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    Brown and Orange

    April 23, 2008 - By 

    I’ve completed the next 2 colors in my long term swap. I love that I get to use up scraps and the little bits and bobbles I’ve collected over time. It’s really stretching me creatively too…coming up with so many unique designs.

    I haven’t decided which one of each color I’ll be keeping yet.

    Any opinions?

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    Long term swap

    April 18, 2008 - By 



    I had decided I wasn’t going to sign up for anymore swaps that I had to make multiples of the exact same page again..at least for quite some time. My friend Theresa came up a long term swap that will eventually end up with a rainbow of colors. I was still reluctant to join until she said it was okay for each of the pages to be different.

    I will keep 1 square from each set and the others will be part of the 5 for5 swap. In the end I’ll have 6 pages of each color. It will be a very chunky book.
    From the purple set I’ll be keeping the page with the flowers and my name pin on it.
    I’m torn with the blue pages…I’d like to keep 3 of them. I’ve got time before sending them to mull it over.

    Which blue page is your favorite?

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    House tip-in book

    February 2, 2008 - By 



    I put together a house theme book with the tip-ins I received from a swap on ABC altered book club plus a couple pages of my own just for fun.

    The image on the cover is the Hamm house which has been torn down. I got a book in the free bin at the library. It tell the stories of buildings and places in Minnesota that have been lost due to “progress”. I’m not entirely sure but I think the Hamm family is one in the same as the Hamm’s beer company…which is also gone. Although, I still can remember the theme song as well as Hamm’s bear from the TV ads…I may be aging myself with that declaration.