Now I must admit I was slightly daunted when I found out my swap partner was to be Marta herself. I love her blog, her sense of style and the beautiful stationary she makes, how can I match that with anything I send?! But luckily I think she was pleased... (and she took this photo above. Marta, I hope you don't mind me using it here, it looks so much nicer than the ones I took in the half light before I packaged it all up to send...)
And yesterday my package from Marta arrived! It was just what I needed to cheer me up, the lovely spotty tissue wrapping and the lovely spotty ribbon to match! She included one of her favourite supplies; scotch tape and it's double sided no less! She may have to become my supplier as I've never seen this stuff in Britain but it will certainly come in useful! Unfortunately I couldn't get a photo of the bubblegum she sent because as soon as I unwrapped the package my boyfriend spied it and was blowing bubbles before I could get the camera out. He wouldn't let me get a photo of the bubbles he blew (though they were pretty big!) he's very camera shy...
Marta also wrote a lovely note on a home made collage, it brought a tear to my eye! She is full of beautiful thoughts as you can see in her blog post here and I'm so glad to have met her through this swap. I've said it before, but I'll say it again, I think blogging is great!
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What a wonderful package to receive, a bit like opening a birthday present. I understand your passion for stationery and paper in general. I have what I call "paper lust." I wander stationery stores ooohing and aahing over the cards and stationery and wrapping papers. And, like you, I collect notebooks, some of which I've had on my shelf for years without using, simply because I love the idea of a fresh new notebook awaiting me.
When I was a little girl, I used to play "office" (my parents thought it was very odd), which meant that I collected a pile of paper (my "stationery"), pens and pencils and then set about to write. At that time, I thought that offices were where paper resided, so I imagined that they must be a wonderful places to be.
Oh yes, I can definitely empathise with the blank notebook thing! Piles of them...
Your 'office' game sounds like my 'post office' game (my parents thought it was cute until my mum accidently took the pretend dog licence I made to the post office to be renewed instead of the real one! Well it wasn't my fault...) We were obsessed even then weren't we! x
Wow, Sarah, that must have been some good looking "pretend" dog license, if you were able to fool your mother!
Either that or she'd had a very busy day!
thank you for introducing me to marta's blog... it's wonderful!
and i am with you on the school supplies... without a doubt the best part of september :) new notebooks and pens, all fresh and full of possibility.
xox
Hi Sarah, first time visit ur blog, like it very much, really interesting!
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