Look What I Got!!! Vintage Potholder Swap!!!!!

Guess who??? It is one of our Stitch n' Chicks members who was given
the "Escape Artist" award at our Anniversary Awards Luncheon. :)


I had to throw this photo in here as I absolutely love fresh sweet cold
 watermelon during the summer!!

this what I got from my "Swaparoo Vintage Potholder Swap" over at
"Crochet by Sea" from "ByHooks4u"  isn't it wonderful?

look how beautiful this potholder is



I love burgundy



she threw these coasters in extra...I love them

and this too cute angel pin...thank you sooooo much

Check out this swapping blog

I am finishing up mine to send off to her...I hope she will like what I choose as much as I love what she sent me...Thank you again Vikki.....

Some New Swap Projects I Made

I am in crochetswapbuddies and was in a "small Ami" swap so I decided to make my partner a little mouse in pink. She came out so cute... And she sent me the cutest frog!!

I am also in a Yummy Recipe Swap and we had to make something to do with this month's theme of "Cooking Tips" I had fun and made 2 crockpot recipes for breakfast and then made a whole sheet of cooking tips. So I decided to crochet and stuff a little tea bag. I also beaded the words tea on the

smaller tea square. I stuck a flower on it and finished it off with a netted bag to hold it.

Swapping Stuff

These items, cell phone pocket and crocheted pen I made for an online swap partner for April....hope she likes them. These are some of the prettiest glass beads I got from one of my swap friends....I also got these cute little skottie dogs, aren't they just the cutest? And this handmade card with butterflies is so pretty!

Loads of Goodies

Lookie what cool "stuff" I got in my bottle swap. You fill a 16oz bottle up with anything you want and mail the bottle off...it was loads of fun, and look how much you can fit into it...then I got a cute gingerbread man from my fridgie swap and a thank you pink socks from my swapping friend that I made slippers for....it was early Christmas...I also got some nice handmade towels and dishrags from my swapping friend in my knitting and crochet Yahoo group.....and my very good friend Pat came by last night to go with the knitting group to see the lights in Naples and she brought me a bag of goodies for Christmas....it was so nice of her.. :)

My Apron for my Swap Partner

I made my partner a Pre-Halloween Apron for the swap over at Booming Aprons...this was lots of fun...although I did fall behine on sending this one out to Beelicious and I am sorry for that part.. :( I think she will like it...

New Projests, Swaps, Birthday Cakes, and Pond Plants

This is a chimes I designed [see the post below for close up shots at the beginning of making it]and made the tails out of plastic tablecloth and below is a post card I got from my quote card swapper friends.

This is the cake I got my g-son for his 12th birthday

The candles were the ones that keep coming back on and look at the plants around my pond! Wow...they have gotten so tall...and one of them are still blooming...look how pretty in pink it is...

wow what a view through all the plants looking at the falls

and my anniversary flowers from my DH.. :)

these were taken over Labor Day at our cabin, this little guy came to visit and I caught him about 50' up the tree

look at my shopping find! What shall I make??? hmmm....so many new goodies... :)

Swaps, Pen Pals, and Ebay Buys

Isn't this tea set the cutest? I got this from DaBookLadys BABEs March "true story" book and bookmark swap, along with a "Marilyn Monroe" book to add to my collection of memorabilia of MM stuff....I also got a whole box of stitckers that I can always use when I mail my pen pal letters.

Speaking of which look at the cute things my Canadian pen pal, Sharon, sent me for my "B" day coming up here real soon!!! A key chain, pen, and a Cancada hat pin. And I got the patterns I ordered on Ebay, cute cute animals in crochet and she also included a fun plant hanger pattern and delicious recipe. If you enlarge this picture you will see all the animals I can make from the booklets.

Now this next photo is what I got from my Fat 1/4 Swap bot partner for the month of March. I cannot say enough as she really outdid herself and sent me some wonderful items, All that is required to send is 4 Fat Quarters, green thread, something green, and a notebook, but I got tea, candy, ribbon, beads, sequins, suckers, bath stuff, a cute green tub container, a wonderful collection pack of green stationery, and clothespin clips..She spoiled me good!!!

Vacation in Laughlin

Well hubby and me went to Laughlin for 4 days with our car club PCC...it was loads of fun and in the high 80s all the time. This is the view from our room...We got to take the River Taxi between casinos and also gambled a bit, I only won $50, but at least I didn't "bust" then we went to the car museum at the Riverside and also saw the watch man where I of course got a new watch.

I came home to 2 packages from swaps. :) one from All Around the House , 2 nice placemats, and the other from Crochetoholic's Swap... a whole box of goodies from Penny, Got lots of goodies, and then I received a really nice surprise from an almost swap partner at HSKS4 [ Ingrid Ze Insightful] what a sweetie..It is a Red Hats fat 1/4, she knew I was a Red Hatter.... thank you.. :)

New Projects I have Finisihed

Ok look at how warm it is here today!!! WOW......I cannot believe the weather change..but I love it...

I have been crocheting some of my WIP projects...here are a few of my finished projects that I have been working on. A frog tissue case in worsted weight yarn, a frog scrubber, a cookie[Orio] a coaster, tea bag holder, and 2 napkin rings for my dining room swap, and here is a sneek preview of my new creatures that I am designing, that will be for sale in my Etsy store and on my site. They are called Amigurumi which means “knitted or crocheted doll” in Japanese. They're the simplest of simple, usually worked in a round of single crochet. you can join your rounds or not join them that is your choice. Just work in a spiral. The thing that is the greatest about amigurumi is that it all depends on your imagination as to how the end result will turn out. And as you can see mine has turned into quite a creation. There's no rules no fancy stitches, so anyone can make them, and the fun comes in the shapes you make, the colors you decide on and what other glorious add ons you want to attach on to your creation. So take a look at "Bottlelands" 1st resident, the "Queenie Lady B" she is not completely finished, but as you can see she is coming along. If you enlarge the picture you will see her pretty eyelashes... :)