OMG I never posted my Owl Swap Goodies!

Owl Banner across the hearth

It comes to my attention that I am a complete scatterbrain, I'm sure many of you dear readers will have come to this conclusion all by yourselves. I was comepetely over the moon when I recieved my owl swap parcel from Hope, I took pictures and I carried everything around the house with me, I uploaded pictures to flickr and promptly forgot to actually blog what I got! As Homer Simpson would say..."D'oh".

a close up of the adorable owl banner

Hope made me this adorable owl banner, in lovely brown cream, and natural colours, with little orange beaks, on their tummies are little letters spelling out Apryl. Along with the banner I got all the lovely goodies you see below, an Owl journal, an owl stamp, adorable little owl note cards, stickers, an owl printed in green on a canvas tote, and as my treat (as if all the rest of that wasn't enough) some fabulous squares of fabric. I think they are quilting squares but as I don't quilt and only use small pieces of fabric in the things I sew they shall make for some fantastic crafting.

yummy goodies

That pink wood grain fabric is my favourite, I think, though I'm not even the biggest pink fan. What did I send Hope in return, well.... erm.... I have one photo of the little Owl Hanger I sent her, but I was in such a hurry to get everything sent off in time I completely forgot to take pictures of the chocolate, few bits of trim, fabric and the bracelet I made and sent her. I know I'm useless.

little owl hanger I made for Hope

Owl Swap Update

By now I hope everyone is finishing off their Owl swaps and sending them flying off to their new roosts. I really hope everyone has had fun with the swap, getting to know new people, and finding new blogs to stalk and crafting little owls. There is a week left to finish off your swaps and get them posted by Valentine's day.

I have started an Owl Swap Group on Flickr so we can all share pictures of our Owls!

http://flickr.com/groups/970960@N24/

I shall be posting out my swap parcel to my partner on Tuesday after we return from out trip to London to sort out H's USA passport renewal, a pain in the bum but hopefully we should have fun with a trip to the museum to see the Dragon (dinosaur) bones and a trip on the London Eye. And if I'm very good and lucky there may be some sort of crafting shop to pass by. oh and I hear tell there are now two Cinnabun stores there now so we will definitely have to zero in on one of them!

Owlish Love...

owlish love postcard

Don't worry its not for the Owl Swap, just and experiment with mixed media.. and because I have Owl's on the brain well here he is. I think he look really cute, except for some rather wonky stitching. I bought a packet of 20 deckle edge recycled rag cotton postcards about six months ago and it has languished in a craft box ever since. That is until a few days ago when I was messing around with sewing paper hearts and thought I would try to make an owl too.

The owl is made from a vintage book page from Alice through the Looking Glass, if you look closely you can see "Alice" and "Queen" in the writing, his feet and outline are ink pen, and the heart is a scrap of raspberry gingham from my scrap box. I have 19 postcards left so I may have another go later and see what I can come up with. If I'm very brave I might even put one up in my somewhat abandoned, slightly dilapidated (I love that word) etsy shop.. *attempts to brush cobwebs away and hide small dead bodies under carpet*.... if anyone is intrested..

Owl Swap Partners

and the Owl Swap Partners are as follows:

Vonnie and AnnieB

Sam and Miss Crafty

Leah and Ngaire

Chloe and Hannah

Rosina and Kerry

Megan and Karalea

Sara and Cindy

Heather and Jill

Katy and Gill

Nikki and Jessica

Laura and Karly

Anna and Cornelia

Becky and Marcel

Laurie L. and Jamie

Rebecca and Kitty

Ali and Yvette

AJ and Kiva

Valerie and Izabela
Hope and me

a last few swappers paired up.

Monique and Sherry
Ani and Karen
Janine and Lindsey

I hope everyone is happy with thier partner, tell me if there is anything that needs shuffling around.. if you have had the same partner on another swap. I hope everyone is paired with someone new. And I really hope I haven't forgotten anyone. but there is the possibility of that too... I'll try and get e-mails sent out today and tommorow with everyones details swapped over. But in the meantime you can do a bit of blog stalking on your partner's blog and everyone elses too!

Owl Swap Update II

roll call of Owl swappers

Vonnie
Katy
Gill
Kerry
Anna
Miss Crafty
Sam
Laura
Chloe
Leah
Ali
Rebecca
Becky
Nikki
Karalea
Megan
Jill
Heather
Cornelia
Cindy
AJ
Sara
Jessica

Ngaire
Kiva
Yvette
Rosina
Karly
Valerie
Laurie L. (no blog at this time)
Marcel
Jamie

Kitty

AnnieB

Izabela

Hope

Hannah

oh and me too! that makes 38 swappers.

if I have forgotten you please tell me so!

still waiting for emails from: Ethel and Edna's tearoom, and one or two others.

I'll set up a flicker group too in the next week so when we have finished all our swaps we have somewhere besides our blogs to show off our lovely Owlish things.

Owl Swap

Firstly thank you everyone who has expressed an interest in an Owl swap. Its really cheered me up after a dismal few days.

I love owls, I have been obsessed with drawing, painting, and now sewing my little Owl creation. I have loved owls because they have always been associated with magic and moonlight. And how badly did I want the mechanical owl Bubo from Clash of the Titans when I was a kid?

The Owl swap is an international swap, so you must be willing to send your swap across the globe. Please budget around $10 to $20 for the swap. The swap should include at least one handmade object, one treat (to break our diets on these bleak winter days) and one bit of craft material (fabric, buttons, pens) whatever you think your partner might like. Any craft allowed, fabric arts, jewellery making, painting, card craft, bookbinding, pottery....

The swap sign up will be open for one week, until next wed the 14th of January. And parcels must be posted out by Valentine's Day the 14th of February. Please leave a comment on this post and e-mail me the following information to meridianariel @ hotmail . com

Name:

Address:

e-mail:

blog:

a little bit about yourself:

your crafts:

favourite treat:

that should do it but let me know if you have any questions and I will answer them as best I can. thank you!