Birdsong Two swaps

At Birdsong Two we exchanged our swaps so I can show you what I made:

This is for the banner swap I hosted; we were in groups of 4 and each making a different letter to spell out the word "SING"; I had the letter "I".

I had two little plastic flower pots that I cut in half, then mounted on a beautiful old doily that I got from my friend Terri; I filled it with straw, a pretty speckled egg, and vintage millinery flowers.  The "I" is that coiled spring -- and in the background, a page from an antique Hans Christian Anderson book.

On the reverse: vintage wallpaper pieces, and an old tag from a mill in Kansas.

We won't have time to assemble the banner at Birdsong Two, so I gave everyone suggestions/instructions to do it at home and made up these little gift bags for them to transport their banner pieces in.  I decorated each bag with a bird stamped onto a page of an antique poem book, and some trim and a button.

I personalized a little tag for everyone's bag; on the reverse of the tag is the list of the 4 gals in their swap group.

We also did a matchbox swap; here's the front of the one I made.  It's a bit "frothier" and more pastel than I usually do!

Here's the bottom...and the inside:

I made a little mini matchbox for the inside, too...

I filled the inside with fun little matchbox-sized gifts:

 

 

Here's what it looked like when it was all stuffed in there!

Matchbox swaps are always so much fun!