bookworm

I'm so sorry, I'm the straggler here.  I did get a very pretty card from winterblizzard at the end of January!  As I had mentioned, I celebrate my birthday the whole month, so it was fantastic to get a birthday card just as the month was coming to an end.  It was a hand printed card with the artist's website address included on it, and since I'm interested in letterpress and block printing I went and checked it out and had fun browsing through the site.  (Actually, typing this out reminded me that I was thinking about signing up for her email list, so I think I'll go and do that when I finish writing this up!)  Here's a pic of the card:

Thank you so much to everyone!  You all sent such wonderful cards, and I hope you enjoyed the ones I sent to you!  And special thanks to twilighteyes for setting this up and taking care of everything to make it work!

On 1/3/2024 at 11:47 AM, Psuke said:

I got it 😊 I didn't scratch the silver, it was very...stubborn, but I love the stickers.

Happy you got it, but bummer that the scratch-off didn't work properly.  I guess I should have tested it first! 

I got a bunch of fun cards both before and after my birthday!    It was so much fun to open my mailbox and find a birthday card amongst all the junk mail and bills!  

Here's a photo of them all!

Thanks so much for the birthday cheer, neptuneanblues, TwilightEyes, lorizav, Thuy, Jenjin, Lucchesa, Psuke, and skyelyric!!!  

Skyelyric, It looks like you were right about mailing the first card without an address, because the owl one was the only one I got from you.  (It looks like you took that photo?  How cool to see an owl up close like that and get such a great picture of it!)  I hate those moments of suddenly realizing out of nowhere that I totally screwed up or forgot to do something days earlier!    But I'm glad that you had one of those moments this time and sent this great back-up card!

Thanks again, everyone!    And special thanks to twilighteyes for arranging this and keeping everything running smoothly! 

On 12/19/2023 at 5:00 PM, Psuke said:

I have received two sweet birthday cards so far - one from @Thuy and one of an adorable kitten, but I'm not sure of their forum name. Thank you...it's been sort of a difficult season, because, so the bits of cheer are appreciated. 

If the kitten is holding a scratch-off flower, then it was from me!  The scratch off bit was something new to me, so I hope it worked!  Sorry, did I completely forget to put my forum name, or was it just illegible?  I hope things are getting better and that you had a very happy birthday and have a happy new year!

I sent my card out earlier this week, neptuneanblues, and I'm so sorry that it didn't arrive in time!  I had a feeling I should have dropped in at the neighboring town's post office instead of putting it out in my mailbox and relying on my post office to get it to you in time.    I hope you had a very Happy Birthday! 🎂, and I really hope my card arrives tomorrow!

6 hours ago, skyelyric said:

mine went out this weekend

Mine too!

On 4/6/2023 at 12:34 PM, twilighteyes said:

(My card is going out today because I forgot to put it in the box that I already sent as part of the Easter Swap, derrrrrp.)

 

@bookworm

 

Please check your list for April and let me know when you send so I can mark you off!

Sorry, I just saw this.  I put mine in the mail last week - Thursday or Friday, I think?  Hopefully it gets to Thuy soon - I prefer to mail things from the post office in the next town over because they seem to move faster and I've heard bad things about mail going missing from my local post office, but my car isn't working right now and so I'm stuck mailing from home.

Came rushing in here after a lot of debating if I should sign up for this, thinking I would squeak in just under the deadline, and found out that I actually had two more days to dither! Now if only I can fool myself into thinking deadlines are closer than they are when I'm sending cards out, I should be good!    I'm the world's biggest procrastinator, so I've been going back and forth with myself as to whether I could actually get cards out on time, but told myself that they don't necessarily have to be elaborate handmade creations - a store-bought birthday card is still a birthday card, and the more birthday cards the better!    So I've sent in my email and I'm really excited to do this!  Thanks for setting this up, Twi!

My wonderful Switch Witch Jenjin graciously gifted me with this lovely last year, and it is a fantastically gorgeous glitterbomb of beauty! Truly, pictures don't do this one justice, but I'll put them here anyway (please forgive my uneven nails!):

This is two coats of PSE with two coats of topcoat. Even with two coats of topcoat, it's still a little bit rough, but not terribly so. I think it actually looks a bit brighter and more golden orange in person, and it has an amazing sparkle that I just can't capture in pictures. It's spectacular, and I hope it comes back this year so that I can snag a back-up bottle (or two!).