Owl Love That Makes You Cry

This is my daughter. She has swapped along with me for the last few years. She loves swap mail! She knows the drill, you wait until Mommy gets home from work and has the camera in hand to open the package. She even reminded me that I usually snap a picture of her with the package.

After posing with the package, then it's time to dig in to see what's inside the package. She was excited to find an owl bag stuffed with tissue paper and more goodies!

Look at all of the things Julz (and Barb) sent. As I mentioned before my daughter has lots of swap experience but she was so cute about this package. She started to tear up and made me stop taking pictures until she cleared her eyes. She loved the pillowcase for her travel pillow(Barb made her an awesome Florida pillowcase and travel pillow when we met them in Florida a year and a half ago. She still uses that travel pillow all the time!) They also included owl paper, owl cards, an owl craft. an owl pouch, an owl purse and our favorite . . . .

This owl picture, painted by the talented Julz! Don't you love it? We do!!! It's already on display. Thank you Julz and Barb for enough owl love to make us cry! Awesome package! Thank you!!!!

Owl Goodness

So by now all of our owl packages are flying around the world, just waiting to land at their intended destination. I was lucky enough to receive this owl package from Ngaire. It arrived the day before I left on vacation so I'm a bit slow posting a picture. Now that I'm home it's time to share my owl goodies. Ngaire sent an owl emery board, a wooden owl and an owl softie all tucked into an adorable owl gift bag. The owl softie is made from a sweater, so you know I was going to be in love with it! Thank you Ngaire for my owls, I love them!!!

I hope everyone will be happy with their packages of owl goodness!

Happy Hooters.....

Yeah the title is cheesy...but it got your attention, right?

Okay...so here is my lovely package from Cassie! I love EVERYTHING...she totally got me with those TOADSTOOL napkins!
The Tim Tams were good but lasted about an hour...hahaha......all that felt and those stickers will be used up quickly.
And look at the sweet hootie and the hootie sewing case...


here is the inside of the case...just precious!



an check this adorable owl watch...oh my gosh! When you squeeze its "ears" the wings open to expose the watch! (okay so owls don't have big old ears, but you know what I mean..the feather tufts that LOOK like ears....)

Cassie....thank you SO much, I adore everything!!!

on its way

I had a blast making a few things and while most are obvious, the long thing is a plastic bag holder we all have so many of...

I hope she likes everything!

night owl

be it a coaster for a cold drink or little birdie water dish, I hope my secret partner likes this little night owl

Owl works in progress

I created a couple of owl items this week. The first is a journal made from a composition notebook. I altered it using scrapbook paper, Sharpie markers and an old yellowed book page.

I also made this small pouch from one of my favorite felted wool sweaters. It's a bit wonky as I'm not very good at sewing zippers. Wonky or not, he's definitely growing on me. I'm not sure he's swap worthy, though my daughter assures me she wants it if I don't send it off to a new home. Really, he might fit nicely in my purse stuffed full of Sharpie pens for drawing. One way or another he'll have a home.

What owl works do you have in progress?

thinking

sometimes I doodle what I am thinking of, just to see if I will like it......

hmmmmmm....

more owls

I adore owls. I have always loved them. I love their big eyes and there feathers that look like fur.
Every now and then, I see an owl at dusk. Sometimes when walking the dogs, they will look up....and we will see an owl as it passes by. They are so silent that we can't hear them...but the dogs can. They are such amazing creatures.

On someones facebook page, I found these kitchen owls from recycled things..here are 2 of my favorites...

owl lovers....

I stumbled across this blog today while looking up owl ideas...and realized I had stumbled across it several times over the last year or two.....such a neat website!

and then I found THESE cuties too!

Begs the question....

What should I make??????????

Owl Partners

Your owl partner information has been sent. Please e-mail me so I know you got your partner information. Remember, feel free to post sneak peeks and inspirations here.

Let the owl fun begin!