Farmhouse Swap Sent

Cyndy from Crafty Stitchers and I were swap partners in the swap that Amy of Bumble Bee Lane hosted on her blog. I've long been an admirer of Cyndy's work and when I found out we were swap partners I was super excited.



So to try to get to know a little more about Cyndy besides that she makes awesome raggedy anns I went back and read through her blog. Cyndy said in a post that she was redoing her sewing room, so that's the inspiration that I used to create a Crafty Stitchers sign for her.




Then while looking around blogland and seeing all the cute salt dough ornies being made, I started thinking that maybe I could make some to go in her sewing room. I found a small button cookie cutter online, a spool and a thimble one as well and ordered them. I set about making the salt bowl fillers. Made a complete batch and only a few of the small buttons turned out well...I had issues with getting them out of the cookie cutter. So after sleeping on it, I decided I would try to make larger buttons and to rethink my approach to getting the dough out of the smaller cookie cutter. I am pleased to say that the final results turned out great. Here they are bagged.




So along with the button and spools salt bowl fillers, I made a set of beehive and bumble bees ones too. Amy had given us a list of themes to choose from to include and bees were on that list.






Here they are bagged. I had a lot of fun painting these up and they were so easy to make. Having said that when it came to the beehive, no matter what I did I had a beehive that was slightly puffy. After making 3 different ones and having mostly the same results, I picked the less puffy one to paint. Sorry about the Cyndy.







So while on a roll so to speak with the salt dough ornies, I made some blooms and naturally made some more bees to go with them. Sure hope Cyndy has a nice big dough bowl or trencher to display them in. Blooms were also on the list of themes to pick from.








And here they are bagged as well.








Also on the list was one item made from fabric. I wracked my brain thinking of what I could make with fabric. I remembered seeing these in a Create and Decorate last year and formulated a plan. I had even bought all the material last year...just never got around to making them. So found the correct issue of C&D and followed the directions as outlined. I think they turned out pretty good and plan on making a set for myself.



Also as a suggested theme was americana...cause what's summertime without the good ole red, white and blue. So had the hubby cut me a set of blocks and made the stencil for this americana set. I love, love how these turned out and will be offering them for sale in my etsy shoppe.




And one final thing I did for this swap was a set of sitter blocks with a bee theme. That way Cyndy can pair these with the bees salt dough bowl fillers. I sure had a blast making all for Cyndy and reading and getting to know her a little better.

Thank you to Amy for hosting this wonderful Farmhouse Summer Swap.

Until next time...

Primitively Patriotic Swap

I arrived home from running errands to a rather pleasant surprise...there was a box waiting for me on the table under my mailbox. Usually that table is filled with packages outgoing...it's unusual to have an incoming one.



OMG, I opened the box and was almost afraid to unwrap all the wonderful goodies that were contained within. It was just like Christmas morning. Each item carefully wrapped and revealing yet another wonderful treasure. Oh, I guess I should tell you who was the generous person that was my swap partner. Her name is Lottie from Sweetpeasprimitives .


As you can see Lottie sent me a cute wooden flag to hang on my front door. Perfect for those patriotic holidays to show our American pride. The star bowl fillers are perfect as I already have a nice prim patriotic bowl for them to make a nice home in.


Isn't this little dolly prim-i-licious? She already has a temporary home on my shelf with some other dolls but will grace a new shelf that the hubby is making for me....well he doesn't know he is yet, but he is! LOL! He runs for the hills when I say, how about making me this as he never knows what I'm gonna ask for!

The covered box shown in the first picture will be put to good use holding whatnots and things I may not want the males in my family to find....I know that they wouldn't think of looking in it...too much work! LOL!



Lottie also sent me a room spray in a delicious blueberry scent. It smells almost good enough to eat! Also in the package was a Gooseberry Patch cookbook which I hope to put to good use once our kitchen renovations are complete. I did get to take a peek and there are some great recipes for the grill, so maybe my family won't starve in the meantime.

A notepad for those all important "honey do" list and 2 small American flags that I plan to stick in my front porch planters for more patriotic spirit was in the box too! I tell you Miss Lottie certainly spoiled me!

This swap has been lots of fun and I want to thank Char of The Pickled Pepper Patch for organizing it.

Anyway, thanks again Lottie...I love everything!

I'll never look at silverware the same again!

I found some spoons that I had undercoated black awhile back in my stash of treasures, so painted them up 2 different ways...They were so fun to paint, I can see I could become addicted to painting them!