I received my swap apron on Friday. It's so cute and so springy. Included with it was a recipe for Chicken and Wild Rise Soup that we'll be making up as soon as we can gather up all the ingredients. There was also a card of three big vintage buttons. These were extra cool since I had been thinking just that afternoon that I really needed some nice big buttons for my button box - now I have some!

Here's the front:

And here's the back:

This is a reversible apron (two aprons in one!) and I love the piping on the pockets. Here's a look at one of the pockets and the buttons:

Since this apron arrived just as I was starting dinner (and I wasn't going to wait to open the package) it has already been given a good test drive and performed beautifully for making dinner, washing dishes, doing laundry and working on some craft stuff (more on that later).

Thanks Andrea  :)

This is my wedding bouquet. I’m certain that our photographer has some lovely pictures of it so I’ll save detail shots until then. It is made of felt, beads, wire, floral tape, lace, silk and yarn. I spent most of Friday working on it and I was really pleased with the way it turned out. Robhad a matching boutonniere of a small white flower and a couple of the tiny blue flowers with two leaves. The lace was my something old - it was left over from my grandmothers wedding dress. I was a little worried that my bouquet wouldn’t survive the toss (I knew I could put it back together but I didn’t want anyone to get hurt on the wires trying to catch it) but it performed its job well and was caught by my cousin Rochelle.