For everyone who's reaching for real life:
The Words + Art Snail Mail Club
3 treasures in your hand,
delivered monthly
(using zero Ai, so yay to that)
A monthly trio of analog, heart-made treasures, freshly created each month
a signed letter + an original poem + aN art print... all 3 delivered to you in a hand-addressed envelope with A real stamp on it
Old-school + Analog + Paper + High-Touch + Handmade + Homemade + Heart-Made + No Ai Needed or Used
A new mailing each month ☀️
What's included:
1. A freshly written monthly letter typed on a manual typewriter... or handwritten, maybe even in cursive
Your monthly letter will be unique each month, written exclusively for the Words + Art Club. I'll either type it on a real, old-fashioned typewriter (not the computer using the "typing" font), or I'll handwrite it. Then I'll have it printed, and then I'll sign each and send you one.
2. An original poem, written by me, an award-winning poet
I like poems you can enjoy it on the first reading. I like poetry that's not a bunch of overly heady, overworked, smart-but-stuck-up gobbly-goop. My favorite poems are intriguing on the first reading, and then get deeper and richer with each reading after that. This the kind of poetry I strive to write. RIGHT HERE is a poem of mine, for example!
3. A limited-edition art print. Could be color, could be black-and-white, will always be original and made by me
It may be an ink drawing or a pencil drawing, a watercolor, a collage, or perhaps a real photographic print (not from the drugstore!). There will be a new piece of art each month that I'll have reproduced in a limited quantity, and then I'll put my signature on each print—and you'll get one in your envelope.
We're talking real, physical, in-your-hands life
That's the point of the Words + Art Snail Mail Club
Oof, I'm tired of the balance tipping more and more in the direction of digital life.
Obviously you and I are using the internet right now, so I'm not saying "down with the internet!" I like the internet—that's how we found each other, after all.
What I don't love is the imbalance, the unevenness, the ditching of things that the human body really likes.
It's as though someone decided we don't need the things that contribute to our physical enjoyment of this life.
But that someone is wrong
The more technology innovates, the more we need things we can touch, hold, and physically experience. If for balance alone!
Worth it
The Words + Art Snail Mail Club is my way of helping you and me both breathe a big sigh of honest-to-goodness relief in this crazy world. Here's a chance for me to send you something real in the mail every month.
• Under these words is a collage made by me
• I took the photo above—of the tree and the ducks one moonlit night
• That's my artwork in progress, below
• That's my red typewriter below that
At the very end is a photo I took (with film) of a hammock on an island called Nowhere
Join the Words + Art Snail Mail Club
Real mail freshly created real mail physically sent to you each month
Made for people who love heart-made things, who crave quirky treasures, who reach for real life, and who appreciate something they can hold in their hand. →And oh yeah, for people who look forward to checking the mail
You're more than ready to take charge of your mailbox's quality control—you're ready for better mail
You knew about the bills, but you didn't sign up for political dogfights in your mailbox, or for skeevy ads for dumb stuff, or for alllll those credit card applications
You'd LOVE to get an actual, personally addressed envelope every month—with a real stamp on it, no less
You actually WANT to spend money on something made by a real-live human writer and artist
I'm Coco, and this club is long overdue
I'm Coco, owner and optimist in charge at The Shiny Butter Blog.
I've been blogging almost since God made the internet, and have been writing poems, drawing, painting, and doing artwork even longer.
I got a degree in architecture back when pencils were a thing. (Seriously, we didn't have computers yet.) I jumped online once I could figure out what right and left click meant (not exaggerating there, either), and now, well... you know all the stuff that's happened and happening, I'm absolutely craving hands-on life.
If you're feeling the pressure, too—the digital/hands-off/impersonal/non-human/non-real pressure, I sure hope you'll join me in the Words + Art Snail Mail Club.
You'll receive actual mail from me each month—a letter, a poem, and a piece of art in a hand-addressed, 6" x 9" envelope with real stamps on it.
Coco/S.L. Cockerille
The Shiny Butter Blog
Poet & Artist, Confidence Coach, Aerialist, Optimist & Opinionist
Join monthly or yearly
Freshly created and mailed to you each month
Come alive with me! Become a member the Words + Art Snail Mail Club right away, and start your collection of treasures now: poems, letters, and art. Let's you and I whoop up on some real, hands-on life together.
Join the Words + Art Snail Mail Club
A new mailing each month
Join monthly or yearly:
A trio of treasures delivered to your mailbox in a real envelope with your name written in real handwriting, plus a real stamp on the envelope
Every month
Join the Words + Art Snail Mail Club... freshly created and mailed to you each month
FAQs
01
How long will it take for my first mailing to arrive?
Short version: your mailing will go out right away if I have your membership before the end of the month—and on the 15th of the next month if you join between the first and the 15th. After that it's a matter of how long an envelope takes to get from me to you.
The finer details:
The first batch of mailings goes to the PO on the 15th of the month.
Then, between the 15th and the end of the month I send mailings as I receive new memberships.
So! Depending on the speed of mail from me on the east coast of the US to you, wherever you are, your mail should take a week to three weeks or more after it's mailed.
After the end of the month, all new memberships get in the batch for the new month's mail on the fifteenth: two weeks after the end of the previous month.
Just remember—it's snail mail. Real life is quirky.
02
What if my mail doesn't arrive?!?
Contact me at Coco@ShinyButter.com, and I'll send you a new mailing.
Note: If you're outside the US, give your mail a few weeks to arrive once it's mailed—see the mailing schedule above.
I don't mind sending a new mailing if your mail really has gone missing, though, so just contact me and we'll figure it out.
03
Is the price higher if I'm outside the US?
Nope. The magical postal service will tell me what postage to use, and then your mailing will be on its way to you wherever you are.
04
What if my address changes?
Contact me right away at Coco@ShinyButter.com and I'll change it for you.
05
Can I gift this to someone?
You sure can. Place your order and let me know it's a gift (and for whom) when you give me the address.
You can do this for as many people as you'd like. It sure would be a swell treat for someone to get real mail every month in these digital days.
06
How do I cancel?
You can cancel inside your original order, or you can contact me at Coco@ShinyButter.com.
It's okay, life is still grand.
