Sweet Sister Holiday Swap!

20 Questions!

1.Favorite Color? Pink!

2.Chocolate Lover?? I Love, Love, Love Milk Chocolate! (Dove)

3.Favorite Craft Hobby? I Love to do So Many Crafts but, I guess I would have to say Sewing!

4.What Craft/Hobby would you Like to Learn/Start? I would Love to Learn to Knit! I tried to teach Myself with No Luck!

5.What Craft do You Not have an Interest in? Cross Stitch.

6.Do You have any allergies? None!

7.What is Your Favorite part of Halloween?(decorating,candy,costumes??) I Love every Bit of Halloween!! It is Right up there with Christmas!

I go All out Decorating! Cemetery & all!

(we are trying to sell Our house-I wonder if I should take it Off the market until After Halloween?? ;o)

8.Do You decorate for Thanksgiving/Fall? Thanksgiving kinda gets passed over in decorating! I have recently started decorating for Christmas before Thanksgiving! I have a Christmas Tree in Every room so, I have to start early to get it All done!! I also Plan on putting up a "Halloween Tree"(in the kitchen,I think:0)

9.December Holidays--What Holiday do You Celebrate? What type of decorations do you put up?? We Celebrate Christmas at Our Home!

I Love All the Pretty Decorations!

*My Motto is "More is More!"

10.Do You have any Children? I don't like to post this kind of Info, Please email me.

11.Do You have any Pets? We have 1 Long-haired Dachsund(Snickers)& We have 2 fish.

12.Are You a Reader? If so, what type of Books do you like? Oh! I Love to read! Borders is One of My Favorite places!!

I Love All types of Books! Romance, fting, I collect Cook books, Craft magazines, Anything that is worth reading really!

13.Are You Celebrating a Birthday or Anniversary in October,November or December? No.

14.Do You Collect anything? If so, What? I Collect Cupcake anything! MILK GLASS!! Pretty Tea Cups & FABRIC!!! I also collect Nativity scenes!

15.What type of things do You Like to Cook? I Love to Cook! I use my collection of cook books All the time!

My Favorite things to cook are Pasta & Desserts!!

16.What is Your Favorite Scent? Is there a scent You don't Like? I Love the scent of Lilacs & I also Love the Fall scents(pumpkin spice)

The scent of Jasmine gives me Migraines!

17.What is Your Favorite Song? That's a Hard One! Broken Wing(Martina Mcbride) Irreplaceable(Beyonce) Rich Girl(Fergie) Cheeseburger in Paradise(Jimmy Buffet)

18.What is the Last movie you saw at the theater? Gosh, I can't remember!

19.Favorite Candy? Almond Roca!

20.Tea or Coffee? Flavored Coffee!!!

Halloween Goodie Cone!

I had a Great time making this Sweet Goodie Cone!

It is Filled with Great little gifts for You or Someone Special.

Handmade Halloween Kittys,

Festive Baker's Twine,

An Embellished Dish Towel,

& a Few other little goodies!!!

It is Now on My etsy!

Lace Bag!

I created this bag out of a Thrifted Lace blouse for my partner in the "Bag Ladies Swap" on Flickr!

The theme of this swap was to Cut up your clothing & make a bag/purse out of whatever piece of clothing you chose.

I saw this blouse while thrifting & thought Hmmm...

this sure would make an Interesting bag!

I really do like the way it turned out. I think it is Quite Fun & a Little Funky!! I would Love to carry it!

Imagine all the Questions & Comments you would receive.

Is it hard for Ya'll to part with the things you make too, or is it just me??

Whoo Whoo!

I made this Owl Apron & Stuffie for Crafty Carnival's swap!

I have a few other things I am trying to finish too.

Since I have sooo many apron patterns, I decided to use one of them for this project. I am so Into aprons lately!!

Hope my partner likes it ;o)

Halloween Apron Swap!

I thought I would dig out All of my Apron patterns & decide which one

I will make for the Halloween Apron Swap.

I Love receiving Handmade aprons & I Love Halloween so,

I decided to combine the two!

This is My first time Coordinating a swap-So far so good but,

I am hoping for more Participants, as of last night there were 7

swappers.

If anyone is interested in Joining, click on this Post title & it will take you directly to Swap page.

Sign ups end on September 30th.

Vintage Banner Swap!

I received this Lovely Banner & other Goodies from Rini

in the Swap Ladies- "Vintage Banner Swap"

The Swap Ladies is a Group of us Ladies from around the Globe

who just Love to Swap! This particular Swap was started by the Sweet & Creative

Tini who is from Germany.

And this is the Vintage Banner I made for Vivian!

If you would like to see more Photos from the Group Pool, just Click on post Title!

Sew Happy with My Apron!

I made this Little apron out of some Vintage fabric I bought at a Yard Sale.

You may remember in a previous post that I bought a Large box, Full of Vintage fabric for a Whopping $5.00

This apron is the Only thing I have made, So far but, I did recently find some Gorgeous apron patterns I am just dying to use!

So, maybe in the near Future I will have another Cute apron to show ya'll!

YaY!!!

Lots of Packages today in the mail!

It's like Christmas everyday! I have gotten so Addicted

to this Swapping Craze.

I have even gotten My Mom hooked on Swapping!

(she is 70 something)

I know I have been Neglecting My blog lately & I really have Missed it.

So...I am going to try My dangdest & get back at it on a Daily basis.

Until Tomorrow then....