Easter goodness...

As promised, here's a round up of Easter links- things to buy and make :)

to buy:

cute bunny :: egg soaps :: funky (and expensive) egg cup

to make:

simnel muffins :: crepe paper bunnies :: pompom bunny :: onion dyed eggs :: bunny

hope you enjoy the links, will be back again later.

EDIT: these are so cute and easy to make: yarn wrapped spool animals

Some new artwork (ATCs of course!)

I've been making quite a few ATCs since my holiday (and before but I couldn't show them as they were for swaps).

Here are a set I made for a "Pick a theme" swap. Everyone chose a theme and each person in the group made each person a card for their theme.



Top row: Midwife, Charlie Brown & Mona Lisa quirky quips.
Middle row: Zetti animals & Dark circus
Bottom row: Medical

The next two "pairs" were for an Artists Choice swap. I chose Fairies & Women.





This one was for an ATC & Ephemera swap, we had to make a card out of the ephemera we were sending our partner:



I'm taking part in a Zetti swap (see Teesha Moore's website for more on Zettiology) on Craftster so I did a couple of "practice" cards last night in preparation!:



Here's the final card in my "love" collection ready for Valentine's day:



And finally in today's ATC dump is a set for a Vintage Fashions swap on atcards.com:

UK Round Robin Journal

This is the last spread of the UK Round Robin Journal. Time has flown by! I won't be here when I get my journal back next week but I'm looking forward to seeing it soon- very exciting.
So the theme of Stephen's journal was colours of the Rainbow and the last colour left was blue. Which was fine with me as I love blue! So here's what I created...





I was really pleased with this spread and the little blue world I created!

Lots of ATCs

I've made lots of ATCs over the last few days. A lot of them are for swaps so I can't show them yet. However I'm making a love themed set for Valentine's day that I'm going to make into a little book (I think) for my other half:







I think I may have a little addiction to these mini pieces of art. I think it's because they're so small you can make them relatively quickly (although some can take several days if I can't decide what to do!) and I love trading them with artists from all over the world.

UK Round Robin Journal

Here's the next journal, it has the theme of music/lyrics/poetry so I included lyrics from my favourite song on the ATCs and then some quotes about music...



You can see a larger version if you click on it...

Next up is Rhi's journal, I'm really excited about this one and the entries so far are completely gorgeous.

Finished objects... SWAP PARTNERS DO NOT READ!

Sorry for the shouting in the title! I just don't want any swap partners to see something they don't want to- of course I could hold off on showing pictures but I'm too impatient and I want to share what I've been up to lately and the reason I haven't been posting very regularly.

These embroidered bags took a long time to make and whilst I was happy with the embroidery, I wasn't so pleased with them when I made them into bags, my sewing was a little wonky in more than one place. Oh well, here they are....

Teletubbies (image from colouring pages)


Fall leaf (design from needlecrafter.com)


Flapper (design from needlecrafter.com)


Cat (design from needlecrafter.com)


Birds (design from needlecrafter.com)


Cherry blossom (own design)


They're all lined and are reversible.

I also sent a pearl dangles ring, some poppy cards and a folding scrapbook (they all had extras thrown in as they took a lot less time than the bags!).

And it was UK Round robin journal day so I sent the next one off, here's the pages I did:






I love crafting and swapping but I don't think I'll be taking on any more large swaps before Christmas now. Well except for ATCs and journals!

Not much to say!

I'm not feeling very talkative so here are a few bullets...

• Etsy v2 has launched.
  
• I have a huge amount of embroidery left to do.
• Next spread for the UK Round Robin journal is complete.
• My boyfriend is away but back on Friday.
• I'm cold.
• I've got a cold.
• I went to pottery last night- did lots of glazing but started nothing new.
• I made this ATC for a swap on Craftster...
• And finally, look who's coming to stay for the weekend...