So hello back to my blog- it's been a while since I've posted anything (again, this just seems to be how these blog posts have worked for the past year tbh)... Anyway! Today I thought I would finally get round to sharing my #CBloggers Secret Santa round up which should have been done a good 2 months ago but oh well, never mind! Better super late than never, right?

Anyway, for my swap I received my gift from Amy Hodkin! Inside my gift she sent me one of her beautiful character screen prints that I absolutely adore and has found space upon my new(ish) desk and a really beautiful zine that was filled with botanical illustrations. She also sent a card with such a lovely typographic design on the front which I loved too.

I also was sent a lil something from Zen Zhou from Hapiness Wherever which was really lovely of her and it means a lot that she wanted to send something as a thank you for doing #CBloggers and organising the swap, etc! 

Now I don't have any photos of what I sent as a Secret Santa, however, Danielle (who I was sending too) has uploaded a photo of it on her twitter here. I was so glad that she was happy with her package and on a whole I think everybody was too. 

Lastly from me I just wanted to include one thing I do have a photo of and did send out, which was the limited edition #CBloggers2016 bauble and a wee Christmas Card! I wanted to do something nice for everybody taking part (especially for if/when people's packages never turned up) and I think everybody was quite chuffed with them too! 

Before I finish up this really badly timed Christmas post I wanted to share the content of people who shared their* Secret Santa's so check the links below for those too: 

Amy (The Creative Outlook): Blog Post

Caroline (Tarolime): Instagram

DaniWarman: Twitter

Dina Kalo: Twitter

Emmeline Pidgen: Blog Post

Erin (Ms. Veness): Instagram

Georgina (Short Sweet Art): Twitter

Joanna  (Adventures & Tea Parties): Blog Post

Laura Campbell: Instagram

Laura Redburn (Cardboard Cities): Instagram

Nital Shah: Twitter

Rachel: Blog Post & YouTube Vlog

Stacie Swift: Instagram

*Also I know I've missed out a bunch of people probably so if you have a blog post, YT video, Instagram or Tweet to do with the swap just let me know and I'll include it! Obviously since this was a few months ago the content has gone really far into the abyss of the #CBloggers tag!

More and more nowadays people are so wrapped up in the world on their screens that they don't take in the beauty of everything around them.Opting to hashtag instead of talk and use filters instead of their own eyes, it's no wonder that people don't seem to venture into the unknown anymore. Which is where Tim Easley's new promotion packet fits in. For somebody who loves all things printed I couldn't wait to get my hands on it! 

I have been pretty terrible with the snail mail writing game recently but that hasn't stopped brilliant and beautiful pieces of mail coming through in the post! However, I've managed to write some replies for the people in my #postcircle group which I was meant to do a few weeks ago. Better late than never though. 

The first item I received after my last update was this beautiful print from Dainty & Ivory. She had made a few after the Disney Craft Swap she hosted and was wanting to sell some of the ones she had left. I adore this and really need to get a frame for it as it is beautiful to look at. 

A few weeks ago I shared a post called "For the love of snail mail", within this post I talked about how I was wanting to send more out and said if people were interested to start up a little chain. After that post and receiving a lot of lovely post this week I thought I would continue doing little up dates with all my snail mail.

Recently I've been getting into snail mail a lot more. Like many on the blogsphere, we all seem to love the idea of putting pen to paper and writing heart felt letters, postcards, cards instead of just messaging each other back and forth! Within the past few months, I've been taking part in more snail mail type things like Dainty and Ivory's Craft swap. So, with all of this, I've decided I want to do more snail mail. If you would like to start sending snail mail to me, with me sending you some back then send me an email over at OhHayBlogs@gmail.com. 

Within time, I may develop this further like Hannah has, but for the time being I just want to send some lovely snail mail to some lovely people.