Sandbook PenPal Magazine, July 2011

Sandbook PenPal Magazine July 2011 is here! You can download it from the official SandbookNet Website! The issue includes articles, giveaways and contests, PenPal Interviews, PenPal of the Month June 2011 Vote, cultural events and more!

 Some of the leading stories are:

Hope you will enjoy it!

Searching for Guest Writers!!!

Searching for Guest Writers

Do you enjoy writing or blogging? Do you want to promote your own blog via guest blogs? Or you are searching for new friends and projects? We are searching for you! Sandbook Net offers you the chance to become part of our team - here at blogspot via guest blogs (or re-blogging your favorite entries) or in our penpal magazine or on our website. All you need to do is contact us at raiasandbook(at)gmail.com and from there on you need to continue what you do best - write and share with us everything about penpalling, swapping, your collections, giveaways that you have found. The options and topics are countless! Join us!

PenPal Magazines and Booklets

Hello everyone!

Have you heard about our penpal magazine? If not, here's your chance to catch up with all of the latest news, creative ideas and cultural events. Yes, you can find them on the pages of our magazines.

We hope you will enjoy it and that you will eventually join us with an article of your own.

Penpallers from around the world have joined our humble team and we are proud to present to you our PenPal and Swappers Magazines and Booklets. Here are the covers of the magazine and the booklets.

To download any of the issues or the booklets please visit www.sandbook.net .

Let us know what you want to see in the coming issues by leaving a comment here.

Kayla's Handmade Letter Writing Sets

If you are looking for out-of the ordinary letter sets and envelopes, then perhaps you are already very familiar with the designs offered by Kayla at her Facebook Group: Kayla's Handmade Letter Writing Sets Stationery

  

Her idea about setting up the Facebook group begins with her own experience as a penpal and swapper just like all of us. Most of the shops out there that offer lettersets are theme specific but also quite popular and widely seen. However, if you a member of the small but very vivid group of penpals that prefer to have your own and very unique set of stationary, checking out Kayla's designs will be the right thing to do! She offers you the chance not only to customize your own stationary, but also provides quite diverse pre-made designs – you’re your favorite TV series and actors through stationary that are movie specific to the usual cartoon characters that you always wanted to have. I just randomly picked few of her designs that I personally love. As you can see my top 3 would be from the TV screen: Twilight design and True Blood (Yeah, vampires are very popular these days!) and lastly but not least the supernatural David Borreneaz in Angel. They are super cute and on very reasonable prices. I would say even very cheap prices. The payment is done through paypal or through stamps (you have to ask Kayla about the last option).

 

By Raia Alexieva 
Sandbook
This article is posted here with permission

Happy Halloween and Happy November

Yesterday was Halloween and it rained all day and night, however, that did not stop the kids from coming out! What did you do for Halloween? We had a quiet night together. We ordered Chinese food and enjoyed my day off. My husband teased me for ordering so much food! It was nice to have leftovers though.

Can you believe it's November already? My husband's birthday is in 14 days.

I received 2 letters this week! I plan on writing back to them next week on my days off. I have 6 days straight of work until my next day off. Lucky me. I did write one letter today!

I want to hear from you!

Hello readers! I am looking to get back into pen palling! Yay! However, I need YOUR help! I got this idea from another blogger, and I would love to see how this goes. I am starting a snail mail letter project!

I am looking to receive a letter from you! Email me for my address and I will reply back to your letter as soon as I can. Please keep in mind, I am a full time stay at home mom/work at home mom. I normally write back in about 2 weeks or so. I don't mind type written letters either.

If you are truly interested in writing me, please email me at penpals at freebielicious (.) com! I will post updates here on this blog and let everyone know who I hear from!

Stock Up on Stamps!

It's time to stock up on stamps if you can! The price of a first class stamp is going up another 2 cents, bringing the cost to 44 cents!

The new price starts on Monday, May 11th!

Your best bet would be to purchase the "forever stamps" this weekend! Forever stamps are just that, whether the price goes up, the stamps are still good to use without additional postage.

Neglected!

I know I have been neglecting this blog. I've had to put this blog on the back burner to handle my daily life. I am still looking for contributors to this blog, I would love to have other people writing for this blog! If you are interested, please leave a comment!

My in-laws were on vacation this week, and they return home tomorrow. I have had the pleasure of cooking for my family...and I didn't need to call the fire department, the house is still standing!

I still have not returned to pen palling, I really hope to very soon. I have been looking for additional ways to earn money from home. I recently started getting paid to blog! It's been really interesting and fun. I enjoy blogging and reading other blogs.

I recently started a new workout program called Turbo Jam! Have you heard of it? I am having so much fun with it. I hope to see results. Do you workout? What workout programs do you do? Do you go to a gym or workout at home?

My husband and I are both stay at home parents! It's been really great having him at home, he's able to spend time with our son and myself. He is starting college later this month to earn his bachelors degree in Criminal Justice! He's starting as a Junior, so he has 2 more years to complete. After that, he hopes to get into law school!

What is going on with your life? How many pen pals do you have? How many letters do you write a day? Week?

Displaced

I am feeling displaced and a little sad lately. We just moved back in with my in-laws and will not be writing letters until we get our own place. But before we get our own place, my husband needs to find a job. We've (well, actually I have) been job hunting like crazy! We hope he gets this job he applied and interviewed for last week. Still waiting to hear from them. In the meantime, I am still looking and applying.

I am really wanting a place to call our own place, our own home. I would love to start writing letters again, but I am choosing to wait until we get moved in. I don't want to confuse and switch up my address with my pen pals.

Right now, I am the only one in my family that is "working." I have a work at home job. I am not getting rich, nor am I claiming to be, but it's money that I am earning! Thankfully, it's deposited directly into our bank account.

In other words, in addition to job hunting for my husband, I am also finding time to work at home. I also do PTC sites to earn a little bit of extra money.

How is everyone else doing out there? I hope you are all having better luck than we are.

Stamp Prices

Did you hear the news?

Stamp prices are going up yet AGAIN! I am disappointed, sad, and upset, about this news! I am now really considering quitting pen palling or just write even less than I am now! This is getting ridiculous. It's almost 50 cents to send a letter!

What do you all think about this news? Share your thoughts and opinions!