Thankful!

Happy Thanksgiving to you! I hope you have a bounty of things to be thankful for too!
On this Thanksgiving we have so much to be thankful for! We're thankful for our family, friends(near and bloggy,) our health, and the good life we live.
This Thanksgiving we have new aprons to wear thanks to Regina. She made Nature Girl and I matching Tea For Two aprons in the One Hot Mama Apron Swap hosted by Yarni Gras! Thank you Regina! We love them! Nature Girl so so excited to be included! We've enjoyed our mugs but Nature Girl still won't try the hot chocolate even though pink is her favorite color. She's been drinking milk instead. Thank you again Regina, the aprons are lovely!!!
To see the apron and goodies I sent for the swap check here. It's the brown and blue apron and goodies.

Show and Tell - Better Late Than Never

Here are some swap show and tells that are very late. Of course a bit late is better than never. So bear with me as I share some of the amazing things I've received over the last month or so.


Rosina made me the most amazing stationary wrap for the Gratitude Swap hosted by One Crafty Mumma. I can't even begin to tell you how much I love this! Rosina was so creative to think this one up. I love sewing with felt. There is so much you can do with it. Thank you Rosina!!!

This is the inside of the gratitude wrap and the beautiful fall leaf bowl and acorn spreader Rosina set to me. I love them!

I can't forget this beautiful owl quilt Lori sent me for the September Mini quilt swap. The theme was owls and mushrooms. Isn't it brilliant! I love it. I have an owl theme in my resource room at school so he's hanging in my classroom. Thank you Lori, it's perfect! You can see the mini quilt I made for Lori here.


Christy from Mama Said Sew sent us a surprise package. Nature Girl got a book about an orange cat and stickers. She loves orange cats and wants Santa to bring a real orange cat for Christmas. Christy also sent an applique quilt magazine for me. I want to try making one of the quilts featured in this magazine for Nature Girl. At 4 and a half she has begun to out grow her little down comforters she's used since she was a baby. While I know she'll never give up her "Puffy" it would be nice to make a quilt that will actually cover her toes. Puffy's getting a little short! Thanks for the surprise mail Christy, we really enjoyed it!


Sarah from A Spoonful of Sugar sent a thank package to Nature Girl. We mailed Sarah a Sacajawea coin for her upcoming school project. Sarah sent these cute cookie cutters as a thank you.As you can see the adorable cookie cutters are Australian animals. There is a kookaburra, platypus, echidna, frilled neck lizard, kangaroo and a koala. We enjoyed talking about and looking up information on the animals. Now we just need to make some cookies now so we can use the cookie cutters! Thank you Sarah and Lisa!

I hope I didn't forget anyone. Thank you for the lovely swap gifts and surprises!!! My apologies for being late in posting my swap goodies. School has taken up a huge chuck of my life so blogging and crafting has taken a back seat for a bit. This trend is sure to continue for the next few months or longer.

Final Book Swap Post

This is my last post for the One Good Book Swap. I think all of the packages have been mailed with just one or two that haven't arrived at their destinations yet. I hope everyone enjoyed participating in the swap. I know I had fun with it!
Nature Girl's package came all the way from Belgium. Margy and her boys sent a traditional Dutch story that has been translated into English. It's called Jip and Janneke. We're enjoying reading the many adventures of Jip and Janneke, two preschoolers who are always finding mischief and fun!


Oh the excitement of surprise swap mail! The eyes say it all! She sure loves her swap mail!


Here she is tearing into the package. Margy even stamped the ribbon with Jip and Janneke characters.

Look at all of these goodies!!!!! A sticker set, a pencil, ruler, eraser and sharpener set, pennant flags, little Jip and Janneke bags, a beautiful patchwork jean tote and my personal favorite handmade stamps of Jip and Janneke. Margy is one talented lady! Thank you for the fabulous package Margy. We really loved it!

If you had so much fun with the book swap that you can't wait to do another. . . pop over to Holly's blog. Holly participated in the One Good Book Swap and is hosting a Christmas Book Swap. Nature Girl just asked me on Saturday if I had signed her up for anymore swaps. I hadn't so of course I had to sign her up for Holly's Merry Christmas Book Swap. If you'd like to sign up you have until Nov. 14th stop by Holly's blog and sign up. Thanks for hosting Holly, it's going to be lots of fun!

Busy

Hello! Hard to believe I haven't posted for more than two weeks and I haven't read my favorite blogs during that time. School and home life has kept me very busy. Hopefully I'll start to catch up with everyone and post the wonderful swap goodies that have arrived at my house over the last 3 or 4 weeks. So check back for more posts to come over the next week. Well at least I hope I get them posted!
My bloggy friend Barb was sweet enough to give me the one sweet blog award a few weeks ago. Thanks Barb! Stop by Barb's blog to see what she and the kids have been up to and check out Barb's Etsy shop here.