final product

Handmade Happiness swap on Swap-Bot.

I sent these and two personalized, altered mini-comp books.

Did I remember to take pictures of those?

Nooooooo.

This'll have to hold you:

Ken and I are working on some fabric storage for Cami.

I'll post pictures of those tonight. They rock. I was at it with the power tools again. Next thing you know, I'll have my own show on HGTV. It works. Just. Like. That.

Carry on oh crafty ones...

stuffed craftiness

It needs some tendrils or something but o-mah-gawd how cute is this?

Possibly for a swap-bot handmade happiness swap.

Whaddya think?

more swap-bot recipe card happiness

i -heart- swapbot

who knew one site could bring so much happiness? Ok, besides Cathy Z., Tara Whitney and the like...

I *lurve* swap-bot! It's not in the receiving - I've yet to get anything. I love making and sharing my stuff!

I'm signed up for five more swaps. Including a handmade happiness swap. What to create? Think I could mail one of my chairs? Mebee not. Perhaps something knitted or papercraftiness. Hmmm...

These are the envelopes I made for the recipe cards.

Happiness, right in your mailbox!

SWAP TILL YOU DROP!

more recipe swaps

This time we're swapping dessert recipes! It's a two-for-one. I had to put one recipe on one side and another on the other. I chose Chocolate Torte and Pumpkin Spice Cake with Cream Cheese Icing. It's a Country Living recipe and it is to DIE for! Fresh ingredients make it so tasty. I make one every year. Plus it's pretty and those who know me know I love that!

I'm loving these quick, simple designs with pictures! I hope to always add pictures to my recipe swaps.

I'm hoping stuff will start coming in the mail this week.

I'm off to create some chicken recipes - Sticky Chicken is my chosen recipe for that one.

Bon Appétit

Pasta! Pasta! Pasta! swap

A little sneak peek here.
I'm doing another swap-bot swap, this time it's recipe pages. I made five of these today. Simple but cute, no?

places to go, things to do

here I sit.

I do have places to go. I do! I happily discovered http://www.swap-bot.com/ where you can swap all kinds of goodies with folks all over the world. I need to finish up my partner's package and ship it off.
Since she's a scrapbooker too I thought it would be fun to include something handmade.
I altered this notebook cover (sorry for the crappy webcam pic) for my partner in the Netherlands. I thought I'd get clever and find the dutch translation for "notes" and write that under the english word. I just hope it doesn't mean something random and obscure like "potato" or something. She'll either laugh at my ingenuity or my stupidity. Either way, there's a story for her to share each time she uses it.

Today's errands also include heading over to the Knit Stop today in the hopes the nice ladies are there, not the sucky customer service types I met the first time I visited. I have GOT to finish this Devil Vestee. I have GOT to get some help. With the sweater - the other help we'll save for another day.
I'm almost done - it actually looks like a sweater. I need to sew the seams and attach the collar. The collar I haven't made yet. The collar I need help with. Hence the trip to the Knit Stop.

I'm so glad knitters are a patient lot of folks. No one looks at me, the newbie, knitting a sweater, as though I've gone completely mad when I ask them how the hell I cast on at the beginning of the row.
They all say, "This is how you learn."
I feel like I should still be knitting potholders or washcloths or BAGS!

I'm off...