a fair trade!

i got offered a private swap on Swap-bot last week and had to take it! denimblu14 sent me a couple of Prince William and Catherine Middleton royal wedding postcards in exchange for a hippopotamus pinback button / badge.

she sent the postcards so quickly that i didn't get a chance to send her her package yet. here's the postcards!





aren't they awesome! i'm so excited to have something so historic. :) i'm very excited to see the wedding too! hopefully it's during my waking hours!

and here's the hippo button i made. (and the rubberstamp i used is on the right)





i'm sending her a tiny hippo toy and packing them in a linen bag i stamped with a hippo too. :)

hope she likes the button!

what happened to the elephant?!

okay, so i baked the elephant according to the instructions on the Sculpey package. but it turned BROWN!  agh!  can't send a brown burnt elephant for what should've been an ivory elephant... so i painted it with iridescent pearl acrylic paint.  interesting that the pearl turned silver.

here's the original elephant:


and what it looked like after i painted and glossed it:


not ivory, but not bad, i guess.. it's on it's way to England at the moment!

Day 28: Flea haiku

okay, i'm not a poet.  but i'm tired and i can't bring myself to attempt anything that requires more effort.  not that poetry is easy, but i don't want to get my hands dirty and make a mess at this time of night.

here's a little poem i wrote in  honor of the little "friends" that dottie gets from the cats next door.

FLEA HAIKU
my dog is itchy
because the fleas are eating
she scratches all night

my husband wanted another variation... thus the edit.

he gets crazy flea bites.  i think he's allergic.  or he just has sweet blood, they attack him and not me?

i even drew a little flea.  see? haha... good night.