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Monday, 26 July 2010

Incoming/Outgoing

I feel a little sick today. I’m hoping it’s just hunger and not actual sickness. Last night the bf’s parents took us out for dinner and I ate some lovely seafood and drank a little too much Sicilian wine, which of course, forced me to sleep in. Today will be a lazy one (I hope) reading up on Reggio and planning for our move, which will be nuts.

Anyway, onto the post….

Incoming

This little pretty came from Patty and arrived on Saturday morning. I was really excited because her return address had rubbed off from the front of the packet so it was a little mystery until I opened it. Thanks for the stationery Patty!!

Outgoing

I got pretty creative with sellotape on these envies because the stickers weren’t very sticky and the envies were a little waxy, so I didn’t want anything to fall off in transit. Overall I’m so happy with how they came out I’m sharing the front and back of each envie with you :)

This one is going to Caiti, hers was unsealed at the time of photographing it because I’d promised to send along a poem that I forgot to include last time. This time, I remembered ;)

A reply to Audrey in Malaysia

A reply to Zoe in the States

A reply to a first letter from Kendra

A reply to a first letter from Elle

A postcard reply to Maike in Germany, who sent me a cute penguin postie to cheer me up when I was having some bad mail days :D (this postie was handmade by a swap partner, i love it!)

And finally a card for my Mum to cheer her up seeing as she’s incapacitated at home with her badly broken arm :( I wanted to take a picture of the card because it’s gorgeous, beautiful paper with raw edges and pressed flowers, but silly me sealed the envie without snapping it :(

I’m going to drop these off at the post office later today, so the recipents should have their little envies within a week. I hope.

I’m going to go and check the mailbox now… even if it’s empty, today is a good mail day because these letters and envies I worked so hard on will start their journey to the hands of their deserving recipients :)

EDIT:// eeeeeeeeeeeeeep!!!! I just checked the mailbox and today is a fantastic mail day! Will share tomorrow, I promise xx

5 letters

1 card

1 postcard

1 AS

2 EU

4 NA

Monday, 3 May 2010

Matchbox Heaven

I promised to give you my matchboxes in more detail, and like the last post, I had hoped to get this done a day earlier, buuuuuut it's bank holiday today so no ingoing or outgoing post, so I'll keep you all interested with my little creations. (Click to enlarge (: )

Sushi Matchbox
The task was to creat or decorate a matchbox in a shushi theme and absolutely jam pack it with as many sushi themed things as you could. I also put some in a little bag, so the one I sent was more of a sushi goodie bag :)

The matchbox and other goodies. There are 2 sushi puzzle erasers and a little fish shaped soy container that I painstakingly filled with glitter.

This is the sight my partner will get when she opens it. I made the embelishments on the front of the box out of card and stuck them on. The roe ontop of the sushi are little plastic beads I sewed onto the card.

Here is the inside of the box. The lining is just paper, I drew all the little sushi themed pics and coloured them in with pencil. the outside of the box got a nice coating with PVA so it's shiny. (I kida didn't want to send it, I really liked how it came out!)

Here are the contents of the matchbox. There are lots of little scented sushi stickers, some smaller puffy sushi stickers, a sushi hair band, mini polymer sushi pieces, two little sushi badges and a hello kitty charm, which although is not sushi, sh'es half fish. that counts right?

What cute package would be complete without kawaii deco tape?

Cookie Matchbox

The idea behind this one was to decorate a matchbox, in the theme of your choice, to write out your favourite cookie recipe and fold it up and put inside. I decided I didn't want to just fold it and pop it inside, so I made my very first matchbox book.

As before, I made the little embellishments out of card and stuck them on, even the little individual cookies. I painted the background to the box.

This is the view when you open the matchbox :)

Here is the matchbox book all folded out. I wrote a peanut butter cookie recipe on it. Also, cute lucky donut sticker :)

The ribbon runs all the way along the back of the book, as you can see. I though it looked really pretty :)

I joined another matchbox swap recently. I may have become addicted... they are easy, cute, allow you to be creative, and for a lot of them, you don't have to spend money, unless you want to of course :) Matchboxes for the win!

Tuesday, 27 April 2010

Outgoing pt 4

Now that Caiti has received her package (super fast post going on at the moment!) I'm free to post pics. As a thank you for the awesome photos she sent, I put together a pack of various types of stationery.

There were lots of letter sets, coloured and themed.

A bunch of notecards and a handful of postcards.

And finally some handmade envelopes.

I actually bought the book these came from before I found out that
Caiti loves sharks, so I knew these were meant for her :)

Monday, 26 April 2010

Outgoing pt 3

I made this for a swap, the idea was to repurpose envelopes to make a tea wallet/book. Because I didn't have any envelopes with decorated flaps, I decorated them myself. I also didn't like the look of having the fronts of the envelopes blank, so I used decorative paper to fill in the gaps. I also copied a few recipes and put some tea facts and miscellanea onto cute note paper and slotted them in amongst the tea bags.I hope my partner enjoys the wallet as much as I enjoyed making it! I took a lot of pictures to document every part of the book as I know I'd forget otherwise!