Monday 5 October 2015

Seasons swap - Wow!

 I do enjoy a good blog swap, as my lovely followers will know, so when I saw the Seasons Swap, organised by Kimberley of Creative Chaos, I signed up.  It was a great idea - find out your swap partner's favourite season and then buy and make things to send them.  I was partnered up with Maria, from Dotty's Daughter .  We emailed and found out that we are scarily similar, even down to our ages!  Maria told me that she didn't have a favourite season and I responded that early Summer was my favourite.  So, armed with some information, we started shopping and making.  Our parcels were swapped and I received the parcels above.
 I opened them to find a plethora of gorgeous gifts.  Maria had been so generous!  Flowery bunting, tulips, felt squares, felt flower pegs, a heart decoration, buttons, a gardening themed scissor fob and a personalised patchwork pincushion with sewing charms,
 The patchwork pincushion deserved its own photo.
 Bunting, buttons, hearts and flowers...
...and the gardening scissor fob, complete with welly!  I emailed to thank her and received a lovely reply, but she also said that she had forgotten to add in another part of the parcel so that would be sent too. Lucky me - two parcels!
 Here's what was in parcel two.  Lots of sewing goodies including needles, pins, ribbon and some patchwork for me to start.  There were also seeds and a dragonfly bracelet, some cat clips and some angel decorations made by her daughter.
 Here are the angels - aren't they lovely?
 Here's my patchwork project for the autumn evenings...  A HUGE thank you to Maria for her amazing generosity, thoughtfulness and kindness and for being such a lovely swap partner.  As I was opening my parcels, it did strike me how we had sent similar types of things.
Here's what I sent: Spring (magnets, seeds, a scissor fob/keyring/bag charm and bird material), Summer (a mug, magnet pegs, some sewing machine material and a piece of the London material, (which I used to make a doorstop for my friend in Canada) as she used to live in London), Autumn (hot chocolate, a spiced candle, a notebook and some pens) and Winter (a felt heart, monochrome bracelet and earrings).
It was a marvellous swap to be involved with and I really enjoyed it.  Thanks to Kimberley for organising it and of course, to Maria.

14 comments:

  1. It sounds as if this swap was between kindred souls. Which is lovely to find.

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    1. Thanks, EC. I have been so lucky with my swap partners - they have all been lovely. However, this one was very much kindred souls and was a little spooky, but wonderful! Blogland is a great place to meet people, isn't it? Even though we have never met, you and I have children's books in common, and cats and gardens and reading...
      Best wishes
      Ellie

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  2. That most certainly is a WOW on both sides! What gorgeous items you sent each other! I am going to host this swap every year as I love seeing what everyone comes up with!

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    1. Thanks, Kimberley. It was a lovely swap to be involved with and I was especially lucky with my partner! It's really great news that you'll be hosting the swap again next year too. It was definitely a Wow!
      Best wishes
      Ellie

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  3. So lovely things you both sent and received! That is great to find nice swap partner)

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    1. Thanks, karamino. It was a lovely swap and I was very lucky to have such a great swap partner.
      Best wishes
      Ellie

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  4. What beautiful things you sent and received!!! Looks as though it was a great fun thing to do. Bloggers are the nicest people aren't they! xx

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    1. Thanks, Amy. It was a really fun swap and I thoroughly enjoyed taking part. Yes, I agree, Bloggers are great!
      Best wishes
      Ellie

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  5. It all looks Rather Gorgeous- you'll have fun working through all of that. Thanks for the comment over on my blog. I hadn't realised you followed C Tales- apologies, I don't know what happens with blogger sometimes! CT :o)

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    1. Thanks and welcome, CT. I will indeed have fun working through all the gorgeous gifts. You're welcome about the comment - it's so nice 'meeting' people in Blogland!
      Best wishes
      Ellie

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    1. Thanks, Amalia. I love it too - wasn't I lucky to receive such wonderful gifts?
      Best wishes
      Ellie

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  7. How lovely! What a wonderful way to celebrate interests and friendships. Gorgeous gifts! xx

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    1. Thanks, Alison. It was a lovely swap to be involved with and I have 'met' some wonderful people through swapping.
      Best wishes
      Ellie

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