I’m so excited!! Look what arrived today 
@Fonduie sent me a gorgeous Etsy pattern from my wishlist for this swap, and also this wonderful book which I can’t wait to read and stickers from one of my favourite cities in the world 
I will definitely be including them in my travel journal 
Thank you so much Fonduie 
Lovely things! lucky you
Oh! Nice! I have the Death by Tea in that series. Fonduie gave it to me.
Hey, I got a package from @Annchen!
Super cute yarn cross-over pouches (one for me & one for my kid) with little treasures in them— mine has rock stamps! I’m super excited to try them!— plus some tea. 
I’m glad the package got there all right! Those pouches where so much fun to make.
The little cat cross stitch is just so cute…so glad the mail made it…I keep crossing fingers whenever I send anything out these days… 
I also love those little crochet pouches…such pretty designs on them.
I’m so lucky!
My swap package from @Annchen finally arrived
Please take a look at these wonderful handmade stamps everyone 
I can’t wait to use them!
I also can’t wait to try the teas.
Thank you so much Annchen xx
Wohoo! I’m glad it finally got there. I had forgotten about the origami birds and critters I made for you… It’ll be interesting to see when the other package shows up. Hopefully it’ll take a quicker boat there 
The dalecarlian horse is mostly carved during a Lettucecraft Zoom meeting when we both attended.
What lovely little packages from Annchen! I love the awesome variety you provided and your hand-carved stamps look amazing!
@Annchen What is the material you used to carve the stamp? I have the Speedball pink stuff, but I like that white.
It’s called softcut and is a softer alternative to linoleum for linoleum prints. However, it’s much harder than pretty much everything else I’ve tried so probably harder than pink stuff. It gives a very nice and durable stamp, but cutting a pattern in it with a knife instead of carving tools is not going to happen, heh…
Ah, okay. A while back I had carved lino somehow thinking it would transfer with stamps. How wrong I was. It’s good to see that there is an alternative out there. I usually end up with fiddly bits in my designs, so it’s better for me to use the softer kind.
And in a much speedier fashion I received my replacement swap package from @Annchen
Since my package seemed to have gotten lost, Annchen kindly agreed to make me another… and then it arrived 
shortly followed by the replacement 
hopefully this means that international mail is slowly on the mend 
I received another Dala Horse stamp and also a gorgeous bee that I plan to use on a gardening prayer flag for myself I also love the space shuttle postcard!
Thank you Annchen! xx
I had so much fun with that bee! It took a while to decide what to do for a second stamp since I knew I couldn’t recreate the original there.
The horses are slightly different, both since it’s tricky to carve the same thing twice and since I hoped the first one would also get there.
And When I found the space shuttle post card in my card stash I knew I had to include that one too!
It was fun to craft for you twice!
I’m looking forward to when I can repay you in the future x
I can’t post my gift from AIMR just yet… She sent me an etsy giftcard when the mail ate the package she sent.
I finally decided what to use this on, and I’ve ordered some lovely merino/silk/yak fingering yarn in a colorway called Dragonfly flying too high from this shop:
With discount + giftcard it wasn’t that much left to pay and I’m excited to make something for me.
I’ll show it off once it gets here
Can’t wait to see what you make! Those are some seriously gorgeous colors in her shop!
I also just purchased some lovely cashmere fingering yarn and can’t wait to make a cowl for myself!
I love that color…so rich and vibrant! I would make a pretty shawl or a very nice cabled cowl…something to show off the stitches!
Round 3 is open for anyone who wants to join in the fun!
