Vintage Craft Swap

[meridian]

I have just created a vintage crafts swap its posted on my blog for now but i will add it to the mumsnet a&c blog if/when there is any intrest... please have a look and tell me what you think.. leave a comment on the blog or on here.... don't just lurk sign up and have fun!

thanks.

-Meri

OMG that should be I saw and emailed Must get some decent sleep tonight!

ok i think I have e-mailed everyone now... am very tired as have been out all day.. we went to cadbury world with some tesco's vouchers so we only paid about 95p DS and DH were enchanted.. I was less so but only becuse I don't actually like cadburys chocolate.

let me know if I have forgotten anyone..

Thanks Meridian!!! Got an email from juanitatortilla and have emailed her back. I am trying to get some ideas of what she likes/dislikes now! Oh help!

thanks Meri! Now...RH...what shall I make this time?....hmmmmmmmmm

everyone ok and happy now? ... I didn't relize about the gingermonkey and rantinghousewife thing... it was confising enough.. well ast lest for my befuddled mind.. to go from the names that signed up,, to real names to mumsnet names and then finding everyones emails.. etc... i think my brain is a bit frazzled this week.. i think everything is sorted now... i hope..

eeep! Am having a panic attack now - I don't have much of a clue when it comes to anything vintage

JackBlackRoady get over here & post up your likes & dislikes right now please

Do we need to list our "Vintage" likes and dislikes etc like we did last time?

yes lets re-do them me first!!!

fav. colours - teal , purples and greens

fav. scents - green tea, tea rose, lavender

things i make - cards, mini scrapbooks, altered art, jewellery.

i am a button addict and vintage sewing stash collecter, i have stacks of fabrics but i don't sew!! i start but i don't finish anything!!!

mmmm..... can't think what else to say

Craft: Sewing, (just starting patchwork & applique), I can knit and want to resurect my basic crochet skills

Favourite colours: Any shade of purple and blue (Hate: Green and Orange)

Favourite scents: Horses(!!), the sea, newly bathed children (prefer my own but not fussy). I loathe Lavender with a passion though

Favourite "Vintage" era: I'm an Art Nouveau addict (esp. Mucha and Charles Rennie Mackintosh), I like Art Deco too (but not Clarice Cliff) and the Charleston/Flapper Girl era. Not really into the 50's-70's.

hmmmm.....

Craft: Sewing

Favourite colours: fave colour is green, but love anything that clashes - I'm a 70s child and love the colour combos of 70s fabrics.

Favourite scents: a nice cup of tea.....spice (think easter biscuits and christmas smells), lavender, mint. Not keen on orange (actually - I HATE it)
Favourite "Vintage" era:
Fabric wise - you can't beat the 70s!!! But I also love the 80s - early 80s before acid house, when there was still some of the 70s left over - Laura Ashley in the 1980s - I could melt. And the 30s. And the 40s are nice too, so are the 50s. Actually, any era works for me (oh dear, she's waffling...)

Design wise/interiors - 30s, 40s, 50s

Craft: Crochet, knitting

Colours: Deep, rich shades of any colour - not white or very pale pastels

Scents: Citrus, spice,

Fave treats: Tea & gooey chocolatey things (preferably together )

Fave vintage era: That's a toughie 'cos I'm not entirely au fait with vintage stuff. I like 70s crochet (think granny squares) but also bag styles from the 30s to the 50s - not a lot of help there methinks.

JBR where are you? Get on over here & post your list!

GM I have a crochet book from 1975 winging its way to me now - can't wait to get my mitts on it

oooh, greebo - that was the year I was born!!!! How fantastic!

I was 2 then - you're just a young'un

whispers . . . "i was five"

am i old? sob sob

and I wasnt a twinkle in me mums eye till 7 years on

pmsl

Do you all hate me now?

yes, Nbg - we do

VV - not as vintage as me - I was 8 that year!!

VV - I've decided what I'm making for you and from what - hee hee - unless I change my mind that is!!

What are the dates for completion anyway?

I think we've got 'til the end of April to post?

I hope so anyway as I'm a bit snowed under at the mo

well, check me out - I've done mine. I got a super efficient tip today, as DS slept most the day (poorly boy) and DD was out with Daddy. Just need to get something from the shops to pop in with it and I'll post it out. Probably tues or weds.

D'you hear that, Ranting???? Check me out, ha ha ha ha ha ha. Oh heck. I hope you like it.

I have a vague idea.............

Get you gm!

Actually, i know in my head what i'm doing. just need my bits to arrive so it can be put together.

but in all honesty it'll sit around until the last day and then I'll panic and post it out late . I need to get some tissue paper to wrap it up in...I ran out last week.

LOL...not as VIntage as me, I was 9!!

I have been emailing Juanita, and we have chatted about likes/dislikes and I have got a few ideas now. All I need to do know is decide which one/ones to do!

I am still waiting to hear about the Easter swap though...anyone heard from Champs! I haven't had my swap from her and I don't even know if she has recieved mine!! I Hope eveything is OK!