Today, we are bombarded with forms of communication. I hope to do my small part to keep letter writing in the forefront. I write to my kids a couple times a month, nowhere near as often as my grandparents, father and mother did back in the day. But, I do know for a fact that my kids keep the cards and letters I send. And I know they enjoy getting a handmade card in the mail. So, Hilltop Paper Studios is here to help you create a shoe box full of memories. Whether they are heartfelt, emotional notes, or simply a story about your cat or the snowstorm last week, write it down, in your handwriting, and send it out. The cards I make are not big; you don’t need to write a novel. Just do it!

I also feel I need to do my part to encourage Millennials and “Gen-Next”ers to write letters. As I am reading through the old handwritten letters I have found from previous generations in my family, I am learning about people I have never met, as well as gaining new insight into the people I knew my entire life. Imagine, years from now, after the Millennials and Gen-Next are gone; if they never wrote letters, how will valuable insight be gained into their lives? How will their children know that their roommate from college was a “swell guy”, as my dad stated several times in letters he wrote home. Oh, I’m sure there will be electronic beeps and blips that they will be able to read, but nothing can take the place of reading an old faded letter, penned in their own handwriting.

I enjoy making the cards in my shop; I get to play around with paints, markers, crayons, and pretty paper. But I also hope that I am creating something that will someday find its way into an old, dusty, musty smelling shoe box, only to be pulled out and re-read, so that once again the love you originally sent will be remembered.

WRITE MORE LETTERS!!

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