Inspire Me Thursday....on Friday

I decided to try out Inspire Me Thursday. This weeks theme is Two. Since I just got a new camera I decided to take a picture of my two.

My happy mailbox

I haven't been getting much done lately. My ambition seems to have flown out the window. Not fair! But I have been getting some great stuff in the mail lately so I'll get some inspiration and get my butt in gear!

I got these wooden letters from PiNkPaPeRcRaFtEr for the Make my daughter something swap. I've been wanting to do the same thing myself and she beat me to it! I think they'll look great on the wall in her bedroom.

I received this wonderful package from Keroleen73 for our one on one swap. Lots of fun goodies including two discs packed full of cross stitch patterns!

I joined the Pity Party group on swapbot and signed up for the You've Got Mail drawing. I thought it would be great to send someone a package to cheer them up. I was very very surprised to find out that I won the drawing!! I received my first package from thatzghetto(love that name!) She sent me some great little kits, buttons and paper.

Sunshine9905 sent me these goodies for the YGM. I can't wait to find something to use those tags on!

I wonder what the mailman will bring me today. I think I'll fire up the sewing machine today!

No peeking Yarni Gras!!

This is most the crafty stuff I bought over the weekend. Don't know why I took a picture of it. I was in a picture taking mood I guess.Make my daughter something swap. Mom2Abby said her daughter likes pink polka dots and I read on her profile that she likes Abby Cadabby. Since her daughter is only 5 months old I decided to make her a blanket. It's a little bigger than crib size so she'll still be able to use it when she moves up to a big girl bed! The flower fabric was the closest I could find to pink polka dots, I hope she doesn't mind! For some reason the only polka dots I could find where all blue, green or purple.


These fabrics are for a one on one swap with Yarni Gras. I hope she doesn't see them here before she gets them in the mail! She sent me a great bunch of cross stitch patterns and extra goodies. I really love the kitchen fabric and plan on going back to buy some for myself!!
I bought this fabric for myself. Now what should I do with it?!? I think this is the beginnings of beautiful fabric stash!
Where woman create swap. I had just decided to buy a new cabinet to hold all my crafty stuff so I decided to take before and after pictures for this swap. As you can see, everything was a mess before and looks a lot better now! I wonder how long it'll stay organized.
I embroidered this bookmark to include in the swap. I really wish I'd had time to make something more. Because of getting behind on my swaps I wasn't able to do as much on this one as I would have liked.
This is for a one on one with Keroleen73. I was originally supposed to send her a special edition cross stitch magazine but we found out later that that magazine wasn't being made anymore. So I sent her a bunch of profile goodies. Again, I wish I could have sent her so much more!

Will I ever get anything done for myself? Oh well, I'm having fun swapping!

Swaps swaps everywhere!!

I had a pretty busy weekend working on my late swaps and also trying to make sure I get others done before they're late too! I need to quit signing up for swaps that all end around the same time. Anyways, I got a couple swaps sent out on Saturday, a couple more to send out today and a couple more to send out sometime this week!!

These are for the Easter Circle Book swap. I had to make a page for nine partners. I did make an extra one for myself but it's not finished cause I ran out of bunnies. I've never made a circle page before so I hope my partners like them! I keep thinking I should have done something more with them but I had a pretty hard time coming with these to begin with. I bought several different Easter themed embelishments and papers but nothing seemed to go together very well.

The ribbon has bunnies on it and says Happy Easter
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I'll probably try these again sometime. I like that I only had to design one page instead of a whole book. I already got five pages from my other partners and can't wait to get the rest. I think the book will look great when it's all put together.

These are for several different ATC swaps. Again, not completely happy with some of these. I just never seem to have the right supplies. Or maybe I'm just being too hard on myself?

Healthy at last....maybe

Believe it or not, I got strep for the third time in a row! Hopefully it's gone for good now. It's been very frustrating, especially since it has caused me to be late on several swaps. I just sent messages to all my partners and am hoping they'll all be understanding. Three of the late swaps are for ATCs so I should be able to get those done pretty quickly.

No pictures today :o( Hopefully I'll have a lot more crafty stuff to show off sooon!!!