For the letters you keep meaning to write and never quite sit down to. Templates for the ones people most often mean to send, prompts for when the page is blank, and five printable letterheads so the thing that arrives looks like you meant it.
Three sections, built around the three places people actually stall. Not knowing how to open, not knowing what to put in the middle, and having nothing to write on that feels worth the effort.
A thank-you that goes deeper than a card, a thinking-of-you, a love letter to the person you live with, one to a grandparent, one to a child to be opened years later, one to someone grieving, the hard letter you have been carrying, and three more. Each gets a full page of its own, with a short note underneath on the one thing that makes that particular letter land.
All thirty prompts sit on a single page you can keep with your paper, for the days you want to write and have nothing particular to say. There is also a short section on the craft of it. How to open without apologising, why one specific Tuesday beats a page of warm sentiment, and how to stop before you trail off.
The MERRI house sprig, a spray of flowers, a eucalypt branch, three swallows, and a par avion postal border. All five are drawn rather than photographed, so they print properly on an ordinary home printer and still look right in black and white. Print a stack of whichever one you like.
Cut-and-fold templates in three sizes that genuinely fit on a single A4 sheet at full scale, with the cut line in gold and the folds in grey. There is also a page on folding an A4 letter into its own envelope, which is what you want at eight in the evening when there is nothing in the drawer.
The kind of thing that lives in the drawer with your pens. Each template gets its own page, the thirty prompts sit together on one, and the back half is all printable paper you can run off whenever you need it.
Letters are a slow medium, and no kit can make you suddenly love writing them. Here is who tends to actually use this one.
You land on a download page the moment you pay, and a copy goes to your inbox. Print only the bits you need, when you need them.
The download opens as soon as you check out, and we email you a copy as well. Nothing to ship, nothing to install.
Designed around A4 at full scale, which matters for the envelope templates. Print those at one hundred percent with page scaling turned off and they cut and fold exactly as drawn.
Print one sheet at a time as you need it. The stationery and envelope templates are designed to be reused as many times as you like.
No. The templates are deliberately structured so that someone with no idea what to say can sit down and produce a warm, specific letter in about fifteen minutes. The point is the letter, not the prose.
No, although each envelope template has a small dotted circle showing where one would sit. A wax seal kit runs to about twenty dollars if you fall for it properly, which a surprising number of people do.
Yes, and that is how most people use it. The letterheads get run off in batches whenever the pile runs low, the envelopes maybe once or twice a year, and the templates and prompts get printed once and left in the drawer with the pens.
Yes, spelt the proper way, and the postage notes are written for Australia Post rates and sizes. One honest detail: a C6 or DL envelope flat is physically bigger than an A4 sheet, so it cannot be printed at home at full scale. The three templates in the kit are sized for notes and cards and do fit, and there is a separate page on folding an A4 letter into its own envelope for anything longer. A bought C6 costs a few cents from any newsagent.
Yes. The nicest version is to buy two so they get a copy of their own, and then write them a letter out of yours. If you would rather we sent it as a gift with a note from you, write to hello@wearemerri.com.au and we will sort it out.
About what one nice card costs in a shop, except this one gets you ten templates, thirty prompts, five letterheads and three envelopes that you can print again every time the drawer runs empty.