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I have kinda gone overboard with the amount of Halloween related swaps I have joined on swap-bot. I joined my first whimsey jar swap and it was soo much fun. I cant wait to receive mine.
This is what I created and sent,








I also made a few Halloween cards but unfortunately forgot to take pictures of all them. This one is my favorite though,



I used a decorated paper bag as the envelope since the card was too big to fit in any regular size envy. I think it complimented it pretty good.

I have been active on swap-bot for over a year now and all of a sudden I have been paired up with flakers. This past month, I have been flaked twice. Both members already had bad ratings and were new. It really sucks putting lots of effort on your part of the swap and then not receive anything. I missed out on the Owl ATC and a random fill an envy swap. oh well. Now I will be more cautious on what I join and make sure only experience members with high ratings are allowed.


Havent found much at thrift stores lately but yesteday I found this...

$7.00, new in package and includes manual, peddle and plug. I havent tried it yet but it was marked as working. It is SO cute and tiny. I always hate using my mom's since its so bulky so this one is just perfect and it's Lavender! They had another one in mint green but I decided on this one. The package said it was the Home Shopping Network..I can only imagine how much that person paid for it.lol 

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Received some cool mail art the other day from Rachel Freeman





An ATC I made for a swap,


Some outgoing mail,

I had a short day at school today so I finally had some time to clean my room and organize my desks. Now I have some work space to actually do stuff. It'll probably only look like that for about a day though and then it will be covered in stuff. My wall looks very boring.

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All done with my Halloween ATCs:

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The L.A County Fair is going on this month and I this holiday weekend it was a $1 to get in, $1 soda & food and $1 rides during certain hours. I got a really bad sunburn.

Some of my new purchases,

$.59 cent scrapbook paper, along with some $1 stamps and other random stuff. I love the paper, I regret not buying more.

and another cup from the local thrift store. I buy way too many cups.

I have tons of mail to reply to, its ridiculous. I planned on getting it all done today but the day has gone by so fast! I also need to complete a couple of swaps, which include making halloween themed ATCs. 

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Today's mail contained this,

I recently joined the International Union of Mail-Artists ( http://iuoma-network.ning.com/ ). I havent really gotten the hang out if yet so I just made an account and left it like that. I am assuming the piece of mail I got today was from someone on the site. Does anyone here use the site? I need help getting started and it looks really intimidating lol

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Summer vacation has come to an end which means my snail mail adventures will have to take a back seat for a while. I still plan on swapping and writing but not as much or none at all depending on how much work I will have. Although this semester seems like it wont be as hectic as the last. I will be taking Archeology, Art History (prehistoric - gothic), 3D Design and Drawing so it  should all be fun.

I received my first set of friendship books from a pen pal of mine the other day. They look so cool, I really want to make my own one day. I noticed some of the entries in them say ICR, what does that mean? My pen pal provided a list of FB "lingo" but didnt mention what that was.

Last night was the Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory movie showing at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. It was a really nice way to end the summer.

Waiting in line. Everyone was getting drunk...we know now what to bring next time.

It came out blurry:(

Caught tons of orbs which wasnt suprising given that we were in a cemetery thats over 100 years old.

We had good seats, it got packed really fast but we were right in the center so we got to see it clearly. The People in front of us passed out halfway through the movie so they didnt block us. Some girls next to us were making smores! We thought that was rude of them, their lights & candles were really distracting but whatever.

Overall it was an amazing night. We plan on going again for El Dia De Los Muertos in November.

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I am on my last week of summer vacations and I have done absolutely nothing these past few weeks. No swaps, no letters or postcards. I did receive a couple of letters from some of you though so I will be replying to soon!

I noticed a lot of Halloween swaps starting to come up on swap-bot. I LOVE Halloween for so many reasons and I cant wait to get started on them..ahh!

I've continued with my stenciling but I have run out of spray paint so I have nothing to show for it. I also finished my hookah last weekend. I cut out some flower designs from scrapbook paper found at Target ($.99 for about 7 sheets) and pasted/sealed it with mod podge). I am very happy with how it came out :)

I also wanted to share my new latest awesome cup, kitty  musical notes!!!