Good Morning!

I am feeling a lot better today. Having a minimal amount of pain, yet a lot of soreness in my muscles. I slept fairly well, trying to be cautious of my body's positioning, although I've been up and down several times during the night. Thankfully, I have the internet to occupy myself while Don's sleeping and the jacuzzi to take a nice morning soak in. That should assist with getting me a bit more mo-bile today. I'd love to make it out to the studio to play with some stamping, embossing powders, throw some paint around... so I'll see how that goes. Don will working all day so I gotta entertain myself somehow.

I received "the email" for my swap participants in the Variety Collage Supply swap on Swap-bot. One is in Pennsylvania and her profile states she enjoys knitting and sewing, natural materials, vintage buttons, ribbons, and lace so I'll have to see what I have in my stash to send her along those lines in addition to the various other items I have yet to gather up. The other lady is in London, and there is no profile information on her. I did discover her email so I may email her to see if there is anything in particular that she'd like to receive so that I can attempt to make this a wonderful swap for her with images she'd enjoy. I have previously began assembling the packages and one in particular has a lot of the United States style collage papers in it so I believe this set will be sent on to her for her to enjoy. Afterall, that is part of the fun of swapping internationally, I believe. Sending items you wouldn't find in your own locality.

I received Lianne's beautiful deco in the mail yesterday. Her theme is "Favorite Childhood Memories" and I have some ideas of what I would like to add to her deco. I will have to experiment with how exactly to add them to the page. Her sign in's are tags adhered to the back of each page that has been reserved for the four of us to create in. It is very well designed and inspiring, to say the least. {I don't want to disclose too much info and ruin the surprise of seeing it for others.} And a note to myself, be sure to scan or photograph my page before sending it off! so I can share it with you after the deco has returned home.

I did not manage to work on binding my own deco yesterday so I am getting off of here to do that here shortly. I need to get it finished up and packaged to go the P.O. in just a few short hours. I'll check in later........ Hope everyone is having a great day!