In a romantic mood...
Yes dreamy and romantic...this is how I feel these days...and all the more since this morning a beautiful handwritten letter was waiting for me in the letterbox. It is the second manuscript letter I bought from dear blogger friend Mélanie (Le petit cabinet de curiosités). This one is addressed to Monsieur Le Vicomte and speaks of dinners and social gatherings. The hand writing is fluid and elegant. Mélanie is very sweet because she again added another letter to it as a gift. A very cute pink letter from a young girl to one of her friends in a boarding school.
Slowly but surely I'm developing a healthy addiction to handwritten letters from the past. So I made a box to keep them. One of them was still laying nonchalantly on my desk but imagine a can of soda gets spilled on it accidently...oh that would be terrible....
Slowly but surely I'm developing a healthy addiction to handwritten letters from the past. So I made a box to keep them. One of them was still laying nonchalantly on my desk but imagine a can of soda gets spilled on it accidently...oh that would be terrible....
I wrote Lettres d'antan (letters from the past) on the cover
Reçois chère amie les meilleurs voeux de bonne amitié.Ton amie qui t'aime et qui t'embrasse
Dear friend, please receive all my best wishes and assurance of friendship
You friend who loves you and gives you a kiss
Isn't that cute ?
Comments
I adore letter writing; reminds me of my impressionable childhood years writing letters to a childhood suitor;-)
The box is a great idea! I will have to borrow it for my letters. :) ... and I really should do a post about all my wonderful treasures from her. Happy Wednesday ..HHL
Leave it to you to create a gorgeous keepsake box for these exquisite love letters!
Your creativity soul never ceases to amaze me...
Bisous,
Melissa
Karena
Art by Karena
I've written many letters by hand in the past, to people who value such things, but I wish I had a device like Thomas Jefferson's. Tt was a jointed structure with a pen attached, and it would copy his writing movements onto another sheet of paper, so he had an instant copy of the letter he was going to send out. I could photocopy my letters on my scanner, I suppose, but it would certainly use up my ink cartridge quickly!
Also, thank you for the blog visit and the recipe! Tinto de verano sounds dangerously easy to make and to drink. I would have to experiment with fizzy lemonades; in the US, they can be sweet or imports that are quite dry/sour. But the experimentation wouldn't be a bad thing!
On a totally different note, are you excited for the World Cup final? This is Spain's first time in the finals, isn't it? Exciting stuff...
Thank you for sharing - my day is uplifted a notch!
xo
I also cannot believe you lived in Paris, which is now home to lots of my wonderful friends who have blogs, I have also met them, when I made my first visit to Paris last year, yep 1st, now have been 3 times and about to go again very soon.
I also follow Melanies blog, love looking at her interesting antiques.
I think you are the first Spanish blog I have read .. so going to add you to my blog roll.