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call for snail mail swaps!
Tuesday 31 January, 2006
One of my favourite features of my digital camera is the macro setting. I love to stick the camera down close to plant-life and click. Sometimes I get interesting shots like this one - it looks like this photo was taken in a desert or something. In fact, it was taken by the river. These daisies are amazing, though, how they grow in river sand amongst the hot stones. Now, that is tenacity!
*call for swaps*!
(NZers and Australians only please. The cost of posting things to Canada/USA is making me bankrupt!)
SWAP ONE:
If you are a soft toy maker/enthusiast, I have two very cute and at times, very weird 1970s soft toy pattern books up for grabs. The patterns go from the sublime: towelling bunnies, a giant snail floor cushion, cute big-headed dolls to the bizarre: 'hippy' rag dolls with 'stoned' eyes, naked 'Adam' and 'Eve' dolls and other weird 70s stuff like that.
So, if you're interested in swapping them for something, email me.
I'm pretty open to ideas for swap-stuff but here's some ideas: cute stationary, stickers, stripy socks, retro fabric, interesting op-shop scores, collage materials...etc...
SWAP TWO:
Is anyone interested in swapping packages of collage materials?
I can send you an A4 envelope chock-full of Asian tea wrappers, pretty papers, vintage greeting cards, interesting pictures and postcards, pages out of children's books etc etc etc...and you send me the same out of YOUR collage materials stash.
The thing with collage is that I do my best work when I'm surprised or excited about the materials and because I have drawers full of pages from the same books etc...I sometimes get a little 'over' the stuff I've gathered. Keep it fresh, I say!
So email me if you want to do a collage-materials swap.
SWAP THREE:
Is anyone out there doing the 1980s fashion renaissance? I have a pair of mint condition vintage 1980s bright red leather slouch ankle boots with a flat wedge heel. The tag on them says 9.5, but they just fit me and I'm between a 8.5 to 9. I'll post a photo later when I get a bit more organised.
They were one of those op shop finds that you just have to snap up because they are so perfect and beautiful, but every time I put them on I freak out and feel really old, because when I was 12 in 1984 I had the same boots except my first pair were grey suede and I can't cope with the time-warp thing. Wearing them makes me feel like I'm back at intermediate.
Anyway, I know someone out there would love them to death. If that person it you - email me with your swap proposal. I'm a whore for snail mail so am unlikely to refuse an offer :)
Oooh...I'm so excited!
posted by Helen on 31 January, 2006 | 6:46am
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SWAP UPDATE: The stuffed toy books have been snapped up!
Posted by Helen on 31 January, 2006 | 12:39pm
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