Jar of love swap

Katie over at booty-full things organised a swap and I was partnered with Lexie over at pieces of wonderful. Above is the beautiful, hand decorated, jar that I received full to the brim of goodies. Would you like to see what I got?

Lexie really knew me well, there were some ice cream buttons and som reindeer ones too - 2 of my favourite things! There was also some hand picked lavender from Lexies garden and some shells from her recent trip to the beach (they are already in my jar of special shells!) Some beautiful material and some beads. Then strangely, we both sent very similar things, a handmade heart, a handmade keyring, lip balm and a cookie cutter!

Here are the buttons all lined up - don't they look great!

The jar was decorated with flowers and everything smelt of lavender!

The heart is already hanging up in my craft corner.

The jar is also sat over in the craft corner - it will come in really useful and looks wonderful. Thank you so much Lexie, everything is amazing!

Here is what I sent.

It took me a few attempts to get everything to fit in the jar!

I sent a few chocolate items, a little note book, some ribbion and a little china cup (Lexie has a growing collection of vintage china, this was from a hotel range!)

A cookie cutter, lip balm, washi tape and a handmade bird.

Handmade button earrings, heart, keyring and crochet.

A handmade hair clip, brooch, magnets, craft punch, tape measure and a playmobil figure (everyone needs one!)

Lexie used to live in Cheltenham (where I live) and worked at the library. I thought it would be nice to include something from there for her. I went in at had a look through there for sale section, but you couldn't tell any of the books came from cheltenham library as the paper stamp area had been taken out of the front. So I asked one of the librarians if they had any ready for sale that they hadn't taken that bit out of it - she went away and came back with a book (a really random one) so I also sent this - it turns out the dates it was stamped were from the times Lexie worked at the library!

Jar of love swap

I am taking part in booty-full things jar of love swap, pop on over if you want to take part too.

Button swap

Look at what a wonderful parcel I received! I was very lucky to take part in noodle bubbles button swap and was partnered with Debi 

A lovely card showing some of the buttons I received ( already in a frame on my wall of art!) and a wonderful wall hanging that held all the buttons - how lucky was I!

There was definately more than 50 buttons! Below are a few of my favourite ones - it was very hard to pick just a few! Thank you so much Debi!

Below are the bits I sent

I wrapped all the parcels in blue tissue paper and added a button ribbon!

These are the buttons - I had such fun looking for them all - they caMe from far and wide - can you see the one with the hundreds and thousands in? I want one myself now!

I also made a button brooch and some earrings

and finally a little button bracelet to finish it all off!

What a great swap - I really enjoyed it!

Button swap

I have signed up for Noodle Bubble's button swap  I cant't wait to get selecting buttons! Lots of fun - pop over for all the details.

I also have to thank clobelle for my recent award! I will do an awards post soon, I also have some London photos to show you, after I have uploaded them! Hope you are all doing well - I will be back soon!

Swaps

Head here for the swap, hosted by clobelle

Head here for this swap hosted by laalaa

Decoration swap

In all the excitement of Christmas I forgot to show you what I sent to crafty Helen for our handmade Christmas decoration swap!! There was also a candle - but I didn't make that!

Don't forget to get involved in Blogvent hop over to cloebelle or cakes from Kim for some fun Christmas posts.

Christmas swap

Here is a few pictures of the wonderful gifts that arrive for me from Crafty Helen

All beautifully wrapped, I have put the hearts and my christmas list sign up already!! I have lit the candle as well and it smells lovely! Thank you so much I love all of my gifts

Hallloween swap

Look what arrived for me - all orange and black what could it be!!

The chocolate may already have been eaten!! A lot of time must of gone into the cardA lavender scented cat - he has to be one of my favourites!

Some pumpkin lights and witches brew and candy corn scented candles - I love it all and feel very lucky. Thank you so much Lucy - pop over and see her blog if you have a mo!

Stocking swap

Here is what I sent to the wonderful Tracey go check out her blog

I sent one of these flower brooches and the magnets below - inspired by Tracey's blog design

and then of course the stocking!

I also made a stocking for my sister clobelle as she just missed out of joining in the swap!

Halloween swap

Here is the parcel I sent to Lucy, I have heard from her to say it has arrived safely!!