A monthly mail club
For curious people who notice everything.
Art, observations and wandering stories, delivered through the post.
started by Pixley, finished by you
Inside your monthly letter
A little collection of things worth keeping.
To notice the remarkable hidden quietly inside ordinary moments.
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To notice the remarkable hidden quietly inside ordinary moments.
One letter. Once a month.
A small ritual of art, curiosity and connection, delivered to your mailbox.
always looking a little closer.
Meet Pixley
A traveller, a people watcher and a collector of small moments.
I’ve had a camera by my side for as long as I can remember, long before everyone carried one around in their pocket. In high school, I was the weird girl with the camera, always documenting something, always noticing something, usually hearing, “Why are you taking a picture of that?” Looking back, my life sometimes reminds me of that scene in Beetlejuice when Lydia explains why she can see dead people and other people can’t, “Live people ignore the strange and unusual. I myself am strange and unusual.”
I understood that feeling long before I had words for it, the sense that you’re standing in the same room as everyone else, but somehow seeing a different room. When you’re young, that can make you feel strange or awkward because you know you’re different, and other people know it too. But as I got older, I began to understand that the things that once made me feel weird, my empathy, curiosity, imagination, creativity, and tendency to notice the tiny details everyone else seemed to miss, were actually some of my greatest gifts. Sometimes the qualities other people don’t understand in you are simply qualities they don’t possess themselves. What once felt like being an outsider eventually became my way of connecting more deeply to the world. That instinct led me into a 15-year career as a photographer and later into travel journalism, where for seven years I authored Worth the Trip for NBC Washington, traveling throughout Washington, D.C., Maryland, and Virginia, meeting fascinating people, discovering incredible places, and collecting stories along the way.
For me, it’s photography, video, and telling the stories of people, places, and things I encounter along the way. Letters from Pixley is where I get to turn that passion into something tangible. I share the stories I collect, and I transform my own photographs into art prints or coloring pieces that you can color, keep, frame, or make completely your own.
and far too much sun
The world doesn’t need more content. It needs more meaning.
Sarah Pixley
Where the letters come from.
A market stall in the Andes, a loom halfway through a row, a wet garden in England. I photograph what I want to remember, and then I write about it.
the camera comes everywhere.
Most of what ends up in a letter started as something I stopped for. The photographs come home first; the writing catches up later, at the desk.
See the photographsHow the letter finds you
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Join the club
Pick a monthly plan, from eight dollars. Cancel whenever you like.
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I gather and create
I write, photograph, illustrate and collect through the month.
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Check your mailbox
Your letter arrives by post, filled with things to notice and keep.
One more thing
A found curiosity.
Each letter includes one small, unexpected object chosen for the story it carries. It might be a vintage stamp, an old ticket, a guitar pick, a fragment from another time, or something I happened to notice along the way.
No two curiosities are promised to be the same.
Small wonders
found along the way.
Letters from Pixley
For curious people who notice everything.
Written, photographed and packed by hand, one place at a time. Join the letter club, or read the journal first.