the map letter club story

Happy Saturday friends! Today I wanted to share more about the background of the Map Letter Club and how this came to be!

First- if you have been around the Caravan Sonnet blog since the beginning (and thank you if you have - how has it been THIRTEEN YEARS?! this year?!?) you may remember that there was a short-lived (about a year long) parcel post tribe that I created. At that time I hand created two different snail mail cards and then sent them out each month (with stamps) so that people could re-ignite their love for snail mail with the ease of not needing to go shopping for a card along with not needing to go purchase stamps. It was a sweet season and I was truly sad that due to my health I needed to stop and cancel that snail mail club dream in 2014. At that time it truly felt like one more "death" and behind the scenes it was very difficult for me. 

For years I have wanted to restore that in a different way and have spent a lot of time praying and thinking through how to best do that and what would be the best way to do this. At the same time I have always loved drawing whimsical maps for different occassions, my class rooms, for personal requests, etc. and when I was in France in August, at the Saint-George de Boscherville Abbey, it all came together in my mind and heart. I spent months researching to see if there was anything like this that existed with the whimsical maps and hand-written letters and photos and couldn't find anything! It has been a joy to work on this behind the scenes and then announce it this past week in the new year!

While there are all different parts of Caravan Sonnet Parcel Club and different subscription services, today I wanted to share a bit of the history of the beautiful map letter club. Thank you for all of your love and support! You can go directly HERE to become a member!