Michelle's lovely handicraft

To explain my going MIA and then posting two in a row, all I want to say is, "when it rains, it pours." Really, it explains everything.

A few months ago, Michelle of the Blog of the Soap Pixie and I did a swap. Have I mentioned yet how much I looove swaps? Elizabeth of Gracefruit and I did one back in the fall - her soaps for my cards/papers - and it was wonderful! I got some of the best stuff from Elizabeth, including the indispensable Wattle Balm (which, alas, she no longer sells).

For this swap, Michelle sent me cards for some of my soaps, a reversal of the other swap. Michelle does scrapbooking, and it shows - her cards look so professional: whimsical and perfect! While I love them all, here are close-ups of a couple of my favorites:The Cupcake card is actually a little bag that you can put things into; is that too cute or what?? (sorry for the blurry photo)Thank you, Michelle!! I'm always open to more swapping! ;)

"He is happiest, be he king or peasant, who finds peace in his home." ~ Johann von Goethe

The successful swap!

I'm thrilled with my second swap, as I was with my first!! (My first was with Pica - I gave her the Patriotic Soaps, and she gave me walnut ink - which I used to enter an art exhibit at The Arthouse Co-op).See all the goodies I got for my second swap, with Elizabeth of Gracefruit?! I believe I asked for 3 bars of soap and a Wattle Balm, but she added another bar of soap, a Nail & Cuticle Stick (which I flaked out and forgot to put in the photo), AND, to my children's utter and absolute delight, a package of vanilla fudge...from Scotland!!

Elizabeth, I'm happy to report, received my handmade paper notecards last week and liked them as much as I liked her products!

Well, I want to go on and on about how beautifully her soaps are wrapped and how heavenly they smell, but having spent all morning doing ceramics, I now have to catch up on floors to vacuum and mop, hot dog buns to make, laundry to do, and a book (actually, about 20 of them) to read, so much run for now. Happy Wednesday to all!

"The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet." ~ James Oppenheim