What Do You Do?

Joie80 · January 2012

While DH is away, we try to do quite a few of old school letters. He loves to get mail and I find letters more personal than email. I'm trying to think of something creative to do with his letters. Has anyone done anything cool with theirs like booklets, decoupage, or anything? Any suggestions are appreciated Smile

skooz · January 2012

This was when DH was in basic so I didn't want to do anything too fancy, but one time I made the letter like a newspaper. I wrote in columns and had different sections like life (stuff that was going on), sports (I wrote out some box scores from the day before), events, etc.

I also cut out comics and stuck them in the letters sometimes. I think it's nice you want to send some actual letters, good luck coming up with ideas!

F15Wife · January 2012

When my DH was deployed I kept a journal for him. I wrote in it daily at first and then whenever I could starting out like "day 15", "day 42," ect.....

I mailed it to him about a month before he was due home. I love to look back on it now.

Ilumine · January 2012

Scan and send them to Snapfish. You can make them into a puzzle.

lastbrnangel · January 2012

While my DH was deployed I sent him a blanket and spray it with my perfume. So he could smell me at night before he went to sleep. He loved it and would rewrap the blanket in the box(that it was sent in) everyday to save the scent. It was really cute to hear him say that he was doing that to "save the scent"

chloebeth930 · January 2012

When DH was in boot I was print out pictures on the paper I was writing the letter on. It was fun because if I was telling him a story about something (and I had a pic to go along with it... like when I had to dress up in cowgirl clothes for a bachelorette party) I could put the pic right into the letter.

momhardy · January 2012

When my husband deployed we made him a binder that said letters from home and just put page protecter/slip covers in it and sent it to him empty. We also had one at home that said Letters from Kuwait. Then when we sent him stuff he'd put it in his binder and we'd do the same. So at the end of the year we had a whole book(s) of letters and pictures we'd sent each other. Nothing to fancy but fun to look at once it's all over. My oldest son liked looking at it and having me read them. It was also fun to see in my husbands book how our sons coloring improved over the year. Pretty simple but fun!

MilMom2B · January 2012

We do "old school" letters, too. During all his deployments he only had internet access occasionally and it was sketchy at best so it was just better to do it that way. Plus, like you, we both like having the hand-written hard-copy stuff.

I found a book of postcards that are heart art. It's hearts made out of different stuff, like broken glass or flower petals or paint or whatever. Each post card is a different image of a heart. Anyway, I wrote on those and sent them and he put them into a small soft-covered photo album I bought him and sent ahead so that he could flip through and see the picture, then read the back. We still have it.

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