Letters from Laura

Letters From Laura

A real letter. In your actual mailbox. Every month.

Most mail is bills.

Or advertisements. Or something you ordered and already knew was coming.

Remember when the mailbox could hold something else? A card from someone you hadn’t heard from in a while. A handwritten note. An envelope with your name on it that you wanted to open before you even got back inside.

That’s the idea behind Letters From Laura.

Once a month, I sit down at my craft table and make a letter to send to you. I write it, print it, gather the month’s recipe and little extras, sign it, assemble it and tuck everything into a kraft envelope addressed to you.

Then, on the first of the month (or there about), I put it in the mail.

And a few days later, there’s something in your mailbox that’s actually for you.

What’s inside?

Every month is different, because every month of my real life is different.

A letter from me

This is the heart of it.

I write about what’s happening around here. What I’m making, cooking, growing, refinishing, thinking about or figuring out. Sometimes it’s funny. Sometimes it’s nostalgic. Sometimes it’s just reflecting on all the good things in life.

I don’t hold much back. If you’ve been reading for a while, you know me pretty well.

A recipe from my kitchen

One recipe, chosen for the month and printed on a 5 x 7 card you’ll actually want to keep.

These aren’t recipes pulled together just to fill a card. They’re things I make in my own kitchen, written the way I’d give the recipe to a friend.

And sometimes one month leads to another. Make the vanilla extract in June and you may find yourself reaching for it again when we’re making something together months later.

Laura’s Little List

Four things I’ve discovered lately and think are worth passing along.

It could be something for the kitchen, something I found thrifting, an idea for the porch, a book, a tool or even one very small thing that made life better.

Basically, the things I’d tell you about if we were sitting at my kitchen table.

And sometimes, there’s a surprise.

I’ve tucked wildflower seeds into hand-folded envelopes. Made pressed-flower bookmarks. Note cards to share.

There won’t be an extra handmade something just for the sake of having one. 
But every once in a while, you may open your envelope and find a little more than you expected.

Please write back.

This may be my favorite part.

Some subscribers have started writing letters back to me, and I cannot tell you how much I love finding them in my own mailbox.

Tell me what you made. Send me a recipe. Tell me a story. Show me what you’re working on. Or just write because you haven’t written an actual letter to someone in years.

When there’s something especially lovely to share, you’ll sometimes see it in From the Mailbox in a future letter.

Because real correspondence doesn’t have to be a thing we used to do.

Keep them.

Each month’s letter is dated and made to be kept.

Save the recipes. Stack up the letters. Tuck away the little things I’ve sent you.

A little about me

I’m Laura.

I’ve spent more than 20 years making things for a living through Olive My Skin, but I’ve been making things for much longer than that.

I cook from scratch. I garden. I sew. I refinish furniture. I thrift things. I save scraps of fabric because I’m convinced I’ll eventually find a use for them. I still send cards and handwritten notes. And I believe some things are better when a person actually took the time to make them.

Letters From Laura wasn’t created because I thought the world needed another subscription.

It’s really just the way I’ve always lived, put into an envelope so I can share some of it with you.

$12 a month

U.S. postage is included. Your letter mails on the first of every month.

No box of stuff you need to find a place for.

No content you need to keep up with.

Just something good waiting in the mailbox.

For everyone trying to find their way back to something slower.