Pop!

In this era of emails, chats, and blogs, paper becomes inconvenient, primitive, and most of all, environment unfriendly. Writing love letters, sending greeting or post cards, visiting the post office, collecting and exchanging candy-colored stationeries with friends and sisters seem to have lost its value now that communication and hobbies mostly revolve around the computer and mobile technology these days.

My best friends and I use our e-group to catch up with out distant lives. I agree that exchanging emails bring us together more often than our meet ups and bonding moments. Living in different cities and different parts of the world, our e-group has become our meeting place at our own convenient time. It saves us from travelling--all the way to the post office and back. I haven't even been to a post office for a very loooong time.

Home for the holidays. Catching up with my best friends Jessica, Giella, Franny and Jaira.

Emails, chats, and unli-calls are by far the most convenient ways to communicate with distant friends or relatives. But I believe that the reaction and the rush of emotions when you actually receive something from the mail is a thrilling experience. I remember receiving a musical greeting card from a friend in Houston. I was amazed because he took time to write, not to mention the effort in picking out a pretty card that plays "Walking on Sunshine" when you open it. Then there's also one time I decided to surprise my boyfriend with a gift. Everyday I would write in my small notebook--thoughts, letters, notes, prayers--while he was away. I filled the first few pages and left the rest of the notebook empty for him to fill in and hopefully send back to me. I mailed it through a courier company, and so the next day he got it. He totally appreciated the gift and the effort which made me feel the value of going an extra mile to send special somethings as compared to simply emailing them.

Which gave me another idea of sending something delightful to friends and loved ones just to break the routines and add some element of surprise: Pop-up!

Summer Blooms pop-up card

My Garden, My Stage pop-up card

The Magic Ride pop-up card

Stop and Smell the Flowers pop-up card

Free Whaley pop-up card

I Come in Fish pop-up card

Party Animals pop-up card

Flower Power pop-up card

Spongebob and Patrick in Disguise pop-up card

Baby's Day Out pop-up card

Blooms pop-up card

Just a thought. I wonder how Hallmark still survives the electronic age...coz I wanna build my paper empire too, hahahaha!