Fortune Teller Swap

 

This is the fortune teller I made for the fortune teller swap. I tried to create media message fortunes. I used magazine images and words. Our traditional fortune tellers used 4 colors on the outside, which the reader would spell as they opened and closed it. The inside contained 8 numbers which the reader would count off as they opened or closed it. Then on the third selection, the reader would read the fortune under the number you picked. Other versions have you read the fortune without the intermediate counting. As children, we seemed to value suspense.

Fortune Teller Swap

I swap with Swap-bot!
I called these things fortune tellers, if they got called anything at all. There are lots of things in life that I don't have words for. Like these. It's a Cootie Catcher Swap. I honestly didn't know what it was for until I clicked on the swap because I didn't call them anything most of the time.
So mine is fun and exciting. I hope so, at least. It was totally fun to make. Flickr pictures tomorrow.

Crochet Hook Roll

I swap with Swap-bot!
Here's another one I'm sending out tonight. I made lots of slots for hooks. The pictures will be posted on my flickr later - maybe tomorrow.

Monster Mascot Swap

I swap with Swap-bot!
Here's a swap I'm in. I'm sending out today - except the due date was yesterday. Whenever it involves sewing, I spend forever and then decide I hate what I made. I had to make 3 monsters to get one I thought was good enough to send out. I took pictures of all three. They will be posted to my flickr later.
I think What I made is almost as cute as the example photo. I hope my partner likes it.

why you should swap

Sometimes it's fun to make pieces of art just to send to other people.
If you are excited about what you made, you still get to take a picture of it before you send.
If you can't bear to part with it, you can always make some more that you hope to be less attached to.
You don't always have a way of selling things you want to sew, but you can give them to people and get something in return.

I would never have made this little creature if I didn't have a person to send it to. I had nowhere to keep him.

Flickr Knees Mosaic

You know it's a long week when I sit down to my computer and all the stuff I had from the night before is still sitting on my computer unsent!
Here are the links to the images in my mosaic. I kept up my motifs of rats, tattoos, and knitting, with an overarching theme of knees.
1. Untitled, 2. That Blue Dress., 3. Elephant tattoo, 4. Untitled, 5. Humphry having a sniff, 6. Knee, 7. On my knee, 8. Rat in mi kitchen, 9. bzzz, 10. Jonathan, knees, 11. 14/365, 12. knitting knees, 13. Cute Rat

recent tatting pics

This is a list of tatting images I favorited for a swapbot flickr mosaic swap. They are all really interesting and nice images of tatting.
1. Wire Tatting (Project 365 - Day 26/365), 2. Tatting Motif, 3. antique tatting, 4. Pink Ivory Wood Tatting Shuttle with Cameo Inlay, 5. Tatted Lace, 6. antique tatting, 7. Tatted lace and Thread, 8. tatting, 9. After::Tatted necklace, 10. Tatting with new shuttle, 11. TAT, 12. tatting samples, 13. Handmade Tatting Shuttle - Hidden Gem, 14. Tatted Dragonfly, 15. Grandma Rosie's Tatting Shuttle, 16. As The World Falls Down - The Tatted Mask, 17. Minor Norwegian Dragon, 18. Blue Potato Vine Blossom and Tatting (three)

Hosting at Swapbot

or why I don't like markdown syntax.

I created a swap on Swapbot to make more flickr mosaics. They are fun and easy, and I like making them.
Here it is.
Everything about swapbot is pretty straightforward. -Except-
you can't use html. You have to use markdown syntax, which gets converted into html!? (insert interrobang here)
What is wrong with just using html? Most sites just clip whatever html they don't allow. I am not fond of using systems to replace systems I already know, which just create new rules to interpret existing rules.
Back to the swap at hand: it's about hobbies. People are making flickr mosaics of any hobby they choose. I specified any number between 12-25 images, because not everything has to be 4x4. Variety is fun.

underwear ATC swap

The Panties ATC swap was fun. I remembered swapbot at the end of vacation and have been making ATCs ever since. Not that I haven't been doing other things, but most of my knitting and sewing has been personal this month. There are some new clothes on the way, so I'll talk about that soon enough.

Flickr Faves Valentine Mosaic

1. Toes - Truffles, 2. Cradling the ratty, 3. Maman bird & petit baby, 4. 005-b, 5. blossom, 6. bloo fuzzy handcarded, 7. #20, 8. Ramon seja bem vindo!!, 9. EEK! A RAT! loves eggs 2, 10. Rats Love Coy, 11. Mr Ray marking his territory!, 12. rattie, 13. Virkad blomstervas!, 14. Black female, 15. Another Little Lick, 16. going bald young

This is my submission for the Swap-bot Valentines Flickr Faves Mosaic. I hope everyone is enjoying Valentines Day with something they love!
There are so many things to love here! So many tiny toes, tiny noses, tiny eyes, fuzzy heads, and squishy yarny things to crawl into. There's a lot of love showing up here. I get all fuzzy from things that don't have too many pink hearts, just pink noses.

other people take great pictures

1. layers of earth, 2. 2005 01_07 15, 3. Totorowhite2, 4. Untitled, 5. DSC04758.JPG, 6. Lola, 7. Dragonfruit aka Pitaya, 8. It's contagious, 9. Reef detail3, 10. My girl., 11. Hålet. Hjärnan. (Virkat.), 12. King Kong (the cute version), 13. Shower Art that Looks like a cupcake, 14. Midnight - Roars, 15. Medusa: a study in sculptural crochet in a scientific context, 16. the sweetest nose

This is my submission for No-cost Swap: Flickr Faves Mosaic. As you can see I really like rats.
These images are all directly from my favorites. I simply reordered them for variety. Enjoy!