Showing posts with label swap. Show all posts
Showing posts with label swap. Show all posts

Thursday, November 24, 2011

Handmade Christmas Swap!

Joide at The Haby Goddess recently ran a red and white themed handmade gift Christmas swap.



Here was my effort for Lesley....



 and then wrapped because I do love wrapping a noice parcel... complete with red and white candy canes....




and my lovely gift received yesterday from Cathy!



A good (machine embroidered!) tea towel is always handy. Gotta say I do love a Christmas one too.
I love the little paper photo frame for the tree, and of course no handmade gift is complete without the handmade card.
(Nb, I made my card above too!!)


Thanks Cathy, I love a parcel in the mail and participating in a swap is always a bit of fun.

Saturday, October 23, 2010

Softie Swap


I just participated in a Softie Swap! Register, be assigned a swap partner, get to know them a little, then make a softie you think they will like. Post. Wait. Receive in turn. It was fun, I really enjoyed researching what I wanted to make. And I got to make my first ever rag doll, which I loved.

I just received mine yesterday, a lovely GREEN owl, as I do love green I am sure you can tell. I have named him Olivander.



Cute flower detail on his behind!

In his natural habitat....

So here it is, the doll I sent to eva, mei and me, who had a preference for all things Asian, pink, orange, buttons and teacups. Well 4 out of 5 aint bad!  I have included a couple of shots of her progress along the way, including a very voodoo like image of her pinned together!






Size reference, almost as big as your average toddler!



Don't mess with me, I can use pins!




Thanks the The Clip Cafe for hosting the swap. I should also mention that this doll, now named 'Amy' is not entirely of my own creation. As she was my first dolly attempt, I used a pattern I bought from One Red Robin, and can highly recommend her if you want to give one a try!


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