Category: Create

Encouraged by Tiffany I participated in my first hand made swap. The project, a toilet paper roll craft, was to flatten a toilet paper roll and make something pretty with it. Sounds impossible, doesn’t it? Tee of Altered Paper sponsored the swap and you can see all the pockets here: Altered Paper . 

Kelly of Dreaming of Vintage was my swap partner and look at her, oh so pretty pocket.

It’s sooo cute! You can see a much better picture on her blog.

She actually cut her roll and flattened it, so it’s bigger than mine (below).

And I decorated the back thusly:

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Both pockets were filled with as much as we could cram in them. Lots of paper stuff mostly. And lots of fun! So now I think I’m ready to do another swap. Although it was rather traumatic to get this done in a week’s time. Kinda like homework. So hard to do when you “have” to.

 

At Melanie’s birthday celebration – two, no, three weeks ago? – we had a craft night and decorated spoons. Tiffany got pictures of everyone else’s spoons, but I see she hasn’t blogged about it yet. Maybe she will soon. I didn’t finish mine that night. Actually, I only finished it a few days ago. The bowl was done, but I couldn’t figure out what to do to the top. But it did finally get finished.

I have ideas for more spoons, but haven’t had a chance to do anything about them yet. Why, oh why can’t we just play all the time? Sigh.

Hey, I’ve got an Etsy shop now. Just Vintage 2. Because somebody has Just Vintage, but never confirmed it. It’s so unfair! What I put in there will always mirror what’s on the web site. I’ll admit I’d rather sell from my own site than Etsy or eBay, but the more exposure, the better. I’ll also admit that I’m way behind on updating and adding to the site. The story of my life. Always playing catch up. Anyway, with the Etsy shop being new, I’d love you forever and be forever in your debt if you could find it in your heart to favorite it so it doesn’t look like I have cooties or something.  I’ll return the favor if you have an Etsy shop, too.

As usual, I’m getting further and further behind on blog reading. From reading your comments, I’m not alone in this dangerous snare called Blogs. Too, I like to respond to your comments with comments on your blogs and falling waaayyyyyy behind. I’m trying! I really am! But it’s just like I do everything else. Slow. Sigh.