HAPPY EASTER TO ME!

My Sister sent me this lovely paperbag book for Easter since I was too sick to visit her.

My great niece in the the pic above wearing her mother's vintage Easter dress from many Easters ago.

That's me at about 2 years of age in the pic above with a little crown on my head. So appropriate, considering that all my "self-portraits" when I was little always included a crown.

She included the cute little Easter shipping tags and other little goodies in the paperbag pockets as an added giftie. She has an impressive stash of vintage Easter and most of the images are from her own collection of vintage postcards.

That's my sis above on the shipping tag. Click on any of these photos to see the images better.


I love the book. Thanks so much, Sissy!

MORE EGGS!

WHICH CAME FIRST: THE CHICKEN SOUP OR THE EGG???

I did so miss my blog and my blog friends when I was ill and without the net. Even alternating fever and chills would have been lessened if I could just have had my proper daily blogging portions. The one day I thought I was almost recovered (but it turned out the worst was yet to come), I celebrated by making a dozen egg-shapped ATC's for a Yahoo! swap.

I was so bored, I even rigged each egg so that it opened to reveal a little surprise inside the egg.

I hope you like them.

GREEN, PIECED AND STITCHED!

A few weeks I posted an atc I made in response to a challenge to make an atc that was green, pieced and had at least the appearance of stitches. I designed a paper one that was pieced and had white stitches from a gel souffle pen. Last week I received the 2 fabulous fabric atc's above (from Diane and Liz) as my share from the swap.

A BELATED HAPPY EASTER!

I've been down with a bit of illness, so I am sorry that I missed posting all my little Easter cards. Thanks so much to all of you who left kind messages and emails regarding the St. Paddy's Tag Swap. It was a lot of fun! I am mulling over some ideas for a new swap. Let me know if any of you have any ideas. Cheers for now and pray my temp stays down.

HAPPY ST. PATRICK'S DAY! See the results from our St. Paddy's Day Tag Swap!

Below are representative samples from our recent St. Paddy's Day tag book swap. I had a great time making my tags and was very excited as all the beautiful and creative tags from the other players began arriving. In the end each person got a booklet with samples of some of the other players. Originally, I had planned to have 2 groups of 10 each and each person would have received a tag from each person in their group, but life, and the post office, intervened and some players were not able to fulfill their original obligations. In the end, I rearranged the groups to ensure that each player would receive the maximum tags possible. I hope everybody was pleased with the results. Many thanks to all those who played. I sent the booklets out to the players in this package:

Now for some pics of the individual tags:

Tags above from Sherry, Marilyn, and Nancy and their reverse sides below. If you would like to see all of Sherry's tags, click on her name and you can view all of her tags on her blog as a sideshow.

A sampling of Leslie's tags above.

A sampling of Kelley's tags above and their reverse sides below.

A sampling of Stella's tags above and their reverse sides below.

Sharon, Barb, and Shari's tags and their reverse sides below.

Darla's tags and their reverse side below.

Marianne, Trish (mine), and Pat"s tags above and their reverse sides below.

My purse I won from Nannybird Crafts arrived yesterday! Enter her new give away tonight!

How cute is this! and it is really, really big. It's a generous 12" X 8" and very roomy inside. The double handles are sturdy and woven right into the design of the purse. The purse itself is woven from bright magazine pages. Click on the pics and you can see the little images from the pages. And I won it last week in a blog contest here. Nan kindly suggested that it was mine - and that if I didn't fancy carrying it, I could sell it on Ebay. No, not this purse girl. I changed purses at the office and carried it home! THE MAN, yes, M-A-N at the Starbucks on the way home saw it on the seat next to me in the car and asked about it. I really, really love it. Thank you, Nan. This was such a generous give-away. I know you think they are so time consuming to make that you can't bring yourself to agree to sell them, but maybe you should teach some classes.
Below you can see it close-up. See how shiny it is! Its feels like the pages were laminated before the folding and weaving began. What craftsmanship! She also makes other beautiful purses from recyled garbage bags. Nan is a true artist. And she's not just crafty, but she's funny, too. I've put her on my growing lists of blogs I read regularly.

REMINDER: Nannybird Crafts is giving a purse away TONIGHT, but you have to do some counting. Get on over there now and enter her contest. Oh, and tell her The Tattered Rose sent you.