Handmade Gift Exchange

I’m so glad that I found out about this! Linda over at Craftaholics Anonymous has this GREAT idea of getting crafty people together to share in crafty awesomeness. Basically, everyone who is interested signs up and gets randomly paired with other crafters. This is my first time participating and apparently it was slightly different than before. Before only you and your partner would share in crafty goodness. This year, you sent someone a gift and someone completely different sent you a gift. Therefore widening the exchange a bit. I received my gift and LOVED it! My new pal Emily and I have been exchanging emails ever since! She’s way sweet. Look what she made me!!!!

It made my day! I also carried it around this weekend and everyone really liked it! The purse is small, so I only carried the essentials this weekend: keys, iPod, wallet, chapstick and my glasses. It all fit perfectly! The lil owl keychain is now the home of my work keys :) Of course the coin purse only has about 3 coins in it right now, but it works! ha. Thanks a bunch Emily :)
Sooo I’ve had my gift ready to ship for a week BUT my work schedule was just too hectic this week so I couldn’t make it to the post office until Saturday. It is now on the way to Louisiana!

You get to ask secret questions to the person you are crafting for. At first, it was REALLY difficult! I was so afraid I’d make her something she wouldn’t like. THEN I remembered to ask for her Pinterest username! Once I got that it was much easier. I immediately got super excited when I saw she liked owls. I LOVE THEM! I saw an owl iPod case she really liked so I attempted my own version. I’ve only made a couple iPod cases for myself so it took a few tries before I got this one the way I liked. Oh, she also said she likes brown and teals so I went with it. The smaller owl is actually a magnet. I love making useful and cute things. I really hope she likes them!
I can’t wait for the next handmade gift exchange! It’ll be near Christmas time and that seems to be the MOST FUN crafty time. I hope you look into it! Are you crafty? Do you like giving presents? Do you like getting presents? If you said yes to any of those, you’ll love it. Promise.