Autumn Swap Goodies....

Hello all,

Hope you are able to enjoy some of the Indian Summer we've been enjoying this week.

Made it feel more summer than autumn (not complaining though!) but it got ever so cosy when a fantastic parcel awaited me one evening...

The Autumn Swap parcel was from the lovely Debbie over at Pink Poppy....

In my eagreness to delve in to all the beautifully wrapped packages, I did manage to reign myself in long enough to plonk myself on the living room floor and photograph everything...!

Gorgeous mulberry coloured tissue paper wrapped each package, adorned with leaf skeletons, cinammon sticks, twine and lovely little tags....

Debbie had so obviously taken the time to see what I loved - check out the pretty handmade card with hearts...

first package revealed lovely little rustic red hearts...now living happily in the kitchen...




a great apple shaped felt needle case...so much work has gone into this...




this gift box contained more lovely gifts...




an apple shaped cookie cutter - I'll be using this to make a garland of apple shapes using air dry clay this weekend..outside in the sun with any luck!




a mulberry Colony candle...smells gorgeous...mulberry is one of my favourite fragrances too...reminds me of Autumn ever since I bought my first home years ago and lit a jar candle of it in the evening every autumn....



great little pegs which'll be so handy...




oooh...cinder toffee..I'll share this with lovely nanna over the weekend...we both love this!



I had to try this the other day even though it was in the 80's outside...divine!




my initial....sooooo pretty adorned with beads, buttons and sequins...gorgeous...

I'll frame this card...the picture reminds me of walking by the riverside in Durham

Bridgewater tissues...which I'll use to decoupage...




a red heart pot holder....perfect for the newly red for the winter kitchen!



This rustic pot pourri smells as good as it looks...




last but by no means least...the most beautiful handmade scarf made using the most clever wool I've come across - Frilly!

Thank you so very much Debbie, this was such a thoughtful and generous parcel of gifts that I'll thoroughly enjoy this Autumn and beyond.

I know that Debbie has received her parcel from me too, so I can share what I sent to her...

I forgot to take a photo of everything gift wrapped, but the paper used (which I also used as the background for some of the pics) was just ordinary brown paper stamped with a foam leaf-stamp using Plaid gold craft paint...

one of the gifts was a wreath adorned with hearts, pine cones and ribbons and fragranced with orange and cranberry oil...

a candle holder which looks so pretty in the dark when lit ( I had to buy one too!!) and an autumn fragranced Yankee Candle votive in apple cider...



a little cushion with red gingham and floral fabric...

a fragranced, decorated pinecone gathered from the nearby woods...

a little glittered 'Fall' picture...

some pomegranate shower gel and a rose petal bath bomb...

a hand painted apple...the blank shape I bought from the great little ' Crafts House.'..I'll post this weekend about the afternoon spent at there at the Autumn workshop I attended before I went on my jollies...

a cosy scarf to keep out the autumn chills (which will be just around the corner!)

and time ran away so I didnt get to handmake a card...but I loved the blackberry painting on the front of this one...

This was a wonderful swap to take part in, I really enjoyed 'meeting' Debbie through the swap - blogging is sooo great for meeting lovely people!

And I have yet to finish my Halloween swap too - just one more thing to finish this weekend then all done!! Its been great making Autumn and Hallowe'en themed goodies - enables you to immerse yourself in the season and enjoy it all the more I find...

Again, a huge thank you to Debbie for being a wonderful swap buddy, and to everyone else who took part in the swap.

Have a lovely Saturday all,
BH x