Brooches swap - "Such Fun!"

You know how I enjoy blog swaps (did you get the quote from Miranda's Mum?) and I signed up to a brooch swap run by Jo at Three Stories High, who had the great idea of making a brooch in your favourite craft medium and then swapping it - just a little pick-me-up for the end of Winter.  Terrific idea, I thought, and put my name down.  I was partnered up with the lovely Emma at Bubsiekins and after the usual emailing to get some clues about likes and dislikes, off we went to create.  We swapped gifts last week and here's what Emma sent me:

 Two lovely gifts - how exciting!  So, what was inside?

 A beautiful brightly coloured circle brooch and the happiest cat in the world brooch!  She had been very generous and made me two.

 I mean, just look at him/her - isn't he/she just gorgeous?  He/She makes me smile too.  Thank you so much to Emma for being such a thoughtful and clever swap partner!  You would probably like to know what I sent to Emma?

 I made her a flower brooch from my own felt in colours that she told me she liked and put a pearl in the centre as that is one of her birthstones.

I also made her a bracelet, because, like her, I wasn't sure that the brooch would be to her taste (it is such a personal thing, after all), but I think she likes it.  All in all, a very successful and fun swap to be involved with. Thanks to Jo for organising it and to Emma, for her lovely gifts - it really was "Such Fun!" (hmm, perhaps a bit too much with the Miranda quotes?!).