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It’s all official-like.

On Tuesdays and Thursdays, I post a picture and just a few words.

My girls’ letters have become much more formal-looking since they discovered sealing wax.   Even a hand-delivered note to a neighbor friend gets the sealing wax treatment.

melting sealing wax for letters

In fact, sometimes I think they write letters just so they can use the wax.   And if they paid bills by mail, I’m pretty sure they’d use sealing wax on those too.   😉

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Glory Lennon

Saturday 13th of December 2014

Just curious...why has Sonia been seen lately always wearing that green hat? I think a post on that cute little hat is due, don't you think? ;)

Kristen

Saturday 13th of December 2014

Ha! Well, no particular reason...a friend knitted it for her, and she just love love loves to wear it. So you can find it on her noggin pretty regularly, even indoors.

Kimberly

Friday 12th of December 2014

What fun pictures--and such darlin' girls! I LOVED sealing wax when I was young, too...and would like to see close-up photos of their "sealing jobs" if you get the time, please.

Kristen

Friday 12th of December 2014

When I wrote this post, I was kicking myself for not actually photographing the wax. Oops! Next time.

Maddie

Thursday 11th of December 2014

When I was a kid, I used to use sealing wax on envelopes to my relatives; it was fun. I had all kinds wax stamps and wax colors. Maybe USPS has changed due to sorting equipment but I sent the wax sealed envelopes through the mail with no problems.

Therese Z

Thursday 11th of December 2014

Teach them the history of sealing wax vs gummed envelopes. I see her licking an envelope, then sealing it with wax. When gummed envelopes became possible, it was considered extremely vulgar to send one, and insulting to receive one - to expect nice people to handle envelopes someone licked? Sealing wax took on a whole new popularity at the time, although people had started gluing envelopes shut.

Unromantically today, you shouldn't mail a wax-sealed envelope, it will catch in the works. But for family cards, why not just seal them alone and join hands with the Edwardians across history?

Kristen

Thursday 11th of December 2014

Oh gosh, I didn't know that about not sending sealing wax in the mail. Is this something the USPS has said? I tried googling and came up pretty dry (the only thing I could find is that the wax might break in transit....)

Emily @ Simple Cheap Mom

Thursday 11th of December 2014

If I had stuff to wax seal envelopes, I'd probably stop paying online!

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