Incoming (from last week)

Here are my two incomings from last Wednesday...

A cute package from Costa Rica for the cookie matchbox swap. I love the way she packaged the matchbox and I got pretty ribbon And a cute little postie with a Tortilla recipe on the back :D


Here is the cute little matchbox. I love the little cookie-like stars.


And here is the recipe. I can't wait to make these, I love love love lemon flavoured things :D


I got a letter from the lovely Nicola. She said she replied quickly to me to make sure I got her good luck wishes before I flew to Italy. Bless her :)


She also sent me more tea :) And I love the stickers on the back, a cute little plane and a good luck mascott in the form of a hedgehog (or roly-poly as I like to call them.) I ♥ roly-polys

And that was that. I have 4 letters to reply to now, but I won't start writing until after my interview which is on Thursday 20th May. So apologies for the delay, but I've got lots of studying and such to do :(

I hope you're all enjoying beautiful mail days ♥

Matchbox Heaven! pt II

This little guy went out last Thursday. I didn't make the matchbox this time but used an empty one. The theme was black/white/silver/grey. I wanted to use some of my silver star stickers, but had already packed them by this point :(

Here is the outside. The white paper is actually the lining from the shoe box my bf's airforce ones came in. I thought it was pretty cool, so I snapped it up. The little heart is from polymer nail cane.


Here is what my partner will see as she opens up the little box of treasures.


And here are the goodies. Giant heart buttons, various beads made fo
rom glass, plastic and wood, some silver paper stars, some star beads and charms, two tiny bells, about half a metre of ribbon and a tea bag charm necklace made by me :)

I hope my partner likes it!

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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!