All I could think of when reading this is, "I WANT AN INSPIRATIONAL LETTER!" Suddenly, I see a new service available on the internet. :)

uh... a fake inspirational letter? isn't that a contradiction in terms? a letter's value comes from the emotional sentiment we attach to it, and that comes primarily from our relationship with the person who sent it.

Kitty Kelley framed all her rejection letters from publishers--they're in her powder room. I think that's far more fun than some love note from 6th grade, unless of course, it's from Brad Pitt or Bill Clinton or someone equally juicy..

ah, my shelves! :)

the letter shown here is from my upstairs neighbor, a 95 year-old man named jacob. he is unable to walk downstairs to our apartment, so he sends notes down via a manila envelope on a string, tied to his railing.

this particular letter was send down the day after my husband + i got our marriage license + talks of him getting his 68.5 years ago! amazing piece for me to save.

i blogged about him here: http://jessicafulkerson.blogspot.com/2009/12/when-9am-feels-like-9pm.html

and about this particular letter here: http://jessicafulkerson.blogspot.com/2009/12/these-streets-will-make-you-feel-brand.html

jessica

am i the only one that has saved all of my notes and cards since i was little?

i literally have boxes of this kind of thing sitting in my closets.

this is a good reason to sort through them and find something great to display.

thanks for the idea!

If you have a letter on written on both sides of the sheet, you can back the letter with a second sheet of glass. Then when you turn the frame over you can read both sides.

When my husband was a little boy, he found a piece of wood and gave it to his grandfather, who was a woodworker as a hobby. It was wrapped in a piece of red wrapping paper on which my mother in law had written a note about how my husband had picked out that little scrap of wood. For years, it sat in his grandfather's wood shop. When his grandfather passed away, he took the little wrapped up piece of wood. I framed the wrapping paper note to sit behind the wood.

I am totally doing this- thanks!

i love the look and thought behind these framed notes.

http://www.thelateafternoon.com

I saved all my letters and cards too. I never thought of framing something special, but I love the idea.

April, I'm also a collector of letters. I went through batches of letters & cards and sorted some them by the sender. I returned the letters back to the original senders, just in time for our 25th college reunion. It was like they each got a little piece of their history back and they all loved it ! My sister had the brilliant idea that I should have copied them first and then made a photobook of the scanned copies mixed with old photos.

A couple of years ago my mother was clearing out some stuff and found letters myself and my siblings had written to Santa when we were little and she gave them to us for Christmas. It was such a great present, and totally worth framing (especially my little sister's, which she wrote at that exact age when they teach you to always put two fingers of space between each word, it looks hilarious)

I know just the letter, I have it propped on a bookshelf, why did i never think of framing?

I have something like this in my bedroom...

We were cleaning out my grandmother's apartment after she died, and found a couple coins and a small note, simply stating what the coins were and that she had had them on her person when she graduated from nursing school.

This Saturday, the 50 cent piece will be the "something old" or the "penny in your shoe" for my sister's wedding. She's the first grandkid to get married, so we're starting a new tradition!

I have a collection of small sketches done by my celebrity clients, that they never knew that they did this particular sketch. I have about 5 now and I think it's time to frame and hang them, perhaps in my bathroom?!

I'm sorry to see that the links people have included with their comments are not being shown as active links. What's up with that? I have really liked being able to click on something someone has included and have always considered it a good part of the comment process.

I met my first boyfriend when I was 18 & he was 19. We only spoke briefly the night we met and I gave him my number. The next day at work he sketched my portrait on a napkin and drew a moon in the sky. He gave it to me and I loved it because it was the first drawing I'd ever seen that really looked like me and was impressed that he remembered such detail. I framed it and stored it for years and showed my daughter a couple of years ago who said I HAD to display it! It now hangs in my bedroom. My daughter thought it was so sweet that when she was in dance class a couple of years ago and had to have something to inspire a dance she created, she chose the sketch of me!!