I spent all day at Karla's Cottage yesterday putting together Sweet Treats & Roses swap books. It was really amazing to see so many beautiful and artful pages all together. That's my book on top- Karla made my cover- it's a hand painted rose wreath heart on top of flocked wallpaper. My tag was made byJennifer of A Charming Life.
Before we started on the books, we "oohhed and aahhed" over the wonderful gifts that people sent us. Besides spending all the time and effort on making books pages for the swap, some people gave us gifts, too. The generosity of bloggers and blog readers is incredible!
Karla of Sugar Bear Designs made both Karla and me valentines- with our sweethearts in the center. Karla's had her granddaughter Sugarwings, and I got my puppy Milo!
It's a good thing Karla's cottage has a huge studio- because we needed a lot of room to spread out all the pages.
And the covers.
Our friend Jen was in the swap, too and helped us with the assembling the pages- which was no small task- 42 books with 42 pages is over 1700 pages that she stacked!
Here's Jen's book- Karla made the cover especially for Jen- Jen is retro 40's & 50's girl. Jen picked out the tag made by Ele- A Bit of Pink Heaven .
We had a few "production" issues- you can read about them in Karla's post, but after about 12 hours, we had them ALL done- and it was really a good feeling to put all the
finished books on a table and just LOOK at them.
It's amazing the effort that all the swappers put into this swap and I'm so pleased with the output- a 42 artist collaboration!
This afternoon's project: printing postage for the books and getting them in the mail!
Speaking of mail, look what I got in the mail from Rhea. Rhea makes the most fantastic paper creations, and I asked her where she got her paper garland- she said she MADE it- and sent me some, along with some beautiful wallpaper and a pink feather boa trim! Even my husband was impressed!
Since I had no auction to go to this week, I needed a little estate sale "hit" this morning. There wasn't a lot out there- but I did pick up a few little goodies- little portrait with a convex glass frame, pretty lace, a neat switch plate with fleur de lis- and the are all perched in this chalk compote
I always look for craft supplies when I'm at estate sales, but it was a little thin- but at least what I did get was pretty.
And now- I'm off to mail those books!
