Vintage inchies.

Tackled my vintage inchies today! The swap calls for two sets of four, but I made an extra for each person because I was having fun!

I also finished both J ATCs I needed and am almost finished the E ATC I needed for that private 5xATC swap, but I'm not going to bother taking pictures 'til I finish the full set. :)

Goal for this week: Attempt to finish both sets of alphabet ATCs (one set for private swap, other for upcoming Crafting Queens swap.

• Private swap: E (almost done), I, J (done), K, N.
• CQ swap: F, G, H, I, J(done).
  

Ellie for sunzorch!

Finished that ATC for sunzorch, finally. My wrists and hands are quickly learning to hate needlework, but oh well for them...I have more to do after this!

My goal for this week: E, I, J, K, N ATCs for a private swap. If I finish those, then I need to work on my first twinchies ever - 20 zentangled twinchies, 10 for each partner. Whew.

Bee Happy.

Don't worry, be(e) happy. Optimistic ATCs, done! Spectacularly bad photo - check! Will be able to get sunzorch's ATC done and mailed tomorrow, no problem - hubby doesn't have to leave for work 'til ~3pm. Yay, I'm on track again!

Why do I bother numbering goals?

It's not like I end up doing them in order anyway. Oops.

I ended up staying up later than I wanted to last night (baby wouldn't sleep!) so I finished the divided doodle inchies. I guess I wanted to continue the trend, so I made my Valentine's inchies the same way this morning!

Going to start cross-stitching towards my two goals once I get the kidlet off the bus in < 1 hour. If I push it, I'll get all three ATCs done tonight! But the dents...haha, poor finger.

When inchies attack!

Ok, so they're not really attacking...but tell that to my desk!

I finished the set of 10 inchies that are going out to angeliclizard for our private swap:


Also finished the three sets of 6 kawaii inchies for an upcoming swap:


The two free-themed ATCs I made for February's CPG sender's choice swap - one was completed last night, the other this morning:


Did two Valentine's-themed inchies (one for each set of 5) for an upcoming swap, but as usual, not going to bother photographing them 'til the full set is done.

The goal for tomorrow involves putting more dents in my finger. I tried to give it a break! D:

1. Elephant Love ATC for sunzorch (Quest for Knowledge-themed but not an actual swap - she was kind enough to send me one just because, so I will do the same for her!)
2. Two ATCs for the 'Optimistic ATC' swap - will do Bee Happy cross-stitched ones

If I get through that, my next three goals:

1. 8 more Valentine's-themed inchies
2. 6 'divided doodle' inchies
3. E, I, J, K, N ATCs (private swap - these will probably all be cross-stitched, ouch!)

And of course, I have much more to do, but need to get through those things first!

I'm going to ATTEMPT to cut back on swapping (at least postage-wise)...we'll see how well that goes. Would be nice to do more swaps with less partners but more ATCs/inchies sent to each to maximize my swap item-to-postage ratio.

Giving the dents a break.

I really do love it when hubby has a day off. Not only do I finally get to spend time with him, but I get a lot done!

Tackled a ton of stuff that needed to be done on a one-and-a-half hour journey around town, then came home and did housework and did more ATCs & inchies!


The first (amazingly bad - sorry! It's bad even for me, and that's saying something) photo is the two ATCs I made for the Foreign Language ATC swap. The background is a page from a vintage Greek composition book. Greek is such a nifty-looking language.


The second is that Valentine's ATC I mentioned being too lazy to photograph earlier. :P

I've made more inchies too, but no completed sets so not going to bother with pictures yet. I've made 5/10 for a private swap and 7/18 for a kawaii inchie swap so far. I've also made one random ATC, but again, not going to bother photographing since I need to make one more for the set.

Gonna keep going at this pace until I crap out for the night - hopefully I can get more done! :D

Oh, and one final note in closing - I've finally learned just how perfect cereal box cardboard is for backing ATCs and inchies. To the partners I've made inchies for in the past - I'm sorry! They're downright flimsy in comparison to the cardboard blanks I'm using now. (Gogo Kaia's Froot Loops box!)

I'm thinking the dents are permanent.

My poor finger. I know I should give needlework a rest and let my finger recuperate, but I can't!


The first two ATCs are for a private swap with Bee1981.


The last ATC is going to live with Michelle in another swap. :)

On the go: TONS! I knocked out the Valentine's ATC, but am too lazy to take a photo right now. Need to tackle a tontonton of various ATCs and inchies. I actually wrote out a list of everything I need to finish...time to get to work. :3