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I’ve completed the next 2 colors in my long term swap. 
I love that I get to use up scraps and the little bits and bobbles I’ve collected over time. It’s really stretching me creatively too…coming up with so many unique designs.
I haven’t decided which one of each color I’ll be keeping yet.
Any opinions?
I had decided I wasn’t going to sign up for anymore swaps that I had to make multiples of the exact same page again..at least for quite some time. My friend Theresa came up a long term swap that will eventually end up with a rainbow of colors. I was still reluctant to join until she said it was okay for each of the pages to be different.
I will keep 1 square from each set and the others will be part of the 5 for5 swap. In the end I’ll have 6 pages of each color. It will be a very chunky book.
From the purple set I’ll be keeping the page with the flowers and my name pin on it.
I’m torn with the blue pages…I’d like to keep 3 of them. I’ve got time before sending them to mull it over.
Which blue page is your favorite?
I put together a house theme book with the tip-ins I received from a swap on ABC altered book club plus a couple pages of my own just for fun.
The image on the cover is the Hamm house which has been torn down. I got a book in the free bin at the library. It tell the stories of buildings and places in Minnesota that have been lost due to “progress”. I’m not entirely sure but I think the Hamm family is one in the same as the Hamm’s beer company…which is also gone. Although, I still can remember the theme song as well as Hamm’s bear from the TV ads…I may be aging myself with that declaration.
Just playing a bit…had to do SOMETHING creative.
I don’t think there will be much on the crafty list for the next couple days. I made a B-day card for my brother-in-law but that’s about it. My hubby is on vacation this week so I have a feeling I won’t be spending much time crafting anything.
Tomorrow we’ll be having a PIRATE DAY. We bought the 3rd installment of the Pirates of the Carribean series and plan to watch it sipping on our rum drinks.
I’ll leave you with this page I made for a junk mail swap a while back.
Here are a couple more ATC’s from the background papers I made yesterday.
Oh good…my least favorite holiday. I LOVE Fall but hate Halloween. The candy, the costumes, the spooky decor. I wish I could skip it all.
Don’t get me wrong, I love kids…especially mine ;) but the absurdity of this holiday really gets to me. To dress up and take your kid house to house and beg for candy iritates me so much.
All year long we tell them “don’t talk to strangers” “don’t take candy from strangers” “don’t walk around outside(espically on the road) at night” “be nice” “be kind” “be gentle” “don’t scare people” But for tonight…forget all the rules!!
Of course, even with all my complaining, I jump right on the stupidity bandwagon. My kids are going to be Nintendo’s Mario and the classic Little Red Riding Hood. We made Jack O’lanterns (which have nearly rotted on the front steps), bought candy and decorated the living room with pumpkins.
Just so today wasn’t a complete waste of time…I transformed my new (on clearance), boring brown file holder.
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