Today I received my Popular Crafts owl swap gifts from Helena – they are gorgeous, beautifully made and came in a dinky handmade bag
Inside there was a lovely little purse made from owl fabric
A gorgeous little bag in the shape of an owl
And a cute little owl badge!
Thanks to Helena for the time she has taken to make my gifts, I love them all!
Sarah x
As you may know, at the beginning of the year I signed up for a few swaps, including an owl swap organised by popular crafts.
I mentioned in my Handmade Monday post that Pen had received her swap parcel from me, well today I got mine! I was so excited and couldn’t wait to open it! Inside were 6 parcels, all beautifully wrapped in a rose print tissue paper. Read the rest of this entry
This week I am finally able to share with you the gifts I have made for the Love swap organised by Gem’s country life dream, My swap partner was Pen of Rosa Lily. We decided to send approx 5 items to each other and after looking at Pen’s Pinterest boards, I had a good idea on the things I wanted to make.
Last week I signed up for some more craft swaps, I think I’m addicted to them! 2 are organised by the magazine popular crafts – a button swap and an owl swap. For both of them you have to make something, with the theme of the swap in mind, and also buy a gift for £3. I have also signed for for Hookin with Laa Laa’s travelling craft swap and dreaming of a life in the country’s Valentine swap (if you want to sign up, click on the buttons on my side bar!) I think this definitely ticks off one of my resolutions of doing more craft swaps this year!
Yesterday I came home to a parcel, which confused me slightly as I hadn’t ordered anything! on opening I found 2 lovely parcels wrapped in brown paper and a card from my button swap partner!
I was so surprised as the swap deadline isn’t until the end of January, so Rachael had been super quick in sending hers out! I couldn’t wait to open my parcels! Inside I found a fantastic book on making button jewellery and a handmade button bracelet – both of which I absolutely love and have already worn my bracelet today!
Unfortunately Rachael doesn’t have a blog so I can’t link through to her, but if you want to see other people’s swap presents pop over to the forum on the popular crafts website.
Sarah x
After looking through the posts for Handmade Monday this week I came across Amy’s bits and blobs blog where she talked about gifts she had received through an international craft swap. This is something I keep reading about and really want to get involved in. After more searching of blogs I came across Hookin’ with LaaLaa via a link from Mrs A’s Blog. It involves making a christmas decoration to then send to your designated partner. I have to admit that I am a lover of Christmas and its never to early to start thinking about it! I already have my fabric etc ready to make all my presents – my aim is to limit the amount of ‘shop bought’ presents I give out this year. So I thought this swap was a perfect one for me to start off with and I already have lots of ideas as to what I could make! The closing date is Thursday 15th September so get over there quick if you fancy joining in!
Sarah x
