It's all official-like.
On Tuesdays and Thursdays, I post a picture and just a few words.
My girls' letters have become much more formal-looking since they discovered sealing wax. Even a hand-delivered note to a neighbor friend gets the sealing wax treatment.
In fact, sometimes I think they write letters just so they can use the wax. And if they paid bills by mail, I'm pretty sure they'd use sealing wax on those too. 😉
I think I need to get our family some sealing wax! Where did you get yours?
I love that it is an activity with a time sensitive multi-step process. And what a creative, purposeful way to teach safe use of matches!
Check the wedding section of craft stores (print out a 40% off coupon online first!). They have somewhat limited colors and stamps, but enough to get your started. And then there are all sorts of colors online!
In this era of email and Facebook messages, the thoughtful little details are getting lost. I knew I should have saved all that orthodontic wax from my braces! LOL! 🙂
Is that Sonia? She has gotten so big!
Yes indeedy! She's still pretty small for her age, but she has definitely gotten taller. 😉
What a beautiful idea. My kiddies would love to apply it to their Christmas carsds!!
Nothing beats a handwritten note and sealing wax makes it even more personal. Cute!
Off topic, but Kristen, there are no navigation links on your posts anymore to get to the previous or next post, unless I'm just not seeing them. It was a nice feature because I don't always read your blog every day.
Oh, nuts. I will look into that. Thank you so much for letting me know!
Update: So, it looks like the previous/next buttons are available on the homepage, but not on individual posts. And I'm not seeing a setting I can change to fix that. Ugh.
I've run into a couple of issues like this that I will probably need to hire someone to tweak for me. So, I will add this to the list.
For now, if you just visit the homepage and read the posts that way, you should be able to easily navigate from one page of posts to another (the only time this will change is if you click on a post to comment, because then you'll be on the individual post page.)
No problem, I figured it was a template issue you didn't know about. 🙂
Did you know that crayons also melt when held to a flame? I don't know if the wax puddle would be as thick as a sealing wax puddle, but it would be worth investigating. It would be a great use for all those random crayons and much cheaper than "real" sealing wax!
We'll try it! Candles, we have discovered, don't really work all that well because the wax is too runny.
Love the black and white shirt paired with green hat. I hadn't thought of that color combination but it's quite nice. Hmm....
That is so cute. Did you crochet that hat?
I didn't, but a friend knitted it for her. Sonia loves green, so she is quite in love with the hat.
Sonia could be on the cover of a kids clothing catalog. Did you make the hat? I really like it and I thought the post may have been about it. I love the idea of the sealing wax. Letters definitely would feel more special to me.
I didn't! A friend knitted it for her, and she wears it alll the time now. 😉
If I had stuff to wax seal envelopes, I'd probably stop paying online!
Teach them the history of sealing wax vs gummed envelopes. I see her licking an envelope, then sealing it with wax. When gummed envelopes became possible, it was considered extremely vulgar to send one, and insulting to receive one - to expect nice people to handle envelopes someone licked? Sealing wax took on a whole new popularity at the time, although people had started gluing envelopes shut.
Unromantically today, you shouldn't mail a wax-sealed envelope, it will catch in the works. But for family cards, why not just seal them alone and join hands with the Edwardians across history?
Oh gosh, I didn't know that about not sending sealing wax in the mail. Is this something the USPS has said? I tried googling and came up pretty dry (the only thing I could find is that the wax might break in transit....)
When I was a kid, I used to use sealing wax on envelopes to my relatives; it was fun. I had all kinds wax stamps and wax colors. Maybe USPS has changed due to sorting equipment but I sent the wax sealed envelopes through the mail with no problems.
What fun pictures--and such darlin' girls! I LOVED sealing wax when I was young, too...and would like to see close-up photos of their "sealing jobs" if you get the time, please.
When I wrote this post, I was kicking myself for not actually photographing the wax. Oops! Next time.
Just curious...why has Sonia been seen lately always wearing that green hat? I think a post on that cute little hat is due, don't you think? 😉
Ha! Well, no particular reason...a friend knitted it for her, and she just love love loves to wear it. So you can find it on her noggin pretty regularly, even indoors.