A great day at my mailbox

I went to my mailbox yesterday and was so excited to find not one, but TWO swaps came! My music box from Karen over at Monthly Matchbox Swaps on Flickr is a wonderful lil gem all about The Beatles!!! I LOVE it!! She is sooo creative, I was just so thrilled to open up the little decorated pouch to find all the treasures inside! Inside the matchbox it's self, she included tags of Beatles song titles with a little giftie to represent each title attached....ingenious, and so much fun! :) She also made a lil accordion book with the Beatles on each page. I just love the bottle cap on top of the box with a pic of the Beatles inside. GREAT JOB Karen, and thank you so much!

The other package was my gorgeous box from Wendy in the Treasures of the Sea swap over at Vintage Dragonfly's Altered Matchbox Group http://www.flickr.com/groups/vintagedragonfly/ Wendy did an awesome job with her Treasures box by making a mini shrine with a mermaid, shells, all sorts of lil fish and undersea wonders, and embellishing it with teeny tiny lil beads that look just like bubbles coming up from the ocean floor!! Oh so cute! The hanger she attached is embellished with eyelash yarn in the wonderful colors that make one think of the sea and a gorgeous little seashell hanging down. I love it! She also included the cutest lil card with two baby mermaids just kinda hanging out. What a wonderful package to receive. I just love mail days like this!!!

Thanks ladies, I'll treasure these boxes and think of you when I look at them! :)

Music Matchbox swap

Music was the theme for our matchbox swap on Flickr for the month of May. We had a lot of super entries with a lot of different takes on the theme. All of them were wonderful! This is my entry. :) I'm an Elvis fan, just LOVE his music and so he was a natural choice for me; along with the Beatles who I also love, but because they aren't quite equal to how much I like Elvis, they're on the BACK of the box! LOL We also had to include the color black, so these were good choices for that. Anyway, it was such a fun theme to do, thought I'd share it here. I'll be putting my partners box up soon to show as well. Love these swaps, they're so much fun!!