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Betty Mae Wrote Hi, I'm Kim. Welcome to Betty Mae Wrote. You’re very welcome to join us. https://wwwbettymaewrote.com

I'm a writer and home body who adores letter writing, stories and helping others write down their memories, one cuppa at a time. Betty Mae Wrote is a cosy corner of the internet devoted to stories, letters, memory-keeping, and the simple pleasures of a thoughtful life. From my little tin house on the Far South Coast of NSW, I share reflections on country living, old photographs, handwritten letters, family stories, and the small everyday moments that are worth remembering. I also run The Lovely Letters Project, a free snail-mail exchange that connects letter writers around the world, and create The Tea + Toast Letter Club, a monthly letter subscription designed to bring a little warmth and nostalgia to your mailbox. If you love storytelling, old-fashioned mail, cups of tea, and the quiet magic of remembering… you’ll feel right at home here.

Episode 33 of the podcast: it’s a Dear Nan one. In 1978, my grandparents packed up their northern beaches life in Sydney...
21/10/2026

Episode 33 of the podcast: it’s a Dear Nan one.

In 1978, my grandparents packed up their northern beaches life in Sydney and headed west to a little farm in Gulgong. No more salty sea air, just gum leaves, wattle and a menagerie of animals.

This week’s Dear Nan letter is about that brave leap: the fibro shack, the goat who pulled up a chair at the dining table (slight exaggeration but not too far off;), pretty a magpie who eyed off everyone’s toast, and orphaned joeys in pouches slung over the dining chairs by the fire.

It’s also about the kindness my grandparents lived by - volunteering, the charity barbecues, the salads and sweet treats for the food stalls, and the commitment they had for being involved within their community.

Pop the kettle on and have a listen to Tell Me Over Tea. 🎧

Kim x

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Some days all we need is a reason to sit down, pour a cuppa, and put the phone out of reach. No one waiting on a reply. ...
20/10/2026

Some days all we need is a reason to sit down, pour a cuppa, and put the phone out of reach. No one waiting on a reply. Just a bit of time that’s yours. Don’t you reckon?

If you could do with a pause like that, I’d love to have you join The Tea and Toast Letter Club. 🤍

What do 15 quiet minutes to yourself look like for you lately?

Kim x

Last week in my newsletter, I sat down (virtually) with the lovely Michaela of H a n d m a d e + E c o N o t e...
18/10/2026

Last week in my newsletter, I sat down (virtually) with the lovely Michaela of H a n d m a d e + E c o N o t e b o o k s to hear snippets of her story and get to know a little more about the creativity she oozes.

Michaela was also the creator and organiser of the Paper People online retreat that I was lucky enough to be a part of earlier in the year. She’s someone that I know you will adore - I mean hello gorgeous handmade journals!

Here’s a little bit about her ….

Michaela lives in a Victorian cottage in Lincolnshire, UK. She stitches journals by hand in a cute little solar-powered studio in her garden. Every one of the front covers is personalised on a vintage typewriter named Dorothy. 📖

In the interview she tells me about:
🧵 the most mysterious thing she’s ever been asked to type (“Let’s start with the PVC pipe”)
🥹 the little book made to record the life of a pair of ceramic plimsolls (this story is so beautiful!)
🌙 the simple bedside notebook habit that helps her sleep

And more!

If you missed it, the full interview is over on my Substack. Go and pop the kettle on and have a read. It was such a delight getting to know more about Michaela and her gorgeous handmade journals.

Enjoy!

Kim x

Shelley has a treasure trove of letters she wrote to her great-grandmother — who she called Nanna — across her entire ch...
06/10/2026

Shelley has a treasure trove of letters she wrote to her great-grandmother — who she called Nanna — across her entire childhood.

It’s a precious story and Shelley Shelley Honig kindly shared it with me over on the podcast recently.

It started at just four and a half years old, scrawled on Wombles stationery. Yes, I said Wombles stationery! I nearly fell off my chair when Shelley showed me her gorgeous letter. I was a Wombles fan back in the day. It seems Shelley was too (you can hear more about this when you listen to the episode!).

Nanna had arthritis and could never write back, but that didn’t stop Shelley from writing. Shelley continued to write all the way through her teenage years, when the letters became a safe place and where she could say the things she couldn’t say out loud, at times.

There’s a particularly special story in this episode about Nanna walking a long way to buy Shelley a lookalike doll for her second Christmas. So gorgeous!

Shelley kept writing until she was nineteen. After losing Nanna at sixteen, she burned the next three years worth of letters as part of her grief.

Years later, Shelley inherited Nanna’s old dressing table. Inside one of the drawers Shelley discovered a shoebox full of the letters she had written to her Nanna. A time capsule of her childhood, waiting to be found. What a gift!

This is a beautiful conversation about the power and preciousness of letters and how valuable they truly are.

🎧 Episode 32 is up now — link in bio.

Kim x
PS Do you have old letters tucked away somewhere? I’d love to hear about them 👇

04/10/2026

My favourite colour has been green for a very long time. 💚

It’s on my stationery and on my cups and in the garden and on my notebooks and the envelope of my mail club and in my drawers and on my books and in my view and … well, it’s everywhere!

What about you? What’s your fave colour?

Kim x

30/09/2026

If you could sit on a park bench with someone for one hour — who would it be? What would you say to them? What do they mean to you?

That’s the prompt behind this week’s Kitchen Table Letters episode over on the podcast.

The letters that came back to me were some of the most tender I’ve ever had the privilege of reading.

Penny writes to her dad — picturing an ordinary day together, full of old jokes and a shared sunset by the sea.

Denise Denise Bullen writes to her brother, imagining one more cup of tea and finally asking the question she’s been carrying. (This letter touches on su***de — please take care of yourself while listening).

Janine Wildly Ordinary - Janene Morgan writes to her dad, twenty years on — golf games, scraped knees, and all the little moments that added up to a lifetime of being loved by him.

This episode certainly made me cry and my heart felt full of the love these three women have for their loved ones.

Grief is one of those difficult parts of life but it’s something that needs to be talked about and shared. Grief touches every single one of us. Let’s not avoid talking about it.

🎧 New episode is up now — link in bio.
If this prompt has stirred something in you, I’d love for you to write your own Kitchen Table Letter. Email me at [email protected] and I’ll send you the details.

Kim x

(Content note: this episode includes a letter discussing su***de. Listener discretion advised.)

I can’t show too much of the September Tea + Toast Letter Club just yet because the mail is a little slow and some subsc...
28/09/2026

I can’t show too much of the September Tea + Toast Letter Club just yet because the mail is a little slow and some subscribers may still be waiting on their letter, but I did want to mention that there are spaces available for October. 😉

I wonder what October’s theme might be? Any guesses?

Kim x

The Lovely Letters Project is my free pen pal exchange for women who want to get back to good old fashioned snail mail....
27/09/2026

The Lovely Letters Project is my free pen pal exchange for women who want to get back to good old fashioned snail mail.

We’ve been going and growing since 2019, and it seems to me, that regardless of the pull social media has, it can never replicate pen and paper communication through the letter box. Thankfully. 🩷

So, if you’re keen to have a pen pal, please sign yourself up to Lovely Letters - you’ll love it! 💌

Kim x
PS and if you have more questions or you need help joining, just DM me.

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