Surprise Panda Mail!

I'm so lucky, I have the greatest friends! My friend Barb sent us a panda surprise in the mail! I came home on Friday to discover these Panda screen bags. Just look at them! There was one for my daughter and one for me! What a great surprise! We love them and feel completely spoiled!!! Thank you Barb!

Thank Kathy

Kathy and I decided to modify our swap and concentrate more on the black and white theme. I love black and white! Kathy knew I liked tea and sent a mug and saucer, a tea infuser, tea stickers and some of her homemade tea that she sells in her shop. It's been too hot so I've only had iced tea but I can't wait to try this tea! I've admired Kathy's teas when she's shown them on her blog.

Thank you Kathy! Your tea goodies inspired me to finally try making myself a mug rug. I used scraps from a couple of my Panda Swap projects. I already brought this one to school so now I need to make a new one for home.

Black and White and Panda All Over

What's Black and white and panda all over? Nature Girl's package from Brittany! Look the box was wrapped and stamped with pandas. She was literally squealing with delight as she opened the package.

She's one happy girl, who loves everything. She wore the night gown for bed the first night and has slept with her panda pillow every night since it arrived. I can't blame her for liking this package, it's a perfect package for her with stickers, colored pencils and water color paper. We just bought water color pencils too. She was very excited about the panda cookies. We sent them to our partners but didn't buy any for ourselves. She's tested all of the flavors and thinks strawberry is the best.

Nature Girl says, "Thank you very much! I love the pillow and the pajamas and especially the drawing stuff. This is an awesome package!"

Thank you Brittany!

Panda Goodies

Here are the panda goodies Nature Girl and I sent to Olivia. I just had to make a panda softie with recycled wool. We also made a beaded panda necklace for Olivia and a panda keychain.

My favorite panda item was this sleep mask model by Nature Girl. I hope you're having as much fun with the panda swap as we are!

Panda Masterpiece

Nature Girl received her panda package from Melinda and Olivia. She was so excited to get her own swap package! It was filled with black & white & Panda goodies. They sent pajama bottoms with a matching panda headband, watercolor paints, Twizzlers, and an art book.

Just look at this book they altered. Isn't it awesome?!! We think it's a panda masterpiece. The book is full of paper for Nature Girl to draw and paint on. When she saw the book she said "Look it's art." Thanks for sending such an amazing piece of art to her. She LOVES it! This package made her so happy! Thank you! You are very talented ladies!

Black and White Inspiration

Here's a little of our black and white inspiration. Nature Girl and I made these black and white masks using black permanent markers and white masks purchased at a craft store for 35 cents each. Nature Girl started off with flowers on her mask then decided she didn't like it and went to work making her mask black. These masks inspired part of our panda swap goodies for Olivia. We can't share it yet as Olivia hasn't received the package but it should be delivered to Olivia any day now.

Panda Swap 2011

Everyone is in the midst of creating and gathering goodies for the Panda swap. The ship date August 16th is still a way off but I've created this place to share the goodies from the swap. That way everyone can enjoy the panda goodness! Feel free to add posts, pictures and comments.