Writing cards/notelets

[CarbonelCat]

I am trying to be a better friend this year, and want to send little notes in the post - like we used to!

I completely failed on the Christmas card front and have been rubbish at birthdays for ages, so want to just get better at letting people know I am thinking of them.

I want to have a little stock of nice postcards or notelet type things but it seems you have to buy everything singly at the moment. Does anyone have any tips?

I'm not a traditional, floral, formal kind of person so more looking for something arty or funny etc.

No, you still get multipacks! Eg here are some in Paperchase

Try Papier they do fantastic sets

www.paperchase.com/en_gb/cards/occasion/notecards missed the link! JOHN Lewis have them, Sainsbury's did the other day, Ebay and etsy and Amazon will have a ton.

Apologies if I've misunderstood and that's not what you meant.

Papier make lovely ones.

Have you taken a photo that you particularly like? My DDs had a photo that I took on holiday turned into postcards through Aldi printing.

I used to be rubbish about cards. Now I have set up my address book in Moonpig.com and set a reminder for birthdays, anniversaries etc.

Now, I get an email days in advance, I can set out many days in advance, to remind me that it's someone's birthday etc.

Brilliant.

Great ideas, thank you!

Feel a bit bad that I found it so hard to find some now....

It's a real shame the Paperchase ones mostly say 'thank you' on, some of them would have been perfect but without the type!

I love the V&A ones and the Wrendale ones too.

Try any gallery or museum (National, Tate, V&A, Royal Academy) - they all have online shops, lovely cards etc AND you are supporting a gallery that needs the money.

www.etsy.com/uk/listing/917339244/hand-printed-bees-and-hare-design-pack?ref=var_v1_share

I got these from an ETSY seller. There are other designs too.

Problem is, I love them so much that I want to keep them instead of send them!

Amazon have some lovely packs of cards (birthday / mixed / thank you etc), all made of recycled card and paper, with no plastic packaging. The company is called Lazy Panda.

Oh I used to love sending little notelets to people! Do pen pals still exist? For children I mean? I used to have a couple that I think I found in an animal magazine!

Whistlefish have some lovely ones. Have a look here whistlefish.com/search?q=notelets&type=product

Ah @BonnesVacances - I love the tins!

@sofakingcool - I had penfriends too! Our whole class used to write to a mirror class elsewhere. I wonder if they still do that in school?