When I was a little girl, and well into my teens, I would sit at my desk, usually on the weekends, and I’d write letters. I had a list of people to write to – Nan, Grandma, aunties, friends from my Sydney school days, penpals from all over the world. I’d pick up my pen and become lost in the written word. Every now and then I’d pause to collect my thoughts, thinking about my week and the recipient of the letter – what would they enjoy hearing about? What had been going on in their lives? What had they mentioned in their last letter that I could respond to? What had my family members been up to that could keep them amused? It was a precious time in my life, and those childish letters that I wrote, most definitely created in me a desperate desire to connect with loved ones (and sometimes, those I’d never met before) through the written word.

So, if you would like to become a part of the Lovely Letters community, if you would like to receive and send letters about simple, daily life – perhaps share recipes, talk about meals, share gardening and home stories, and you are committed to exchanging them each month, then please join this project. You are the perfect person to begin this mission to bring back old fashioned slow mail. You'll love it!

The Tea & Toast Club is a stationery subscription box for stationery addicts,  letter writers, and journal keepers. 

Every two months, the latest Tea & Toast box (a new theme each time) will be delivered to your mail box - a cosy gift especially for you, to enjoy over a cup of tea, a piece of toast (lavished in truckloads of creamy butter, of course!) and a nice, quiet sit down. 

These boxes are a labour of love, as well as a wonderful collaboration between my son, Lew, and I. Lew is a watercolour and ink artist, and so all of the drawing elements to the stationery inside each box (ie: writing paper, stickers, cards etc) are Lew's beautiful, printed art work.