vintage inchies

one inch collages made for swap-bot

dessert matchbox swap

i'm swapping again! this dessert matchbox swap made it safely to malaysia :) the theme was desserts, sweets and anything that reminds you of them. my swap partner said that it's really hard to find brads in malaysia so i tried to cram as many as i could in there.

twilight madness

the twilight movie comes out tomorrow! i can't wait to see it :) the reviews have been a bit mixed... they said that fans of the series will be satisfied but it won't be anything life changing. and from what i can see, the special effects look kind of cheesy. but that doesn't keep me from dropping whatever i'm doing whenever a trailer comes on tv! i think i'm going to wait to watch it with some friends in chicago when i head home for thanksgiving. til then... twilight atcs!

argh! flaked!

i was flaked on swap-bot! :( what a bummer. i'm still hoping that a package will pop up in my mailbox someday since the swapper until recently had a great track record and she's trying to make things right with all her missing swaps. okay happy thoughts! some of my favorite recent swaps. clockwise from top left: 1. cupcake ATC from hag53, 2. private ATC/matchbox swap with inoteboom, 3. private ATC swap with shandapanda, 4. handmade cupcake swap from boatingbelle i don't think i'll be doing any swaps until after the holidays. i missed the sign-up deadlines on all the ones that i wanted to do! which probably is a good thing since i don't have too much free time these days. i was hoping to stock up the shop with all sorts of fun things before november but september and october just flew by before i could catch my breath and here we are! i need to sit back and make an effort to enjoy each day instead of running through them.

oh where oh where

oh my poor blog... i've neglected you so... i started my new job and it's keeping me pretty busy! but i'm enjoying it so it's all worth it :) though i do miss crafting... a lot :( i've been traveling here and there so even my weekends have been busy! here are a few things that i've squeezed in. my first attempt at inchies! so you would think that this would be easy because you don't have to put as much in there... these are hard!!! one inch doesn't give you too many options! these were swapped on swap-bot flower inchies. i know it's really plain but i thought the mushrooms turned out kinda cute :)

kawaii matchbox swap

i sent off my kawaii matchbox swap today! sent with a few extras too :) i hope my swap partner likes it... nervous!

new addiction

so i've seen a few blogs that mention swapping and all the cute things that they get and finally found out what all that was about. swapbot is a place for people to connect to swap random things... anything from jars filled with misc. cute things to surprise packages filled with a favorite color to postcards to ATCs. i won't lie... i had no idea what an ATC was. ATC stands for "artist trading cards." they're cards the size of playing cards or baseball cards that can be decorated with whatever the artist wants. the backs are dated, signed, and titled and traded with other artists. i decided to give it a try and now i'm itching to collect random ephemera! ebay is suddenly an obsession... :P here are a few test ATC's that i made the other day... they're a little too scrapbook-y in my opinion but it's what i know! i can't wait to experiment some more!