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Today I am just catching up on uploading pictures, rating swaps, putting away my Halloween stuff and arranging all my mail. I think its time to buy another container to keep all my incoming mail. Where do all of you keep your mail? I keep mines in those photo boxes, I currently have two and they are packed.

I have decided not to get involve in any big swaps at the moment, other than greeting card and postcard ones. November is going to be a busy busy month. 20 days until I turn 21. WoOp WOop!

Tim and I had our 2 year anniversary on Sunday. It was really nice :)



Some of my incoming mail this past week or so,

Trick or Treat Goodie Bag - received from Italy



some Halloween postcards that were received,




Halloween postcards that were sent, I am not so proud of these. Made very last minute and rushed :(




ATCs I made for Halloween ATC swap. I really liked these.


For a November Birthday Card swap, I received a little extra package from Australia. oh the cuteness!


I have received other letters, postcards and packages but I just dont have the motivation to scan and take pictures of everything.

Here are some pictures from this weekend and the last couple of weeks,

Cal Poly Pumpkin Fair. They had a corn maze this year!









Halloween Weekend,
Day of the Dead celebration at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery. Flickr wouldnt let me upload all the pictures without upgrading account. The rest of the pictures are on my Facebook.










For Halloween, I dressed up as the SunMaid Raisin Girl but didnt really get any good pictures with the costume on other than this one. Tim was an 80's lumberjack. lol

Halloween night, I stayed home and gave out candy with Marvin. I threw random stuff on and somehow became Minnie Mouse lol

My awesome Totoro pumpkin!

I hope everyone had a fun Halloween this past weekend!

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I am running behind on swaps! oh no..I think I took up too many this month. Halloween is just around the corner and I havent even found my costume yet. October is going by way too fast!

Lots of pictures I want to share but it is 12:30am so I'll just post a picture of my future husband (I wish).

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Whimsey Jar received...full of awesomeness!




My first altered matchbox. It was so much fun although I had a bit of a hard time deciding what to put in it.




ATC received,




This weekend I had to go to Santa Monica for a field trip. The actual "field trip" was a bore, didnt find the teacher so Tim and I just wondered around the art gallery. Then we hit Santa Monica Pier. It was his first time there! Back in high school I used to ditch class and go get drunk at the beach. oh memories.

We found a theater that plays Rocky Horror Picture Show..I really want to go!

Heading back home, Downtown Los Angeles,

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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.