I have come to realize that ever since Facebook came on the scene, I am just not that motivated to blog like I used to. I used to be so good and showed up to blog at least two or three times a week, maybe more. But now, wow, seems like if I post two or three times a month I'm doing good!
For the most part, today was spent just boppin' around the house, doing housework, catching up with the laundry and watching the Puppy Bowl (come for the puppies...stay for the kittens!!!) I really needed some quiet time and today did the trick.
So one of the things I wanted to share was a swap I did with my super talented and sweet peep of a friend, Hope! Oh man...this girl has good stuff and boy, did she share! I usually feel like I overgift and go overboard with swaps but after receiving her goody pack, I feel like I didn't give her enough!
Look at what she sent me...
Blurg? A-M-A-Z-I-N-G treats!! It took two pictures to get everything laid out to show you! Oh my!!! Thank you so much, Hope!!! I love it all!!!
Next up...check out these SUPER cool, ginormous coffee filters that my dear daughter scored for me! Her shop can't use them anymore and rather than recycle them, she thought of sharing them with me! I loves my girlie!!!
I put the soda can in the shot so you can tell how big these are! So what should I do with these super fun, super huge beauties!? Any suggestions? They're magical!
Much more to share but I gotta go take some more pictures first with my *a-hem* brand new camera! :-) I have a Fuji Finepix SP1000 that I love and it was still doing it's job but I won an award at work and got to pick out a prize! I picked out a Nikon Coolpix P90. Pretty flippin' sweet, eh??! The zoom is phenomenal!!!
I have tomorrow off and I just have a few things on my agenda (including a massage ...happy sigh...) so I'm hoping to get back to do a bit more blogging and show you my Remains of the Day journal! I'm still working on the inside pages but I got the cover all done! LOVE this project!
Love today's blog. Will be interested in what becomes of those coffee filters. I know you will think of something fascinating and useful.
Posted by: Jean Morgan | February 07, 2010 at 09:18 PM
Ooh, lucky you. Hope and I are in the same general zip code- we need to meet! I have been to Queen's Ink tho, and bought some of her stamp sets. Thought of you-Moo changed their packaging, did ya know? No more plastic boxes. They are paper-cardboard, but they do have cute little file dividers. I just got two new packs, so let me know if you want to swap cards.
Posted by: Gina Smith | February 07, 2010 at 09:51 PM
oooh! so glad you liked what I sent!
We are so snowed in, the mail has not been coming, so hopefully once we thaw out a bit over here I will have a big stack of mail with your package in it waiting for me!!
I LOVE coffee filters!! (http://besottment.typepad.com/besottment/2009/06/this-weeks-favorite-journaling-supply.html)
peepxo
Posted by: hope | paper relics | February 08, 2010 at 07:57 AM
Michelle,
You just blog when you can. I run through my list daily and I am so happy to see what you have blogged but I also know you work and have a husband and a lovely girlie and a life.
Hope was my partner for the matchbox exchange and, boy, what a dynamite matchbox and such cool inserts...tons of my initials in all sorts of fonts and papers...I was dazzled!
Love you, dear woman!
Suz
Posted by: Suz Reaney | February 08, 2010 at 08:42 AM
Oooh, paper filters are fun to drip watercolor paint (or food coloring, or colored ink, or...) on & then watch the colors disperse & mix! Not sure how archival they are, but they're sure fun to play with! P.S. wonderful stash of ephemera you received!!
Posted by: Jana | February 08, 2010 at 11:53 AM
Coffee filters -- I knew I'd seen something recently. (Also hello, came from Hope's blog...)
http://alicew.typepad.com/thoughts_from_alice_w/2010/02/somerset-life.html
Posted by: Leanne Shawler | February 10, 2010 at 11:34 AM