Ok, so I am not waiting until after the New Year either, lol! We would need to have this one close before some of the others already started, so that everyone could have their items before Ostara or Easter, whichever you celebrate :) This would be kind of like a tiny things swap, in that the items you send need to be small enough to fit into something the size of one of those plastic easter eggs (although I know most people probably use felted wool eggs, but they are the same size).

ETA: I am going to set this one up like Heather is setting up hers. I will just leave this open until Friday, 12/30. Anyone who wants to sign up can, and then you choose how many items to send. You can choose to send in 5 and you will get 5 back. You can chose to send in one for everyone in the swap and you will get back one of everything. If you are signed up for more than one spot, just be sure to send in 2 separate sets in whatever number of items you are sending in. Ie - I am signed up for 2 spots, so I will be sending X number of flowers AND x number of beetles (not what I am sending, just to give an example, lol!)

Firm Mailing Date of: Saturday, March 4th. That will give me 2 1/2 weeks to get things back before Ostara, and plenty of time before Easter.

Ideas:
felted or wool spring animals
wool flowers
anything fairy related
small packets of seeds
accessories for bendies/nature tables for gardening (little shovels, veggies, flowers, etc.)
flower fairies
Easter or Ostara themed mini candles
Anything egg realted
felted wool eggs
lambs
pussy willows
frogs
wool bugs

Swappers
1 - Mom2kbeth - received
2 - Mom2kbeth- received
3 - Huntersmama - received
4 - Huntersmama - received
5 - Korwynne - RECEIVED
6 - Korwynne - RECEIVED
7 - PolkaDot - RECEIVED
8 - Maegansmama
9 - Daisy
10 - Gronilot - RECEIVED
11 - Livingfree - received
12 - Starkl - RECEIVED
13 - Mcmrymoon - RECEIVED
14 - Mcmrymoon - RECEIVED
15 - Mamaselena - RECEIVED
16 - Elfmama - RECEIVED
17 - Elfmama - RECEIVED
18 - Craftymammax5
19 - Geogirl
20 - Geogirl
21 -Randah - RECEIVED

Heather, Jodi and Kris -- Just confirm here that you want in and that you want that number of spaces. I know you all want in, lol!

Who else is in??

MEMEME..for one spot please..hehehe

It IS hard to wait isnt it...LOL!

me, I want in :D

Gotcha both.

Stacey - I will email you back when the kiddos go to bed ;)

Me please!!

I'd like to join, if there is room

ETA: I am making felt bunnies

Me, me, me-- I've missed everything else so I've got time lol

Moi! I didn't see my name at first when I posted and I almost panicked. Yes, one spot. Lily will just eat anything she gets this year.

gronilot and me again:)

just saw you added me...I :hbeat: you

okay since i am doing 2 spots i send x2 right?

i'm doing felt eggs, and chicks

Are you leaving me out?????? I want in!@!@!!

Got everyone. How many spots for Gronilot and for Livingfree?

I updated the OP with this, but i wanted to be sure everyone sees it so I will post it here too :

ETA: I am going to set this one up like Heather is setting up hers. I will just leave this open until Friday, 12/30. Anyone who wants to sign up can, and then you choose how many items to send. You can choose to send in 5 and you will get 5 back. You can chose to send in one for everyone in the swap and you will get back one of everything. If you are signed up for more than one spot, just be sure to send in 2 separate sets in whatever number of items you are sending in. Ie - I am signed up for 2 spots, so I will be sending X number of flowers AND x number of beetles (not what I am sending, just to give an example, lol!)

Thanks for remembering me- I think just one spot.

Yipee Skippy- I love swaps!

Jsut one for me too, please!! Thanks~!

I'd like in please. :hug:

Gotcha ;)

me for 2 spots please!!!!!!!!!

Gotcha ;)

meeeeeeeeeeeeee

thanks for thinking of me :) Two spaces is great :)

how many spots selena? 1 or 2?

I'm in for 2 spots.

Ok so are these just stuffers for kids?decoration?Or can I do anything like scrapbook related?I make some really cute egg paper piecings someone can even stick in a frame with the kids pics.Ill take a spot

This one is stuffers to put inside the kids' Easter/Ostara eggs. I just decided tonight one of the things i am going to make ... a wool tic tac toe board with little wooden mushrooms for the playing pieces. The board will roll up so that it fits inside the eggs :)

OMG lol how big r the eggs???? LOL .Hop scotch mats would be cute too.How about small fairy or small doll flannel blankets?? with a little pillow

OMG lol how big r the eggs???? LOL .Hop scotch mats would be cute too.How about small fairy or small doll flannel blankets?? with a little pillow


I'm going to do eggs, here is my idea...one larger egg and maybe 2 or 3 per child

I basically want to start feltign them as soon as i can find my bag of fleece....lol

I figure i will do nice bright colors, i have a ton of brightly colored roving i am really not sure what to do with:lol:

Basically anything that will fit inside one of those little plastic easter eggs (ya know, those ones that everyone usually fills with candy for easter?), although Kris said she will make a few bigger ones.

ive never felted.Is there any info I can see how you guys do it?I think ill stick with the blankets and pillows.

In the mail craft section there is a thread called something like "two crafting questions" and there are a few links to needle felting tutorials in there :)

Do you have room for one more?

Do you have room for one more?

Certainly :) This one is open to as many people a want to join. You can send in as fe wor as many items as you want, and they don't all have to be the same. You will get back as many items as you send. :)

I am going to make minature seed packets (with seeds in some or all) and a ladybug for each set I do ;-) I'm not sure if the ladybug will be felted or wooden yet or a combo. i am definitely making enough for everyone on the list :D

Ok I think I want two spots but I am swap imparired, and I'm not sure what that means for sure>>>! LOL

:help:

Ok I think I want two spots but I am swap imparired, and I'm not sure what that means for sure>>>! LOL

:help:

Actually, that really doesn't mean anything for this swap, lol. Ichanged the set up after the OP ;) Normally, it means you would be sending 2 sets of items so that you woul dreceive 2 sets back. But the way I am doing this swap is that you just send as many items as you would like and I will send you back as many items as you sent in. So if you want to make 8 items, you will get 8 in return. If you want 2 identical sets, I can probably do that though :)

Thinking of little birds nests... Those could be cute:)

Actually, that really doesn't mean anything for this swap, lol. Ichanged the set up after the OP ;) Normally, it means you would be sending 2 sets of items so that you woul dreceive 2 sets back. But the way I am doing this swap is that you just send as many items as you would like and I will send you back as many items as you sent in. So if you want to make 8 items, you will get 8 in return. If you want 2 identical sets, I can probably do that though :)


Ok, being a bit impaired on this one too. So if, say for example, there are 10 moms in the swap and I only send in 5, I am going to miss out on the other things that the other 5 made, right? Or am I just not getting something. What if everyone but me sends in the 10, won't someone get stiffed? I am just not "seeing" it. I am visual, can you tell? Thanks for clearing it up, it has been on my mind.

I am just going to pool everything that comes in and then divvy it up. If you sent in 5 items you will get 5 items back. Just like the stocking stuffer swap that Jodi hosted. Not everyone got the same items, because not everyone sent in the same number of items, and also while one person may have sent 10 of one thing, someone else may have sent 10 items, but sent 5 each of 2 different things. KWIM? When I divvy everything up , I will go by ages/gender of the children to determine who gets what.

Ok I am getting it now!! Thanks for explaining.

ok, so I just made 8 packets of seeds :D They are soooo cute, I made them from paper, then taped them for reinforcement and are 1 inch by 3/4 inch and I made 8 different ones, the strawberry packet i will add real strawberry seeds to, from my soap supplies, I don't think they will sprout tho, lol If i have any other seeds that match the packets I made I will add those too. And I have one called 'seeds of love' I think I will stuff with a couple of teeny heart shaped 'seeds'.
It only took me an hour to think the seed packet thru and create them, then about 40 minutes to put one set together
I would be fine with including something else....maybe a couple of plant stakes matching the seeds or I had mentioned a ladybug....has anyone ever ordered lady bugs, how do they come? in a crate or bag? I was thinking of making a crate or bag of mini mini ladybugs or I could do the one ladybug.
anyway, I'm excited
or maybe I could include a mini tote bag to keep the seed packets in.....
does anyone mind that they are paper?

has anyone ever ordered lady bugs, how do they come? in a crate or bag?

What do you mean? Crafted ladybugs or live ladybugs? I am totally confused! lol!

Those sound cute Stacey:)

I was wondering too if you were talking about live ones...

thanks, lol, I was talking about live ones, I know many gardeners order them to help with pests in the garden...I was thinking I could make a mini crate or box that said on the outside 'live ladybugs' and 'garden helpers' and have either 1 mini teeney tiny ladybug or a bunch of paper ones, or 1 felted one amoung all the paper ones, they would be eraser size......in my imagination so far, lol anyhoo, I am talking out loud here :D

www.insectlore.com

I have ordered live ladybugs and live caterpillar larva from them many times. they only ship at certain times of the year, to avoid the buggies freezing or being too hot during shipping. I have never had a problem with them being shipped to me before (I have ordered 4-5 times between my Kindergarten classes and McKenna). There is info on the site about how they ship. I can't remember exactly how they ship the ladybugs. I know the caterpillars just come in a little platic cup with a lid and food at the bottom; you keep them in there until they make their chrysalises.

I am thinking of doing these small felt bunnies. I am pretty sure they will fit in larger eggs, any opinions? Do they seem ok? This was my first, so I will hopefully improve! ha ha ha I will use a more appropriate thread color for the stitching next time so it won't be SO 'stand-out-ish" :)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v171/DaisyM/fb57b6c6.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v171/DaisyM/384d8a56.jpg

I think it is adorable!

Ohhhhhhhh..da wittle bunnies are so cuuuuuteeeeee:)

Cool! He was a nice break from wrapping bendies for a while! I think I will make these instead! :)

love the bunny:cuc:

wowzer!
There are 18 mama's with 24 kids/sets!
I have finished 16 seed packet sets and have them in cute tiny baskets. They are so cute!!!! I put real strawberry seeds in the strawberry seed packet and heart confetti in the seed of love packet :D I will take pic's when I can, hopefully the transfer of computers will happen this weekend!!!!

anyhoo
do the mamas who have 2 kiddo's want one seed packet and basket for each child, or is one set fine?

I think I am going to make up some small bracelet kits for the girls too. And just send a variety of stuff:) This is too fun...LOL.

wowzer!
There are 18 mama's with 24 kids/sets!
I have finished 16 seed packet sets and have them in cute tiny baskets. They are so cute!!!! I put real strawberry seeds in the strawberry seed packet and heart confetti in the seed of love packet :D I will take pic's when I can, hopefully the transfer of computers will happen this weekend!!!!

anyhoo
do the mamas who have 2 kiddo's want one seed packet and basket for each child, or is one set fine?

I would love one for each Kiddo, Stacey :)

they are simple and very cute, I will make up 24 sets so there will be one of each for all the kiddos :D

could i have 2 also?

OK..for the boys in the group I will make some Fimo pocket pals. Maybe a bunny or mouse or something.

Duncan would love either! He was looking at my new fimo book and asked me to make him a bunny and a doggie and a kitty and could i make a bunny driving in a car and ...little stinker.

Duncan would love either! He was looking at my new fimo book and asked me to make him a bunny and a doggie and a kitty and could i make a bunny driving in a car and ...little stinker.


LOL..your Duncan sounds a lot like my Lorna.

What is the total count of children in this swap with Heather out and not sure about Hastings? thanks, T

Here's an update, to the best of my knowledge:

Swappers
1 - Mom2kbeth
2 - Mom2kbeth
3 - Huntersmama
4 - Huntersmama
5 - Korwynne
6 - Korwynne
7 - PolkaDot
8 - Maegansmama
9 - Randah
10 - Daisy
11 - Gronilot
12 - Livingfree
13 - Starkl - RECEIVED
14 - Mcmrymoon
15 - Mcmrymoon
16 - Mamaselena
17 - Elfmama - RECEIVED
18 - Elfmama - RECEIVED
19 - Craftymammax5
20 - Copmom
21 - Geogirl
22 - Geogirl

Thank you!!!

My pocket pals..look like pocket poo...LOL So coming up with something different for the boys...

Wonder if I can do needle felted robins or blue birds..hmmmmmmmm

I am doing wet felted soaps - egg shaped.

They are too big to fit inside an egg- please let me know if anyone would rather not have them. I am making them out of Ivory soap.

Sounds cute Zoe-Anne!!

They sound fine to me Zoe-Anne :)

I am doing wet felted soaps - egg shaped.

They are too big to fit inside an egg- please let me know if anyone would rather not have them. I am making them out of Ivory soap.

We don't mind bigger than an egg. I'll just put it inside his basket. :smirk:

We don't mind bigger than an egg. I'll just put it inside his basket. :smirk:

Same here.

I'm totally at a loss for what to send.. ideas? whats everyone else doing?

i am sending (store bought) mini-crocheted flowers and the glass eggs that i thought i'd send for the egg swap turned out to be very mini eggs :lol: so i am sending those along too!

Lorena, what are yoru glass eggs like, becuase i saw some very cool marbley type eggs the other day and i thought they woudl be cool in a basket, they are the size of a regular chicken egg

but if you are sending the same thing i'll do my original plan:monkeydan

I am making some mini wool tic tac toe boards, bought some easter themed mini erasers (eggs and bunnes), and something else but I'm not sure what yet ...

I made felt flowers in pots.

Lorena, what are yoru glass eggs like, becuase i saw some very cool marbley type eggs the other day and i thought they woudl be cool in a basket, they are the size of a regular chicken egg

but if you are sending the same thing i'll do my original plan:monkeydan

Even if they are similar you can still send them if you want to. Because i will be just randomly sending things out to people since this is the type of swap that you can send in as many/few items as you want :)

Lorena, what are yoru glass eggs like, becuase i saw some very cool marbley type eggs the other day and i thought they woudl be cool in a basket, they are the size of a regular chicken egg

but if you are sending the same thing i'll do my original plan:monkeydan

the eggs are very mini - about 2inches. there are only 12 of them (but 36 flowers) since i was gonna use them for the main swap. for the regular swap i have egg cups and cozies - but no egg for inside. your eggs sound perfect for that!

okay then i wil do my eggs for the regular swap and they wil be great with yoru cozies. For this swap i am goign to do walnut treasures, so i am still nto 100% sure what will fill it, but it will be some kind of treasure. maybe pewter hearts or perscious stones for treasure boxes...actually i think it will be precious stones, i know my kids woudl love that

We're down to 21 total for anyone keeping track :) We lost one swapper.

Im sorry I have not been around.Ive been extreemly busy plus just having some personal issues that have me down.Anyways I need to know if small blankets are ok for the stuffers?For the bendies or little animals.It was all I could come up with.

Well, I think blankets would be cute... esp if they had like a simple spring flower embroidered on them and finished edges (like blanket stitch or hemmed). http://img301.imageshack.us/img301/2403/idea3el.gif

If it was just a plain rectangle of felt or something then it probably wouldn't go over quite as well... LoL http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/dirtbox/pics/muttley.gif

Daisy's bunnies came today. They are so adorable! I had to hide them from the kiddos, lol!

Mailing this swap and the regular Easter swap items to you today, Bonnie!!

Today's the ship date! Please PM me if you still need my address.

If you are still packaging up/creating, I PMed Randah a week ago and still have not heard frmo her, so you can assume there is one less person now.
This is the most updated list now:

Swappers
1 - Mom2kbeth
2 - Mom2kbeth
3 - Huntersmama
4 - Huntersmama
5 - Korwynne
6 - Korwynne
7 - PolkaDot
8 - Maegansmama
9 - Daisy
10 - Gronilot
11 - Livingfree
12 - Starkl - RECEIVED
13 - Mcmrymoon
14 - Mcmrymoon
15 - Mamaselena
16 - Elfmama - RECEIVED
17 - Elfmama - RECEIVED
18 - Craftymammax5
19 - Geogirl
20 - Geogirl

Ok dang digi cam sucks but here is what I made.A bendie blanket and pillow with real stufing lol.I did a blanket stitch on the blanket.Hope this is ok
http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d38/madebyasahmto5/craftstuff/fire032.jpg
Front^
http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d38/madebyasahmto5/craftstuff/fire033.jpg
Back ice blue Panne^
http://i32.photobucket.com/albums/d38/madebyasahmto5/craftstuff/fire034.jpg
Pillow

i'm sending mine today
I did 8 seed packets per bendie :D
in a basket
some of the seed packets have 'seeds'
the strawberry seed packets have actual strawberry seeds(and the snausages taste like snausages<lil wonka humor here>)
and the seeds of love have mini hearts in them

I never got a chance to do mini ladybugs :(

Bonnie shipping swap today but before I do do I send postage?I have not heard of anything about postage so I need to know how much to send.Thanks!!

If you ahve a paypal account, you can just wait and send me the exact amount via paypal when I have everything here and weiged. If you don't, you can send over $5 to cover (hopefully!) and I will send you back your change. I usually wait until I have everything here and weighed to post the shipping totals because every swap is different and I could never estimate what the shipping will be.

I got home today from gymnastics with the kids and saw an amazon.com box in my mail box -- I got so excited because i thought it was my sue heaser book! But it was awesome items from Tracey for this and the Easter/ostara swaps :) Everythin glooks so cute!

And hopefully my book will come tomorrow, lol!

I got home today from gymnastics with the kids and saw an amazon.com box in my mail box -- I got so excited because i thought it was my sue heaser book! But it was awesome items from Tracey for this and the Easter/ostara swaps :) Everythin glooks so cute!

And hopefully my book will come tomorrow, lol!

sorry to do that to you, I just try to reuse all my boxes.... I know your heart prolly just sank when it wasn't your book. Here's to hoping it comes tomorrow!!! Glad you got the Easter swap stuff already. I mailed Friday so that was pretty quick!

I reuse the boxes all the time too :) So someone else will get this amazon box at some point, lol! AndI surely wasn't disappointed when I saw what was insdie! The eggs with the chicks are too precious!

ok, again, I don'tthink that these will fit in easter eggs, lol ;) But I really want to do fimo pens... I have been trying to embroider these cozies forever... and I sit and stare at the machine...

I can do fimo eggs in marbled pastel easer colors? what do you think?

Sounds good to me Selena :)

OK..my Spring gnomes are done. I will try to get this in the mail tomorrow..my cousins are leaving Tuesday night so latest would be Wed.

I had wanted to egt everyone's things shipped by today for those of us who celebrate Ostara. But there are still a bunch of packages that I have not received. Here's an update:

Swappers
1 - Mom2kbeth - RECEIVED
2 - Mom2kbeth- RECEIVED
3 - Huntersmama - RECEIVED
4 - Huntersmama - RECEIVED
5 - Korwynne - RECEIVED
6 - Korwynne - RECEIVED
7 - PolkaDot - RECEIVED
8 - Maegansmama
9 - Daisy - RECEIVED
10 - Gronilot - RECEIVED
11 - Livingfree - RECEIVED
12 - Starkl - RECEIVED
13 - Mcmrymoon - RECEIVED
14 - Mcmrymoon - RECEIVED
15 - Mamaselena - RECEIVED
16 - Elfmama - RECEIVED
17 - Elfmama - RECEIVED
18 - Craftymammax5
19 - Geogirl
20 - Geogirl
21 -Randah - RECEIVED

So I am missing 4 sets of items (everyone in blue). What does everyone want me to do? Ship tomorrow or wait until everything else gets here? LMK

We celebrate easter, so we can wait a bit for you to ship. If you want you can just stick ours with the wool food and wizard stuff, unless it's cluttering up your house. Thank you for hosting it Bonnie! :hbeat:

Celebrating Easter here too so mine can wait a bit longer. Heck, my brain is so fried, I don't even remember exactly when Easter is this year. I just think it is mid-April. But I guess that is right around the corner, isnt' it?

thanks Bonnie!!

ETA: Didn't Stacey send hers to everyone, or was that the regular Easter/Ostara swap?

I would have liked to get them for Ostara but as the resident officially late swapper ;) I have no say in when it gets set, :hahaha:

we do the eggs at Easter.. Ostara's more changing out the nature table and starting seeds around here :)

LOL Selena! Do you want me to send your things tomorrow? Or just wait? If I send priiority tomorrow you should get them Monday (probably!)

Bonnie,

I had pm'd you to drop this one, due to my sick kids over the last few months (healthy now yay!) and my uncle passing..


Thanks

Rebecca

You're right .. apparently I only edited you out of my list and not the OP and I didn't even think of it when I reposted the list! Sorry!!

So here's the real list, lol:
Swappers
1 - Mom2kbeth - RECEIVED
2 - Mom2kbeth- RECEIVED
3 - Huntersmama - RECEIVED
4 - Huntersmama - RECEIVED
5 - Korwynne - RECEIVED
6 - Korwynne - RECEIVED
7 - PolkaDot - RECEIVED
8 - Maegansmama
9 - Daisy - RECEIVED
10 - Gronilot - RECEIVED
11 - Livingfree - RECEIVED
12 - Starkl - RECEIVED
13 - Mcmrymoon - RECEIVED
14 - Mcmrymoon - RECEIVED
15 - Mamaselena - RECEIVED
16 - Elfmama - RECEIVED
17 - Elfmama - RECEIVED
18 - Craftymammax5
19 -Randah - RECEIVED

So I am just waiting on 2 people then.

Wendy and Stacey - when did you two ship?

We do the Easter egg hunting here...so we can wait if you like:) I received my lilly from Stacey for the Spring swap though:)

We can wait also. Have you heard anything from the two mama's yet?

We do Easter eggs, so we can wait too.

Stacey is going to get back to me tomorrow morning and I haven't heard anything back from Wendy.

I'm okay with waiting till easter too. Its mid april this year, isn't it?

I'm okay with waiting till easter too. Its mid april this year, isn't it?


Yep, April 16. I had to look it up. Brain fried!!