Inchies...

Every Inchie Monday #4: Village

This was fun!

I so wish I had the time to make a whole page of little doodle houses and trees!

Of course this is exactly why I love this particular challenge. It's only an inch, it takes very little time, so little that even on the busiest of weeks I can find the time for an inchie!

Also even when I don't feel like drawing and I sit down to make an inchie anyway I end up relaxing and enjoying myself.

When I'm done I am asking myself why on earth I didn't feel like drawing?

The answer is probably that I was stressed out, which drawing is the perfect cure for!

After the village I made a new inchie for week 2. I wasn't really happy with the sun I made.

This one I like better. Even though I messed up the eyes.

Eyes are really tough! Really!

For the love of a sofa...

Every Inchie Monday #3: Sofa

So last week I forgot to submit my inchie... But at least I didn't forget to make it! lol!

This week we have one of my favorite things! Sofa! I love mine!

Actually we're getting a new one this month.

Which is kind of sad... Since we have these wonderful huge soft floaters... But they are 15 years old and have seen 10 years of sticky fingers (and paws) and jumping kids (jumping cat too!) lets just say these sofas have seen better days...

I am treasuring every last minute with my favorite sofa EVER! ;)

Positive Quotes Pocket Letter for Vivi in Malta

This was a swap on pocketletterpals.com which paired me up with another Dane although she is living in sunny Malta!

I had just bought a pad of quote stickers and then this swap comes along... Meant to be...

The paper is new too. I totally love these wonderful colors!

All wrapped up and ready to go!

Pink pocket letter for Esther in the Netherlands

This was for a private swap on swap-bot.com.

For the first pocket I google translated 'hi' and 'letter'.

I completely fell in love with some beautiful stamps that were on a letter I received from Finland!

Yet another swap...

 This one for washi samples... I love washi!

Pink pockets...

Every Inchie Monday #2: Sun

Just a quick yellow marker sun with a dash of glittery gelly roll.

Tangles: Balo, Tipple

Pink Pocket Letter for Stine in Norway

 For this one I used journal cards. I have to cut them a bit to make them fit the pockets, but that's okay because they are so pretty!

Danish and Norwegian (Swedish too) languages are somewhat similar so I could write the letter in Danish for Stine. I rarely write letters in Danish, so that was nice!

Another great thing about mailing to a 'neighbor' is that it arrived in just 3 days! :)

We had snow yesterday, it rained away today, which is just perfect! The kids got to build a snowman, we had a snowball fight, lots of snowy fun...

And tomorrow we can drive to work on snowfree roads!

My little snow angels...

Last weekend we spent the afternoon by the sea. Despite the fact that there wasn't really any wind the waves were beautiful!

This is one of my favorite places. :)

 

Washi love...

Every Inchie Monday #1: Galaxy

My very first inchie of 2016!
For this one I decided to go black... Then stippled a galaxy of white gelly roll with a touch of purple and glitter.

After seeing the awesome 2015 inchie displays my fellow inchie... inchiers... inchiees... (There's tanglers doing zentangle, so are we inchiers??) (Or do I just really need to go to bed... ;)

Those amazing displays made me want to make one of my own.

But last year (it seems like it was just last week...) I put all my inchies on little tags and used them in my journal, so I couldn't make a display.

I'm not sure what I am doing this year, so for now I'll just save them in an envie...

I have been making some pocket letters lately, but my swap partners have not received them yet, so that's for another time...

Swapping

This was for a washi tape swap I did a while back.

I have a serious addiction for washi tapes and I love these swaps!

I had 3 partners for this washi swap.

That means 3 letters with wonderful washi for me! Awesome!

A letter is not mandatory in these swaps. Just a note. But I really like writing letters, so I pretty much always write one for the swaps I take part in. And of course in a washi swap one should always pretty up everything with even more washi!

I hope you all entered the new year safe and sound...

One last inchie...

You would think that with the holidays there was eons of time to get crafty right??
But that does not seem to be the case. Just a couple of pocket letters and an inchie is what I have gotten done so far.
Most of this past week has been playing boardgames with the kids and the past 3 days also playstation gaming as my son got 3 new games for Christmas. And his crazy mom actually likes playing the kiddo lego games!

Hope you all are enjoying the holidays and getting your crafting on...
 
Every Inchie Monday #52: Next

The last inchie of 2015!

It's crazy to think that an entire year has passed since I made my very first inchie!

The arrow is pointing at the next 52 inchies coming in 2016!

But first let me just show off a pocket letter I made for a swap on swapbot.com!

Pocket Letter

For this one the theme was sender's choice... Which was really nice!

I randomly picked out pretty stuff and had a great time!

I bought a new stamp, it was the cutest and I had to get it!

It's the very sleepy kitty cat... I stamped some pocket sized patterned papers for that pocket as goodies along with some border punchies.

(Darn it!!! Just noticed I spelled sweetness wrong! Pffft... At least I got her name right... lol)

The leaves was cut from a thank-you note I had received that day. (Funny how every time I see a piece of paper, (or any little thing actually) I am always wondering if it would fit into a 2½x3½ inch pocket! ;) (Is that crazy...)
(That was rhetorical!)

The butterfly button and the flower punchie were goodies in a PL I received from India. The bird on a nest and the imagine tag were from another PL.

I like how each pocket is it's own... Let's hope my swap partner does too!

I wish you happy holidays and a very happy new year too!

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Final Christmas letter of 2015...

 Every Inchie Monday #51: Evolution

Another tough inchie challenge!

How to simplify something as complex as evolution to fit in an inch!?

From ape feet to human feet...

Looking forward to next week's easy and straightforward prompt!

Christmas Pocket Letter

This PL went to my pocket letter pal in India, Aparna.

 I have used journaling cards for some of the pockets. The gold striped is a little envelope I have received in a swap. The Christmas bulb and cornet were both goodies in an incoming PL.

When I receive an envelope that has next to nothing on it I reuse it. On this one I could cover the address label with another label, or in this case, a journaling card. And the old stamp label I covered with this year's Christmas stamps.

We have some really cute ones with gingerbread hearts, men and women...

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It's a tractomotive?

Every Inchie Monday #50: Locomotive

Wow, this was a tough one! It was so hard to fit a locomotive into an inch!

I ended up just doing a toy locomotive...

(No, it's not a tractor. Really! See it has the connector on the wheels! lol!)

(Note to self... Locomotives needs more than two wheels... ;)

(Hey! It's a tractomotive!)

(No, wait! It's a tractor/loco transformer! My son would be down with that!)

Christmas Pocket Letter

Swapping some Christmas spirit through pocketletterpals.com. This one went to Susan in California...

Those little owls are my favorite Christmas PL decor! So cute!

Just two more days, then it's the wondrous Christmas holidays have arrived. Yay!

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