Sunday, January 11, 2009

Catching Up

Over the holidays, I participated in the Christmas Cracker Swap and my partner was the lovely Carolyn, all the way from England. With all the hullaballo I never got it posted but am glad to finally share it with you. It is a beautiful cracker, made to use over and over so it will be out with my Valentines decorations also. She and I also chose to swap supplies....look at all the wonderful goodies she sent me!
Ephemera, vintage lace, crocheted doilie, a glittered bird, 2 handmade ornaments, vintage cards and some yummy wallpaper, lots of baubles and buttons! I love it all and have some plans for Valentines with some of the goodies. Here is the pretty glitter birdie that now has a permanant spot in our kitchen hanging from the light over the table....

I joined Kari's A Year of Color Blog last night and started reading it today! My mind is swimming with inspiration. The color theme for January is blue and white so I will probably share posts to go along with the themes each month!
I also joined 2 other Valentine adventures....I am considering joining Kari's also... today will decide as I need to see how much I can get done on my fatbook pages before joining something else. Hope you are having a wonderful weekend! karen....

7 comments:

LiLi M. said...

Swaps can be so much fun! You have received some yummy goodies! Have a nice day!

Tomatolover said...

Oh my goodness, your bird is gorgeous! You also got such wonderful things. Nice swap too.

Take care,
Arah

Fete et Fleur said...

Wonderful Cracker! Love the bird. I wish I had some extra time to join this Year of Color thing. It sounds fun.

Nancy

Carolyn said...

Glad you finally took some photos and showed it - i forgot all the stuff i had sent you !!
It was fun to swap with each other - and hope you have fun creating with some of the goodies

Maija said...

What a great Christmas swap idea!

Diane said...

I LOVE that birdie, which Valentine swaps are you joining? I just finished a SCS swap for chocolate on my blog, I made Valentine crackers, but I jsut noticed in my pictures I took the photo before all of them were done...how funny! I will email ya later about the swaps, I wanted to do the little box swap, but just not enough time darn!

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