The Real Traveling Notebook Starts!!!

The Journey of the Real Traveling Notebook Begins!  By early May the Traveling notebooks are going to reach their first destinations! Sounds exciting, doesn’t it? Download the April's issue of our PenPal Magazine to find out the estimated time of arrival of the notebook and to read the instructions regarding the project!
 If you haven’t managed to sign up for this edition of the traveling notebooks, do not fear! We are going to make a round 2 of the Traveling notebook as soon as we get enough people to participate! You only have to state your interest in the traveling notebook by emailing raiasandbook(at)gmail(dot)com and give us your snail mail address.

SandbookNet Pen Pals and Swappers Magazine: April 2011, issue 6

The April's issue of our penpal magazine is released together with the lovely "Angel" booklet by Samantha Stroy. Hope you will enjoy the issue.

Content of the latest issue of our free penpal magazine, which you can download from here: latest issue.

Download the issue from www.sandbook.net

Correspondence:

6 Write Around the World – April 2011

12 2011 Letters project

22 Recycling old envelopes

24 Lost letters

26 Addicted to Labels

28 World Book Night

32 Traveling notebooks

36 How to start collecting stamps

38 My stamp collection

Website Promotion: 

42 Cute Stationery

44 Letter Lounge

Ads: 

48 PenPal of the Month March 2011

50 Lost PenPal

52 PenPal and Swappers Ads 

Hobbies: 

64 Digital Scrapbooking

68 Embroidery

Culture:

70 April’s Events

74 Diada de Sant Jordi

76 Easter in Germany and Slovenia

82 Samantha’s Thoughts

84 Ghost Towns

86 World Travel: World Heritage

94 Hanging with Maze

102 Fashionista

104 Birthday Twins

107 Subscribe 

108 Next issue

Traveling Notebooks & Pen-Palling

Traveling Notebooks

Whether you have heard about them or not, you can participate in the one that SandbookNet is organizing. The idea behind the Traveling Notebook is that you will receive a notebook in the post from someone (either the Sandbook.Net team or another player in the game) and you will have to:

1) Decorate two pages - you can either tell us something about your culture, country, customs or even your lifestyle, share inspirational thoughts or anything at all that you find worth sharing. You can use whatever your heart desires to decorate the pages - clippings, deco tape, ribbons, postcards, photos, glitter, etc.

2) Take a photo of your entry and send it to us at fun(at)sandbook.net so that we can keep track where the notebook is and if you have completed the first task.

3) Send it to the next person who have signed to join the game.

Once all the people have signed, the notebook will be returned to us and we'd make photos and upload them in our Traveling Notebook Section. We'd have them in picture formats and also available in pdf format so you can look through the whole notebook once it is complete.

To sign up for the "real" Traveling Notebook - you have to fill out the form on our website. Click here to do so: Participate in Real Traveling Notebook.

Virtual Traveling Notebook
(Traveling Sheets)

We realize that the project of the "Real" Traveling Notebook is very ambitious and that it might face certain difficulties in terms of getting lost in the mail or someone breaking off the chain of the Traveling Notebook. 

Moreover the decorated Traveling Notebook will progressively get heavier and it might present unexpected postal fees/costs for the people later on in the list, so that's why we decided to come up with an alternative, called the Virtual Traveling Notebook. For this project you will need to: decorate any number of A5 sized sheets of paper (that is 6 x 9 inches). Again you can present your country, lifestyle, customs, or any message you want to pass along and send them to our SandbookNet's postal address. As soon as we receive the decorated sheets, we will make photos of them and then tag them with your name and country (and email if you choose so) and finally upload them on our website so anyone can view them. Also when we have more sheets together, we will be making "virtual notebooks" (by combining the sheets that we have received) and making them into pdf files that you will be able to download.

To participate in any of the traveling projects you will need to state your interest by filling out the application form on our pen pal site or click here: Participate in Real Traveling Notebook.