Tiny Books Galore!

I participated in Julie Colling's Tiny Book Swap and my goodies arrived today in this absolutely adorable hand made envelope. I wouldn't expect anything less from the fabulous host but she went above and beyond what anyone would expect. All the participant names, book titles and blog names are listed in another tiny book she made for us...see it tucked under the lace bow? I've been thinking of nifty ways to showcase all the books but I think I may just leave them in the wonderful envelope...what do you think? Aren't they lovely? I'm looking forward to reading through each one tonight while snuggled up on the couch watching olympic ice dancing. What a perfect way to start my weekend!Thank you for being such a gracious swap host Julie and thank you to all who participated...your books are little works of art!

Tiny Book Swap...

I signed up for Julie Collings' "Tiny Book Swap" so got to work on my love themed tiny book last night while the boys were at a Timberwolves basketball game. I finished it this morning and ran to Kinkos to make a bunch of color copies. I have to admit, I was a bit nervous about it all folding up evenly but thankfully the measureing, folding, cutting and aligning worked out beautifully and they look good! I can't wait to see all the other tiny books!

Here are some other little projects I've been working on...

I am somewhat of a soap collector (ok...hoarder), I love all the pretty packaging and never want to throw the boxes or papers away. I decided I'd better start doing something with them though so started with this little soap box. It's sort of like an oversized matchbox, the main compartment slides in and out of a "case." I decorated it with pretty paper and felt flowers and think I might tuck some cute little goodies in there and send it along to Shelby in her February "care package." (she went back to college yesterday after having a month off...I miss her already).

And this is a reproduction of an altered cigar box I made for a swap partner months ago...I decided I wanted one for myself.

Now I have to run off to Archivers to see if I can recover Matt's 17th Birthday photos I stupidly deleted before transferring them to my computer. Sometimes I'm lucky and pictures that have been deleted show up when I load my memory card into Archiver's Sony Picture machine. I've got my fingers crossed!