA Super Sushi
xox

BBC News

Today the League of Extraordinary Penpals is featured in a wonderful article on the BBC News website!

Signed, sealed, delivered - Rediscovering the allure of a pen pal in the digital age:
The allure of an old-fashioned pen pal

I had the pleasure of doing a phone interview with Kate Dailey earlier this week, who discovered the club thanks to LEP member and fellow writer Marianne Kirby.

Some other LEPeeps are also featured, and some photos of our letters & envelopes have been published, so you don't want to miss this!

And to anyone who's seeing this after reading the article from BBC News: hello and welcome to the wonderful world of snail mail and letters and stamps and washi tape! If you have any questions about anything at all (and yes, we can also discuss books and the meaning of life if you want), please get in touch with me!

I'm so happy when traditional mail gets attention from the media. Yes, letter writers still exist - and we're having a lot of fun!

Julie,
AKA Super Sushi
xox