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envelopes

before we were married, b would spend each summer earning the big bucks on a commercial fishing boat. he would be gone for weeks at a time, our main form of communication was via letter through the tenders (boats that buy the fish from the individual boats).

i wrote him just about every day about what i did, how horrid my boss was, cool stuff i saw on tv - it was basically like my blog but with more mushy-kissy crap.

i decorated each envelope every night before i mailed it. pens, markers, stickers, pencils, lipstick (mushy-kissy crap, i tell you). but what i really enjoyed was to make my own envelope from magazine pages that caught my eye.

i always used a disassembled envelope as my template. i wish i had something like these craft templates back then - it would have made those letters much more interesting to look at. though b never complained.