Ok. Here is my long appreciation post.
I was feeling pretty low emotionally after the wildfires when I saw the post for this swap. I am so glad I decided to join. I had so much fun making stuff and I loved all my claims. I thought I would showcase them as it’s always fun to see where your stuff ends up.
I claimed a Capricorn pendant from @artsycandice (I loved your shop! I hope we both do this swap again).
I claimed 2 items from @calluna - her amazing winter bird tags:
My favorite are the Goodbye 2020 tags - they speak to me. I’ve already used 3 on bday gifts. I’m a bird nerd with an identifying app on my phone and a ton of outdoor feeders so I can name all those birds!
I also claimed her accordion book to showcase the pressed flowers from my garden. I haven’t actually done it yet, but wanted to show the potential:
You see calluna’s generous saint transfers and paper crafting freebies in the photos. I can’t wait for a rainy Sunday to do some paper crafting (well yes I can - but I know there are so many rainy Sundays in my near future.)
I claimed 2 items from @RagingSloth - which incidentally are both made for my wrist:
I love the Poppet pin cushion so much and it doesn’t scratch the crap out of my inner wrist like my old one that attached with Velcro. I also love my bracelet - it’s so pretty and well-crafted!
I scored 2 beautiful star stitch pouches from @Kwality570 (my best customer!). I put the larger one in my purse with gloves, hand sanitizer spray and a spare mask (note: mask made with one of the fat quarters claimed from @MissingWillow):
She included some beautiful hand-dyed yarn that I plan to make something awesome with. You are wonderful! I’m working on learning that star stitch, going slow right now, but I’m getting the hang of it. Keep having to frog though because the size is off. Sigh.
And I claimed an amazing embroidery from @kittykill that I hung above my desk at home where I currently work full time:
Note the amazing cemetery banner made by @bluebird who was my first ever swap partner in happy mail.
Thank you all so much. This was my 2nd swap ever and I had such a great time. Big thanks to @loves2experiment for organizing the swap, helping me through the process and keeping such great track of all the chaos. I really appreciate it. You did a great job!
5 stars! Will participate again!