Thank you, adorned7!

Yay! Another trade arrived this weekend. So pretty!!!












These are from adorned7, and her jewelry is fabulously colorful! Great for a fun night out on the town :)

<---- These lovelies are for me (shhhh, don't tell anyone on my Christmas list!). The other two are going as gifts!

First attempt at recycled envelopes

For some reason I was stuck on the idea of recycled envelopes over the weekend. There's a Good Will book store very close to my house, so I stopped in there on Sunday, and found a great copy of One Fish, Two Fish by Dr. Seuss. It broke my heart to tear the book to shreds, but I got over it ... (hehe)

Here's some of the envelopes I made. They aren't standard size. More like "thank you" size.
This has inspired me to make some stationary gift sets for my friends and families for the holidays. As for the Dr. Seuss envelopes, I think I might put sets in as a freebie to my customers. I'll have to make custom note cards to go in them, but hey, any excuse to get crafty is fine by me :)

Trading for the Holidays?

I just finished graduate school and have quite a bit of student load debt. My family would be completely understanding if I just gave cards or something similarly "budget conscious" for Christmas, but it would just kill me to have to resort to that. So I'm seriously considering trading with other etsy sellers so I can get some nice gifts.

I've never traded before, but it seems like it could be a good deal. There are a lot of traders on etsy, and some have really tempting items. The process, as far as I understand, is that two sellers contact each other, they find some item(s) they like, and then they attempt to make the trading amount even.

Hopefully I can get a good thing going! :)