Been a while!

Ohhh... it's been a while since my last post. Been so busy with swapping and tagging in Swap-bot. I enjoyed it a lot! Paper crafting and making handmade crafts has occupied a lot of my time. I have also joined postcrossing. I was inspired when I received some vintage postcards.

I received a cute Pink crochet book thong from a generous lady from Swap-bot. It has a little dragonfly charm and a glass heart bead. It was lovely! The note that came with it was equally nice. She wrote that, hopefully I will enjoy using it as much as she enjoyed making it and that she loved the dragonfly on the front... that "it was so little you almost miss it... like most of the moments in life!"

Scrapbooking Workshop

Oh... I'm so excited! I was out checking what's new in the scrapbook section at the mall when I saw the leaflet for the upcoming scrapbooking workshop in our area. It's still a month away but I'm really so excited!

Ribbons!

Ribbons, ribbons and ribbons! I'm falling in love with ribbons more and more each day lately! I just have to blog it. It's been in my head all day. I love ribbons since I was in high school. I would save my allowance and buy different colors to tie my hair. I also make some hair accessories with it. Oh, I remember those days!

Just recently, I bought some pretty ones by the yards. I bought them to use in my recent craft projects. They are just so pretty that I keep on looking at them! I signed up with some ribbon swaps and I'm so enjoying it!

Decoupaged Eyelet Hammer

I finally bought the eyelet setter I have been eying for quite so long now. Making things with eyelets are really easier with proper eyelet setting tools! Before, I just set my eyelets using a nail screw and our ordinary hammer. I admit, though the front of the eyelet is okay, the back is just not so! So, yesterday, I bought one. Today, after trying it out, I decided to make it look more girly. I was inspired by the eyelet setting tool with a Pink flowered prints on the hammer handle that I saw in a magazine. Since my new hammer has a wood handle, decoupaging it was the best thing for me to do. It also happened that I have this magazine where it has a print that I really like. It's a combination of pink and browns, stripes and paisleys... just what I like! So there, I now have a pretty eyelet setting hammer. It makes crafting even more exciting!



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Altered Matchbox

It's been another busy crafting week! I have signed up for a few swaps in swap-bot and most of it are altered matchboxes where I have to decorate a 32ct empty matchbox and fill it with goodies related to the given theme. It seems easy but it also takes a lot of effort because you really have to think of your design and make it extra special so that your swap partner will like it. But it's really a lot of fun and when I finished the matchbox, there was a great sense of fulfillment! It is also a very good recycling project. The boxes can be a pretty storage and organizer for brads, button, eyelets and other tiny stuffs. It can be a gift box for earrings, bracelets and brooches.

It was just a little difficult to package them in a regular envelope. The ready made envelope with plastic bubble wrap would be nice but it was a little bit expensive. What I did was, make a little plastic bubble wrap envelope and placed the matchbox inside then put it in a sturdy brown envelope. Crossing my fingers that they will arrive to my partners undamaged! I also made some handmade bookmarks as extra presents. I shipped them today and I hope my swap partners will like them!



This week, I am really into making bookmarks. Aside from the bookmark presents for my swap partners, I also made some for my three nieces.


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