More gifts in the mail!

Here is a pick of the gorgeous, beatuiful, useful things I got in the mail from Judy. We were swapping fabric flowers. As you can see, she was way generous in the extras she sent along!

Aren't all these handmade flowers just amazing!

My wonderful gifts from my swap partner

 I was in a Christmas swap in my Yahoo
C-R-A-F-T group. We had to make/buy presents for each letter in Christmas. This is what my partner Pam sent to me.
first pic- all wrapped







second pic-  C for candy dish with some yummy chocolate truffles,  H for Hana-no-en (celebration of flowers) a beautiful fabric necklace, R for ribbon, a wonderful zippered ribbon bag

third pic- I for inspiration from a fabric artist...Laura Gunn. A beautiful handmade purse 

fourth pic- S for Suzi-Mari handballs, a wonderful fabric ball that makes noise when you toss it! T for tea, a lovely quilted Kimono hanging and a Japanese tea set

fifth pic- M for mugs, wonderful quilted snowmen mug rugs

sixth pic- A for Asian inspired. This magnificent doll that Pam made. It has joints at the shoulder, elbow, wrist, hip, knee and ankle! Such a lot of work went into this fabulous doll!!!!

seventh pic- S for snow, this cute snowman mug with matching spoon!

eighth pic- all opened, all my treasures

Pam was such a fabulous partner and really was thoughtful in all the gifts! Here is a link to see what I got for Pam  She was happy with her gifts too!

Winter Goddess swap

This is a doll I made for a swap on one of my Yahoo groups. It is a Winter Goddess swap. I used a snowlake batik for the body, white venice lace, silver net, and her hair is knitted silver fun fur. She has plastic snowflakes in her head piece. I used blue pens and pencils for features for winter.

Gifts from the FRIENDS swap

Great gifts I got from Leonie.
F-fabric (with cute koalas), festive (red and green banner)
R- repurposed ( a lovely bag from used linen w a crochet motif on the pocket)
I- ideas (magazine
E- embroidery hoop wall hanging (Lovely yoyo flowers)
N-needle keeper (made from the jean fabric)
D-dark chocolate (I ate it all! Yumm)
S-souveniers for grandchildren (Aussie rulers,pencil and eraser sets)
Love them all!!!

swap stuff I recieved

Here are two pins made from my friend Judy  in Australia. Aren't they great!!

This is the jester pin I made for Judy. This was our second swap. The lady pin  is from our first swap when I made the mermaid.

This is my finished round robin doll that I just got back. Isn't she wonderful!!! I just love her head piece and those sleeves! Cherie and Wanda worked on her. I tried to find the picture of the blank doll I sent but don't know where it went!

This is a picture of all the stuff I sent for my FRIENDS swap hosted by Khris. My partner was Leonie. I had lots of fun making and buying the things for her.

ATD swap and Round Robin

The blue one is a ATD (Artist Trading Doll). It is my swap for August Under the Sea swap. It is fabric and paper and beads on Pellon. An octopus uder two waves and they are attached with brads so the all move. I will be sending this out on Tues as well as the Round Robin doll.

Here is a picture of the doll I worked on for this last month's round robin. I added the hat and the shoes. All the dolls have one stop left and then they will be sent home to the owners. Yea! I will get to see what everyone has done. FUN!!!