Sunday, September 20, 2009

Swap Fun

I joined the Witches Cupboard Swap hosted by Yarnigras. Nature Girl and I had fun this morning starting our items for the witches cupboard. We used these old canning jars I salvaged from an auction last year. I got a whole box for 50 cents. We found tiny skulls, stretchy rats, sticky eyeballs mixed with stones, skeleton hands to fill the jars. We also found a little black crow and a styrofoam skull to add to the cupboard. This is turning out to be so much fun! Nature Girl wants to make her own witch's cupboard in her bedroom for Halloween. She has a tiny skull, a stretchy rat and a black crow to use as a start. Once the witches cupboard swap package arrives I know I'll be sharing some of those items too. She's already asking to pull out all the Halloween decorations. I think we'll wait another week. I have another idea up my sleeve for the Witches Cupboard Swap. I just need time to make it but alas it's Sunday night and my school work calls.

This is Nature Girl with the package she mailed off in the Little People Back to School Swap. Her partner loves music so we went with a musical theme. We included a CD by a local artist Ben Rudnick and Friends. It's a great kids album. You can check it out here.

Here's another view of the package. We included a book, a clown whistle, directions for making your own instruments, an elephant plush because you need a friend to share your music with and a pumpkin bag with a few goodies for our partners mom.


This is the package Nature Girl received. She received shells, pencils, colored pencils, mini notebooks and a set of 6 card games. She's had lots of fun with her goodies. Thank you Zoey!

As you can see swap mail makes Nature Girl happy! She loves it when a packages arrive! Here she is hugging the box.

Sunday, September 6, 2009

Halloween Swap


Now that school is in session I'm excited about fall. I can't wait to make pumpkin dip and decorate the house with fall foliage and pumpkins. I like the sweet and prim side of Halloween. None of the scary, bloody stuff for me. Nature Girl doesn't like scary either. She's trying to decided between a Velma(from Scooby Doo) costume or a girl super hero costume. I haven't come up with a good idea for me yet. My school does a Literacy day on Halloween so your costume must come from a character in a book. Since Haloween is still a long way off I have time to decide.
In anticipation of Halloween I joined the Witches Cupboard Swap over at my friend Yarnigras blog We were asked what kind of Halloween things we like. I listed sweet Halloween stuff. Then I found this Halloween personality quiz. As you can see my Halloween personality is a candy corn. Sweet like me, ha, ha! (Are you laughing Robyn?)


You Are Candy Corn



Your Halloween personality is whimsical, colorful, and creative.

You see Halloween as a time to get your creative juices flowing.



Each year, Halloween can't start soon enough for you.

You tend to go all out for Halloween. You decorate like crazy and always dress up.