Jan 8th 2010 11:41:59 am

Poor friday link love. It has been nearly three weeks since we’ve shared fun links, but we are back in action today! Enjoy.

• The next holiday on my radar is Valentine’s Day. The photo above comes from Sew4Home.com’s Valentine Patchwork Heart Sachet tutorial. It is easy to follow with great photography. (Speaking of Valentine’s Day, why not come join my February Love Matchbox Swap – everyone is welcome!)
• If you are looking for other great craft tutorials, check out The Long Thread’s Top 100 Tutorials of 2009. They should keep you busy for a while!
• I just discovered a great, new, crafty blog that you might want to check out: Art vs. Craft. It is published by a Canadian graphic designer and it has lots of crafty content and some free downloads.
• Speaking of blogs, I also just discovered Funky Finds, a wild indie craft website. There is a Funky Finds blog (which showcases independent artists, crafters, and designers), a Funky Town community. The whole site is really wacky in a totally fun way.
• I somehow missed the amazing tutorial/article published on NotMartha.org last month about the adorable mini gingerbread houses she created to perch on the side of a mug of hot chocolate. They are so very cute and a perfect winter treat!
• Swap-bot user, auntielolo, sent me this next link via Twitter: Airmail-themed fashion. I love it! We could all start dressing just like Ernie the envie!

Happy 2010, swappers! Here’s to a new decade of swapping fun! xoxo, rachel

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Jan 6th 2010 09:48:41 am

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Jan 4th 2010 08:56:28 am

For the second year in a row, I am hosting a fun and simple . It is a great swap for matchbox lovers and beginners alike. I love February (my birthday is the 10th), so this is one of my favorite swaps of the year!

We each will have just one partner in this international swap, for whom we will create a Valentine or February theme matchbox. We will also fill the matchbox with similarly-themed goodies. Most participants will probably choose to do a Valentine’s Day or Love theme, but some examples of additional February themes include Chinese New Year, President’s Day, MLK Jr Day, Black History Month, etc. This swap is sender’s choice and anything goes as long as you send a high quality matchbox that you would love to receive. The sign up deadline for the is February 3rd, and all packages must be sent by February 8th. You must have a 4.9 rating to participate, but new users are also welcome. (I angel my matchbox swaps, so consider this swap a no risk opportunity to swap with some new folks.)

p.s. Swap-bot will be hosting a craft night event at on February 1st that will feature these matchbox Valentine’s… more details to come!

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Jan 3rd 2010 01:16:56 pm

The following three Swap-bot users were randomly chosen on as the winners of the . The grand prize winner will receive and one of her 8×10 art prints from her , and the two runners up will each receive an 8 x 10 art print. Congratulations to the winners!

Grand prize winner:

Ariel (aka )

on 26 Dec 2009: “I packaged and help deliver gift bags to over 200 nursing home residents. The Silver Stocking Project is a grassroots program that provides items to people in nursing homes that have no other family members or friends. It’s a great program!”

Runners up winners:

Jessica (aka ) on 29 Dec 2009: “A good thing I did this month was I saved the money from my paychecks by cutting back and eliminating some activities to buy Christmas presents for everybody, even those I knew didnt have the money to buy for me.”

Marie (aka ) on 20 Dec 2009: “This month I have been working on a very big examn project from the university. One of the girls in my project group has been very busy so I’ve helped her out a lot by doing some stuff for her and still making her take the credit. – It was important to her and she was so happy afterwards.”

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